Transcript Web of Science 7.0 Basics

THOMSON SCIENTIFIC
Web of Science 7.0
via the
Web of Knowledge 3.0 Platform
Access to the World’s Most Important
Published Research
Web of Knowledge Platform
The Web of Knowledge is:
• Premium Content
– Thomson Scientific (ISI & Derwent) core content
complemented by carefully selected partner content
• Integration & Navigation
– A dynamic, Web-based platform integrating data from a
variety of sources to allow the user to follow natural
pathways of research -- driving discovery.
• Ease-of-use
– Discovery made easy through flexible, powerful search
options, including tools to organize and manage the
research process.
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Web of Science Value to Your Institution
• Quality:
Content
Evaluated, Selected
– Every Web of Science journal is individually
selected for influence within its respective
discipline.
– Our selection criteria is unbiased, impartial,
time-tested.
 We are “Publisher-Neutral”, evaluating
research – Commercial, Society, Open Access
publications, etc.
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Diversity:
Truly Multidisciplinary
– All fields of research are included
– 8,600+ journals total
 Over 6,100 titles in the hard sciences alone.
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Web of Science Value to Your Institution
•
Depth!
– Coverage back to 1945 in the Sciences, to
1956 in the Social Sciences, to 1975 in the
Arts & Humanities.
– 1900-1944 Backfiles in Development!
** Current information is of course critical.
However, access to an archive of influential
research is absolutely important.
** Impact of previous findings, even decades
old, may be very significant. One must
retain the resources necessary to make these
assessments.
•
Data: unique capabilities
– Capture of Author Cited References over 55
years provides for methods of discovery that
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Web of Science 7.0
Easy To Search!
“Quick Search”
General, Cited Reference, Chemical Structure,
and Advanced Search options
Databases and
Depth-of-File
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Easy To Search!
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The General Search is
designed to be simplistic
enough for virtually
anyone to begin to use
with little-to-no training.
 Topic
 Author
 Group Author
 Source Title (Journal Title)
 Address
The Web of Science 7.0 Full Record
contains a wealth of information
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The Web of Science
Full Record also provides
pathways to related articles.
Cited References – The author’s sources.
Times Cited – Papers that have cited this paper.
Related Records – Link to papers that reference
the same sources as this particular paper. They
are Related through co-citation.
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For Related Records, Web of Science 7.0
presents the number of references
shared by related papers – a proven
method for gauging relevance.
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Should a record seem especially relevant,
Web of Science 7.0 allows the user to quickly
and Easily create a Citation Alert – receive an
e-mail alert containing information on
published papers that reference a particular
paper you’ve selected.
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Citation Alert!
Take advantage of the vast
collection of Influential Papers
within the Web of Science.
Link to the Full Record for this
paper in other subscribed Web
of Knowledge databases.
Integration & Navigation, take
advantage of these features.
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Link to the full-text
within e-journals to
which your institution
subscribes.
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For Subscribers to Index Chemicus
and Current Chemical Reactions
files, options to search via Chemical Structure
Compound Data
Reaction Data
For Index Chemicus or
Current Chemical Reactions subscribers,
articles with chemical structure data are noted
with a “structure symbol”.
For Index Chemicus or Current Chemical Reactions
subscribers, the full record also includes a graphical
summary of chemical structures, Reaction and/or
Compound summaries and details.
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Cited Reference Search
To be truly comprehensive in your search
efforts, the Cited Reference Search is
essential in that it can retrieve information
often missed through use of Key-words alone.
Identify an Author or Paper that is very
relevant to your search topic.
Identify an Author or Paper that is very
relevant
to your
search
topic.
Works
for Cited
Authors
are identified.
The “Finish Search” option will retrieve
papers that have referenced the work or
works we have selected.
As little information as an author
name is sufficient to initiate a
Cited Reference Search.
The Cited Reference Search –
Easy to Perform, and Extremely
Valuable for Comprehensive Searching.
Advanced Search option
is available for those
comfortable with
“command line” style
search queries.
Search History presents a
simple “Combine Sets”
option for fine-tuning results.
Saving
Search
and saving
Search your
History
maintains
a list ofit
queries
and results
for the simple.
session,
as an alert
is extremely
as well
as Save
History
Enter
a History
name
and and
select
Open Saved
options.
desiredHistory
options.
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At the end of the search
session, there are a number
of options presented for
handling of Marked Records.
Scan results and Mark those
of relevance individually on
the Summary list, or through
a convenient “Mark” feature.
There are a number of
options presented for
handling Marked Records.
of Science 7.0
Results Web
Analysis
Tool
Recognize trends and
access subsets of Authors,
Institutions, Timeframes, etc.,
associated with important
research.
From just a single record
within the Web of Science,
expand your search by simply
following the links designed
to drive discovery.
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… moving Backward in time via Cited References,
Forward in time via Times Cited,
and through Related Records.
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