ISI Web of Knowledge’s New Look

The ISI Web of Knowledge database platform, which includes the Web of Science and Medline, has a new look with a totally new simplified interface.

The Web of Science’s three components (the Science Citation Index, Humanities Citation Index and Social Science Index) have merged together to form one consolidated scholarly multidisciplinary database. They no longer are individual databases that can be searched separately. You can do all the searches offered in the old interface including author, subject and the renowned cited reference searches. In addition, you can search Medline, the most comprehensive medical database, as an individual database or broaden your search to retrieve articles from other disciplines by searching it together with the ISI Web of Science.

The many enhancements on the search results page lead you to the most relevant results.  You can view results grouped together by subject areas, document types, authors, source titles, institutions, languages, and countries. Thus you get breadth of coverage, but can easily focus on the most pertinent results.

Hiding under the Additional Resources tab are some special resources:  Thomson Scientific WebPlus, ISI Highly Cited, Biology Browser, and Index to Organism Names.

The ISI Web of Knowledge offers many sophisticated research tools. You can analyze your results, create citation reports, set up email alerts, RSS feeds, and save searches. You can also access EndNote Web from the ISI Web of Knowledge.

So explore the new ISI Web of Knowledge and take advantage of all it has to offer.