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Multidisciplinary Resources
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Analytical Resources
Bibliographic Management Resources
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Multidisiplinary resources

Web of Science

Web of Science provides access to the world’s leading citation databases. Authoritative, multidisciplinary coverage includes current and retrospective data and proceedings data in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities, with backfiles to 1900. Users can search, analyze, and use information from over 10,000 journals and 110,000 proceedings, with capabilities such as cited reference searching, The Analyze Tool, citation mapping, and EndNote Web, the bibliographic management tool freely available to every Web of Science user.

    Web of Science is:

    Science Citation Index Expanded to 1900
    Social Sciences Citation Index to 1956
    Arts & Humanities Citation Index to 1975
    Conferece Proceedings Citation Index to 1990
    Index Chemicus to 1993
    Current Chemical Reactions to 1985, plus INPI archives from 1840 to 1985
    Available via ISI Web of Knowledge
    Cross-searchable with all ISI Web of Knowledge content your institution subscribes to

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Current Contents Connect

Unparalleled coverage of current research literature. Updated daily, Current Contents Connect is the world's premier multidisciplinary current awareness resource. It provides easy access to complete tables of contents, abstracts, bibliographic information, and abstracts from the most recently published issues of the world's leading scholarly journals and books. CC Connect offers cover-to-cover, expert indexing that provides accurate access to all the valuable information available in journals - not just articles.

 

Derwent Innovations Index

Facilitates rapid, precise patent searching. Derwent Innovations Index merges the value-added patent information from Derwent World Patents Index  with the patent citation information from Derwent Patent Citation Index. This resource gives researchers a comprehensive overview of inventions in the global marketplace in all categories:  chemical, electrical, electronic, and mechanical engineering. Additional descriptive information and coding enables users to quickly grasp a patent's significance and its relationship to other patents. Users can conduct powerful patent and citation searches from their desktop, getting excellent search results without having to be an expert in patent searching.

 

Specialized Resources

Biological Abstracts

An expansive index to the world's life sciences literature, covering over 4,200 journals from more than 100 countries. With 12 million records dating back to 1926, over 350,000 records added annually, and 90% of all records including an abstract, Biological Abstracts articles cover topics from every life sciences discipline. Biological Abstracts includes enhanced MesH disease terms across records, CAS registry numbers back to 1969, Sequence Databank Numbers updated and expanded, and the addition of Major Concepts controlled vocabulary back to 1969. Updated every two months.

BIOSIS Previews

The comprehensive source for life sciences and biomedical research from journals, meetings, books and patents; indexes data with over 19 million records from 1926 to the present. BIOSIS Previews combines journal content from Biological Abstracts with supplemental, non-journal coverage from Biological Abstracts/RRM (Reports, Reviews, and Meetings). Updated weekly, records are added from nearly 5,000 life sciences journals as well as non-journal literature, (patents, books, book chapters, meetings) with 600,000 records added annually. Includes structure indexing, including taxonomic data and terms, enhanced MeSH disease terms across records, CAS registry numbers back to 1969, Sequence Databank Numbers, and Major Concepts controlled vocabulary back to 1969.

CAB Abstracts

The most comprehensive source of international research information in agriculture, environment and all related applied science disciplines, CAB Abstracts is produced by CABI Publishing. This resource provides current, in-depth, coverage of global journal articles, academic books, abstracts, published theses, conference proceedings, bulletins, monographs and technical reports from over 150 countries in 50 languages. CAB Abstracts contains more than 7.4million records dating back to 1910, with more than 250,000 records added each year, and is updated monthly. CAB Thesaurus, CABICODES and CAB Registry Numbers aid in specialized searches, and results retrieval and classification.

FSTA - Food Science & Technology Abstracts

The definitive food and beverage R&D database that provides thorough coverage of pure and applied research in food science, food technology, and food-related human nutrition; produced by IFIS Publishing. FSTA is the largest food science database currently available, providing concise, comprehensive summaries of food-related literature found in journals, books, conference proceedings, reports, theses, patents, standards, and legislation. International content is from 104 countries and 40 languages, and over 800,000 records.

FSTA includes value-added abstracts written by specialist scientists and enhanced information content relevant to food science, as well as the FSTA Thesaurus, a collection of carefully chosen keywords related to the fields of food science, food technology, and food-related human nutrition.

