ISI Web of Knowledge Helping you meet todays digital library challenges

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ISI Web of KnowledgeHelping you meet todays
digital library challenges

• Claus G. Wolf
• Technical Support Representative
• Thomson Scientific
• claus.wolf_at_thomson.com

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Todays Agenda

• Web of Knowledge 2.0
• Homepage features
• Review of content (databases that are available)
• New technologies (CrossSearch and
  personalization)
• Web of Science 6.0
• General Search, Cited Reference Searching,
  Set-Searching, Advanced Search, Saved Searches,
  Alerting
• Other Web of Knowledge resources
• ISI Current Contents Connect
• Derwent Innovations Index
• ISI Proceedings
• Hosted Content The power of partnerships
  (BIOSIS, CAB Abstracts, INSPEC)
• ISI Journal Citation Reports
• ISI Essential Science Indicators

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ISI History

• ISI was founded in 1958 by Dr. Eugene Garfield to
  provide researchers with access to current
  research information of the highest quality.
• Today, ISI maintains the most comprehensive,
  multidisciplinary platform of research
  information in the world.

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ISI Foundational resources
Web of Science for retrospective investigation
through citation searching
Current Contents Connect for current awareness,
alerting, table-of-contents browsing, and
personalization
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ISI Resources become......
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the ISI Web of KNOWLEDGE
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The Web of Knowledge is

• An integrated, Internet-based environment
  providing high quality content and the tools to
  access, analyze, and manage scientific and
  scholarly information
• Incorporating new technologies (CrossSearch,
  personalization, and alerting) to integrate,
  extend, and enhance the research experience

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Access to all your ISI products
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The Web of Knowledge is

• An integrated, Internet-based environment
  providing high quality content and the tools to
  access, analyze, and manage scientific and
  scholarly information
• Incorporating new technologies (CrossSearch,
  personalization, and alerting) to integrate,
  extend, and enhance the research experience

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Web of Knowledge 2.0 Content
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Web of Knowledge 2.0 Content

• Web of Science (now with Chemistry editions)
• Full coverage of 8,500 highly influential
  research-oriented journal in every discipline
  within science, social science, and the arts
  humanities
• Organic chemists needing to access new and novel
  reactions and compounds can now search chemical
  structures directly in Web of Science

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Web of Knowledge 2.0 Content

• Current Contents Connect
• 7 editions across science, social science, and
  arts humanities
• Web sites as well as journals!
• Fully evaluated by editors
• Browse over 4300 web sites by category
• Search full-text of 450,000 documents on those
  web sites

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Web of Knowledge 2.0 Content

• ISI Proceedings
• Multidisciplinary, international coverage
• 70 unique (monographic sources not in Web of
  Science)
• Includes citation information!
• Derwent Innovations Index
• Patents are becoming an integral part of the
  scientific communication process, especially in
  biotechnology, genetic engineering, drug
  development, and nanotechnology
• Patents are important across the institution
  research departments, administration, as well as
  technology transfer groups

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Web of Knowledge 2.0 Content

• Complementary subject-specific content through
  partnerships
• BIOSIS Previews
• CAB Abstracts
• INSPEC
• PsycINFO (early 2004)
• Food Science Technology Abstracts (coming 2004)
• Focus on quality and innovation, not quantity of
  databases

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Web of Knowledge 2.0 Content

• Databases that use citation analysis to offer
  performance measures
• Journal Citation Reports
• Journals in 170 categories
• Two editions (Science and Social Science)
• Librarian Am I covering the top journals in?
• Researcher To which journals should I be
  submitting my research papers?

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Web of Knowledge 2.0 Content

• ISI Essential Science Indicators
• Rankings of the top Institutions, countries, and
  authors
• 22 categories, worldwide
• Most-cited and hot papers
• Baselines for analysis
• Plus editorial commentary a great current
  awareness tool!
• Is this researchers paper considered highly
  cited?
• Is my institution in the top 1?

