The Web of Science which comprises Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Science Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Current Contents Connect containing all 7 editions of the Current Contents (CC) published by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) can be accessed through your Web browser in the comfort of your office. This Web-based solution provides researchers with powerful capabilities that are not found in the CD-ROM version.
Updated weekly via ftp from ISI instead of monthly by air mail.
Retrieval speed will be much improved as the data is mounted locally on a hard disk.
Choose the time period to search, whether all years, specific years, or the most recent weekly updates. This is unlike the CD-ROM version, which limits the search to one year at a time.
Search one or any combination of the citation databases. Similiarly for Current Contents Connect.
Science Citation Index Expanded covers approximately 2,000 more journals than the CD-ROM counterpart.
Two search modes are provided : the Full Search mode for advanced users or the Quick Search mode for novice users allowing cited reference search at the click of a mouse.
Primary as well as secondary authors are now both searchable for cited reference.
Search results can be sorted by relevance, date, first author or journal.
Links to the original article information when a cited reference is found in the citation databases.
Link to our library catalogue, WebLINC, after retrieving an item from the citation databases and check if the Library has this particular journal article.
Number of times an item is cited is updated every week.
List of related records is dynamically updated weekly.
Macintosh users can now access these databases.
All disciplines are included in Web of Science and Current Contents Connect. The following statistics gives you an idea of their wide coverage.
Science Citation Index (SCI) Expanded covers 5,300 science and technical journals with an average of 17,000 new articles and 300,000 new cited references added per week. About 75% of the articles in the database include searchable, full-length author abstracts (1991 onwards).
Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) covers 1,700 social sciences journals with an average of 2,800 new articles and 50,000 new cited references added per week. Approximately 65% of the articles in the database include searchable, full-length author abstracts (1992 onwards).
Arts & Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) covers 1,100 arts and humanities journals with an average of 2,200 new articles and 15,000 new cited references added per week. Implicit citations, unique to AHCI, enable users to reference actual representation of a work of art or music score. Title enhancements are added for obscure and hard to categorize article titles to clarify article contents.
Current Contents Connect covers more than 9,000 journals, books, and conference proceedings from 250 disciplines in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities fields.
Point your browser to the Library Homepage or WebLINC, click on Library InfoGate (Web) and select the required database.
How much data is on the Web?
How do I access the older data not on the Web?
Some of the older data are available on NUSNET under CD-ROM for Windows. Please ask at the information desk of the libraries indicated:
By doing a citation search, you are using the published authors, or the experts themselves, to lead you to related literature through their bibliographies. A traditional topic search is dependant on your knowledge of the field's vocabulary and on how well you formulate your search statements. Since this type of search is not language-dependent, it will retrieve relevant articles even if there are changes in the terminology and phrases used.
What are some of the benefits of a citation search?
A citation search allows you to:
What does a high citation rate mean?
A high number of citations can indicate that an author or document has had a major impact on the field, or that a work has high utility. However, other factors need to be considered in assessing the significance of high citation counts such as:
It is critical to remember that publication and citation rates vary widely from field to field. You will need to know the average citation rate within a field to assess an individual author.
Note that a cited reference search in the citation databases is run against the ISI source journal coverage and therefore is restricted to citations found in these journals indexed. If the author is cited in works outside of this group, those citations will not be retrieved.
What is used to rank the articles for relevance?
The primary sort order is by the number of hits for a specific search term within each record with records containing the most hits appearing first. If there are records that match in the number of hits, the system applies the secondary sort order which is by reverse load date.
Will there be a link to the full text article?
It is not possible to link to the full text now. However, there will be a link to the journals holdings information in the library catalogue WebLINC. If the library has a subscription to the electronic version of a journal, you will be able to connect from WebLINC to the publisher's Website to read the full text article online.
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