FAQ Albert 2.0

Here you can find an array of frequently asked questions concerning the contents and functionalities of ALBERT.

If you are interested in more information, please find here a tutorial about ALBERT http://www.gfz-potsdam.de/portal/cms/Bibliothek/Suche/A-Albert/Albertinfo



How can I extend my search space?
Extend your search for jourals and articles

We can offer online access to backfiles of journals for all subjects through the  DFG National Licences. This includes search for articles from these journals.
As a standard for searching ALBERT we defined a start set including subject areas like geosciences, geography, natural sciences general, energy, forestry/agriculture. But you can extend this set easily with subjects like physics, chemistry, mathematics or economics.

Go to Settings, choose further subjects and click SAVE.
All subsequent searches in your session are now based on this selection.
If you want to use this collection whenever you use ALBERT, just click on PERMALINK and add this to your bookmark list.

This short film may help.


How to get my core journals at a glance?
You can generate your own collection of often read journals by using search terms or by journals identifier.

To get the list by search term you can set a truncated query for e.g. seism* OR earthq*. After that you can limit the search result to the search space journals and to current available journals only.

http://waesearch.kobv.de/simpleSearch.do?
fq=search_space:journals&
fq=journal_availability:current&
sortCrit=title&
sortOrder=asc&
hitsPerPage=100&
query=seism*+OR+earthq*

The URL elements can be resolved this way:

search space journals only: fq=search_space:journals
current journal: fq=journal_availability:current
sorted by title: sortCrit=title
sort direction ascending: sortOrder=asc
100 hits per page: hitsPerPage=100
search query: query=seism*+OR+earthq*


To generate very selective collections it is recommended to do a search by combining item IDs. Because each item has a unique identifier it is not needed to reduce to a search space or another result affecting criteria.

Exemplary for a collection of the journals BSSA, JGR-B, J Seismol, PAGEOPH, Tectonophysics and Tectonics is specified the following URL:

http://waesearch.kobv.de/simpleSearch.do?
query=uid:gfz_zs_16046+OR+
uid:gfz_zs_7536+OR+
uid:gfz_zs_2923+OR+
uid:gfz_zs_1478+OR+
uid:gfz_zs_7527+OR+
uid:gfz_zs_2305


How to display the newest articles of a topic?
Among information about available journals, ALBERT 2.0 comprises additionaly the newest articles of them, if that journals are currently licensed as fulltext and a RSS feed is provided by the publisher. Meanwhile, this is occured with the most publishers.

To obtain the newest articles of a topic, search at first ALBERT with a query. After that limit the result to the search space Articles and once again to Latest Papers from Table of Contents or Articles in Press. Now sort the result Date descending to display the articles sorted by their day date in this search space.

You can now file to this constellation a steady Permalink as a bookmark and visit this page from time to time to obtain the newest articles of search query specified.

http://waesearch.kobv.de/advancedSearch.do?
f1=allfields&
f2=allfields&
v1=seismic+noise&
v2=seismic+sounding&
conj=or&
fq=datasource:rss_feeds&
fq=search_space:articles&
sortCrit=date&
sortOrder=desc&
hitsPerPage=100

Another possibility is to subscribe this search query as a RSS feed. You will get then proactively the newest articles of your interest in your RSS reader (like Thunderbird) up-to-date displayed.

Watch right here the procedure as a video (<1 min) as well as the subscription of a search query by Google Reader.

http://waesearch.kobv.de/feed.do?
feedFormat=rss_2.0&
feedType=advanced_search&
query=alle_felder:"seismic+noise"+OR+alle_felder:"seismic+sounding"&
fq=datasource:rss_feeds&
fq=search_space:articles&
numItems=100

Please notice, that you can set up the number of articles as RSS per delivery (Maximum Number of Items per Feed). Default are 50 articles per delivery.


How to display all journals providing a RSS feed?
By searching for journal_feed_id:*


How to add ALBERT to the browser's search bar?
Visit the start page of ALBERT and pull down the menu within the search bar, that is mostly located in the browser's window right upper corner. Then choose "Add ALBERT Search". Done! Now you can retrieve very quickly in ALBERT via that search bar.

ALBERT can be added to the most common browsers (Firefox, IE, Chrome) as a search bar. The application is based on the standard OpenSearch.

A short movie (20 sec) shows you the procedure of adding ALBERT to the search bar in Firefox.

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