Note: This tutorial shows CC Connect with all editions and the alerting feature. Your subscription may not include all features described.
Product Highlights -ISI Current Contents Connect is a multidisciplinary current awareness Web resource, providing access to complete bibliographic information of over 8,000 of the world's leading scholarly journals and more than 2,000 books.
With CC Connect you can:
- Browse a journal's table of contents for current and past issues
- Search the databases for published works by topic, author, address, journal, and more
- Combine searches using Boolean operators
- Save your search histories, which can be opened later and run again
- Use the alerting option to have weekly updated results automatically e-mailed to you
- View full bibliographic records and add them to your Marked List, where you can export them to bibliographic management software, save them to a file, format them for printing, and order the full text
- Link to selected, topic-related Web sites using the Current Web Contents and eSearch features
Search Limits -On the Search Limits page, select the database(s) and time frame to search or browse. These limits will be applied throughout the session until you return to this page (via the Limits button on the toolbar shown on most pages) and change them. By default, the last six months will be searched across all available databases (the time frame has been set to All years for this tutorial).
Search Page -Use the Search page to locate items in the selected database(s). You can create and run multiple search sets and combine them using Boolean operators to narrow or broaden your results. Use wildcards for greater efficiency (asterisk (*): zero to many characters; question mark (?): one character). Click the number link of a search set to view the results.
Editing Searches -You can edit and add to your search statements by clicking the Edit button for the corresponding search. Edit the search statement in the search statements box, and click Search to submit the changes.
Combining Searches -To combine search sets, select Set Combination from the search field drop-down list box. The picture below shows the Search page after three search sets have been created. The third search is a Set Combination that narrows the results by combining the results of sets 1 and 2 with the "AND" operator.
Saving Histories and Alerting -Search histories can be saved on the server (registered users only) or on your local workstation. Click the Save History button on the Search page to save the current search history.
Summary Page -The Summary page is displayed when you click a number link on the Search page. Up to ten records are shown at a time. Click the record title to view the Full Record. You can also add records to your Marked List. If relevant Web sites were found by eSearch, a note will appear at the top of the page; click the eSearch button to see the summary of these selected Web sites.
Full Record Page -This page is displayed when you click an article title on the Summary page. The Full Record contains detailed bibliographic information, including title, author, source information, and abstract. You can also add the record to your Marked List.
eSearch -Topic searches may also find related Web sites, which are accessed via the eSearch button on the Summary page. eSearch extends your search outside the CC Connect database(s) to the full text of Web sites. These Web sites -- from Current Web Contents -- have been evaluated by ISI editors and meet strict selection criteria.
eSearch employs advanced Web indexing and retrieval technology to locate information on the Web that is relevant to your search, with special coverage in these areas: Preprints, Funding, Research Activities, and Web Site Reviews. Each item on the eSearch results list is linked to the specific Web page that is related to your search.
Marked List -The Marked List page displays the records you have marked during the current search session (you can mark records from the Summary page or the Full Record page). From the Marked List page, you can print a formatted copy of the records, save the records to a text file, export the records to reference software, order the records, or e-mail the records.
Marked List -The Marked List page displays the records you have marked during the current search session (you can mark records from the Summary page or the Full Record page). From the Marked List page, you can print a formatted copy of the records, save the records to a text file, export the records to reference software, order the records, or e-mail the records.
Browsing… By Name or Edition -Click the Browse button on the toolbar to access the Browse page. The browsing feature allows you to view the table of contents from any journal in the database(s). From the Browse page, you can look for journals by name or browse through the journals and Web sites in a particular edition and discipline.
Browsing… By Discipline - If you chose to browse by edition on the Browse page, you will see a list of disciplines in that edition. Click the Tables of Contents of Journals link to view an alphabetical list of journals, then select a journal by clicking its name. Click the Web Sites link to view Current Web Contents Web sites that are related to the discipline.
Browsing… A Table of Contents - After clicking a journal name from the alphabetical or discipline list, the complete table of contents is displayed. (You may be presented with a list of issues from which to choose. Select an issue to view the table of contents.) Click an article title listed on the table of contents to view the Full Record.
Browsing… Web Sites - This page is displayed after clicking the Web Sites link for a discipline on the Browse page. Current Web Contents is a list of Web sites that have been selected by editors at ISI for their relevance to a Current Contents discipline and for the editorial quality of their content.
Online Help -Detailed online help is available for all CC Connect features and functions, available from the toolbar on any CC Connect page. When you are finished consulting help, click Leave Help in the toolbar to return to CC Connect.
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