1. Web Citation Index Chris Powell Account Manager ISI Web of Knowledge Academic & Government Thomson Scientific Christopher.Powell@thomson.com

2. Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 2 Create a standardized, cross-disciplinary citation index of scholarly documents from Institutional Repositories A separate Repository Citation Index, but linked to the Web of Science NEC as technical partner Web of Science as multidisciplinary “backbone” Autonomous indexing of repository data Index of institutional repositories Indexing Institutional Repositories: Web Citation Index™

3. Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 3 Partner Institutions Several key institutions have partnered with Thomson Scientific for the development of WCI. Australian National University California Institute of Technology (CalTech) Cornell University Monash University NASA Langley Max Planck Society University of Rochester

4. Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 4 WCI: Features The WCI is an index of scholarly web documents integrating scholarly articles, pre-prints, technical reports, working papers, dissertations, theses and other literature from online repositories into the ISI Web of Knowledge platform and will feature: General Search Cited Reference Search CrossSearch Related Records Associated Records Advanced Search Search History Mark and export records functions Links to the cited and citing papers within WCI Links to the Web of Science. Associated Records which will unify records by linking like records in multiple repositories

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6. 6 WCI Editorial Process Content editors will screen and select repositories for inclusion in WCI. Determining factors include: –Who hosts the archive (academic/government institution or a large research oriented corporation?) –Is the archive well maintained? I.E. are the links fresh, is it frequently updated with new content, does content have a date stamp? –Does the archive have any sort of selection process itself for what is posted? If not, is there a process in place fore removing inappropriate content? –Is the full text available for most items? –Is a fill list of documents available via browsing or are documents only available via a search? –What format are the documents available in? PDF, Post Script etc? –What is the overall structure of the archive? Is it OAI compliant or does it use DSpace or Eprints software? If not does it apply its own structure to all documents?

7. Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 7 Initially Identified Repositories arXiv.org e-Print Archive *Australian National University - EPrints Repository *Basic Research in Computer ScienceCaltech Authors *CaltechCSTR: Caltech Computer Science Technical Reports *CaltechEERL: Caltech Earthquake Engineering Research Laboratory Technical Reports *CaltechPARADISE: Caltech Parallel and Distributed Systems Group *Center for Advanced Computing Research, California Institute of Technology *Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge - Technical Reports Index Computer Science Technical Reports - Iowa State University Cornell University Open Access Repository Dartmouth College Computer Science - Technical Reports *Demetrius - Institutional Repository at the Australian National University DSpace at MIT*Edinburgh Research Archive Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton – EPrints Service E-LIS - E-prints in Library and Information Science ePrintsUQ espace@Curtin *European Research Papers Archive *Goteborg University - School of Economics and Commercial Law - Electronic Publishing Center History & Theory of Psychology Eprint Archive *Marshall Technical Reports Server *Mathematical Institute Eprints Archive NASA Langley Technical Library Digital Repository *Organic eprints Oxford Eprints Queensland University of Technology ePrints Archive QUEprints - Cranfield University University of California eScholarship Repository University of Melbourne ePrints Repository University of Rochester Computer Science - Theory Technical Reports University of Rochester Research - DSpace Repository

8. Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation 8 Thank you Chris Powell Account Manager ISI Web of Knowledge Academic & Government Thomson Scientific Christopher.Powell@thomson.com