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Proquest Natural Science Collection |
What is it? |
Index primarily for finding journal articles. Covers: agriculture, aquatic science, atmospheric science, biological science, geology, earth science, and environmental science. Includes some full-text (2,700 titles) and Find@Stir links to our other holdings. Updated weekly/monthly (varies by database). Proquest Natural Science Collection is created from a series of databases and subcollections:
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What is it for? |
Use primarily to find journal articles in the natural science subject areas outlined above.
Also covers other types of publications: covers more than 4,500 publications: scholarly & trade journals plus conference papers and proceedings, government and official publications, environmental impact statements, magazines, newspapers, reports, tables, wire feeds, working papers, video and audio.
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How to access it |
Login to the Portal and then choose Natural Science Collection (from Proquest) from the A-Z List of Online Resources.
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How to search
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See Successful Search Techniques. There is an Easy Search Option but we recommend selecting the Advanced Search. From the Advanced Search screen select the type of search you wish to conduct from the drop-down box Truncation: use * at the end of a word, e.g., feed* will find feeds , feeding, feedstuff, etc. Spelling variants: The search is automatically set up to recognise spelling variants of American and British versions of words, for example, a search for behaviour will automatically find behaviour or behavior Use Field searching to be precise: e.g., type in aquaculture and select Document Title - TI from the drop-down box to find items where aquaculture appears in the title of the article;
Thesaurus Search: Because the Natural Science Collection is created from a number of databases and sub-collections there are a number of different thesauri to choose from. Note if you use the Thesaurus option to search you will exclude any records from databases that don't use that thesaurus. It is probably best only to use the Thesaurus option when you are searching at a more specific level on an individual database. Narrow results by option: On each results' page there is an option to narrow your results by various filters. However, using the filters can exclude relevant records. This is because the Natural Science Collection is created from a series of databases each with its own set of filter options. Therefore, you will exclude records from databases that don't use the same filter options. To narrow your results, it is better to create another search and combine this with your previous searches. Combining searches: searches can be combined by selecting the Folder icon in the top right hand corner, then select the Recent searches. Then type the set numbers to combine searches, for example: 2 and 3 To narrow your search to a specific database/sub-collection:
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Full text? |
Click on the Find@Stir button |
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Refworks?
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Records can be downloaded into RefWorks (a software product for managing references and formatting bibliographies). |
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Further help
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Click on the ? mark icon (top righthand side). |