Tuesday, November 06, 2007

New Interface to Web of Knowledge

The Web of Knowledge new interface is live today!
It is substantially different from the previous version.
  • If you click on the Web of Knowledge link from the Databases pulldown menu (in the databases and eresources web pages), you now get RIGHT to Web of Science, NOT the frontend for all Web of K.
  • If you want to search JUST ONE of the three indexes (Science, Soc Sci, A&H, see below), you must select the CHANGE LIMITS option, and click the indexes on or off.
Web of Knowledge includes:

1) Under the Databases Tab
  • Web of Science -- Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Index (regular citation index, PLUS tracks citations to and from, thus impact; all back to 1965)
  • Zoological Record (back to 1978)
  • Current Contents Connect (back to 1998, and for the three discipline groups in Web of S)
2) Now under the Additional Resources Tab
  • Essential Science Indicators (tracks impact by institutions and depts. thereof)
  • Journal Citation Index (tracks impact by journal titles)
  • Various other special reports
Their online help is pretty good, and the contents are the same, just the organization is different.

[information provided by Sara Tompson]