ISI Web of Knowledge Service for UK Education http://wok.mimas.ac.uk An Overview Suzanne Williams ISI Web of Knowledge Support Officer http://www.mimas.ac.uk

Overview 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

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

Additional products 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

Save searches to the ISI Web of Knowledge server. 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.) Go live and sign in to show them additional options when signed in. If have time at end of session will show them these in detail. Can create RSS feeds for saved searches, citation alerts and items in journal list (if subscribe to CCC only).

Web of Science

Content of Web of Science 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

Features 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 Form search – relates to the form available on the General search option

Language and Document type search fields available to restrict search Topic 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 This is a quick summary of the six searchable fields on the General Search page, along with examples to illustrate each. The Topic field searches article titles, abstracts and all keywords. Enter words or phrases in this field to retrieve records about your topic. The author field searches every available author on a paper. All authors originally identified on the work are presented and can be searched. The most effective way to search is last name, followed by one or more initials. Group Author searches the group or organization that was credited with authorship. For example the Aberdeen Lung Cancer Group or the Beta Cell Biology Consortium. Publication Name searches the name of the journal where the article was originally published, and the Publication year field searches the year the document was published. The publication year field may be searched as an individual year or range of years. Year ranges entered must be ten years or less. And finally, the address field searches all author affiliations published in the original work. This field uses standardized abbreviations for many commonly occurring words like university and college. Consult the provided list of abbreviations found in the Help file for assistance when constructing a search. Conference field allows you to search the following fields within a record for conference proceedings papers. Conference Title Conference Location Conference Date Conference Sponsor

Proximity Operators Phrase searching Same 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 If you would like to search for an exact phrase, enter it in quotation marks. You may truncate a phrase that is within quotes to retrieve variations in spelling and plural forms. We will talk more about truncation in the next slide We have one additional operator, SAME, that can help focus your searches. SAME works similarly to AND, but is more restrictive. Both search terms must appear, but they must be in the same ‘sentence’ together, and in any order. A sentence can mean a sentence in an article abstract, an article title, a string of keywords, or an author’s address.

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 Truncation symbols, also known as wildcard characters, are used to find plural forms and variant spellings of words. There are three truncation symbols available for use in the Web of Knowledge. The asterisk is the most flexible symbol and stands for any number of characters, including zero. The dollar sign stands for zero or one character and is useful for finding variations in British and American spellings. The question mark stands for one character and can also be used for finding variations in spelling. These truncation symbols can be used within a word or phrase, or at the end of a word or phrase. You may not use a symbol at the beginning.

Boolean Operators All 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. Here are some additional examples of how to use search operators. The AND operator finds all terms entered. The example shown here will find the phrase stem cell as well as the word lymphoma. When using OR, at least one term must occur. Aspartame OR saccharine OR sweetener will retrieve articles that contain any one of these terms. The NOT operator excludes terms from your search. Aids NOT hearing will retrieve records about the disease AIDS, not hearing aids.

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: Hands On session Helpdesk e-mail: wok@mimas.ac.uk For information and assistance Provide feedback on the WoK service WOSEC (Web of Science Enhancement Committee Hands On session http://wok.mimas.ac.uk