About: Web of Science

Web of Science  
Description: WEB OF SCIENCE is the Web interface to the citation databases from the Institute of Scientific Information.
Online coverage is from 1978 onward.
Databases include:
Science Citation Index Expanded® covers 5,600 journals (more titles than the print version) and is updated with 16,000 new records every week.
Social Sciences Citation Index® covers 1,700 journals and is updated with 4,500 new records every week.
Arts & Humanities Citation Index® covers 1,100 journals and is updated with 2,200 new records every week.
Notes: Data extracted from the Web of Science should give the following attribution to ISI®: "The above data are extracted from the Science Citation Index Expanded®, Social Sciences Citation Index® and Arts & Humanities Citation Index® Databases of the Institute for Scientific Information®, Inc., ISI®, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, Copyright© 2000.
Access: BU-px
Search Tips: Web of Science features a citation index.  Information about searching this index can be found here.
Tutorial about using and understanding Web of Science: http://scientific.thomson.com/tutorials/wos7/

List of Databases

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