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Selective Dissemination of Information (SDI)  on WebSPIRS

The WebSPIRS SDI (Selective Dissemination of Information) feature lets an authorized user save a search and have it rerun automatically, with the results e-mailed to that user. (The WebSPIRS administrator must authorize users to use SDIs.)

If you are an authorized user you can create SDIs; edit, load, run, and delete SDIs; and specify default SDI settings.

You can also subscribe to Alerts to receive regular search results for SDI searches created by your administrator or librarian.

How WebSPIRS handles SDIs:

  1. You use WebSPIRS to select and search databases.
  2. You select a search statement (from your Search History) to make into an SDI.
  3. WebSPIRS checks for database conflicts in preparation for processing the search statement as an SDI baseline. If there are no conflicts, WebSPIRS displays the Create New SDI page.
  4. If the SDI Database Conflict page appears, the database set you selected cannot be used to create an SDI, and a description of the conflict(s) is displayed.

    IMPORTANT: WebSPIRS must create an SDI baseline from the search in order to create an SDI. WebSPIRS runs the SDI against each database group (also referred to as a "family") rather than against individual databases. For example, against all MEDLINE Express databases mounted on the server, not just against the one you have searched. WebSPIRS suggests that you rerun the original search with all databases in the group opened so that you can see the results that will make up the SDI baseline.

     
    NOTE: There is a maximum number of records that you can include in an SDI baseline. The maximum is usually 1000 records, but your WebSPIRS administrator might have changed this setting. If your search exceeds the maximum, you will see a warning, and you must refine your search.

    If you do not need to see the entire baseline before completing the SDI (for instance if unopened databases cover only earlier research and you are only interested in the most current research), you can click Continue to open the Create New SDI page.

    Or you can return to the Search page by clicking Cancel and then change databases.

    If all selected databases are not supported for SDIs, you must click Cancel to return to the Search page.

  5. On the Create New SDI page, you set up the SDI, which includes an e-mail notification address, and initiates the SDI.
  6. WebSPIRS processes the SDI baseline and saves the SDI, alerting you by e-mail when the SDI is in the system. (On the SDI Account page, the SDI is listed as "PROCESSING" until the baseline finishes.)

To create an SDI:

  1. Perform one or more searches. You can assemble a search you want to turn into an SDI by combining a number of separate searches.
  2. In the Search History pane, select the search you want to make into an SDI.
  3. Click Create SDI to open the Create New SDI page.

     

    NOTE: If there is no Create SDI button, you are not authorized to create SDIs. Contact your WebSPIRS administrator for authorization.

    See the help on the SDI Database Conflict page if that page appears.

To manage (edit, run, load, or delete) your SDIs:

  • From the Search page, click SDI Account to open the SDI Account page.

To specify default SDI settings:

  • From the SDI Account page, click SDI Settings to open the SDI Settings page.

 

HOW CAN ISI ORGANIZE YOUR INTEGRATION?

 

ISI has an integrated system that consists of a number of layers of products and services. These are organized as follows:

 

-Electronic Databases

-Link Services

-Electronic Library Services

-Electronic Journals

-ISI Document Solution

 

The integration enables users to start by searching in one of the ISI�s scholarly bibliographic database go to it�s associated references right up to viewing the relevant electronic journals, find out the location of the actual article or provide access to publication within or outside the ISI databases.

   

Electronic Databases

ISI databases provide you with critical up-to-date bibliographic data. For instance Web of Sciences, Current contents connect, ISI Chemistry Server, Derwent Innovations Index, Biosis Previews, Specialty Citation Index, Journal Citation Reports and many more which covers various fields. 

Link Services

 

This service is consist of two major categories which has three groups by themselves:

 

*Internal Links

 

Reference Links: Link from an article�s references in one Web of Science record to the corresponding source records in the database, where the user can see complete bibliographic information.

Times Cited Links: They are from an article�s bibliographic display to those articles subsequently published and indexed in the database which have cited that article.

Related Records links: Link from one article to other articles that are related to it by virtue of the fact that they share one or more references in common.

 

      *External Links

 

Full-text links: They are in place between Web of Science records and corresponding full-text journal articles at publishers� and aggregators� sites. Where publishers desire enhanced references, additional links have been created that work in the opposite direction, from references in the full text to corresponding Web of Science records.

 

Patent Links: Patent data in the Derwent Innovations Index is linked to the Web of Sciences.

 

Sequence Data links: ISI has been working in cooperation with the National Library of Medicine�s National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) to establish ongoing links between the Web of Science and GenBank.

 

 

Electronic Library Services

Choose from Table-of-Contents and Profile-Based services that deliver the late mail. Each confidential service is unique in customization, service and content developed independently or with the help of ISI experts.

 

Table-of-Contents Alerting:

     *Journal Tracker

     *Corporate Alert

 

  Profile-Based Alerting:

     *Discovery Agent

     *Personal Alert

 

Electronic Journals

Electronic journals (e-journals) are available in different ways that explained in external links section. Currently, a total of 4.8 million links are available between the Web of Science and electronic journals databases.

 

ISI available links:

*Academic Press

*American Institute of Physics

*American Physical Society

*Blackwell Science

*Elsevier Science/ScienceDirect

*Karger

*Kluwer Academic Publishers

*SIAM

*Springer-Verlag

 ISI Document Solution

ISI Document Solution, a document delivery service, provides access to full-text item from virtually any publication within or outside of the ISI database.

 

 

 

 

 

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