INFORMATION UPDATE  
   September 2007                        Number 86

Welcome to INFORMATION UPDATE, a monthly resource for
information seekers and users.

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IN THIS ISSUE
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   => Do It Yourself - Scitopia
   => Did You Know - Results from Literature Searches Can Be
                 Uploaded into Bibliographic Software
   => Subscribe/Unsubscribe Information

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DO IT YOURSELF - Scitopia
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In previous issues of Information Update we've talked about
science and technology research tools. One example is Scirus 
http://www.scirus.com the science specific search engine.

Scitopia http://www.scitopia.org is a new resource for your
research tool box.  Fifteen leading science and technology
societies including the American Geophysical Union, 
American Society of Civil Engineers, IEEE - Institute of 
Electrical and Electronics, and SPIE have joined to create 
a federated vertical search portal.  Through this portal 
searchers will access over 3 million documents published 
by these societies over the last 150 years.

Scitopia is a free service funded by the participating
societies and powered by a technology developed to search the
deep or invisible web.  Results will not include the full 
text of articles, but it will lead to options for obtaining
the full text.  When you select the articles of interest,
you are directed to the Web site of the appropriate society.
If you have a personal or institutional subscription, you
will be able to access the full text.  Otherwise, you will
have a pay-per-view option.  Prices vary.

Note that Scitopia focuses on the physical sciences rather
than the life sciences, so keep this resource in mind when
you want to search the engineering, optical, electronic, or
physics literature.

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DID YOU KNOW - Results from Literature Searches Can Be
                 Uploaded into Bibliographic Software
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If all goes according to plan, a literature search will yield
a list of articles or documents of interest.  Bibliographic
software makes it possible to manage these references so that
they can be stored, sorted, annotated, cited, or formatting
as a bibliography.  Examples of such software include EndNote,
Reference Manager, and ProCite.

Most of us do not have the time or inclination to manually
enter references one by one into the bibliographic database,
so I'm happy to report that there is an easier way.

Search results from commercial database providers such as
Dialog can be formatted for output so that with a few clicks
of the mouse they can be uploaded into the software of your
choice.  Using the powerful search tools offered by Dialog,
it's possible to search across multiple databases (Medline,
Embase, and BIOSIS for instance), download the results, and
upload them into the bibliographic database. It takes no 
more time to enter 500 references than it does to enter five.

For more information feel free to contact Cindy Shamel at
mailto:cshamel@shamelinfo.com 

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Cynthia L. Shamel, editor

Shamel Information Services
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