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Welcome to this podcast about using Ulrichsweb.
You will need to log into ProQuest Discover More,
click on the GEP
2012 Product Access and Access all products
and then scroll down
and choose the Ulrichsweb
database.
So if we click on that
you will then be given a screen which gives you the user ID and password
for Ulrichsweb. So jot that down or copy and paste it so that you have it.
Then click on the
blue where it says Click Here
and you will then get a screen that looks like this.
Ulrichsweb is the online equivalent of a book you would of used in print
in Reference 1 and in Acquisitions
called the Ulrich's Periodical Directory.
And it is a directory of
periodicals, journals, magazines, serials,
newspapers, newsletters
and
includes them from around the world in multiple languages.
And it has added features in the online database version that wasn't in
the print,
such as
with some publications, not with all but with some of them, there will be a
review written about that journal which tells you a little bit more if you have
to
choose journals to purchase for your library which ones would be a good one
to purchase.
If your
library where you're working uses Ulrich's
it may be linked into your catalog or into your databases to connect the
search with the actual publication,
but we will be using this just for searching publications.
So you can start with either just entering a title or ISSN in
that search box.
Or, as usual, I would recommend that you use the advanced search box because
it does give you a lot more features.
On the right hand side you'll see a little red question mark. That's the
helps screen. So if you have questions you can go in there. It's not a very long
help
file but it has some tips like
if you're searching for exact phrase to put it into quotation marks.
In the advanced screen you'll see
uh...
a drop down menu for different kinds of fields that you can
search,
so title or keyword or by publisher
or by
frequency of publication, so
a number of different ways that you can search.
And
you will also see a little box that says Match Search Terms All.
And you can change that from all, any or none. And these are like a Boolean
operator.
So "All" would take all your search terms that you're putting into the search box
and combining them. So
it would be like an "And" operator, every term has to show up in your search
results.
"Any" would
act more like an "Or" operator where any of these words might be found.
And "None" would act like a "not" operator where you would exclude certain types of
things. So maybe you're looking for
a newspaper but you don't want the daily papers, you want to find the weekly papers.
So you might say "Not daily".
On the right hand side
there's something that says Add Term.
If you click on Add Term that gives you an additional
search box. So if you want to search title
and another criteria like,
let's say
the circulation type, you can
have two different fields. So that's like adding sort of an additional row, an
additional search.
Now this, all of these,
the title and the circulation type would be searched by "And",
which is that "All" operator up there. If I want to I can click on Add
Group
and that will give me a kind of another set of search boxes,
I'll zoom in,
where I can change my field,
say we do subject keywords,
and then possibly instead of doing an "All" we might want to "Any".
Okay so
the adding group
would let you
do a bit more sophisticated, more precise search
because you want to do a different Boolean operator between the fields
you might want to add a different group. So this is
fairly fancy, I'm not likely to do all this. So I'm going to start with one example.
I'm just going to do a subject keyword search
and I'm going to search on the topic of nursing.
Before I hit the search button or say
enter to go I'm going to also choose limits for my search.
So I'm going to scroll in on those.
So there's different limiters that I can add before I start my search.
So status: active, ceased, forthcoming;
serial type, content type
and language. So I'm going to just start with choosing the English language.
And then there's another item here that says More Limiters. So I can also choose
some more filters
before or limits before I conduct my search.
And I'm going to go under the Subject/
Area and say I want something within medicine and health.
And I'm also going to click under Key Feature,
the Peer-reviewed.
So a peer-reviewed journal means that before somebody puts their article in the
journal
it is sent to experts
to
review it, to see if it's a good article and then it's allowed to go to
publication.
So those are a couple different limits that I'm going to do, there's many more as you
can see on the screen.
And I'm going to hit the search button and here I get my results.
This is quite a busy screen.
On the left hand side you'll see there's
more limits and also it's highlighting some of the key features
that we already
chose.
