1. ISI Web of Knowledge The Path to Smart Discovery for the Researcher, Student, and Information Professional
Simon Pratt
Strategic Business Manager
October 2005

2. ISI Web of Knowledge platform brings high quality information and combines it with powerful search technology and easy to use tools and applications to provide a single solution for researchers, students and information professionals
There are 4 different types of components to the ISI Web of Knowledge platform.
Thomson Scientific’s core databases. The Web of Sciences for Journals, ISI Proceedings for Academic Society Meetings, Derwent Innovations Index for patent information, Current Contents Connect for Current awareness and the Biosis databases of Biological Abstracts, Biosis Previews and Zoological Record
Specialized content which is not produced by Thomson but hosted on the platform Medline, Inspec, PsycInfo, Cab Abstracts and Food Science and Technology Abstracts
Analytical tools, HighlyCited.com which is a free resource that provides detailed information about selected highly cited authors. Essential Science Indicators for Macro-Analysis of citation information and Journal Citation Reports for Journal Evaluation
Reference Management Software; EndNote, Reference Manager and ProCite which are essential software for the publishing researcher

3. Quality Evaluated authoritative content
Diversity
Evaluated authoritative content
Team of specialists evaluate journals
Our selection criteria is unbiased, impartial, time-tested.
Neutral third party evaluation of all journals from large commercial publishers, academic societies, Open Access journals and electronic only journals.
Our team of highly qualified and experienced editors select journals for coverage using a stringent and time tested journal selection process, we will take a closer look at the selection process in a moment.
Because we are not associated with any primary publishers of academic journals our selection process is unbiased and impartial. We evaluate all types of journals including journals from commercial publishers, academic society journals, open access journals and electronic only journals.

4. Diversity Truly Multidisciplinary
Journals are selected to provide coverage of all fields of research
8,700+ journals in 200 categories
6,100 journals in the hard sciences
Social sciences – 1790 titles
Arts & humanities – 1125 titles
The Web of Science is a truly multidisciplinary database of over 8,600 journals in 200 categories. 6,100 of these are in the hard sciences alone, life science, physics, chemistry mathematics etc. This allows you to discover obscure relationships between disciplines and get the complete picture of any particular research topic. It also gives you a broad and even insight into the entire academic publishing community. This is absolutely essential for performing non- biased and systematic research evaluation using bibliometrics.

5. Depth A vast archive of important research 1900 in the Sciences
1956 in the Social Sciences
1975 in the Arts and Humanities
All the data is produced by Thomson Scientific and consequently the data has a very high degree of accuracy and consistency throughout
Although we recognize the importance of current information, we have found that some of the most influential research is often decades old, and without researching the historic records significantly you will be missing out on key information.

6. Unique Data
The capture of Author Cited References for over 100 years of data provides for unique features of searching and navigation
Track research pathways through time
Expand a search using Related Records
Gauge the impact of a paper using citation counts

7. Citation Navigation Times Cited Cited References Related Records 2004
2003
2003
Times Cited
2004
Cited References
2001
Related Records
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1998
Locate a single paper using traditional search techniques, this is the paper in the center of the screen. Click the “Cited References” link to see all the research that this discovery was based upon. Click the “Times Cited” link to see the more recent developments. Click “Related Records” to see research that is closely related to the original article. Related Records using the concept of co-citation to establish the relationship; based on the fact that similar items often cite the same thing.
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2002
1993
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1994

8. Citation Index - The Value Add
The language of science is always changing. Concepts and terminology continue to evolve. For this reason: Free-text searching may miss critical information
LAV (Europe) HTLV-III (USA)
HIV + many variants, “SIV”
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1983
1987
Present
Future
As research areas develop the terminology associated with them also develops and one of the inherent weaknesses of traditional free-text searching is that a knowledge of the terminology of the topic is required before one can search for it.
A good example of this can be shown with the changes in terminology of the virus that causes AIDS, now known as HIV. in 1983 the Institut Pasteur in France report their findings into the isolation of the “LAV” virus, and in 1984 the US National Cancer Institute separately reported the in-vitro isolation of the HTLV-III virus. Both terms refered to the same virus, and mixed usage of the two terms continues until 1987 when the research community adopt the new term “Human Immunodeficiency Virus, HIV”. There are also many variations such as SIV for monkey equivalent of the virus.
A traditional free-text search on the term “HIV” will miss many of important papers in this field of research. A good example is the 1991 paper shown here, it refers to the HIV equivalent denoted as “SIVmac239” and the term HIV is not mentioned anywhere in the title or abstract. However, it is a very important and very influential paper that has been cited 994 times. Looking at the items which are citing this paper around 85% of them mention the term HIV so it clearly has been highly influential to HIV research and would be an easy paper to locate through citation navigation and related records searching.

