An introduction to the new ISI Web of Knowledge URL: MIMAS:

Kacey – Undergraduate Student – Innovative Private College – West Samuel – M.D., Ph.D.; Professor – Major State University – Midwest Philippe – Vice Provost/Research – Up and Coming University – Southwest Claudia – Library Director – Diverse Urban University – Northeast AdministratorLibrarian / Info Pro StudentResearcher

Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 3 Complete Redesign- How Achieved New design for the ISI Web of Knowledge platform after 2 years of extensive testing Re-engineered search interface designed for all user levels User centric design strategy development in collaboration with many institutional partners to create the most intuitive and easy to use interface yet –Interface designed to match researcher’s work flow –Simple for novice users yet powerful for advanced users –Institutional partnerships – studied work flow of undergraduates, graduate students, researchers, information professionals

Kacey – Undergraduate Student – Innovative Private College – West Samuel – M.D., Ph.D.; Professor – Major State University – Midwest Philippe – Vice Provost/Research – Up and Coming University – Southwest Claudia – Library Director – Diverse Urban University – Northeast AdministratorLibrarian / Info Pro StudentResearcher

Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 5 Write Cite while you write in Microsoft Word Automatic formatting citations 2,300 Journal Article output styles Manage Citations Search Results Alerting Full-text Analyze Data Mining Citation Analysis & Reports Scientific Indicators Performance Benchmark Search Cross-content searching Cited Reference Searching Refine to focus search Speed Discovery Enable Innovation ISI Web of Knowledge: Speed Up Scholarly Research Workflow

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Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 7 WOK 4 Roll Out Schedule Presently - Beta Preview is available and being accessed by customers, and will continue to be available until the official WoK 4 launch. August 1 - Beta will be updated to include any bug fixes and upgrades (Beta 5) done to the application by that time August 19 - Official WoK 4 launch –WoK 3 will be accessed at the current URL ( –WoK 4 will be accessed at a new URL ( –There will be links between the two versions of the interface. Existing customers will have a choice which version they wish to point to. Q3 release (October?) - WoK 4.01 Release will include the return of marked list functionality Q4 release (January?) - WoK 4.1 Release will include: –DII, Medline, WCI and Chem in the new interface –JCR, ESI and Highly Cited.com will have "facelifts" - slight design change to the display in these products –JUR and Administrative Tools will be available

Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 8 ISI Web of Knowledge – The New Face of research What’s New –Integration of all resources into a single ‘All Database’ search screen, seamlessly move from one resource to the other using Tabs. –Cross content classification system (Subject Areas) for all ISI Web of Knowledge resources. (algorithm performed on controlled vocabulary of specialist databases to classify record Subject Area). Records can be in multiple subject areas. –Topic searching mapped to specialist indexing of specialist databases, as well as titles, abstracts & keywords –All database search results page displays de-duplicated results from variety of sources –Order of precedence of full record present in multiple databases- WoS, CCC, ISIP, DII, BIOSIS Previews, Biological Abstracts, Zoological Records, Medline, Inspec, CAB Abstracts, FSTA, WCI. From the first Full Record view users can link to any other record in the cluster –Citation information displays in full record-instantly view citing papers –Drop down menus now display in search page –Maintain the existing search syntax for easy transition to the new interface. –Book mark a preferred database to access it directly –Times Cited count for all results from ‘All Database’ search even for records not from WOS

Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 9 ISI Web of Knowledge The New Face of research - What’s the same Content Search engine- searching rules still apply Additional features of User Profile (Save searches, create citation alerts, access Endnote Web, customise Web of Knowledge) Exporting records

Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 10 Types of Searches All Database Search Cross content search of your institutions entitlement Topic search maps to controlled vocabulary and specialist indexing as well as titles, keywords and abstracts. 5 fields: Topic, Title, Author, Publication Name, Year Published Individual Database Select individual database from your institutions entitlement Select from various search fields associated with chosen database using drop down menu eg. Supertaxa in Zoological record Cited Reference Search Examine the impact of investigation. (Articles, books, patents, illustrations, musical scores, non ISI journals) Advanced Search Create complex searches using field tags and Boolean operators

Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 11 All Database Searching- Topic Searching Retrieves search term(s) in following bibliographic fields: title, keywords, keywords plus and abstract Maps search term across specialist indexing and controlled vocabulary of specialised databases included in entitlement (eg. BIOSIS Concept Codes) Topic Bibliographic Fields TitleKeywordsAbstracts Major Concepts Concept Codes CABI Codes MeSh Heading Disease data FSTA Sections Taxa Notes Biological Abstracts CAB Abstracts Medline BIOSIS FSTA Abstracts Maps to specialist indexing Zoological Record

Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 12 Tools in Web of Science Author Finder- retrieve records from an author of interest DAIS- Distinct Author Identification System, groups articles into sets likely to be from the same author. Citation Report Graphs illustrating publication and citation activity per year Average citation rate per article and average citation rate per year h-index Eliminate self-citations For less than 10,000 results Analyse and Refine Results Subject area, author, institution, country, source title, publication year, etc Related Records Locate other articles that cite the same bibliography Save History/Queries Alerts (user profile required) Query alerts (weekly, monthly). Active for 25 weeks Citation Alerts (be informed when an article is cited). Active for a year. Export Results Print Save to file Export to Research Soft reference software manager (EndNote, Procite, Reference Manager) RSS Feeds- create subscriptions to your RSS Reader Export to EndNote Web (user profile required)

Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 13 Bibliographic Fields Indexed in Full Record -TitleComplete original title of document Foreign language titles are translated into US. English -AuthorsAll author names are indexed Full record now displays full author names (if provided in original text) for items indexed after September 2006 Names consist in surname and up to 5 initials (no accents, non English alphabet characters) -AddressesAll author affiliations captured. Reprint author associated with an address. Abbreviations used in the address field (univ, dept, inst..) -AbstractComplete abstract from original document (in English) No translation of non English abstracts. -Keywords PlusTopic related words harvested from the titles of the cited references DOIDirect Object Identifier captured -BibliographyFirst author, source title (linked to full record if indexed), source information

Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 14 Search Rules Operator ‘AND’ implied between terms, no need to enter ‘AND’ in order to retrieve multiple terms Place expression or phrase in speech marks “ ” to retrieve that exact term Continue to use an operator after term in parentheses e.g. (sustain* tourism or ecotourism) AND “south africa” Order of precedence (1. Same 2. Not 3. And 4. Or) Natural language: think of abbreviations, acronyms, synonyms E.g “body dysmorphic disorder” or bdd or dysmorphophobia Search topic tip: keep search strategy to one field All Database & Individual Database- Topic Search

Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 15 Web of Science Author and Address Search Rules Author No titles, no full names Surname and up to 5 initials Include hyphens and apostrophes when searching for names containing those marks or replace them with spaces. You will also retrieve variants. E.g. Rivas-Martinez S* = Rivas-Martinez S* and Rivas Martinez S*. O'Brien G = O'Brien, G and O Brien, G. No accents, no non English alphabet characters or (è, é, ê, ë, î, ï, ô, û, Ä, Ö, Ü, ä, ö and ü ) Multi part names must be searched for in original format and fused version E.g. Van den Heever d* or vandenheever d*Address Use address abbreviations (university = univ) Think of all variants possible (previous and existing names, acronyms)

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Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 23 Search across multiple resources in one platform Visualize, Analyze and Evaluate results Manage results, collaborate and prepare manuscripts Complete research and publish

Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 24 Important and Useful URLs Standard access from your institution General information about TS products, Journal Lists, Educational Material, Free Resources Contact the Technical Support department View the calendar of public web-based training classes View a list of recorded training modules Information about bibliographic management software products Endnote, Reference Manager and Procite Contact the Links department to view a list of linkable journals/ publishers and establish full text links Specially customised website for librarians. All relevant information in one place.

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Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 26 WOK 4 Roll Out Schedule Presently - Beta Preview is available and being accessed by customers, and will continue to be available until the official WoK 4 launch. August 1 - Beta will be updated to include any bug fixes and upgrades (Beta 5) done to the application by that time August 19 - Official WoK 4 launch –WoK 3 will be accessed at the current URL ( –WoK 4 will be accessed at a new URL ( –There will be links between the two versions of the interface. Existing customers will have a choice which version they wish to point to. Q3 release (October?) - WoK 4.01 Release will include the return of marked list functionality Q4 release (January?) - WoK 4.1 Release will include: –DII, Medline, WCI and Chem in the new interface –JCR, ESI and Highly Cited.com will have "facelifts" - slight design change to the display in these products –JUR and Administrative Tools will be available

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