You can still change, say if you wanted to change the format to be an online
journal
or a loose leaf subscription,
you can change your formats there.
So you can do the limits beforehand or afterwards.
On this screen you'll have your list of results. So we found many different
journals within
this search strategy.
And you'll there are lots of little icons on the left hand side before the title of
the journal.
So what those mean is, the first one is just,
this is where you would select your journals that you want to keep
on a list.
So I did a little check mark next to Canadian Nurse.
The next icon
that looks like it has some bullet points,
this means there's a table of contents available.
The next one that's black and white, that means it's peer-reviewed
journal, so you'll see that icon is next to each title because we'd asked for
peer-reviewed.
The little e
column means its an electronic or an online
journal.
The little open combination means it's an open access
journal,
which means it's free available online on the Internet, you don't need a
subscription to
use it.
And then the little start next to the title means that this particular
journal
has a written review by a librarian that's in this database.
Then on the rest of the screen you will see some
information about your
journals that you found, the publisher, the ISSN,
the format of it and so on.
And over here in the dark grey
you'll see things that you can do such as save it to a list and if you do
that you have to of course create an account for Ulrich's,
like we did
for My Research, RefWorks and that you also could do for Books in Print.
But you can
download it or print it without having an account, if you email it you have to have
an account.
So there are
ways of doing this without creating another account, yet another account.
So I'm going to click on the title of
the first publication, Canadian Nurse.
And then you'll, you scroll down a bit there's quite a bit of more information
available
about this particular periodical. So something that might be useful to find out is
how many times a year is it published. So nine times a year except certain months, so there's
the frequency.
It has its websites. It has the
subject classification that it's
listed under.
Its key features,
that has the title history details so this is useful if
you have a subscription in you library about Canadian Nurse and Hospital Review
and you wonder what happened to that publication,
you can see here that it's now called Canadian Nurse and it's the same publication.
The publishing and ordering details, so how you go about getting
access to this journal.
How much does this journal cost, so what's the price.
Where is it available in full text?
So you'll see there's lots of different databases where you can get it
electronically in full text.
And a couple more things, such as at the very bottom here,
this is the
reviews
that's been written about this particular publication
and who reviewed it and it gives you some ideas of whether this would be a useful
journal
for you to collect in your library if you were purchasing journals.
Okay? So I'm just going to scroll right back to the top and then just show a couple more
things.
One is this thing called Workspace.
So this shows you publications that you've checked off, marked titles. So I
just have that first one, Canadian Nurse here.
My search history, so it shows what I've searched before.
So
that could be helpful if you're doing a lot of searching for publications and you
want to see what's there.
The lists and alerts are if, again if you're doing a lot you might want to create an
account or you'd have your own account in a library,
And you could create a list, say these are the
gardening magazines and these are the nursing journals and these are the
history journals, or whatever. So you could create a list by subject or by
department that you're purchasing it for or whatever.
So you might find that if you use this a lot at work you might create your own lists or share lists with your colleagues.
Up at the top, the Ulrich's Update is another thing I want to show you now.
And this is, it tells you things that are new, newly added titles
to Ulrich's.
So you can see there's a long list
and it tells you by month, as well. So you can change that month here.
So this is September 2012 and it's a drop down menu, you can change it.
Title changes, so again that helps you keep track if you're waiting for
the October issue of a particular journal
and it didn't come in but something else came in that you didn't think you
subscribed to
then you could
see that, oh yes, well it's changed its name, it's the same one, if
you're not sure.
Cessations, so these are
publications that are no longer being published.
And title mergers, so
when they change from one or purchase another or put two magazines together into one
and so on.
Okay?
So that, a basic overview that you could use in Ulrichsweb.
Again I recommend using the advanced search because you have more fields that
you can search at once,
you can add limits to your search
and then when you
select a title
you can see more details about your titles
and how to order them, how much they cost and read a review about
them.
So that's all about the Ulrichsweb
and thanks for the listening to this podcast.