New Features Update ISI Web of Knowledge July 2006
Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 2 New features and enhancements Enhancements to search engine –Simpler topic searching –Changes to phrase searching Author Finder –Tool for focused author searching in the Web of Science
Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 3 Enhancements to the search engine Improved topic search results –Better results when entering multiple search terms –Phrase searching is no longer implied –Use quotation marks to search an exact phrase –Using wildcard characters and Boolean search operators is still permitted –Applies to all Web of Knowledge databases, including Web of Science global warming finds the phrase global warming and also finds …global climate change and ocean warming… “global warming” finds the exact phrase global warming
Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 4 More examples Enter agriculture sustainable economic* –Finds:...Sustainable agriculture meets human needs for food, enhances the quality of life of people, protects the integrity of natural systems, and is economically profitable… Truncate within an exact phrase: –Enter “neural network*” to find neural network, neural networks or neural networking
Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 5 Entering terms
Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 6 Results, cont.
Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 7 Exact phrase
Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 8 Results, cont.
Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 9 Author Finder
Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 10 Author Finder Quick four-step process to help you walk through an author search Useful for differentiating between authors who share name and initials
Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 11 Author Finder – Enter a name Enter the last name O’Byrne and the first initial P Only the last name is required. It’s okay if you don’t know the first or second initial.
Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 12 Select initials
Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 13 Add a variant Also search for obyrne without the apostrophe Web of Science records prior to 1998 are formatted this way
Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 14 Select initials
Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 15 Select Subject Category
Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 16 Add address
Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 17 Full record result
Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 18 Search Results
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