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The Web of Knowledge is

• An integrated, Internet-based environment
  providing high quality content and the tools to
  access, analyze, and manage scientific and
  scholarly information
• Incorporating new technologies (CrossSearch,
  personalization, and alerting) to integrate,
  extend, and enhance the research experience

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Web of Knowledge 2.0 CrossSearch technology
Search thousands of journal titles, conferences,
and patents!
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CrossSearch Form search
Dynamically generated form
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CrossSearch Enter query
Enter your search in the form of course you can
make use of Boolean Logic, Wildcar Truncation
symbols select a time frame and click search
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CrossSearch Deduplicated results list offers
more choices
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Results for external content
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Results for external content PubMed
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Web of Knowledge 2.0 Personalization Alerting
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Web of Knowledge 2.0 Personalization Alerting
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Web of Knowledge 2.0 Personalization Alerting

• Manage all my searches and alerts from
• Web of Science
• CC Connect
• BIOSIS Previews
• CAB Abstracts
• INSPEC
• Directly on my personal homepage!

Welcome, Claus
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Web of Knowledge 2.0 Personalization Alerting
Welcome, Claus
Create a link to my favorite journals, and create
Table-of-Contents alerts
Note Available only to Current Contents
Connect subscribers
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Web of Knowledge 2.0 Personalization Alerting
Welcome, Claus
One click access to the latest Table of Contents
via Current Contents Connect
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The Web of Knowledge is

• An integrated, Internet-based environment
  providing high quality content and the tools to
  access, analyze, and manage scientific and
  scholarly information
• Incorporating new technologies (CrossSearch,
  personalization, and alerting) to integrate,
  extend, and enhance the research experience

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Todays Agenda

• Web of Knowledge 2.0
• Homepage features
• Review of content (databases that are available)
• New technologies (CrossSearch and
  personalization)
• Web of Science 6.0
• General Search, Cited Reference Searching,
  Set-Searching, Advanced Search, Saved Searches,
  Alerting
• Other Web of Knowledge resources
• ISI Current Contents Connect
• Derwent Innovations Index
• ISI Proceedings
• Hosted Content The power of partnerships
  (BIOSIS, CAB Abstracts, INSPEC)
• ISI Journal Citation Reports
• ISI Essential Science Indicators

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Web of Knowledge ISI Web of Science
What is the Web of Science?

• The Web of Science is the most comprehensive
  multidisciplinary citation database available,
  covering- Science Citation Index (1945)-
  Social Sciences Citation Index (1956) - Arts
  Humanities Citation Index (1975)
• It allows you to explore the obvious and hidden
  connections between scientific research, by
  making use of cited references.

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Web of Science 6.0
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Web of Science 6.0
Simple, but powerful search interface!!!
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Web of Science 6.0
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Web of Science 6.0
OpenURL
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Web of Science 6.0
OpenURL
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Web of Science 6.0
OpenURL
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Web of Science 6.0
Cited References list An acknowledgement that
scientific advances are built on previous
research
OpenURL
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Web of Science 6.0
Related Records list Finding more articles
like this one, based on citation patterns (Do
others have the same references listed in their
bibliographies?)
OpenURL
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Web of Science 6.0
Times Cited list How has this paper influenced
the work of others since its publication? Check
back weekly!
OpenURL
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Web of Science 6.0
OpenURL
Access this document in other Web of Knowledge
resources
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Web of Science 6.0

• OpenURL-enabling
• Web of Science
• All Hosted Content
• Any OpenURL links server (SFX, LinkFinderPlus,
  1Cate, Custom built, etc.)
• Customized gif images available

