Information Seeking Behaviour of Engineering Researchers
1. Information Seeking Behaviour of Engineering Researchers Dr Rob. C. Pullar Centre for Physical Electronics and Materials, Faculty of Engineering, Science and the Built Environment, London South Bank University, 103 Borough Road, London SE1 0AA, UK
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18. Search on ScienceDirect – 15 hits Excellent summaries, immediate link to PDF, flexible search Only has Elsevier papers, articles before 1995 not free here
19. Search on Web of Science – 37 hits Covers absolutely everything – even letters in New Scientist No abstracts before 1990 – just titles, no longer has alerts
20. Search on Scopus – 34 hits Covers most journals, can search web or patents too More flexible than Web of Science, but search not as good!