Web of Knowledge New Features UpdateWeb of Knowledge : Discovery Starts Here

November 2012

rachel.mangan@thomsonreuters.com

Enhancements WOK5.6, 5.7 and 5.8• Search and navigation enhancements

– Enhanced Author Search (formerly Author Finder) Slide 3– Edit Search statements Slide 5– ResearcherID identifier searchable across the Web of Knowledge Slide 7– Left hand truncation (*saccharide) Slide 9– Search WOS Categories and WOK Research Areas Slide 10– Refine All Databases by Research Domain and Databases Slide 12– Organisation Enhanced Search Field Slide 13– Search for dates using Calendar Slide 20– Search by WOS updates instead of Publication dates Slide 20

• Alerting enhancements– Renew all Saved Search Alerts simultaneously Slide 22 – Renew all Citation Alerts simultaneously Slide 23

• Cited Reference enhancements Slide 22

• ResearcherID and ORCID Slide 27

• New Data Citation Index offering Slide 31

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1. Select ‘Author Search’

2. Insert author surname and initials

3. Add any other author variants

4. Select Research Domains/ WOS Categories

5. Select Organisations 6. View results

Author Search guides you through a series of steps that are designed to help

disambiguate common author names

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Order organisations by Record Count and select all relevant organisations associated with the author (including variants)

View automated sets for this author

Create a search alert for this query

Add these papers to your RID profile or initiate the RID registration process

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Editing Sets

Edit Sets from the Advanced Search or Search History pages

Search using the 250 Web of Science Categories or 150 Research Areas

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Editing Sets cont....

Use the field tags and Boolean operators to edit the search

Edit your query here

Overwrite the original query or create a new query

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ResearcherID – search in All Databases

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Search ResearcherID numbers in All Databases

searches as well as individual databases like Medline, CABI, Inspec,

etc.

ResearcherID in All Databases

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RID’s are now visible in all Web of Knowledge records

Left Hand Truncation

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Research Domain vs. Research Area vs. Subject Category

Web of Knowledge Research Domains

Web of Knowledge Research Areas

Web of ScienceSubject Categories

3 high-level classifications: SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY SOCIAL SCIENCES ARTS HUMANITIES

150 broad classifications Ex: Chemistry

250 more narrow classifications Ex: Chemistry, Applied Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Physical

Unique to the All Databases search environment; not displayed on

document records.

Encompass the classification systems from all Web of

Knowledge databases (i.e. Inspec, Biological Abstracts, etc.); present on all records.

Unique to Web of Science: present on Web of Science

records only.

Represent 3 core branches of academic literature.

Represent the content of both source publications and

individual papers.

Publication-level designations assigned to books and journals;

equivalent to Journal Citation Report categories.

Not searchable. Use to Refine search results in the

All Databases environment.SU = Advanced Search field tag WC = Advanced Search field tag

General Specific10

Search for WOS Categories or WOK Research Areas

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SU= Research AreaWC= Web of Science Category

Refine All Data Base search by Domain, Area and Database

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New! Data Citation Index

Organisation Enhanced Universidad CEU San Pablo (Madrid)

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(1) Univ San Pablo CEU

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(2) Univ CEU San Pablo

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(3) CEU San Pablo Univ

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Organisation Enhanced

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1. Select ‘Organisation Enhanced’ from the search menu

2. Click on the icon3. Enter the organisation in the

search box or use the alphabetical index

4. Click on ‘D’ to examine all variants unified to the Preferred Title

Organisation Enhanced

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1. To search for all variants unified to the preferred name, select the button ‘Add’ next to the organisation preferred name

2. You can also search for the variants individually

3. Your selection appears in the box at the bottom of the page. Click on OK to return to the general search page.

Organisation Enhanced

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To suggest a correction, or request your organization be included in the Preferred Name search aid, please contact Thomson

Reuters Customer Technical Support.http://ip-science.thomsonreuters.com/support/

New Calendar format in Web of Science

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1. Select ‘Date Range’2. Use the start and end

date calendars to select your range of dates

3. Select the box ‘Use Processing Date instead of publication date’ if you prefer not to search by publication date

New Calendar format in Web of Science

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These records were published in March but processed in April

Renew all search alerts

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Click on ‘Renew All’ to renew all query alerts simultaneously

Citation Alerts – Renew All

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Cited Reference Enhancements

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Full Cited References captured

Search by Cited Title

•Click on ‘Show all authors’ to display all authors on the reference

•Click on ‘Show Expanded Titles’ to display the full title of the reference 25

Export items from an articles Cited References

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1. You are now able to export references linked to a source item in WOK

2. Tick the check box in the left margin for the references you wish to export and then select an export option

3. You can also add references to your RID profile by selecting ‘I Wrote These Papers’

ResearcherID and ORCID

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ResearcherID.com has a new look!

ResearcherID- new layout

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RID and ORCID

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RID users will be given the option to create a profile in ORCID

RID and ORCID

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ORCID identifier will display here

Data Citation Index• A new searchable resource that provides a single point of access to quality research data from repositories across

disciplines and around the world.

• Links to repositories, data sets and the citing research literature.

• Web page: http://wokinfo.com/products_tools/multidisciplinary/dci/

• Selection Essay http://wokinfo.com/media/pdf/DCI_selection_essay.pdf

• Fact Sheet: http://wokinfo.com/media/pdf/dci_fs_en.pdf

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Thank you!rachel.mangan@thomsonreuters.com

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