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T H O M S O N S C I E N T I F I C
ISI Web of Knowledge
Thomson Scientific
June 2005 Jayne Blundell [email protected]
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Today’s Agenda
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ISI Web of Knowledge Web of Science Current Contents Connect Journal Citation Reports
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ISI Web of Knowledge
An integrated Web-based platform providing high quality, essential information for all levels of research
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Premium Content
– Comprehensive information resources designed to meet the diverse needs of researchers
Powerful Research Tools
– Integrated resources designed to work seamlessly between the ISI core and complementary content
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Content
Broad, multidisciplinary coverage enhanced by targeted, in-depth resources in selected key research and scholarly disciplines
• • • • • • • • Journals Patents Chemical Reactions and Compounds Select Web Content Proceedings Books Grant Funding Pre-Prints
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Journal Selection Criteria
• Publishing standards – Timeliness, editorial conventions for bibliographic information, and peer review • Editorial content – Will it enrich the content of the product?
– New field or extend existing field?
– Is the subject already covered adequately?
• International diversity – Authors, editors, advisory boards; but understand the importance of regional journals • Citation analysis – Determining importance and influence by measuring use (citation rates, impact factor, immediacy index)
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Complete Extraction
Journal Acquisition T H O M S O N S C I E N T I F I C
Production of the Database
Scanning Extraction of data Articles Appear ISI ISI Database Adquisición de Revistas Selección de Elementos Scanning & OCR Manual Indexing and Translation An Average of 3-5 Working Days
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Full Text Journals
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Links to publisher electronic full-text
• Long-standing relationships with publishers • 2,400 journals linked at present (and counting) • Sophisticated linking utilizing robust technology • SFX-enabled • EBSCO - 4,000 journals
Document delivery via ISI Document Solution
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Features
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Cross-Search, unifying the platform
• Multi-database searching via a single, powerful interface •
Web of Science, Proceedings, Derwent Innovations Index
, BIOSIS Previews • Maintains the user session across all products !! Users are never denied a link between cross searched databases.
ISI Current Contents eSearch
Web content – selected, organized
• Search full-text of individual Web documents
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Web of Knowledge – Benefits
• Save time – Access multiple information sources from one place – User-friendly interface – easy to use – 12 million value-add patent records delivering clarity and depth – >100 of subject categories for quick access to relevant journal titles – Optimum for retrieving research quickly and accurately – Save Searches and create Alerts - quickly find updated results • Critical source for current awareness – Timely patent updates – Daily and weekly literature updates – eFirst records for pre-published articles • Complementary to other Web of Knowledge datasets
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Web of Science
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In-depth journal content
• Multidisciplinary, international, influential • Over 9,000 of the world’s most important research oriented journals • 3 databases available, • •
Science Citation Index Expanded Social Science Citation Index
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Arts & Humanities Citation Index
• Coverage back to 1900 – Century of Science
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A Unique Resource!
Powerful bibliographic and cited reference search capabilities combined with the benefits of cited reference linking and navigation.
• Move forward and backward in time, exploring the relationships between published works • Discover connections within the world’s body of research that are not obvious or apparent through traditional bibliographic search methods
Traditional Search
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Cited Reference Search
2002 paper 1999 paper 1987 paper 1976 paper 1982 paper 1957 paper 1992 paper 1982 paper 1957 paper 1992 paper
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Web of Science
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General searching - keywords, authors, source titles, addresses
• Explore and gain an overview of a research area • Find a specific researcher’s articles • Find a specific company’s articles •
Cited reference searching and “Related Records”
• Track use of your research • Track use of your competitor’s research • Discover hidden research trends •
Save, print, export, or email your findings to your team
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ISI Current Contents Connect
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Research information from the world’s premium journal, book, and Web sources
• 7,600 journals, 2,000 books and conferences • 7 cross-disciplinary editions, including “Engineering, Computing, and Technology” • “Telecommunications” and “Business” collections • 4 500+ evaluated Web sites, 415 000+ searchable Web documents • Coverage from 1998
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Web-Sites
• Current Web Contents (CWC) provides links to selected and evaluated web content • Current Contents eSearch searches individual web documents selected from CWC as part of a regular CCC search • Potential web-sites gained from manual searches and automated web agents • All sites are reviewed according to our selection criteria
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Web-site Selection Criteria
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Authority
– credible, objective information, author contact details
Accuracy Currency
– objective, referenced, sponsored – timely, maximum 6 months between updates
Navigation and Design Scope
– logical, orderly, user-friendly – content, purpose
Audience
graduates – scholars, researchers, professionals,
Writing quality
– spelling, grammar, minimal jargon
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Web-site Updates
• Every site evaluated at least once a year to check content – will drop if no longer of value • URLs are checked every night for error messages • Automated link checker in eSearch to identify URLs returning error messages
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Tools
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Searching
• Multi-query, set-based searching •
Current Contents eSearch
automatic “behind the scenes” full-text searching of Web content
Browsing
• Journal table-of-contents, or Web sites by category
Alerting
• Save your personal profile as a weekly alert
Exporting
to bibliographic management tools
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Linking
• Direct access to publisher electronic full text (Internet, locally-hosted, or mixed-mode) • Context sensitive linking to the
ISI Web of Science
• Direct links to full-text of Web documents found through
Current Contents eSearch
• Streamlined navigation as you follow the research path
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Journal Citation Reports
• Presents statistical data that provides a systematic, objective way to assist in the characterization and determination of the relative influence of journals within their subject categories.
• Provides an absolutely unique tool for examining the relationships between journals through citation patterns.
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Utilizing Journal Citation Reports
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Librarians
- assist in the management and maintenance of journal collections
Authors
- to help with decisions on manuscript submission, identify most frequently cited publications
Publishers
- monitor the influence of journals, yours and your competitors’
Editors
- assist in the tracking of influence of editorial policies over time
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Journal Citation Reports
• By using the
Journal Citation Reports
you and your researchers will be able to determine • Which are the hottest journals within a discipline • Which journals have the highest impact • Which journals are most frequently cited • Which journals would be the most suitable for you to publish in • Which journals are the most relevant to a particular area of research
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Journal Citation Reports on the Web
• Provides global access to
Journal Citation Reports
data • Impact and influence of 8,400 international science and social sciences research publications • Includes • Link to 5 year Impact Factor “Trend Graph” • Link to and from
Web of Science
• Link to Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory
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Journal Citation Reports
• Information included or calculated includes: • Impact Factor • Immediacy Index • Source data information • Citing and cited journal listings
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