OpenURL
ISI Links to Full Text Now over 7,000 titles
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Web of Science 6.0
OpenURL
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Web of Science 6.0
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Web of Science 6.0
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Web of Science 6.0
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Web of Science 6.0
Web of Knowledge Marked List screen
centralized access to all marked lists
Print, Save, E-Mail or Export your records
directly to EndNote, ProCite or Reference Manager
Various formats for greater versatility
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Web of Science 6.0
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Web of Science 6.0
AND
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Web of Science 6.0
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Web of Science 6.0
Save your Search History on the ISI Servers, set
up an Alert, or save on your local drive
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Web of Science 6.0
Type in search history name and description
create an alert
Select alert type and email format
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Web of Science 6.0
Automatically added to my personalized homepage
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Web of Science 6.0
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Web of Science 6.0
Type entire search string here using Field Tags
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Web of Science 6.0 with Chemistry
Two editionsCurrent Chemical ReactionsIndex
Chemicus
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Web of Science 6.0 with chemistry
Launch structure drawing package
Fields for searching compound and reaction data
(such as biological activity or product yield)
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Web of Science 6.0 with chemistry
Draw your structure
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Web of Science 6.0 with chemistry
then bring your drawing back into the original
screen to complete the search
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Web of Science 6.0 with chemistry
and get results within seconds the matched
structure will be highlighted for you!
From here mark your structures, view full
reaction or compound details or view the full Web
of Science record
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Web of Science 6.0 with chemistry
Or start with a Web of Science search
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Web of Science 6.0 with chemistry
and look for the special symbol in your summary
results list.
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Web of Science 6.0 with chemistry
A summary of chemical structures appears in the
Web of Science full record for chemists this is
adding a whole new dimension
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Web of Science 6.0 with chemistry

• Web of Science Chemistry Editions
• The best source for new compounds and reactions
  in organic chemistry (organic synthetic methods)
• Index Chemicus, for new compounds
• Search on substructures, stereochemistry,
  biological activities
• Approx. 2 million new organic compounds from 1993
  - present
• Adds over 180,000 new compounds annually
• Current Chemical Reactions, for novel reactions
• Search on reaction structures and conditions
• More than 740,000 new reactions --CCR 1986
  present
• INPI archive 1840-1985 (Institut National de la
  Propriete Industrielle)
• Adds over 45,000 novel and improved reactions
  annually
• Full Web of Knowledge benefits including
  alerting, centralized saved searches, and
  centralized marked lists

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Todays Agenda

• Web of Knowledge 2.0
• Homepage features
• Review of content (databases that are available)
• New technologies (CrossSearch and
  personalization)
• Web of Science 6.0
• General Search, Cited Reference Searching,
  Set-Searching, Advanced Search, Saved Searches,
  Alerting
• Other Web of Knowledge resources
• ISI Current Contents Connect
• Derwent Innovations Index
• ISI Proceedings
• Hosted Content The power of partnerships
  (BIOSIS, CAB Abstracts, INSPEC)
• ISI Journal Citation Reports
• ISI Essential Science Indicators

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ISI Current Contents Connect

• Research information from the worlds premium
  journal, book, and Web sources
• 7,600 journals, 2,000 books and conferences
• 7 cross-disciplinary editions
• Daily updates
• Table of Contents of Journals
• Intelligent Search Profiles
• 4,300 evaluated Web sites, 450,000 searchable
  Web documents
• 4 year file depth (current year plus 3 previous
  years)

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ISI Web of Knowledge Current Contents Connect
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ISI Web of Knowledge Current Contents Connect
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Todays Agenda

• Web of Knowledge 2.0
• Homepage features
• Review of content (databases that are available)
• New technologies (CrossSearch and
  personalization)
• Web of Science 6.0
• General Search, Cited Reference Searching,
  Set-Searching, Advanced Search, Saved Searches,
  Alerting
• Other Web of Knowledge resources
• ISI Current Contents Connect
• Derwent Innovations Index
• ISI Proceedings
• Hosted Content The power of partnerships
  (BIOSIS, CAB Abstracts, INSPEC)
• ISI Journal Citation Reports
• ISI Essential Science Indicators

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Web of Knowledge Derwent Innovations Index
What is Derwent Innovations Index?

• 1) A comprehensive patent database
• Updated weekly, with coverage back to 1963
• Covers over 12 million basic inventions, 30
  million patents
• From 40 patent-issuing authorities worldwide
• 2) An easy-to-use patent database for both patent
  experts and non-patent experts (such as
  researchers, librarians, and administrators)

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Web of Knowledge Derwent Innovations Index
How is Derwent Innovations Index easy to use?

