Web of Science has arrived to JEFFERSON
The ISI Web of Science citation database - Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI) for 2001 is now available via JEFFLINE from the database page. SCI is the only comprehensive basic science index in the library and provides access to current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references found in 5,700 English and foreign language journals in more than 150 disciplines. Users can also search the CD-ROMs of SCI from 1986 to 2001 and also have access to the entire collection of print indexes from 1955-1988. The staff at the reference desk will help users how to use the SCI for 2001 (web), the CD-ROMs and print indexes.
Users can also request a mediated search in Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) from the reference staff. SSCI provides multidisciplinary, international coverage of "significant" items from approximately 1,500 social science journals and monographs. It also covers social science articles from approximately 3,000 journals in the natural, physical and biomedical sciences. SSCI is updated weekly and can be searched from 1972 to the present.
What is a citation Index?
A citation index is a compilation of all the cited references from journal articles published during a particular year or group of years. In a citation index, you look up a reference to a work that you know to find journal articles that have cited it. Cited reference searching is an effective method to determine whether anyone has published subsequent work to support or refute a publication.
Overview of Indexes
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Citation Indexes
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Journal Coverage
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Back-Year
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Science Citation Index Expanded
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Over 5,700 scientific and technical journals in more than 150 disciplines
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2001-Web
1986-2001-CD-ROMs
1955-1988-Print indexes
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Social Sciences Citation Index
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Over 1,500 social sciences journals; also individually selected items from over 3,000 science and technical journals
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1972 to present-mediated search only
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Advantages & Capabilities of SCI and SSCI
- Discover who is citing your research and how it is being used to support current research. Indexes both footnotes and bibliographies of each paper.
- Track the research activities of colleagues.
- Follow the history of an idea or a method from its first communication to the present day.
- Find relevant articles on topics or subjects that are difficult to express with a few keywords.
- Conduct multidisciplinary searches to discover hidden subject relationships.
- Uncover the early-unpublished stages of research activity.
- Create a list of experts within a field of research.
- Can be used like any bibliographic database to identify work currently being done in the physical and biomedical sciences.
- Abstracts are available.
- SCI 2001 will show the total number of times an article has been cited over the years, whether or not it has been cited in 2001. Researchers who are compiling grant requests and tenure documents can do one-stop shopping using the web version.
Features of SCI 2001
Cited Reference searching
The SCI index offers links between cited references and full bibliographic records. Each full bibliographic record has a CITED REFERENCES and a TIMES CITED link.
Clicking CITED REFERENCES provides a list of items cited by the author(s) when they wrote their papers.
TIMES CITED provides a list of citing papers and shows the number of times that the paper was cited.
Related Records Searching
This feature links and displays any records within each database that share at least one identical cited reference or footnote in common. This feature is valuable because it uncovers items that researchers would not necessarily find using traditional search techniques.
KeyWords Plus
Created using key words drawn from an articleÕs cited references or footnotes, this feature provides supplementary search terms or access points for users.
Minimum Requirements
- Users will need a JEFFLINE username and password to access the indexes
- Access to Internet with Netscape 4.0 or higher or Microsoft IE 4.0 or higher
- Monitor Resolution of 640x480
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