9. A truly unique resource!
Quality
Diversity
Depth
Unique Data
A truly unique resource!
No other database offers the same level of high quality, authoritative and trustworthy content from such diverse sources
No other database has the same cited reference and advanced searching capabilities over 100 years of coverage

10. Term Lists make it easy to create searches
General Search
Term Lists make it easy to create searches

11. Identify an Author or Material that is relevant to your search topic.
Cited Reference Seach
Comprehensive searching of cited references, including materials not covered in the Web of Science
Identify an Author or Material that is relevant to your search topic.

12. Search Journals, Patents, Books, Technical reports etc
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Search Journals, Patents, Books, Technical reports etc

13. Identify the most influential results instantly
Use the Analyze tool to get a snapshot of the results.

14. The analyze tool is useful
Instantly analyze results to identify trends and relationships. Create subsets based on the results

16. ISI Proceedings provides access to bibliographic information and author abstracts from papers delivered at prestigious international conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions.
New findings and ideas-in-progress are introduced at conferences long before they make it into peer-reviewed journals.
70% of the records are unique
Cited references ( present)

17. Comprehensive coverage in the life sciences 5,100 journals plus:
Meetings
Books, book chapters
Reviews of books, software
U.S. patents,
Areas covered include:
Biology Ecology
Biochemistry Zoology
Environment Biomedicine
Pharmacology Biotechnology … and more
Over 14 million records in total, over 560,000 added each year or 10,000 per week

18. MEDLINE is produced by the US National Library of Medicine and broadly covers medicine, biomedicine, healthcare and any related disciplines.
Medicine Nursing
Preclinical sciences Veterinary medicine
Health care systems Dentistry …and more
12 million records from 70 countries

19. Cross Search
Search multiple resources from one convenient interface
Broaden your search with additional resources
Duplicate records are consolidated not eliminated
Apply specialist indexing across resources to discover new results
Web of Science = 34 records
When searched as standalone products:
Web of Science = 30 records
BIOSIS Previews = 23 records
Medline = 23 records
37 records
Medline = 32 records
BIOSIS Previews = 31 records
Topic = “ACE inhibitor and cell* growth”

20. Institutional archives
Plan for the early 2006
Web Citation Index a entirely new product for searching institutional repositories and open access archives

21. Conclusion Quality Content Powerful technology Easy to use interface
Journal Literature:
Web of Science
Conference Proceedings:
ISI Proceedings
Subject specific:
MEDLINE, BIOSIS, etc.
Evaluation tools:
Journal Citation Reports
Powerful technology
Easy to use interface
The Thomson Scientific philosophy is to take High quality information and combine it with powerful technology and easy to use applications to create a single integrated information solution. This is the ISI Web of Knowledge platform, which provides centralized access to comprehensive global Non-Patent Prior Art resources
Scientific journals (Web of Science)
Conference proceedings (ISI Proceedings)
Evaluated web sites, pre-prints and funding information
Specialist coverage and indexing in selected subjects
There are various benefits to this approach. Firstly it provides multidisciplinary coverage of the core data sets, this is very important for cross over subject areas and recognizing new application of existing knowledge in a different field
The Web of Knowledge also provides powerful provides common functionality and interface for all resources, so that users can efficiently use the various components and make the most of the resources available to them
There are various applications and tools to help the user and these will be explained in detail throughout the presentation.
This is backed up with powerful technology from a market leading information provider ensuring that users get the most out of the search experience with a reliable but evolving product.
Cross Search
Analyze
Cited Reference Searching
Search aids
Links
Integration
Smart Discovery for the Researcher, Student, and Information Professional

22. ISI Web of Knowledge
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