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Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 2 A very brief history of the citation index The concept of the citation index was first developed by Dr Eugene Garfield and his concept was published in an article in the Journal Science in 1955 In the 1961 Dr Garfield created a Genetics Citation Index at the request of the National Institute of Health. As a consequence of this project Dr Garfield was able to start the product of a multi- disciplinary Science Citation Index (SCI) in SCI Print

Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 3 The Science Citation Index was born and over the years developed from print in the 1960’s, On-line with Dialog in the 1970’s, CD-ROM in the 1980’s and finally a web interface in 1997 At the same time the content was enhanced and the Social Sciences Citation Index was released in 1973 covering journals from 1956, the Arts & Humanities Citation Index was released in 1978 covering journals from 1975 and the Century of Science in 2004 covering science journals back to A very brief history of the citation index SCI-CD Title: EXTRATERRESTRIAL CAUSE FOR THE CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY EXTINCTION - EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS AND THEORETICAL INTERPRETATION Author(s): ALVAREZ LW; ALVAREZ W; ASARO F; MICHEL HV Journal: SCIENCE, 1980, V208, N4448, P ?e cr=alvarez l, 198 Ref Items Index-term E1 1 CR=ALVAREZ L, 1979, V7, P66, GEOLOGY E2 1 CR=ALVAREZ L, 1979, V80, P433, COMM MATH PHYS E3 0 *CR=ALVAREZ L, 198 E4 4 CR=ALVAREZ L, 1980, P1, NONLINEAR DIFFUSION E5 1 CR=ALVAREZ L, 1980, P96, INT C PEDIAT LAB MED E6 1 CR=ALVAREZ L, 1980, V205, P1095, SCIENCE E7 1 CR=ALVAREZ L, 1980, V208, P1078, SCIENCE E8 2 CR=ALVAREZ L, 1980, V208, P1094, SCIENCE E9 2 CR=ALVAREZ L, 1980, V208, P1095, SCIENCE Enter P or PAGE for more Title: EXTRATERRESTRIAL CAUSE FOR THE CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY EXTINCTION - EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS AND THEORETICAL INTERPRETATION Author(s): ALVAREZ LW; ALVAREZ W; ASARO F; MICHEL HV Journal: SCIENCE, 1980, V208, N4448, P ?e cr=alvarez l, 198 Ref Items Index-term E1 1 CR=ALVAREZ L, 1979, V7, P66, GEOLOGY E2 1 CR=ALVAREZ L, 1979, V80, P433, COMM MATH PHYS E3 0 *CR=ALVAREZ L, 198 E4 4 CR=ALVAREZ L, 1980, P1, NONLINEAR DIFFUSION E5 1 CR=ALVAREZ L, 1980, P96, INT C PEDIAT LAB MED E6 1 CR=ALVAREZ L, 1980, V205, P1095, SCIENCE E7 1 CR=ALVAREZ L, 1980, V208, P1078, SCIENCE E8 2 CR=ALVAREZ L, 1980, V208, P1094, SCIENCE E9 2 CR=ALVAREZ L, 1980, V208, P1095, SCIENCE Enter P or PAGE for more SciSearch on Dialog

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Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 5 The power of hyperlinks and web navigation made for an intuitive and easy to use interface for citation data. The Web of Science was an instant success and for the first time made citation searching widely available for all types of users. Web of Science

Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 6 More than 2,900 Web of Science customers in 90 countries Europe, Middle East & Africa 1,593 customers in 50 countries North America 739 customers in 2 countries Latin America 243 customers in 12 countries Asia-Pacific 331 customers in 26 countries

Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 7 Analysis Alerting Full text links CrossSearch Multidisciplinary Citation searching Quality content Editorial content Specialized indexing Powerful Search tools Evaluation, Comparison Decision making aids Collate

Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 8 EndNote and Web of Knowledge Come Together Integrated solution with ISI Web of Knowledge and EndNote desktop The power of EndNote Web Available to all customers as integral “Feature” of Web of Knowledge Full EndNote functionality on the Web with integration to EndNote Desktop to make working online and offline and within groups easy and efficient Accessible through ISI Web of Knowledge Personalization Feature (Register) Thomson Scientific -- Company Confidential New Integrated Workflow Tools for Researchers: EndNote Web

Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 9 The Foundation Quality Diversity Depth Superior Collection Development Unique Data In-house Editorial Development Specialists – ongoing detailed journal evaluation and selection processes. Sciences – to 1900, A Century of Science Social Sciences – to 1956 Arts & Humanities – to 1975 Journal selectivity, Cover- to-Cover Indexing, Diversity, Consistency, Depth. Author Cited References for over 105 years Coverage of over 230 disciplines in the Sciences, Social Sciences, and Arts & Humanities Comprehensive coverage in all disciplines.

Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation Cited References Times Cited Related Records  Citing  From just a single record within the Web of Science, expand your search by simply following the links designed to drive discovery. … moving Backward in time via Cited References, Forward in time via Times Cited, and expand your search with Related Records. Citation Navigation

Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 11 Citation Index - The Value Add The language of science is always changing, concepts and terminology continue to evolve Free-text searching alone will never maximize retrieval of critical information… LAV (in Europe) HTLV-III (in USA) Human Immunodeficiency virus HIV (the world) Present For Example, the early research connecting HIV to AIDS actually referred to the virus using two different terms. Neither term was “HIV”

Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 12 Web of Science 7.0 – Home Page Redesign Easy to use and intuitive interface, can use with little or no instruction

Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 13 Web of Science 7.0. New - “Term Lists” provide user- friendly assistance in defining and adding terms to the search. New – General Search “Group Author “ field.

Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 14 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.

Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 15 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. New fields

Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 16 Search Results Search over 34 million records since Easily navigate Thousands of Records, Deep into the Web of Science back file. Enhanced “Mark” features.

Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 17 New -- Results Analysis Tool Recognize trends and access subsets by: Author Document Type Institution Language Publication Years Source Titles Journal Categories Refine results like never before.

Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 18 Complete bibliographic information in an easy to read format.

Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 19 Integration & Navigation, key advantages of the Web of Knowledge Platform. Link to the publisher’s full-text, other external resources

Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 20 Integration & Navigation, key advantages of the Web of Knowledge Platform. Expand your search to other resources available within the ISI Web of Knowledge

Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 21 Go to Current Contents Connect Go to BIOSIS Previews Current Contents Connect CC Connect Table-of-Contents BIOSIS Previews Journal Citation Reports Navigate through citations. Follow the research pathways to get a comprehensive history of a breakthrough. Use related records to expand your search.

Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 22 Go to Current Contents Connect Go to BIOSIS Previews Current Contents Connect CC Connect Table-of-Contents BIOSIS Previews Journal Citation Reports For Related Records; Web of Science 7.0 presents the number of references shared by related papers – a proven method for gauging relevance.

Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 23 New - Citation Alert! The Web of Science includes a vast number of influential papers. Take advantage of the depth of this resource. Should a record seem especially relevant, Web of Science 7.0 allows the user to quickly and Easily create a Citation Alert – receive an automated alert every time this article is cited.

Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 24 Chemical Structure searching is also available

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