1. ISI Web of Knowledge Service for UK Education
An Overview
Suzanne Williams
ISI Web of Knowledge Support Officer

2. Overview About the ISI Web of Knowledge Service for UK Education
Introduction to the ISI Web of Knowledge platform
Content of the Web of Science
Web of Science - example
All Databases Search- example

3. The ISI Web of Knowledge Service for UK Education
Integrated platform supporting research and teaching in UK education institutions
Portal providing:
simple All Database searching across Web of Science plus additional products that an institution subscribe (Journal Citation Reports not included in All Databases Search)
access to
Web of Science (now includes Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Science )
Medline (1950 – present)
plus additional products and external collections / websites

4. Who hosts the service?
The ISI Web of Knowledge Service for UK Education is hosted by Thomson Reuters
Thomson Reuters own the databases and the application
Mimas, The University of Manchester support the service
JISC funded service
JISC Collections negotiate and manage the agreement

5. Additional products Examples of additional products available:
Century of Science
Backfile and cited reference data from 1900 to 1944
Web of Science Backfiles
Science Citation Index Expanded with Cited References (1945–1969)
Social Science Citation Index Expanded with Cited References (1956–1969)
Current Contents Connect
Current awareness service
Journal Citation Reports
Science & Social Science Editions
Derwent Innovations Index
Finds specific patents & cited patents
ISI Chemistry
Biosis Previews

6. Save searches to the ISI Web of Knowledge server.
As a registered user, you can take advantage of these convenient features:
Select a start page
Save searches to the ISI Web of Knowledge server.
Set up search history alerts, citation alerts and RSS feeds
Create custom journal lists for focused browsing and table of contents alerting (CCC subscribers only).
Save and manage your references online with EndNote Web
Automatically sign in every time you access ISI Web of Knowledge. (Note: Users of public computers should not select this option.)
Go live and sign in to show them additional options when signed in. If have time at end of session will show them these in detail. Can create RSS feeds for saved searches, citation alerts and items in journal list (if subscribe to CCC only).

7. Web of Science

8. Content of Web of Science
The Web of Science databases are:
Science Citation Index Expanded (1970 – ), Author Abstracts available from 1991
Social Sciences Citation Index Expanded (1970– ), Author Abstracts available from 1992
Arts and Humanities Citation Index (1975– ), Author Abstracts available from 2000
Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science (1990-)
Coverage:
more than 8,500 journals & conference proceedings
5,900 SCI 1,725 SSCI 1,144 ADH
average of over 24,000 new items added each week
Quarterly enhancements

9. Features of Web of Science
Search citation databases individually or simultaneously
General, Advanced and Cited Reference searching available
Standard Boolean operators
and/or/not/same and truncation
Phrase search - use quotation marks
Form and Set based searching
Full citation searching
References to related records
Links to other databases and external resources
Register for additional features
Form search – relates to the form available on the General search option

10. Language and Document type search fields available to restrict search
Topic
Article titles, Abstracts, Author Keywords, KeyWords Plus
“white oak” or “quercus alba”
drug resistan*
Title
Enter title terms to limit your search to article titles
soil SAME drain*
Author
Searches any author on the paper
Bergstrom CT
Wallen K
Group Author
Group or organization credited with authorship
Aberdeen Lung Cancer Group
Beta Cell Biology Consortium
Publication Name
Journal title
Czech Journal of Food Sciences
Progress in Brain Research
Publication Year
Year article was published
1999
Address
Searches abbreviated author affiliations
Emory Univ, Dept Biol, Atlanta, GA USA
Conference
Search conference information
lithium AND Scotland AND 1998
Language and Document type search fields available to restrict search
This is a quick summary of the six searchable fields on the General Search page, along with examples to illustrate each.
The Topic field searches article titles, abstracts and all keywords. Enter words or phrases in this field to retrieve records about your topic.
The author field searches every available author on a paper. All authors originally identified on the work are presented and can be searched. The most effective way to search is last name, followed by one or more initials.
Group Author searches the group or organization that was credited with authorship. For example the Aberdeen Lung Cancer Group or the Beta Cell Biology Consortium.
Publication Name searches the name of the journal where the article was originally published, and the Publication year field searches the year the document was published. The publication year field may be searched as an individual year or range of years. Year ranges entered must be ten years or less.
And finally, the address field searches all author affiliations published in the original work. This field uses standardized abbreviations for many commonly occurring words like university and college. Consult the provided list of abbreviations found in the Help file for assistance when constructing a search.
Conference field allows you to search the following fields within a record for conference proceedings papers.
Conference Title
Conference Location
Conference Date
Conference Sponsor

