sábado, 8 de diciembre de 2012

Bing

Bing is one search engine of Microsoft, created in 2009.

It includes a list of suggestions in real time and other list with relationated searches. It is expected that Bing will substitute to Yahoo.It is adapted in several languages, about 30, and it is working in almost 40 countries.

www.bing.com

Yahoo

Yahoo, as Google, is a search engine. It was open in 1994. It is used, but not as Google, because  Google is bigger and with more services. Yahoo is caracteristic because of in Yahoo users can ask doubts, and other users, who wants, can give an answer. From one question can be thousands of answers, but the user who asked will select the better and put it a mark.

www.yahoo.com

Google Scholar

This is a useful tool of Google for students, because it is a search engine for academic articles, with a lot of information adapted to different levels of the education. There you can find articles of any kind of topic, from physic to economy, in different languages.

It is usefuls, I said, for students, in principal, when it is necessary some detailed information for a work.

www.scholar.google.com

Google

Google is one of the most important, useful and used seargh engines of the world. It is not specializated, but it a good search engine in order to find several websites or iinformation resources or articles.

It is used in principle to access to websites like the UC3M webiste.

www.google.es

Library of the UC3M

It is the library of the University UC3M, where you can find the OPAC  of the library. Furthermore, from this website you can access to several information resources like WOK.

In adittion, you can access to Refworks and other interesant tools to improve your works and get a better information.

Link of the website: http://www.uc3m.es/portal/page/portal/biblioteca.

sábado, 10 de noviembre de 2012

CINDOC

CINDOC IS the Center of Scientific Information and Documentation, now IEDCYT: Institute for Documentary Studies on Science and Technology. The bibliographic databases ICYT, ISOC and EMI provide scientific production published in Spain. Your time coverage is from 1975 to date with a monthly update. Contains journal articles, as well as a selection of conference proceedings, series, compilations, reports and monographs.

The information available in the databases for ICYT include the areas of science and technology to ISOC, social sciences and humanities such as Social Anthropology, Archaeology, Art, Library and Information Science, Law, Economics, Education, Philosophy, Geography, Urbanism and Architecture, History, Language and Literature, Psychology and Sociology and Political Science, for the IME Biomedicine.

The link of this web page is the following: www.cindoc.csic.es/

JCR (Journal Citation Report)

Journal Citation Report is a useful database if you are interested in find some information about a journal or a group of journals.

The Journal Citation Reports (JCR) is an annual publication that makes the Institute of Scientific Information, a member of Thomson Scientific. Provides information about scientific journals in the field of applied and social sciences. Originally part of the Science Citation Index, and is currently made ​​from the data it contains.

Is closely related to the calculation of the impact factor of scientific publications, one of the main indicators in assessing the scientific activity in Europe and the USA.

You can acces to JCR through the web site of the Library of the UC3M, clicking on Universe-e and searching for JCR in the serch engine of Universe-e.