JSTOR is a multi-disciplinary database which could be used to complement access to backfiles of Science journals. An example is provided here for illustration.

Rich, K., et al., Cell-Adhesive Motif in Region II of Malarial Circumsporozoite Protein. Science, 1990. 249(4976): p. 1574-1577.

You will not be able to access the article via Science website (even after using proxy bookmarklet). The article could however be accessed via “Databases” >> J >> JSTOR >>perform a title search.

If you check the holdings records from “Titles A-Z”, you will be prompted to access Science backfiles (1880-2003) via JSTOR.

NTU Library is an Entrez LinkOut partner; as such you may go directly from a citation and abstract to the full text if Library has a subscription. Here are the steps to facilitate access to subscribed journals via PubMed.

1) At PubMed homepage (http://pubmed.gov), apply  “NTU Libraries Proxy Bookmarklet”
2) Select Links >> LinkOut
3) Click Libraries >> N >> electronic full-text (NTU) to check if NTU has a subscription
4) If NTU is not listed, go to “Full Text Sources” and go through the first 2 entries
5) If you still fail to get the article, please request for document delivery service.

The steps had been communicated to SBS faculty members via a tea session on 5 Mar 09. Please contact your subject librarian if you require further assistance.

NTU Library Toolbar is a little widget that can be added to a web browser like Internet Explorer or Firefox.

The toolbar contains buttons to frequently used library webpages such as the Library Homepage, Library Catalogue, the E-Journal A to Z Listing, the Database webpage and the proxy bookmarklet.

For details on how to download, install and customize, Click Here.

During your research, you may come across a journal article when you use a search engine such as Google to conduct your searches. And when you followed the URL given, you were unable to access to fulltext of the article. For example you used Google and retrieved http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/0957-4484/16/8/038 and you clicked on the ‘Fulltext’ icon or ‘PDF’ link you were not able to access the fulltext. What should you do in such cases?
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Are you starting on your research? Your FYP? And you are wondering which are the journals that you should be looking at in your area of research? You may want to look at the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) for the journals with higher impact factor. The journal impact factor is the average number of times articles from the journal published in the past two years have been cited in the JCR year (see JCR HELP page). Read the rest of this entry »

The Optical Society of America (OSA) announced that its journals Optics Letters and Optics Express received the highest impact factor rankings of all optics journals. See here. This is according to the 2007 Journal Citation Report (JCR). OSA publishes three other journals that are ranked in the top 20 overall. These include Journal of the Optical Society of America B (10), Journal of the Optical Society of America A (15) and Applied Optics (17). Read the rest of this entry »