Taking a DeepDyve into the Deep Web - Continuing Research
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Each entry features a “more” link. This doesn’t take you to the article; instead, it performs a little Ajax magic that delivers a box with more information about the article. It includes the title, source, author, journal, publisher, subject, ISSN, and doi; those last two are numbers that will help you find the article. From here, you can save the article to a folder that you name; you can also do this directly from the results. Additionally, you can use this box to help you find matches to your query in the text of an article. I didn’t want to show you the entire Ajax box because I would have had to shrink it too much, but here’s a close-up to explain what I mean:
“Save” will save the item to a folder you choose (this pertains to your account with the search engine, not your PC). “Search” lets you select text for which to search within the item in several different ways. “Original text” takes you directly to the article, and “prev” and “next” let you preview the previous and next entries that turned up in your search results.
DeepDyve does a nice trick that I’m pretty sure we won’t be seeing Google match any time soon. You may have noticed that entries feature an arrow that says “More like this” (yes, I know, with the image shrunk it’s hard to tell; bear with me). Click that arrow and DeepDyve takes the entire article and runs it as your query. Not just a few keywords, but the entire contents of the article!
It’s hard to pin down my favorite DeepDyve feature; I like the way that, in general, it’s put together to help you do continuing research. The fact that you can save and repeat searches, save links to particular documents in folders, and so forth, really brings this out.
Before I wrap up this section, I want to note that I went beyond cancer, and beyond the search engine’s examples. I did a search for “Planets which are in the habitable zone, a zone in which water can exist in a stable state as a liquid.” I turned up several planets, plus some interesting articles (including one that talks about why extremeophiles may be irrelevant to the origin of life). A slight rephrasing of the query turned up an article about habitable moons around giant planets – just the thing for a budding science fiction writer who wants to get the science right.
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