Dimensions Search Meets Sustainability for Green Chemistry
As a member of the American Chemical Society’s Sustainability for Green Chemistry you are able to search over a million documents related to all things green chemistry for free. This includes access to the advanced search, Analytics tool. This dynamic tool is a comprehensive tool that will help you access the cutting edge of scientific developments. In order to get to the tool, from chemistryforsustainability.org, you click toolkit, then publications reports, and then external publications search.
A few key Features:
Filters: Filters allow you to search without requiring Keywords. Filters appear on the left hand side of the page. It allows you combine filters so that you can achieve searches or narrow down searches without needing to type anything. You can filter by publication year, researchers, research organizations, research categories and many more.
Advanced Search in Dimensions Analytics- allows you to build more complex searches. You can search specific meta data fields, co-occurring concepts, keyword search. The search is set up for up to 25,000 identifiers.
- Keyword Search
Keyword search can search topics based on the “full data” in an article. Alternatively, you can search with keywords in “title and abstract” for more targeted searches. Lastly, you can search by DOI.
Similar document search: This is where you can paste abstracts from papers you would like to have similar results returned. The system understands that the highly technical wording in abstracts can return much more specific results that match. using this method (formerly called "abstract search"), you can also search for documents which are similar to an abstract or other longer piece of text. Simply select "Similar Documents" on the right side of the search box, paste the text into the search box, and then press ENTER. Dimensions will then extract relevant concepts from the text and return the most similar documents. The similar documents search can be used with all available content types. It is therefore possible to request grants like a specific publication abstract, etc. Abstracts of methods papers or highly technical wording will be likely to bring back a smaller number of results which are highly related in scope to the entered abstract. Using a review paper abstract or less technical piece of text is likely to lead to a greater number of more general results. “This type of search can be extremely useful when trying to identify publications or grant funding based on a specific topic which would otherwise be hard to define through complex keyword searches alone. Text used in the "Similar Documents" search remains private to you and is neither uploaded nor stored in any way in the Dimensions database.”- Dimensions website.
All of these tools are available to you for free as a member of this community. You can explore the Dimensions Search through our platform.
