The All New SpringerLink: A Trainers Guide

Miguel Toribio-Mateas, Training & Research Consultant

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Searching on SpringerLink

Quick Search Box is now in the same location on EVERY page of the site.
Users no longer have to go looking for it!

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Browsing Subject Collections

Subject Collections now expand

to show detailed subfields.

Institutional branding is now visible on

every page. More interface languages coming soon.
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SpringerLink Home Page Login Box Available

From Every Page. No need to return to home page to login.

New content type tabs

and A-Z List reduce the need for scrolling.

Easy Access To
Admin functions and Librarian Links.
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Search Results

Highlighting
and access indicators are activated by default and can be turned on / off from the Tools option in the toolbar
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Result output options

Save item to Favourites Create RSS Feed Print

* Items / Lists Management, including email alerts. Coming soon.

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Sharing Results

Share via email and a number of reference sharing services including

Springers own: citeulike

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Browsing within Content Type

Search within Journals or

eBooks allows for easy searching within specific content types.

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Journal Features

Articles can be filtered to show Open Access articles

only.

The journal history notes indicate any title changes,

mergers or title splits.
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Browsing Journal Content All journal content

available is immediately visible, including archival content.

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The Issue Page Journal information

is clearly visible.

Volume and issue

number also clearly noted.

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Revealing the Abstract

Click the Show
Summary button to reveal the abstract. reviewed without leaving the search results.

The abstract can be

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Related Documents

The new SpringerLink

shows researchers the most closely related documents.

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Mousing over Related Documents

Mousing over a Related Document causes a mini-abstract page to pop up, so

researchers can review an item without leaving the original article!

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Export Citations

Export Citation tool is easily visible and supports the most popular citation programs
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References & Cited By

Article references are easily viewed from the abstract page Links to articles which cite the article being viewed can be found under the Cited By button.
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The About Page

Displays full article

details, including all authors.

Also allows user to register

for TOC Alerting.

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eBooks Look Inside puts

chapter-level PDFs back together, bringing the book experience back into eBooks!

No special software is required! Controls are contained within the site!

Some part of each chapter (and all frontmatter) is accessible even for non-subscribers!

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Viewing Chapters in PDF Preview

Always know where you are in the eBook. The bar at the top of the content area shows the chapter titles.

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PDF Preview in Full Screen View

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PDF Preview with hidden Thumbnails

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Viewing Related Documents and References in PDF Preview

Select Details in the table of contents to see references and related documents.

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Related Documents also for eBooks Related Documents

cross all content types on SpringerLink!

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Download from the Mini-Abstract Window

Download PDF of the related document or move back to the Look Inside view.

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Look Inside also available in Protocols

Look Inside is also available in Protocols.

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