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New Features Update
ISI Web of KnowledgeJuly 2006
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New features and enhancements
• Enhancements to search engine– Simpler topic searching– Changes to phrase searching
• Author Finder– Tool for focused author searching in the Web of Science
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Enhancements to the search engine
• Improved topic search results– Better results when entering multiple search terms
– Phrase searching is no longer implied
– Use quotation marks to search an exact phrase
– Using wildcard characters and Boolean search operators is still permitted
– Applies to all Web of Knowledge databases, including Web of Science
global warming
finds the phrase global warming and also finds …global climate change and ocean warming…
“global warming”
finds the exact phrase global warming
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More examples
• Enter agriculture sustainable economic*– Finds: ...Sustainable agriculture meets human needs for food,
enhances the quality of life of people, protects the integrity of natural systems, and is economically profitable…
• Truncate within an exact phrase:– Enter “neural network*” to find neural network, neural networks or
neural networking
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Entering terms
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Results, cont.
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Exact phrase
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Results, cont.
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Author Finder
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Author Finder
• Quick four-step process to help you walk through an author search
• Useful for differentiating between authors who share name and initials
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Author Finder – Enter a name
• Enter the last name O’Byrne and the first initial P
• Only the last name is required. It’s okay if you don’t know the first or second initial.
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Select initials
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Add a variant
• Also search for obyrne without the apostrophe
• Web of Science records prior to 1998 are formatted this way
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Select initials
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Select Subject Category
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Add address
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Full record result
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Search Results
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