• DII has special indexing to help researchers
  search patents quickly and easily
• Titles are rewritten by Derwent Subject Experts
  to make them easy to understand
• New abstracts are added to highlight what makes a
  patent new and different, how a patent is
  supposed to be used, and what the advantage of a
  patent is over another invention
• Patents are grouped into Families (equivalent
  patents from various countries)
• A drawing is included (the one that best
  represents the invention)
• Includes links to full text documents through
  Thomson Patent Store

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Web of Knowledge Derwent Innovations Index
How is Derwent Innovations Index easy to use?

• DII is modeled on the Web of Science
• It will look familiar to any Web of Science user,
  so researchers can start searching immediately
  with little or no training
• It includes links to Web of Science for cited
  articles (where available)
• DII is part of the Web of Knowledge platform
• At any time, a researcher can jump to any other
  ISI subscription database at your institution
  from the control panel
• It is CrossSearchable with Web of Science,
  Current Contents Connect, BIOSIS Previews, CAB
  Abstracts, and INSPEC (depending on your
  subscriptions)
• Coming soon alerting

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Web of Knowledge Derwent Innovations Index
Modeled on Web of Science
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Todays Agenda

• Web of Knowledge 2.0
• Homepage features
• Review of content (databases that are available)
• New technologies (CrossSearch and
  personalization)
• Web of Science 6.0
• General Search, Cited Reference Searching,
  Set-Searching, Advanced Search, Saved Searches,
  Alerting
• Other Web of Knowledge resources
• ISI Current Contents Connect
• Derwent Innovations Index
• ISI Proceedings
• Hosted Content The power of partnerships
  (BIOSIS, CAB Abstracts, INSPEC)
• ISI Journal Citation Reports
• ISI Essential Science Indicators

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Web of Knowledge ISI Proceedings
ISI Proceedings

• Multidisciplinary, worldwide coverage of
  conference literature (complementing Web of
  Science journal literature)
• Two editions
• Science Technology
• Social Science Humanities
• 1990 present, updated weekly
• Over 3 million records

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Web of Knowledge ISI Proceedings
ISI Proceedings

• Full conference information
• Abstracts from 1997 -- present
• Cited References from 1999 present
• Citation Navigation
• Cited Reference list, with links to cited Web of
  Science records
• Related Records list (Proceedings)
• Link to Times Cited in Web of Science

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Web of Knowledge ISI Proceedings
Modeled on Web of Science
Users will feel right at home
Additional field for searching CONFERENCE
information
Close integration with Web of Science WoK
resources
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Todays Agenda

• Web of Knowledge 2.0
• Homepage features
• Review of content (databases that are available)
• New technologies (CrossSearch and
  personalization)
• Web of Science 6.0
• General Search, Cited Reference Searching,
  Set-Searching, Advanced Search, Saved Searches,
  Alerting
• Other Web of Knowledge resources
• ISI Current Contents Connect
• Derwent Innovations Index
• ISI Proceedings
• Hosted Content The power of partnerships
  (BIOSIS, CAB Abstracts, INSPEC)
• ISI Journal Citation Reports
• ISI Essential Science Indicators

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Web of Knowledge Hosted Content

• Hosted content The power of partnerships

• Recognizing the need for additional,
  subject-specific coverage to complement our core
  multidisciplinary database
• Partnering with the experts who provide
  authoritative sources

• Focusing on quality, not quantity
• Adding content intelligently, in ways that are
  meaningful

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Web of Knowledge Hosted Content
Benefit of ISI hosted content the quality
equation

• Take a great database
• An easy-to-use, familiar interface
• (Modeled on the Web of Science)
• ISI Web of Knowledge functionality
• (Inter-product linking, citation sharing links,
  CrossSearching, alerting, personalization)
• Unique versions for researchers and students

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Web of Knowledge Great Databases

• BIOSIS
• is a comprehensive biological services
  resource. Updated weekly, BIOSIS Previews (from
  Biological Abstracts, Inc.,) combines the content
  from Biological Abstracts and Biological
  Abstracts/RRM (Reports, Reviews, Meetings)
• CAB ABSTRACTS
• covers the significant research and development
  literature in the fields of agriculture and
  applied life science. With over 3.5 million
  records dating from 1973, it is the world's most
  comprehensive database in its field.
• INSPEC
• is the world's leading source of research and
  development literature in the fields of physics,
  electronics and electrical engineering, computers
  and control, and information technology. With in
  excess of 7 million scientific and technical
  papers, INSPEC is a vital technical information
  service for physicists, engineers, information
  specialists, researchers and scientists.

