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Reference Sources and Services

Notes Project Muse

Project Muse is a full text database covering over 100 titles including: literature and criticism; history;
the visual and performing arts; cultural studies; education; political science; and gender studies.
• Sign up to receive e-mail alerts of new issues on Project Muse as well as new titles. Links are
included to journal table of contents
• To set-up a current awareness profile, go to Information, select ‘Communicating with Project
Muse’ and select ‘Receive notification of New Materials’.

Science Direct

Science Direct is a full text database that provides access to almost 100 full text journal titles in all
areas of research. In addition, it includes a searchable database of over three million article citations
from all fields of science and the table of contents of over 1,700 journals, as well as book citations.
• Register with Science Direct and create a personal profile. This feature allows you to save
searches, create search alerts, volume/issue alerts and citation alerts and create a personal
favorites list of journals and books which can be searched or browsed
• To set-up a profile, choose the Register link at the top right of the screen and fill in the
registration form
• To create a list of favorite journals, select the ‘Add/Remove Favourite Journals and Book
Series’ link, locate the journal or book you wish to add to the list and then click Add. When
you have finished, click Save
• To create alerts, select the ‘Add/Remove Alerts’ link. For search alerts, do a search and then
click the ‘Save as Search Alert’ link at the top of the list of results. Fill in a name for the search
and the frequency for how often you want the search run and click ‘Update Alert’
• For Tables of Contents Alerts, choose the link for ‘Add/Remove Volume/Issue Alerts. Locate
the journal or book you wish to add to the list and then click Add. When you have finished,
click Save. For citation alerts, find the article citation you want to save an alert for and click
the ‘Save as citation alert’ link on the right hand document menu.

Write twenty sentences about a CAS service of your choice.

Self Assessment

State whether the following statements are true or false:
6. Project Muse is a full text database covering over 200 titles.
7. Science Direct is a full text database that provides access to almost 100 full text journal titles
in all areas of research.

8.4 Summary

• Publishers of journals are shifting to electronic and on-line publishing to reduce time lag.
• National Centre for Science Information (NCSI), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), established
in 1983, is a premier information centre providing computer-based information services to
the research and academic community in Science and Technology all over the country.

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