Thomson Reuters

Name of service
Web of Science including ISI Journal Citation Reports

Licence agreed
Country-wide for all academic, research and educational libraries within participating countries.

Service type
Online Citation Database.

Content
The Web of Science provides seamless access to current and retrospective multidisciplinary information from approximately 8,500 of the most prestigious, high impact research journals in the world. it also offers access to ISI Journal Citation Reports.

ISI Web of Knowledge offers a comprehensive, fully integrated platform that empowers researchers and accelerates discovery. Web of Science also provides a unique search method, cited reference searching. With it, users can navigate forward, backward, and through the literature, searching all disciplines and time spans to uncover all the information relevant to their research.  ISI Journal Citation Reports® presents quantifiable statistical data that provides a systematic, objective way to evaluate the world's leading journals and their impact and influence in the global research community.

Access to the Science Citation Expanded®, Social Sciences Citation Index®, Arts & Humanities Citation Index®. Full description available from www.isinet.com/products/citation/wos/

Subject strengths
Natural sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities

Service strengths

• Navigate backward in time using cited references to uncover the research that influenced an author's work.
• Navigate forward in time using Times Cited to discover the impact a paper or other published item has had on current research.
• Link to the full text of primary literature.
• Export records directly to leading bibliographic management programmes: EndNote®, Reference Manager® and ProCite®.
• Industry-leading evaluation and analysis tools.
• Email alerting service.
• Discover who is citing your research and the impact your work is having on the global research community.
• Uncover the seminal research of an important theory or concept.
• Measure the influence of colleagues' or competitors' work.
• Follow the path and direction of today's hottest ideas and concepts.
• Determine if a theory has been confirmed, changed or improved.
• Find out how a basic concept is being applied.
• Track a topic through years of research literature.
• Verify the accuracy of references.
• Locate relevant articles missed through a topic or subject search

Registration
Each institution is required to register to use Web of Science.  If you have not used this resource before you may need to check if your institution is registered and identify the contact person who has your access details. To do this, please go to the INASP registration database and select your country and institution.

Access information
Access by IP address recognition with username and password access for remote users.

Licencing agreements
Country coordinators sign a Coordinating Site License Agreement (Download coordinators agreement) on behalf of all institutions in the country. Before an institution will be given access, the ISI Participating Member Site License must be downloaded (Download member licence), completed and faxed back to +1 215-387-1125.

URL to general publisher site
www.thomson.com/solutions/scientific/academic/

Help from the publisher
Contact ts.support.emea@thomson.com 

For further information
Please contact your country coordinator - their details can be found on your country page.

More information for librarians
For more information, including promotional packs and registration details, go to the Librarian’s information page.