11. Proximity Operators Phrase searching Same
To search for an exact phrase enter the phrase in quotation marks.
Example: “stem cell”
Same
Terms must occur within the same sentence, where “sentence” is generally a period-delimited string, in any order. In keyword fields, the SAME operator will retrieve records with search terms in the same keyword phrase.
Example: stem SAME cell
If you would like to search for an exact phrase, enter it in quotation marks. You may truncate a phrase that is within quotes to retrieve variations in spelling and plural forms. We will talk more about truncation in the next slide
We have one additional operator, SAME, that can help focus your searches. SAME works similarly to AND, but is more restrictive. Both search terms must appear, but they must be in the same ‘sentence’ together, and in any order. A sentence can mean a sentence in an article abstract, an article title, a string of keywords, or an author’s address.

12. Truncation * $ ? Symbol Retrieves Zero or more characters gene*
gene, genetics, generation $
Zero or one character
colo$r
color, colour ?
One character only
en?oblast
entoblast, endoblast
Truncation symbols, also known as wildcard characters, are used to find plural forms and variant spellings of words. There are three truncation symbols available for use in the Web of Knowledge. The asterisk is the most flexible symbol and stands for any number of characters, including zero.
The dollar sign stands for zero or one character and is useful for finding variations in British and American spellings.
The question mark stands for one character and can also be used for finding variations in spelling.
These truncation symbols can be used within a word or phrase, or at the end of a word or phrase. You may not use a symbol at the beginning.

13. Boolean Operators All search terms must occur to be retrieved.
TOPIC: “stem cell*” AND lymphoma
Retrieves documents that contain the phrase stem cell and the term lymphoma. This is equivalent to searching “stem cell*” lymphoma
Any one of the search terms must occur to be retrieved. Use when searching variants and synonyms.
TOPIC: aspartame OR saccharine OR sweetener*
Retrieves documents that contain at least one of the terms.
Excludes records that contain a given search term.
TOPIC: aids NOT hearing
Retrieves documents with aids, excluding any which also contain hearing.
Here are some additional examples of how to use search operators.
The AND operator finds all terms entered. The example shown here will find the phrase stem cell as well as the word lymphoma.
When using OR, at least one term must occur. Aspartame OR saccharine OR sweetener will retrieve articles that contain any one of these terms.
The NOT operator excludes terms from your search. Aids NOT hearing will retrieve records about the disease AIDS, not hearing aids.

14. Linking Options
OpenURL linking to an institutions electronic resources
Links to ‘Full Text’
Provides links between ISI Web of Knowledge resources and electronic full text
Holdings links to OPAC – up to 8 can be enabled
Links to paper journals
Links through to additional online journals
Alternative route to electronic journals
Linking options are free (institution required to contact the helpdesk to enable the link option(s)

15. Web of Knowledge – All Databases Search
Search the content of multiple Thomson Scientific products and other external resources simultaneously
External collections selected by default
Same interface as other Web of Knowledge products
Linking options available directly from results screen

16. Contact us: Hands On session Helpdesk e-mail: wok@mimas.ac.uk
For information and assistance
Provide feedback on the WoK service
WOSEC (Web of Science Enhancement Committee
Hands On session