Web of Science
Web of Science is a citation index for approximately 8700 of the most prestigious, high impact research journals across the sciences and social sciences. Web of Science's specialty is linking scholarly, peer reviewed literature together via citations, enabling users to browse ideas forward and backwards through time. Web of Science is searchable by keywords, and also has special input fields specific to searching citations. Citation searching allows users to see article bibliographies easily as well as to quickly identify additional articles that cite the article in question. Because of the citation interlinking, the Web of Science "find related articles" search option from the abstract page results in articles relevant not by classified subject headings, but by citations the articles have in common. This type of search in conjunction with a subject specific database "related articles" search, which is based on common subject headings, results in two different pathways into related literature browsing.
In addition to citation searching, Web of Science offers many other features. The analyze tool ranks results by author, publication date, institution name, and subject categories, providing context to the search results. Web of Science also has a citation alert feature that will email users any time a selected article is cited. Web of Science uses current open URL technology, allowing direct linking to full text, online articles the Libraries' subscribe to and the records are easily imported into RefWorks.
Web of Science is available to students, faculty, and staff of The Claremont Colleges and indexes literature across multiple subjects back as far as 1955. Visit Web of Science and explore it for yourself!
For more information about Web of Science, please contact Jezmynne Westcott.