Blackwell Science Online

JCU provides on-campus full-text access to Blackwell Science journals via the UK based ingenta service.

• Access is also provided to tables of contents and abstracts (but not full text) for other ingenta journals.

To access a Blackwell Science journal:

1. go to http://www.ingenta.com (or follow the link from the Library Resources page)

2. Click on direct login

3. Click on ingentaJournals (currently the first option).

You now have a choice: you can search the entire database OR you can browse the journals to view contents pages.

NOTE: if you click on the "Blackwell Science" link (or any of the other publishers listed) you will be taken to their websites. You will not be able to retrieve full text articles.

4. To search the database,

• click on the search database button,
• fill in your search terms,
• click the search database button
• click on the details button beside any Blackwell Science article you wish to retrieve
• now go to step 6 below

5. To view the contents pages of a particular journal,

• click on the select journal button
• choose the initial letter of the journal title from the buttons on the left hand panel (REMEMBER: do not click "Blackwell Science" - see NOTE above).
• select your journal (make sure it is flagged "Blackwell Science" )
• click the all issues button to get a list of all available issues
• click the contents button beside the issue you want OR
• click the latest issue button the go direct to the table of contents of the issue indicated
• click on the details button beside the article you wish to retrieve
• now go to step 6

• click on the document availability button - provided you have selected a Blackwell Science document, you can now
• click on deliver document
• the required document will be automatically loaded and displayed as an Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) file which can be printed or saved

If you don't have Adobe Acrobat, information on how to obtain it free of charge is available at http://www.library.jcu.edu.au/InfoHelp/faq.html#adobe

or by contacting InfoHelp (phone 07 4781 5500 or email infohelp@jcu.edu.au)

NOTE: To see a list of all ingenta journals, click the journals button in the left hand panel of selected screens. All currently available Blackwell Science journals are included and identified in the list. Not all Blackwell Science journals are available, but the list is continuing to grow.

General ingenta Searching Tips

When searching the database (step 4 above):

• Enter your search term/s in the appropriate boxes.

• The more boxes you fill, the narrower the search.
• You can use upper and/or lower case.
• You can enter a single term (word or phrase) or several terms connected by one of the following operators:
• ampersand (&) to perform AND searches (ie records that contain all the words)
• comma (,) to perform OR searches (ie records that contain any of the words)
• Truncate words using the asterisk:
• eg: AUSTRAL* will find any of AUSTRALIA, AUSTRALIAN, AUSTRALASIA etc.
• Within a word, ? can be used as a wild card representing any 1 character,
• eg: PRIVATI?ATION will retrieve PRIVATISATION or PRIVATIZATION.
• The # character is a "wild word" which can be used to represent any word in a phrase.
• Hyphenated terms (eg: INTERLEUKIN-6), common words (eg: in, to, of, the) and numbers, including decimal points can all be searched for.
• Author Names
• Names of authors are given in the form SURNAME INITIALS.
• Any punctuation such as hyphens, spaces and apostrophes must be used in your search.
• You can search on just the surname or you can specify initials.
• for best results use truncation after the first initial:
• MORGAN
• MORGAN L*
• SAN MIGUEL J*
• AJCHENBAUM-CYMBALISTA F*
• When searching for a journal, you can search either for its full name or for individual words or phrases in the journal name, eg:
• QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
• ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
• ASTRONOM*
• The year of publication can be specified (eg: 1996), as well as the volume and issue numbers.