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A search ((fluorine or fluorid*) and water and (dental or tooth or teeth)) was shown. It is NOT the best search statement/strategy for the topic of Fluoride Concentration in Water and Dental Health. It was chosen because it could demonstrate some of the features of Scopus. Number of hits retrieved on actual day of search might vary with what was retrieved when this write-up was done.
A) Getting In
1. 2. 3. 4. 1. At the NUS libraries homepage, (url: www.lib.nus.edu.sg) , scroll down to E-Resources, click Scopus . Click on Campus Login if in campus. Otherwise follow instructions on screen. At the NUS Libraries E-Resources Appropriate Use Policy page, click I Accept. You will be at the Scopus page. By registering, you can get search alerts, i.e. you will be emailed when there are newly published articles on your search topic. If you already have a User Name and Password for ScienceDirect, you can use them. If you do not , click Register at the top right corner, fill in e-form (name, email address, etc.) then click Submit. Key in search statement ((fluorine or fluorid*) and water and (dental or tooth or teeth)) in Search box, click Search. You get over 3800 hits. a. Use (*) to search for words that begin with the same letters. Comput* returns computer, computers, computerize, etc. Truncation can also be used to replace any number of characters internally. sul*ate returns sulphate or sulfate b. Use (?) to replace a single character. Computeri?e retrieves computerise or computerize c. To use Boolean operators AND, OR and AND NOT, click on pull-down menu and select (see Screen 1). You can also use the operators within one search statement. To edit, click Search or Edit near top of screen (see Screen 2 on p. 4). You get back the first screen. To search within the title field only, click on pull-down menu and select Article Title. Other useful options are All Fields and Keywords (see Screen 1). To limit by year, click on pull-down menu and select 2000 (see Screen 1). To limit by broad subject areas, uncheck Social Sciences.(see Screen 1). Click Search (see Screen 1). There are more hits in the other tabs (see Screen 2): a. The More tab displays documents in which the search terms appear, not in the main body of the document, but in the references cited (reading list) in a document. Records in the More tab do not have abstracts and do not have links to Full Text. b. The Web tab displays all results found on Scirus, Elsevier's science-specific search engine. c. The Patents tab displays all available patent results when you conduct a basic, advanced, author, or quick search. In this demonstration, only results in the Scopus tab are considered.
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Select the 3rd item: Do we let children's teeth decay just because some people object to topping up the natural fluoride that's already in our water? Community Dental Health 25 (2), 2008, pp. 66-69 Click LINC. You will not see any link to full text, but we do have the hard copy in MD Current Journals. Click on Latest Received (see Screens 4 and 5 on p. 5). Close the Latest Received window to get back to EV2.
H) Re-doing Search Using ((fluorine or fluorid*) and water and (dental or dentistry or tooth or teeth))
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Click Return (see Screen 8) to get back to record. Click Results List (see Screen 7). You will get Screen 9 on p. 7. Click Search at the top of the screen or Edit to get back to the Search screen. Note the position of Edit has changed (see Screen 9). Change the search statement to ((fluorine or fluorid*) and water and (dental or dentistry or tooth or teeth)) Make sure year is 2000. Click Search. You get 55 hits.
K) Ending Search
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C1) Key in search terms, ((fluorine or fluorid*) and water and (dental or tooth or teeth)) here
C 1 (c) Click here to change Boolean operators if necessary C 4) Click here to change year to 2000
C 3) If necessary, click here to change search field to Article Title. Other choices include All Fields and Keywords
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Karen Yap
Jan 2009
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