SpringerLink

What is SpringerLink?

SpringerLink is a fulltext collection of over 2000 peer-reviewed journals. SpringerLink covers most subjects with strengths in sciences, social sciences, education, law and medicine.

Getting started

SpringerLink is available through the University Library page. Use your web browser to go to
http://www.une.edu.au/library

Choose Find Resources.
Select SpringerLink from the Most Popular Databases list.
Enter your UNE username and password when prompted.

Search strategies

On the first page you will see the Find Content by Keyword screen. Type a keyword or "phrase" in the first search box and click the Go button.

Varying your search

If you have too many results, modify your search. You can return to your original search and make changes by simply adding more keywords. Separate each keyword with the appropriate Boolean opperator (AND, OR, or NOT.)

environment AND "air pollution" narrows your search, finding only those articles which mention both the environment and air pollution.
"greenhouse effect" OR "global warming" widens your search by including articles which refer to the greenhouse effect or global warming or both.
web NOT arachnida narrows your search, excluding articles which refer to arachnida (spiders.)

You can also click on the link more options to the right of your search results and enter terms into one or more boxes. You can limit your search by entering keywords in the fields Title, Summary, Author and Editor.

Use the links provided in the right-hand column to limit your results by Content Type, Language, Subject or Author.

Truncation and Wildcards

You can search for different forms of the same word or for words with different spellings using truncation and wildcards.

The symbol * stands for different endings of the same basic word. For example, Austral* will find Australia, Australian, Australoid and Australopithecus.

The symbol * is also used as a wildcard to replace any single character in a word. For example, organi*ation will find both organisation and organization.

Date range

Rather than use the Publication dates between option on your original search screen it is better to first run your search and then select one of the date options below the heading SpringerLink Date. You can also limit your results to a particular Copyright date by using the options given further down the list.

Removing limits

To remove any limits you have placed on your search, you should scroll to the top of the search results screen and click on the REMOVE link next to the appropriate option.

Viewing records

Your results appear as a list of relevant articles. You will see 10 results per a page and you can move through your results by using the Next link at the top and bottom of your list. You can chose to view your results using the tabs Expanded View or Condensed View.

The level of access you have to an article is displayed to the left of the record.

Access to all content
Access to some content (Of a particular journal title.)
Access to no content

If the article you are interested in indicates that you have access to all or some of the content this means the University Library has already paid for that journal and that you can scroll to Text below the main record and click on the PDF link to be taken to the full-text article.

Clicking on the article title will take you to a more detailed record of that article.

If a journal is unavailable in SpringerLink go to the University Library Catalogue and search for the journal title to see if it is held elsewhere in the Library.

Printing, emailing and saving records and articles

Links above your results give you the option to:

download records to your desktop as basic text.
send your search results as an RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feed. Copy the link from your address bar into an RSS feed reader to subscribe and automatically receive updates whenever the feed is updated.
email records to an email address < username@une.edu.au >.
save records to disk or other saving devices such as USB keys.
To print records use the Printable view button to the far right.

You can only email, print or save articles individually. SpringerLink does not have the facility for printing, saving or emailing more than one article at a time.

Open the article in PDF and select from the toolbar options to print, save or email.

Marking records

If you are interested in a number of articles, you can make a list by clicking Add to marked list to the right of each citation. To view the articles you have marked, click the Marked Items link in the left column. This takes you to a screen displaying the items you have selected. Links at the top of your list of records give you the option to download, email, save or delete records.

Registration

Registration will allow you to access features such as favourites, marked items, history, saved items and alerts.
Click on the Register link, enter personal details and identify yourself as a University of New England user when asked.
To receive notification of Table of Contents of new issues of journals firstly go to the journal title page and select Register for TOC alerting.