Thomson Scientific ISI Web of Knowledge

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Thomson Scientific ISI Web of Knowledge

• Jayne Blundell
• March 2005

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Todays Agenda

• ISI Web of Knowledge
• BIOSIS Previews
• Web of Science
• Journal Citation Reports

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ISI Web of Knowledge
An integrated Web-based platform providing high
quality, essential information for all levels of
research

• Premium Content
• Comprehensive information resources designed to
  meet the diverse needs of researchers 
• Powerful Research Tools
• Integrated resources designed to work seamlessly
  between the ISI core and complementary content

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Content

• Broad, multidisciplinary coverage enhanced by
  targeted, in-depth resources in selected key
  research and scholarly disciplines
• Journals
• Patents
• Chemical Reactions and Compounds
• Select Web Content
• Proceedings
• Books
• Grant Funding
• Pre-Prints

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Journals

• ISI Core Database Coverage
• Multidisciplinary coverage, over 9,000 of the
  worlds most influential, peer-reviewed journals
• Complementary, targeted, in-depth resources in
  select, key areas of research
• Over 2,600 additional discipline-specific
  journals in the biological sciences (BIOSIS)
• Over 3,300 discipline-specific journals in
  agriculture and applied life sciences (CAB
  Abstracts)
• Over 4,000 journals, 2000 conference proceedings,
  plus books, reports and dissertations in physics,
  engineering and IT (INSPEC)

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Journal Selection Criteria

• Publishing standards
• Timeliness, editorial conventions for
  bibliographic information, and peer review
• Editorial content
• Will it enrich the content of the product?
• New field or extend existing field?
• Is the subject already covered adequately?
• International diversity
• Authors, editors, advisory boards but understand
  the importance of regional journals
• Citation analysis
• Determining importance and influence by measuring
  use (citation rates, impact factor, immediacy
  index)

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Complete Extraction
Articles Editorials Conference
Reports Letters Notes
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Production of the Database
Scanning
Journal Acquisition
Extraction of data
Articles Appear
ISI Database
ISI Databases
Adquisición de Revistas
Scanning OCR
Selección de Elementos
Manual Indexing and Translation
An Average of 3-5 Working Days
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Full Text Journals

• Links to publisher electronic full-text
• Long-standing relationships with publishers
• 2,400 journals linked at present (and counting)
• Sophisticated linking utilizing robust
  technology
• SFX-enabled
• EBSCO - 4,000 journals
• Document delivery via ISI Document Solution

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Current Full-Text Partners

• Academic Press
• American Institute of Physics
• American Physical Society
• Blackwell Science
• CatchWord, Ltd.
• Taylor Francis, MIT Press, Mary Ann Liebert,
  and others
• EBSCO
• Elsevier Science/ Science Direct

• Highwire Press
• Proc Natl Acad Sciences USA, Annual Reviews, AAAS
  (Science) and others
• Karger
• Kluwer Academic
• Nature Publishing Group
• Royal Society of Chemistry
• SIAM
• Springer-Verlag
• Wiley

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Features

• Cross-Search, unifying the platform
• Multi-database searching via a single, powerful
  interface
• Web of Science, Proceedings, Derwent Innovations
  Index, BIOSIS Previews
• Maintains the user session across all products !!
  Users are never denied a link between
  cross-searched databases.
• ISI Current Contents eSearch selected,
  organized Web content
• Search full-text of individual Web documents

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Web of Knowledge Benefits

• Save time
• Access multiple information sources from one
  place
• User-friendly interface easy to use
• 12 million value-add patent records delivering
  clarity and depth
• gt100 of subject categories for quick access to
  relevant journal titles
• Optimum for retrieving research quickly and
  accurately
• Save Searches and create Alerts - quickly find
  updated results
• Critical source for current awareness
• Timely patent updates
• Daily and weekly literature updates
• eFirst records for pre-published articles
• Complementary to other Web of Knowledge datasets

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What is BIOSIS Previews?

• OVERVIEW BIOSIS Previews is the world's
  largest and most comprehensive collection of
  biological sciences records in the world.
• Biological Abstracts
• BIOSIS Previews
• Biological Abstracts/RRM
• (Reports, Reviews Meetings)

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What is BIOSIS Previews?

• Over 550 000 records indexed a year
• Over 14.5 million records included from 1969 to
  date
• Updated weekly
• Nearly 6 000 source publications
• Vital biological research, medical research
  findings, and discoveries of new organisms in
  traditional areas of biology e.g. botany,
  zoology, microbiology, biomedical, agriculture,
  pharmacology, and ecology.

