ISI Web of Knowledge The Path to Smart Discovery for the Information Professional

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ISI Web of Knowledge The Path to Smart
Discovery for the Information Professional
Simon Pratt Strategic Business Manager E-mail
simon.pratt_at_thomson.com November 2005
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Quality Content
ISI Web of KnowledgeCentralized resource
Journal Literature Web of Science Current
Contents Connect Conference Proceedings ISI
Proceedings Analytical tools Journal Citation
Reports Essential Science Indicators Patents
Derwent Innovations Index Subject specific
MEDLINE, BIOSIS, INSPEC, Zoological Record,
FSTA PsycINFO, CAB Abstracts,
Applications Tools
- Links - Integration - Alerting -
Analysis - Cross Search - Document Delivery
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Diversity

• Evaluated authoritative content
• Team of specialists evaluate journals to ensure
  that the content is trustworthy
• Third party evaluation of all journals regardless
  of source
• Commercial publishers
• Academic societies
• Open Access journals

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Why evaluate journals?

• It is estimated that there are morethan 50,000
  journals in circulation.
• Journal editors and publishers aim to
• Ensure that publishing standards are adhered to
• Select the best articles from reputable authors
• Submit articles for Peer Reviewed
• Ensure that sound scientific principals have been
  used
• Thomson Scientific evaluates Journals to ensure
  that standards of editorial policy are maintained
• Citation Analysis is used to insure that the most
  influential journals are included.
• Additional journals are included for
  representative coverage of all disciplines and
  geographic regions

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How do we evaluate journals?

• Thomson Scientifics editorial staff review
  around 2,000 new journals annually. 10-12 of
  these journals are added
• Basic publishing standards
• Timeliness, Follows publishing conventions
• English language bibliographic information
• Peer Review
• Editorial content
• Will it enrich the database? Is it a hot topic?
• Citation analysis
• Impact Factor, Immediacy index
• How the journal compares to other journals in its
  field
• Citation analysis of editorial board

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• Truly Multidisciplinary
• Journals are selected to provide coverage of all
  fields of research
• 8,700 journals in 200 categories
• 6,100 journals in the hard sciences
• Social sciences 1790 titles
• Arts humanities 1125 titles

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• A vast archive of important research
• 1900 in the Sciences
• 1956 in the Social Sciences
• 1975 in the Arts and Humanities
• All the data is produced by Thomson Scientific
  and consequently the data has a very high degree
  of accuracy and consistency throughout

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Number of publications per yearInstName Univ
London Birkbeck Coll SubjCat Biochemistry
Molecular Biology
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• The capture of Author Cited References for over
  100 years of data provides for unique features of
  searching and navigation
• Track research pathways through time
• Expand a search using Related Records
• Gauge the impact of a paper using citation counts

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2004
2003
2003
Times Cited
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Cited References
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Related Records
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1998
2004
2002
1993
1999
1994
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Citation Index - The Value Add
The language of science is always changing.
Concepts and terminology continue to evolve. For
this reasonFree-text searching may miss
critical information
LAV(Europe) HTLV-III (USA)
HIV many variants, SIV
???
1983
1987
Present
Future
Searching for the term HIV would miss this
highly influential paper.
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A unique resource! No other database offers the
same level of high quality, authoritative and
trustworthy content with advanced searching
capabilities over 105 years of multidisciplinary
coverage
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Cited Reference Seach Comprehensive searching of
cited references, including materials not covered
in the Web of Science
Identify an Author or Material that is relevant
to your search topic.
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Noyori R
Search Journals, Patents, Books, Technical
reports etc
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Easier to Print, e-mail, Export and Save
Alerting, instantly setup a citation alert. Or
add alerting to an existing saved search
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Navigate backwards in-time through the Cited
References
New display, resembles original bibliography
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Find the most recent developments through the
Times Cited
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Gauge the relevance of the results by looking at
the number of shared references
Expand a search with the Related Records
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Other resources can be integrated into the Web of
Knowledge platform for seamless linking
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Instantly access the article full text

• Links to publisher full text
• Publisher feeds
• DOIs
• Algorithmic links
• Aggregators
• Available on gt 80 of records
• Open URL links link to your institutions Open
  URL resolver

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Use the Analyze tool to get a snapshot of the
results.
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Instantly analyze results to identify trends and
relationships. Create subsets based on the results
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Advanced search for command line searching
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Cross Search

• Search multiple resources from one convenient
  interface
• Broaden your search with additional resources
• Duplicate records are consolidated not
  eliminated
• Apply specialist indexing across resources to
  discover new results

Web of Science 34 records
When searched as standalone products Web of
Science 30 records BIOSIS Previews 23
records Medline 23 records
37 records
Medline 32 records
BIOSIS Previews 31 records
Topic ACE inhibitor and cell growth
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Coming upgrades

• Plans for the coming year
• Web Citation Index a entirely new product for
  searching institutional repositories and open
  access archives
• Journals Collection manager, a new resource for
  evaluating a managing journal collections
• Web EndNote

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Scholarly Content Today
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Indexing Institutional RepositoriesWeb Citation
Index

• Built on previous TS developments (Current Web
  Contents) to create a standardized,
  cross-disciplinary citation index of scholarly
  documents from Institutional Repositories
• Collaboration with NEC as technical partner
• Use Web of Science/Web of Knowledge as
  multidisciplinary backbone

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Web Citation Index Pilot A User-defined
Initiative

• Seven Institutional Partners
• Australian National University
• California Institute of Technology (CalTech)
• Cornell University
• Monash University
• NASA Langley
• Max Planck Society
• University of Rochester
• Participation
• Reviewed prototypes as platform developed
• Advised on all aspects of project,
• Assisted in recruitment of user panels advised on
  project at critical stages

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ISI Web of Knowledge
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