Monday, September 10, 2007

New Version of ISI Web of Science Available

Thomson ISI has released a new version of the Web of Science literature citation database. It can be accessed on campus through the existing Web of Science web site -- once in Web of Science click the button reading "Access the New Version" at the top of the page. Note that at present the new version is only available on campus; for off-campus use, you'll need to continue to use the old/current version.

The changes to the interface are not profound, mostly cosmetic. Linking to citing and cited papers is essentially unchanged. One can search within a set of existing results, and the analyses one can perform on a set of search results are more straightforward -- so one can ask, e.g., "for a given set of results on a topic, which authors wrote the most of these papers?"

As always, feel free to address any questions or problems using this tool to my attention!