Spring Break
Library Offers Search Sources
Alissa Letkowski
Issue date: 10/10/07 Section: News
Student researchers no longer need to go far to find the sources they need in their fields of study.
Since UConn purchased the Scopus Citation database last year, students can look to the library to find the "largest abstract and citation database of research literature and quality Web sources," according to the Scopus Web site.
The Scopus database states that it is updated on a daily basis and includes 15,000 peer-reviewed journals from over 4,000 publishers. Users also have access to over 600 trade publications, 500 conference proceedings, 1,000 open access journals, 33 million abstracts, 386 million scientific Web pages and 21 million patent records.
Scopus and Web of Science, another citation-searching database used at UConn, are available to any registered UConn student, faculty and staff at any campus as long as they have a valid identification number.
To assist those who are interested in learning how to use the Scopus and Web of Science citation databases, the library is offering free training sessions to all students, faculty and staff.
"[I encourage] any college graduate students who do write … to try any of these sessions that we provide," said Anuthep Pasura, a graduate student who will be teaching each 90-minute session.
Communication sciences librarian Stephanie Willen Brown is in charge of the citation searching training and lauded the new program - namely, the ability to see how articles have been used and cited in other work.
"You can see who has used that research and what they have done with it," Brown said. "If you are doing research in a topic … it can be really important to know what the most important articles are in your field.
"It's also important for faculty and grad students who have written articles because they can find out how many times their article has been cited," she said.
The library is in the second year of its three-year subscription to Scopus. Last spring and summer, 16 training sessions were offered and 163 students and faculty members were trained.
The sessions will be held every other Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon from Oct. 16 to Nov. 13 and registration for the 15 open spots is necessary. A $10 Co-op gift certificate will be given to all attendees and a $25 gift certificate will be raffled off at each session. For more information, send an e-mail to citation- searching@uconn.edu, visit the library Web site or check out the citation searching group on Facebook.
Contact Alissa Letkowski at
Alissa.Letkowski@UConn.edu.
Since UConn purchased the Scopus Citation database last year, students can look to the library to find the "largest abstract and citation database of research literature and quality Web sources," according to the Scopus Web site.
The Scopus database states that it is updated on a daily basis and includes 15,000 peer-reviewed journals from over 4,000 publishers. Users also have access to over 600 trade publications, 500 conference proceedings, 1,000 open access journals, 33 million abstracts, 386 million scientific Web pages and 21 million patent records.
Scopus and Web of Science, another citation-searching database used at UConn, are available to any registered UConn student, faculty and staff at any campus as long as they have a valid identification number.
To assist those who are interested in learning how to use the Scopus and Web of Science citation databases, the library is offering free training sessions to all students, faculty and staff.
"[I encourage] any college graduate students who do write … to try any of these sessions that we provide," said Anuthep Pasura, a graduate student who will be teaching each 90-minute session.
Communication sciences librarian Stephanie Willen Brown is in charge of the citation searching training and lauded the new program - namely, the ability to see how articles have been used and cited in other work.
"You can see who has used that research and what they have done with it," Brown said. "If you are doing research in a topic … it can be really important to know what the most important articles are in your field.
"It's also important for faculty and grad students who have written articles because they can find out how many times their article has been cited," she said.
The library is in the second year of its three-year subscription to Scopus. Last spring and summer, 16 training sessions were offered and 163 students and faculty members were trained.
The sessions will be held every other Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon from Oct. 16 to Nov. 13 and registration for the 15 open spots is necessary. A $10 Co-op gift certificate will be given to all attendees and a $25 gift certificate will be raffled off at each session. For more information, send an e-mail to citation- searching@uconn.edu, visit the library Web site or check out the citation searching group on Facebook.
Contact Alissa Letkowski at
Alissa.Letkowski@UConn.edu.
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