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ISI Web of Knowledge Service for UK Education
An Overview
Suzanne Williams
ISI Web of Knowledge Support Officer
http://wok.mimas.ac.uk
• About the ISI Web of Knowledge Service for UK Education
• Introduction to the ISI Web of Knowledge platform
• Content of the Web of Science• Web of Science - example• All Databases Search- example
Overview
The ISI Web of Knowledge Service for UK Education• Integrated platform supporting research and teaching in UK
education institutions• Portal providing:
• simple All Database searching across Web of Science plus additional products that an institution subscribe (Journal Citation Reports not included in All Databases Search)
• access to• Web of Science (now includes Conference Proceedings Citation
Index- Science )• Medline (1950 – present)• plus additional products and external collections / websites
Who hosts the service?
• The ISI Web of Knowledge Service for UK Education is hosted by Thomson Reuters• Thomson Reuters own the databases and the
application • Mimas, The University of Manchester support the
service• JISC funded service
• JISC Collections negotiate and manage the agreement
Examples of additional products available:• Century of Science
– Backfile and cited reference data from 1900 to 1944• Web of Science Backfiles
– Science Citation Index Expanded with Cited References (1945–1969) – Social Science Citation Index Expanded with Cited References (1956–1969)
• Current Contents Connect– Current awareness service
• Journal Citation Reports– Science & Social Science Editions
• Derwent Innovations Index–Finds specific patents & cited patents
• ISI Chemistry • Biosis Previews
Additional products
As a registered user, you can take advantage of these convenient features:
• Select a start page
• Save searches to the ISI Web of Knowledge server.
• Set up search history alerts, citation alerts and RSS feeds
• Create custom journal lists for focused browsing and table of contents alerting (CCC subscribers only).
•Save and manage your references online with EndNote Web
•Automatically sign in every time you access ISI Web of Knowledge. (Note: Users of public computers should not select this option.)
•The Web of Science databases are:
– Science Citation Index Expanded (1970 – ), Author Abstracts available from 1991
– Social Sciences Citation Index Expanded (1970– ), Author Abstracts available from 1992
– Arts and Humanities Citation Index (1975– ), Author Abstracts available from 2000
– Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science (1990-)
•Coverage:
– more than 8,500 journals & conference proceedings– 5,900 SCI 1,725 SSCI 1,144 ADH– average of over 24,000 new items added each week
•Quarterly enhancements
Content of Web of Science
• Search citation databases individually or simultaneously• General, Advanced and Cited Reference searching available• Standard Boolean operators
– and/or/not/same and truncation• Phrase search - use quotation marks• Form and Set based searching• Full citation searching• References to related records• Links to other databases and external resources• Register for additional features
Features of Web of Science
Search FieldsTopic Article titles, Abstracts,
Author Keywords, KeyWords Plus
“white oak” or “quercus alba”
drug resistan*
Title Enter title terms to limit your search to article titles
soil SAME drain*
Author Searches any author on the paper
Bergstrom CT
Wallen K
Group Author Group or organization credited with authorship
Aberdeen Lung Cancer Group
Beta Cell Biology Consortium
Publication Name Journal title Czech Journal of Food Sciences
Progress in Brain Research
Publication Year Year article was published
1999
2003-2005
Address Searches abbreviated author affiliations
Emory Univ, Dept Biol, Atlanta, GA 30329 USA
Conference Search conference information
lithium AND Scotland AND 1998
Language and Document type search fields available to restrict search
Proximity Operators
Phrase searching
To search for an exact phrase enter the phrase in quotation marks.
Example: “stem cell”
Same Terms must occur within the same sentence, where “sentence” is generally a period-delimited string, in any order. In keyword fields, the SAME operator will retrieve records with search terms in the same keyword phrase.
Example: stem SAME cell
Truncation
Symbol Retrieves
* Zero or more characters
gene*
gene, genetics, generation
$ Zero or one character
colo$r
color, colour
? One character only
en?oblast
entoblast, endoblast
Boolean OperatorsAll search terms must occur to be retrieved.
TOPIC: “stem cell*” AND lymphoma
Retrieves documents that contain the phrase stem cell and the term lymphoma. This is equivalent to searching “stem cell*” lymphoma
Any one of the search terms must occur to be retrieved. Use when searching variants and synonyms.
TOPIC: aspartame OR saccharine OR sweetener*
Retrieves documents that contain at least one of the terms.
Excludes records that contain a given search term.
TOPIC: aids NOT hearing
Retrieves documents with aids, excluding any which also contain hearing.
Linking Options
• OpenURL linking to an institutions electronic resources
• Links to ‘Full Text’– Provides links between ISI Web of Knowledge
resources and electronic full text• Holdings links to OPAC – up to 8 can be enabled
– Links to paper journals– Links through to additional online journals– Alternative route to electronic journals
• Linking options are free (institution required to contact the helpdesk to enable the link option(s)
Web of Knowledge –
All Databases Search• Search the content of multiple Thomson Scientific
products and other external resources simultaneously• External collections selected by default• Same interface as other Web of Knowledge products• Linking options available directly from results screen
Contact us:
• Helpdesk e-mail: [email protected] For information and assistance- Provide feedback on the WoK service- WOSEC (Web of Science Enhancement
Committee
- Hands On session
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