Web of Science® Notices

Web of Science® version 7.0 has a new interface with an easy-to-read font and a more intuitive layout. In addition, many user-requested enhancements have been introduced to improve functionality and ease of use. These new features and functionalities will soon be incorporated into other ISI Web of KnowledgeSM products.

Upgrade News (July 2004)

·  New Interface and Features

·  What Happened to Easy Search?

·  System-Related Issues

·  Browser-Related Issues

New Interface and Features

·  You can now access up to 100,000 records for any individual search. To aid with this, each item is numbered and the page navigation is enhanced.

·  The number of items returned by a search is now displayed top of the summary page.

·  The search depth and edition control feature is now on the Welcome page as well as each search page for easier access.

·  A Quick topic search has been included on the Welcome page allowing fast access to results.

·  Using the My Settings feature in ISI Web of Knowledge, you can save your edition and depth selections.

·  You can perform a search for articles by a Group (Corporate) Author.

·  Search aids with search and navigation features provide access to field indexes.

·  If available at your institution, an OpenURL link button (e.g., 1CATE, SFX, etc.) is displayed for each item on a summary page.

·  You can now mark a range of items (XX to YYY) on the summary list. To aid you in keeping track of the marked list the number of items, the list is displayed on the summary and full record pages.

·  You can now create citation alerts to keep track of the citation record of selected articles.

·  Author e-mail addresses have been added to the full record and to export fields.

·  Your institution can configure the Holdings button to look up the holdings in multiple libraries.

·  Items in the Related Records list now show the number of Shared References, thereby indicating the degree of relatedness.

·  On the Advanced Search page, you can formulate a search for address subfields such as institution, city, country, and postal/zip.

·  The Cited Reference Search pages have been formatted for easier use, and a Select All feature has been added to select a large number of reference variants at one time.

·  The Search History is more obvious and accessible to the user, and the Combine Sets function has been greatly simplified.

A New Tool - Analyze

·  Analyze enables you to refine a search by drilling down to only the items of interest.

·  Analyze allows you to mine useful knowledge from the search results without having to print and read them. Gain insights into hidden trends and patterns, find out who is the most prolific author on a topic, which institutions have published the most in a field, or what is the publication trend for a topic.

·  Analyze by Author, Document Type, Institution, Language, Publication Year, Source Title, and Subject Category.

·  Analyze is available from any summary page (search results, citing articles, Related Records).

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What Happened to Easy Search?

Easy Search functionality has been integrated into the main interface. All searches previously done in Easy Search can now be done in the same number of steps--or fewer.

To do an Easy Search for Topic:

  1. On the Web of Science welcome page, enter the topic search in the Quick Search box.
  2. Click Go.

To do an Easy Search for Person as cited author:

  1. On the Web of Science welcome page, click Cited Reference Search.
  2. Enter the name of the cited author in the Cited Author box (or select the name from the cited author index).
  3. Click Search.
  4. Review the cited references retrieved from the cited reference index to make sure they point to publications by the author in question. This is an essential step. In previous versions of Web of Science, many users of Easy Search did not realize that they retrieved articles which cited the work of different authors who happened to share the same name.
  5. If you are satisfied that all of the retrieved references point to the work of the author in question, click Select All. Alternatively, select the relevant references.
  6. Click Finish Search.

If you used Easy Search to keep track of citations to the work of a particular author, use the new Citation Alert feature:

  1. On the Web of Science welcome page, click General Search.
  2. Enter the name of the author in the Author field. Enter additional terms in the Topic and/or Address fields to refine the search.
  3. From the summary page of results, click the title of each article to display the full record.
  4. Click Create Citation Alert.

You will automatically receive via e-mail records of new articles that cite each item for which you have created an alert. With citation alerts, there is no need to actively perform the same search periodically just to keep track of citations to a particular article.

On the ISI Web of Knowledge homepage, click the link View My Cited Articles List to display all the items that have citation alerts and their citation counts to date. Click the Times Cited number for each item to view the citing articles.

To do an Easy Search for Person as author:

  1. On the Web of Science welcome page, click General Search.
  2. Enter the name of the author in the Author field.
  3. Click Search.

To do an Easy Search for Person as subject:

  1. On the Web of Science welcome page, click General Search.
  2. Enter the name of the author in the Topic field.
  3. Click Search.

To do an Easy Search for Place:

  1. On the Web of Science welcome page, click General Search.
  2. Enter the name of the place in the Address field.
  3. Click Search.

System-Related Issues

Combining Large Sets

If a set referenced in a set combination search contains more than 100,000 records (10,000 in a chemistry structure search), indicated by a > symbol, then the search will use only the first 100,000 records.

Internal Wildcard in General Search and Cited Author Search

If a user performs a General Search (of primary or secondary authors) or a Cited Author search (of secondary authors) for the period 1965-1974, and the search term contains an internal asterisk (*), then the author names will be retrieved if the wildcard represents only one character (not where it represents no characters or more than one character).

Retrieval of Truncated Secondary Authors

A truncated secondary author from a pre-1965 reference cannot be retrieved when using more than an eight-character version of the name. Users must search the eight-character version of the secondary author to retrieve the reference.

Related Records

When viewing Related Records for an item with more than 60 cited references, the resulting Related Records - Summary page may not be sorted in an exact order by the number of shared references.

Analyze and EZProxy

Users who access Web of Science via EZProxy may see an error message or incomplete results if the analyze process takes more than a minute.

OpenURL (SFX, 1Cate, LinkFinderPlus) Window

For articles that have either a single quote (') or a double quote (") in the title:

For Internet Explorer (IE) 6.0: If you click the OpenURL link on either the Summary page or in the Full Record, IE will not open the OpenURL site in a separate window. Use the Back button to return to Web of Science.

For Netscape 7.1: If you click the OpenURL link on either the Summary page or in the Full Record, right-click and then select either Open Link in New Window or Open Link in New Tab.

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Browser-Related Issues

If you use a Macintosh and your Web browser is Safari 1.0, you will not see an error message if you perform a search that provokes a timeout. If you have wait more than three minutes for search results, return to the Search page and refine your query.

Because of the large number of Safari releases, we have been unable to test them all extensively. Other issues may arise with this browser.

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