Web of Science Guide

Instructional Guides

Web of Science

Scope: Web of Science provides access to multidisciplinary, high quality research information from the world's leading arts, humanities, science and social science journals. Web of Science allows you to track cited authors, articles as well as atricles arranged by subjects.

Coverage: 1996-present. Updated continuously.

For additional information please see http://www.isinet.com/tutorials/wok2tutor/

Searching

Search Options
The Web of Science provides three types of searching: Full Search, Easy Search, and Cited Reference Search.

Full Search - Search by bibliographic information (topic, author, source, address) or by cited reference.
Easy Search - This offers a simplified topic, person, or place search that rturns a maximum of 100 results.
Cited Reference Search - Use this to find articles that have cited (included in their reference list) a specific work.
General Search - Use this to search for articles by topic, source title, or author address. This is the most flexible search option.

Results
The Search Results Summary page displays a list of records retrieved by a search, with articles identified by the first three authors (et al. is appended to indicate more than three authors), title, and source journal information. At the top of the page, the search fields and their contents are displayed. The total number of records found by your search is displayed at the bottom of the Search Results Summary page. (The Summary page also displays by clicking "Summary" on a full record accessed from the Marked Records page).

To see more information about an article on the list - Click the article title to see the full record for this article in the ISI database.

Printing, E-mailing, and Saving Records
The Marked Records page displays a list of the records you have marked during the current session. You can mark records on the Search Results Summary page by clicking the checkbox beside an article then clicking the Submit Marks button or the Mark Page or Mark All buttons, or by clicking Mark on a Full Record page.

Use the options on this page to:

Print records.
Save records to a file whose format is suitable for import into a bibliographic management program.
Export records directly into a ProCite or Reference Manager database.
E-mail records with a note to any e-mail address you enter.

Related Databases or Indexes:

Science Citation Index

Social Science Citation Index

Arts & Humanities Citation Index

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This page created by
Tiffini Travis
University Library, California State University, Long Beach
March 2002