Inspec

Inspec is a comprehensive index to literature in physics, electrical/ electronic technology, computing, control engineering, and information technology, produced by the Institution of Electrical Engineers. Updated weekly, Inspec has more than 10.2 million records dating back to 1898. More than 350,000 records are added annually from over 4,500 scientific and technical journals, and 2,200 conference proceedings. Specialized search aids include controlled index terms from the Inspec Thesaurus, Inspec Classification codes, structured numerical data indexing, chemical substance controlled indexing, and astronomical object indexing.

MEDLINE

The U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) premier bibliographic database indexes life sciences records from 1950 to the present in biomedicine and life sciences, bioengineering, public health, clinical care, and plant and animal science. With over 17 million references to journal articles in the life sciences from over 5,300 worldwide publications in 30 languages, this resource covers journals, newspapers, magazines, and newsletters. More than 600,000 new records are added annually.

Through ISI Web of Knowledge, users can search MEDLINE with or without MesH terms, NLM's controlled vocabulary thesaurus; and search for chemical substances using standard chemical names or CAS registry numbers. They can also link to NCBI protein and DNA sequence databases for genetic sequencing information, and from MEDLINE full records to PubMed Related Articles. Furthermore, ISI Web of Knowledge users can discover the most recent information by viewing MEDLINE In-Process records, recently added records that haven't yet been fully indexed.

Zoological Record

The definitive animal biology resource and the world's leading taxonomic reference provides researchers with unparalleled breadth and depth of coverage of every field in animal biology, including biodiversity, taxonomy, veterinary sciences and wildlife management.
This comprehensive resource includes articles indexed from over 5,000 serials each year, plus non-journal coverage, with 75,000 new records annually, for a total of over 3.5 million records dating back to 1864. For years, Zoological Record has been the unofficial register of animal names, enabling users to determine the first appearance of an animal name in published literature, track changes in the classification and relationships of organisms, checking for new species descriptions, keep abreast of endangered species and their protection, and keep up with animal biology research. ZR indexing contains the 6,000-term ZR Thesaurus, with controlled terms arranged in hierarchies, and indexing of new organism names and changes to the names of organisms.

 

Analytical Tools
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Journal Citation Reports

The recognized authority for evaluating journals, with unique journal and category data. Journal Citation Reports on the Web offers a systematic, objective means to critically evaluate the world's leading journals. It is the only journal evaluation resource that provides statistical information based on citation data. By compiling articles' cited references - supplied by the publishing authors themselves - JCR Web helps to measure research influence and impact at the journal and category levels, and shows the relationships between citing and cited journals. Available in Science and Social Science editions.

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Essential Science Indicators

Don't just retrieve information - evaluate it!  Essential Science Indicators helps users identify key scientific findings, measure research performance, and track significant trends in science. It enables them to conduct systematic, objective analyses of international scientific literature because it puts all the resources users need in one place - with comprehensive data, easy-to-understand statistics, and valuable links to other resources.

 

Bibliographic Managemant

EndNote Web

This fully integrated bibliographic tool within ISI Web of Knowledge speeds the research, writing and publishing process. Users can easily access and organize references online, search ISI Web of Knowledge, PubMed® and hundreds of library OPACs directly, create bibliographies on the go with Cite While You Write™, share EndNote Web folders with colleagues, and easily transfer files to EndNote on the desktop for further management. Freely available to ISI Web of Knowledge users.

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EndNote

Millions of researchers, scholarly writers, students and librarians depend on this full featured desktop edition to make creating bibliographies easy and efficient. Users can create multiple libraries of unlimited size and manage images and PDF files along with references. EndNote can be used out of the box or customized easily.

Additional Thomson Reuters productivity solutions:

  • ProCite offers flexible search and management options that make this the right solution for managing detailed projects and special collections.
  • Reference Manager is the powerful bibliographic solution for workgroups, networks and collaborative projects.

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Dowloadable Factsheets

Did you know?
ISI Web of Knowledge
contains:
  • 23,000 journals
  • 23 million patents
  • 110,000 conference proceedings
  • 9,000 websites
  • 2 million chemical structures.


ISI Web of Knowledge
also contains:
  • Over 100 years of backfiles
  • 40 million cited references added annually
  • 700 million cited references
  • 256 subject categories in Science, Social Sciences, and Arts and Humanities


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