ISI Web of Knowledge Enhancements
ISI Web of Knowledge is launching a redesigned platform with notable enhancements to help users locate, analyze, and manage research information. Currently, access to both the new and the existing versions of Web of Knowledge is available. Beginning in January 2008, the upgraded interface will replace the previous version. To preview the new interface, click on the “Access the New Version” link at the top of the ISI front page.
Highlights of the new Web of Knowledge platform include:
• Redesigned layout.
• All Databases: search simultaneously across multiple Web of Knowledge databases.
• Refine Results: allows further searching within results, and limiting to particular subject areas, document types, countries, and authors, among others.
• Analyze Results: ascertains trends and patterns in the search results to glean top authors, institutions, and journals publishing articles in your area of interest.
• Citation results and related records are clearly highlighted in individual full records, enabling you to connect to a wider variety of relevant articles.
• Search Aid (icon located to the right of the search box): lets you type a few letters from the beginning of a word or name to browse search terms from an alphabetical list.
ISI Web of Knowledge will continue to provide access to the Web of Science and Journal Citation Reports databases. Cited reference searching is available through Web of Science, enabling use of a reference's citations to identify more articles on the same topic, follow an author’s citations, or track a development through time in the literature. Journal Citation Reports permits evaluation and comparison of journals using citation data drawn from more than 7,500 scholarly and technical journals. This resource identifies most frequently cited journals, highest impact journals, and largest journals for a particular field of study.
Brief tutorials about the new Web of Knowledge interface and related topics are available at scientific.thomson.com/support/recorded-training/wok, or you can contact an HSLS librarian for assistance at medlibq@pitt.edu.
--Rebecca Abromitis