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Web of Knowledge Familiar Interface
A familiar interface modeled on Web of Science
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Web of Knowledge Familiar Interface
that makes full use of all database specific
fields
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Web of Knowledge Familiar Interface
and search aids, such as Thesauri and
Classifications
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Web of Knowledge WOK functionality
fully integrated in the ISI Web of Knowledge
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Web of Knowledge Hosted Content
Benefit of ISI hosted content the quality
equation

• Take a great database
• An easy-to-use, familiar interface
• (Modeled on the Web of Science)
• ISI Web of Knowledge functionality
• (Inter-product linking, citation sharing links,
  CrossSearching, alerting, personalization)
• Unique versions for researchers and students

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Todays Agenda

• Web of Knowledge 2.0
• Homepage features
• Review of content (databases that are available)
• New technologies (CrossSearch and
  personalization)
• Web of Science 6.0
• General Search, Cited Reference Searching,
  Set-Searching, Advanced Search, Saved Searches,
  Alerting
• Other Web of Knowledge resources
• ISI Current Contents Connect
• Derwent Innovations Index
• ISI Proceedings
• Hosted Content The power of partnerships
  (BIOSIS, CAB Abstracts, INSPEC)
• ISI Journal Citation Reports
• ISI Essential Science Indicators

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ISI Journal Citation Reports

• Presents statistical data that provides a
  systematic, objective way to assist in the
  characterization and determination of the
  relative influence of journals within their
  subject categories.
• Provides an absolutely unique tool for examining
  the relationships between journals through
  citation patterns.

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Utilizing ISI Journal Citation Reports

• Librarians - assist in the management and
  maintenance of journal collections
• Authors - to help with decisions on manuscript
  submission, identify most frequently cited
  publications
• Publishers - monitor the influence of journals,
  yours and your competitors
• Editors - assist in the tracking of influence of
  editorial policies over time

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ISI Journal Citation Reports on the Web

• Impact and influence of 8,400 international
  science and social sciences research publications
• Includes
• Link to 5 year Impact Factor Trend Graph
• Link from ISI Web of Science
• Link to Ulrichs Periodicals Directory

• Information included or calculated includes
• Impact Factor
• Immediacy Index
• Source data information
• Citing and cited journal listings

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ISI Essential Science Indicators

• Policy- and decision-makers are looking for
  analysis and context, not just information
• The power of citation analysis in an easy-to-use
  interface accessible anytime, anywhere
• A unique compilation of performance statistics
  and scientific trends, using article citation
  counts as a chief indicator of influence and
  impact
• An important analytical tool with links to the
  ISI Web of Science

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What is Essential?

• What we reviewed
• 10 years of data from the ISI Web of Science
• 9.5 million items (articles, reviews, papers)
• What we selected
• Top papers in 22 fields based on total number of
  citations
• The result Citation rankings
• Top 1 of scientists and institutions
• Top 50 of journals and countries

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ISI Web of Knowledge Essential Science
Indicators
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Todays Agenda

• Web of Knowledge 2.0
• Homepage features
• Review of content (databases that are available)
• New technologies (CrossSearch and
  personalization)
• Web of Science 6.0
• General Search, Cited Reference Searching,
  Set-Searching, Advanced Search, Saved Searches,
  Alerting
• Other Web of Knowledge resources
• ISI Current Contents Connect
• Derwent Innovations Index
• ISI Proceedings
• Hosted Content The power of partnerships
  (BIOSIS, CAB Abstracts, INSPEC)
• ISI Journal Citation Reports
• ISI Essential Science Indicators

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Thank you!
Claus WolfTechnical Support RepresentativeThomso
n ISIclaus.wolf_at_thomson.com