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Sources

• Over 5 200 international scientific serials
• 1 500 international meetings
• Books
• Reviews
• US Patents

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Subject Coverage

• Core Life Sciences fields
• - Biology, Microbiology, Genetics, Medicine,
  Agriculture
• Interdisciplinary fields
• - Biochemisty, Biophysics, Psychology, Food
  Science
• Emerging fields
• - Proteomics, Nanotechnolgy, Biodiversity
• Related fields
• -Methods, Equipment, Instrumentation

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Language

• BIOSIS Previews is largely a natural language
  database
• When searching topics make liberal use of
• - Free text
• - Truncation
• - Abbreviations
• Controlled vocabulary
• - File built on strengths of natural language
• Use lists on the search form to pick terms

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Controlled Vocabulary Lists

• Major Concepts
• Organism
• Super Taxa
• Taxa Notes
• Diseases
• Disease Modifiers
• Parts, Structures,
• Systems
• Organ system modifiers

• Chemicals
  
  Biochemicals
• Drug Modifiers
• Sequence Data
• Sequence type modifiers
• Geopolitical Locations
• Institutions and Organisations
• Institution type modifiers

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Subject Information

• Broad Topics
• Major Concepts
• Super Taxa (organisms)
• Concept Codes
• Specific Topics
• Title
• Topic
• Individual subject fields

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Major Concepts

• Controlled terms for broad subjects emphasised by
  the author
• Use Controlled Vocabulary list to locate suitable
  terms
• Search examples
• Hematology
• Medical sciences
• Pharmacology

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Concept Codes

• Five digit codes representing broad topics in the
  life sciences
• Consult list of Concept Codes/Names to locate
  suitable terms
• Concept names are also searchable as Topic terms

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Taxonomic Data

• Higher level taxonomic terms allow searching
  broad categories using hierarchical names
• Use controlled vocabulary list to locate suitable
  terms
• Search examples
• Mammalia
• hominidae

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Topic Field

• Simultaneously searches
• title methods equipment
• abstract miscellaneous descriptors
• major concepts registry numbers
• organisms sequence data
• taxa notes parts, structures systems
• super taxa of organisms
• chemicals biochemicals geopolitical location
• diseases time
• alternate indexing

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Field Availability
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With BIOSIS Previews you can

• Search more than 14,500,000 records by topic,
  author, publication, and more
• Search with more power by using field tags in
  Advanced Search
• Combine search queries by using set numbers in
  Combine Searches
• View full bibliographic records
• Link to records in other Thomson ISI hosted
  products, including Web of Science to see vital
  citation data
• Add selected records to your Marked List to
  print, export, e-mail, or save
• Save your search queries for future use

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Web of Science

• In-depth journal content
• Multidisciplinary, international, influential
• Over 9,000 of the worlds most important
  research-oriented journals
• 3 databases available,
• Science Citation Index Expanded
• Social Science Citation Index
• Arts Humanities Citation Index
• Coverage back to 1945

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A Unique Resource!

• Powerful bibliographic and cited reference search
  capabilities combined with the benefits of cited
  reference linking and navigation.
• Move forward and backward in time, exploring the
  relationships between published works
• Discover connections within the worlds body of
  research that are not obvious or apparent through
  traditional bibliographic search methods

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Cited Reference Search
Traditional Search
2002 paper
1999 paper
1987 paper
1976 paper
1995
1995
1992 paper
1992 paper
1982 paper
1982 paper
1957 paper
1957 paper
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Web of Science

• General searching - keywords, authors, addresses
• Explore and gain an overview of a research area
• Find a specific researchers articles
• Find a specific companys articles
• Cited reference searching and Related Records
• Track use of your research
• Track use of your competitors research
• Discover hidden research trends
• Print, export, or email your findings to your
  team

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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 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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Journal Citation Reports

• By using the Journal Citation Reports you and
  your researchers will be able to determine
• Which are the hottest journals within a
  discipline
• Which journals have the highest impact
• Which journals are most frequently cited
• Which journals would be the most suitable for you
  to publish in
• Which journals are the most relevant to a
  particular area of research

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Journal Citation Reports on the Web

• Provides global access to Journal Citation
  Reports data
• Impact and influence of 8,400 international
  science and social sciences research publications
• Includes
• Link to 5 year Impact Factor Trend Graph
• Link to and from Web of Science
• Link to Ulrichs Periodicals Directory

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Journal Citation Reports

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

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