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Easy To Search!

“Quick Search”

General, Cited Reference, Chemical Structure,

and Advanced Search options

Databases and
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Easy To Search!

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The General Search is
designed to be simplistic
enough for virtually
anyone to begin to use
with little-to-no training.
 Topic
 Author
 Group Author
 Source Title (Journal Title)
 Address
The Web of Science 7.0 Full Record
contains a wealth of information

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 The Web of Science
Full Record also provides
pathways to related articles.

Cited References – The author’s sources.

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Times Cited – Papers that have cited this paper. Connect Table-of-Contents
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Related Records – Link to papers that reference Journal Citation Reports
the same sources as this particular paper. They
are Related through co-citation.
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For Related Records, Web of Science 7.0
presents the number of references
shared by related papers – a proven
method for gauging relevance.

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 Should a record seem especially relevant, Web
of Science 7.0 allows the user to quickly and
Easily create a Citation Alert – receive an e-
mail alert containing information on published
papers that reference a particular paper you’ve
selected.

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Citation Alert!
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paper in other subscribed Web
of Knowledge databases.
Integration & Navigation, take
advantage of these features.

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 Link to the full-text
within e-journals to
which your institution
subscribes.

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 For Subscribers to Index Chemicus
and Current Chemical Reactions
files, options to search via -
Chemical Structure
Compound Data
Reaction Data
 For Index Chemicus or
Current Chemical Reactions subscribers,
articles with chemical structure data are noted
with a “structure symbol”.
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subscribers, the full record also includes a graphical
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Compound summaries and details.

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 Cited Reference Search
To be truly comprehensive in your search
efforts, the Cited Reference Search is
essential in that it can retrieve information
often missed through use of Key-words alone.

Identify an Author or Paper that is very

relevant to your search topic.
 Identify an Author or Paper that is very
relevant
Works to your
for Cited search
Authors topic.
are identified.
The “Finish Search” option will retrieve
papers that have referenced the work or
works we have selected.

As little information as an author

name is sufficient to initiate a
Cited Reference Search.
The Cited Reference Search –
Easy to Perform, and Extremely
Valuable for Comprehensive Searching.
 Advanced Search option
is available for those
comfortable with
“command line” style
search queries.

Search History presents a

simple “Combine Sets”
option for fine-tuning results.
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maintains a list ofit
as an alert
queries is extremely
and results for thesimple.
session,
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Open Saved options.
desired History options.

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 At the end of the search
session, there are a number
of options presented for
handling of Marked Records.
Scan results and Mark those
of relevance individually on
the Summary list, or through
a convenient “Mark” feature.
 There are a number of
options presented for
handling Marked Records.
Results Web of Science
Analysis Tool7.0

Recognize trends and

access subsets of Authors,
Institutions, Timeframes, etc.,
associated with important
research.
 From just a single record
within the Web of Science,
2004
expand your search by simply
following the links designed 2003
to drive discovery.
Times 2003
Cited

2004
Cited
References

2001
Related
Records
2000
1998

2004

1993 2002
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1999

… moving Backward in time via Cited References, 1994

Forward in time via Times Cited,
and through Related Records.
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Web of Science 7.0

via the
Web of Knowledge 3.0 Platform
Access to the World’s Most Important
Published Research