Web of Science is a multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts, covering the literature of the sciences, social sciences and the arts & humanities. Users may choose to search across all the databases, or select just one. This unique database indexes and links cited references for each article. All formats provide complete bibliographic data and additional features, such as cited reference searching, links to related articles, plus author and publisher addresses.
Features
- Cited Reference Searching -- You can search the citation data (the footnotes of each article), taking a known relevant paper and finding other, more recent, papers that cite it. You can locate all cited authors, not just first authors, for articles in the database.
- Related Records -- You can find records that share one or more cited references, yielding additional relevant results.
Web of Science contains 3 separate databases:
- Science Citation Index Expanded (
1945-present)
SCI-EXPANDED is a multidisciplinary database with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the sciences. It indexes more than 5 800 journals in 164 scientific disciplines. Includes cited references and cited references to patents. Over 18,000 new articles are added each week.
- Social Sciences Citation Index (1956-present)
SSCI covers 4700 of the world's leading social science journals, either comprehensively or selectively, plus a limited number of monographic series. Documents indexed include articles, proceedings, editorials, letters, meeting reports and book reviews.
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-present)
A&HCI covers 1300 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, plus a selection of related social science journals. Documents indexed include articles, bibliographies, editorials, letters and reviews.
- Coverage: varies, 1945-present
- Copyright: Institute for Scientific Information (ISI)
- Updated: Weekly
- Interface: Web
- Access: Authenticated by IP address
