DATABASES: FULLTEXT: Elsevier Science Direct Indexed by Google and Google Scholar: Even More News

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DATABASES: FULLTEXT:

Elsevier Science Direct Indexed by Google and Google Scholar: Even More

News

First to review prior posts on this topic.

Quoting

I posted yesterday [Friday] about this development.

DATABASES: SCIENCE ENGINEERING COMPUTER AND TECHNOLOGY :

INTERNET: SEARCH: RESOURCES :

INTERNET: SEARCH TOOLS AND SERVICES: GOOGLE:

Science Direct-ly into Google

<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Net-Gold/message/18995>

Then curiousity set in.

So I went to Google Scholar and searched on the first thing that came to

mind in this context, Elsevier.

Of course with that search, many entries will be for book citations as

Elsevier is among other things a book publisher.

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I filed this post regarding my observations in satisfying my curiosity.

DATABASES: FULLTEXT:

Elsevier Science Direct Indexed by Google and Google Scholar

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This post was done under tight time constraints, so I did not get to check

into this matter in greater detail and noticed but did not discuss that

the article citation from Cell noted in the message linked immediately

above when reached full text using the Science Direct link, also noted in

that post, places the noble user directly onto the Science Direct database

search interface as a GUEST. The basic Science Direct search box is at

the top of the Cell full text article citation, abstract and text.

So now that this guest is facing the Science Direct interface head on,

lets try a search in Science Direct and see what happens.

This search, far more complex than anything one could or would attempt

using internet search engines, seeks discussions of injured athletes in

terms of attitudes and adherence to their treatment regimens.

Search Strategy:

athletes and injuries and (treatment or therapy or counseling or

therapies) and (morale or attitude or behavior or adherence or

psychological)

The Science Direct Guest search interface responds with this message and

the the eight source citations in this database that match this search

strategy.

8 Articles Found

TITLE-ABS-KEY

(athletes and injuries and (treatment or therapy or counseling or

therapies) and (morale or attitude or behavior or adherence or

psychological))

Hence this search in Science Direct was enabled by entry into this

database from a citation and link found in a Google Scholar citation for

the Journal " Cell " and the option of viewing the full text of that article

in the Science Direct database from an Elsevier web page resulting from

the search hit in Google Scholar that offers either access to the full

text of the article in question from the journal Cell or from Science

Direct.

Here are four of the citations that may be found when the search strategy

for athletes and injuries shown above is executed in the Science Direct

database.

Selected Citations from this Search:

Development of an artificial meniscus using polyvinyl alcohol-hydrogel for

early return to, and continuance of, athletic life in sportspersons with

severe meniscus injury. I: mechanical evaluation

The Knee, Volume 10, Issue 1, March 2003, Pages 47-51

Masanori Kobayashi, Jyunya Toguchida and Masanori Oka

Abstract | Full Text + Links | PDF (377 K) | To Purchase and Download the

Full Article, Click PDF

Physiological, psychological and performance effects of massage therapy

in sport: a review of the literature

Physical Therapy in Sport, Volume 2, Issue 4, November 2001, Pages 165-170

J. Hemmings

Abstract | Abstract + References | PDF (96 K) | To Purchase and Download

the Full Article, Click PDF

The development of a locus of control measure predictive of injured

athletes' adherence to treatment

Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, Volume 2, Issue 2, June 1999,

Pages 145-152

C , E Foreman, Cory A Simpson, Geoffrey N Molloy and

K Molloy

Abstract | Abstract + References | PDF (590 K) | To Purchase and Download

the Full Article, Click PDF

Emotional Responses of Athletes to Injury and Treatment

Physiotherapy, Volume 83, Issue 5, May 1997, Pages 243-247

Helen Dawes and Neil K Roach

Abstract | Abstract + References | PDF (727 K) | To Purchase and Download

the Full Article, Click PDF

These choices are highlighted hyperlinks.

Abstract | Abstract + References | PDF (727 K) | To Purchase and Download

the Full Article, Click PDF

Now Elsevier is not giving away the store. Elsevier seems instead to be

simply making awareness of the sources found in their Science Direct

database, if this is an intentional development, more accessible to the

users of this interface as to what is available from Elsevier on complex

topics searched by guests of Science Direct. In other words, members of

institutions that subscribe to Science Direct will no longer be the only

folks who learn the contents of Science Direct on a complex or simple

topic of interest and learn more about these sources through the

abstracts for these journal articles. Elsevier is offering the articles

resulting from Guest searches in Science Direct for sale to those

searching who need these specific articles as they may also be doing in

publically accessible SCIRUS.

More about Scirus

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query=scirus & amp;submit=Search & charset=windows-1252>

A shorter URL for the above link:

<http://tinyurl.com/2kh748>

This development is added to the extensive monograph coverage by Worldcat

to the general public as well as selected articles form the FirstSearch

owner of Worldcat via selected sources indexed in FirstSearch database

ArticleFirst from the interface at <http://www.worldcat.org> (.) There is

also the extensive and growing content within books provided by Google

Books. There is an education and a library database both provided by

EBSCO at no cost. There is a varying group of databases from several

vendors provided to public library members in many states of the United

States. A huge and growing collection of scholarly articles and documents

are cited in Google Scholar with indication in many cases as to who has

cited these works. In quite a few cases in Google Scholar, the full text

of the article or some of the citing articles is available to the public

by following the links in Google Scholar or by taking the source citation

such as the journal name to Worldcat and finding the libraries within ones

region that own this publication. The tools facilitating the use of

quality research publications by the general public is both extensive and

growing, so that learning in depth about a topic or research question is

no longer only possible for those affiliated with an organization or

college with extensive print, electronic aggregation and electronic

database collections. The addition of Elsevier's Science Direct to

this group of resources, if this is intended by the publisher and not just

a glitch, is a major additional step forward in making tools of learning

accessible to the general public.

More about bibliographic databases

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A shorter URL for the above link:

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and

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query=database & submit=Search & charset=utf-8>

A shorter URL for the above link:

<http://tinyurl.com/k9bul>

Sincerely,

Dillard

Temple University

(215) 204 - 4584

jwne@...

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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