Multidisciplinary Resources

• Web of Science - The definitive resource for literature research

  With Web of Science, researchers at your institution can find current and retrospective science, social sciences, and arts and humanities information from nearly 10,200 of the most prestigious, high impact research journals in the world. And through Century of Science, they can also access multidisciplinary scientific content back to 1900. Users can access this invaluable information quickly and effectively, using powerful search capabilities such as cited reference searching. They can also combine chemistry searches with general searches when they search two additional databases through Web of Science-- Index Chemicus (for new compounds) and Current Chemical Reactions (for novel reactions).

  Web of Science is:

  Science Citation Index Expanded to 1900
  Social Sciences Citation Index to 1956
  Arts & Humanities Citation Index to 1975
  Index Chemicus to 1993
  Current Chemical Reactions to 1985, plus INPI archives from 1840 to 1985
  Available via ISI Web of Knowledge
  Cross-searchable with all ISI Web of Knowledge content your institution subscribes to

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• Current Contents Connect
  Unparalleled coverage of current research literature. Updated daily, Current Contents Connect is the world's premier multidisciplinary current awareness resource. It provides easy access to complete tables of contents, abstracts, bibliographic information, and abstracts from the most recently published issues of the world's leading scholarly journals and books, and also enables users to access relevant, evaluated Web sites and documents. CC Connect offers cover-to-cover, expert indexing that provides accurate access to all the valuable information available in journals - not just articles.

• ISI Proceedings

  The fastest way to search proceedings literature.  ISI Proceedings helps researchers access the published literature from the most significant conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions worldwide, so they can track emerging ideas and new research beyond what is covered in journal literature. Approximately 70% of the information in ISI Proceedings is not covered in scientific journals, so this rich resource helps users  discover research ideas as they are first presented.

• Derwent Innovations Index

  Facilitates rapid, precise patent searching. Derwent Innovations Index merges the value-added patent information from Derwent World Patents Index  with the patent citation information from Derwent Patent Citation Index. This resource gives researchers a comprehensive overview of inventions in the global marketplace in all categories:  chemical, electrical, electronic, and mechanical engineering. Additional descriptive information and coding enables users to quickly grasp a patent's significance and its relationship to other patents. Users can conduct powerful patent and citation searches from their desktop, getting excellent search results without having to be an expert in patent searching.

• Biological Abstracts

An expansive index to the world's life sciences literature, covering over 4,000 journals from more than 100 countries. With 9.2 million records dating back to 1969, over 350,000 records added annually, and 90% of all records including an abstract, Biological Abstracts articles cover topics from every life sciences discipline. Biological Abstracts includes enhanced MesH disease terms across records, CAS registry numbers back to 1969, Sequence Databank Numbers updated and expanded, and the addition of Major Concepts controlled vocabulary back to 1969. Updated every two months.

• BIOSIS Previews

The comprehensive source for life sciences and biomedical research from journals, meetings, books and patents; indexes data with over 15.6 million records from 1969 to the present. BIOSIS Previews combines journal content from Biological Abstracts with supplemental, non-journal coverage from Biological Abstracts/RRM (Reports, Reviews, and Meetings). Updated weekly, records are added from nearly 6,000 life sciences journals and non-journal literature, (patents, books, book chapters, meetings) with 600,000 records added annually. Includes structure indexing, including taxonomic data and terms, enhanced MeSH disease terms across records, CAS registry numbers back to 1969, Sequence Databank Numbers, and Major Concepts controlled vocabulary back to 1969.

• CAB Abstracts

The most comprehensive source of international research information in agriculture, environment and all related applied science disciplines, CAB Abstracts is produced by CABI Publishing. This resource provides current, in-depth, coverage of global journal articles, academic books, abstracts, published theses, conference proceedings, bulletins, monographs and technical reports from over 140 countries in 50 languages. CAB Abstracts contains more than 4.9 million records dating back to 1973, with more than 200,000 records added each year, and is updated monthly. CAB Thesaurus, CABICODES and CAB Registry Numbers aid in specialized searches, and results retrieval and classification.

Now Available: CAB Abstracts Archive - with over 1,860,000 fully searchable and indexed records back to 1910.

• FSTA - Food Science & Technology Abstracts

The definitive food and beverage R&D database that provides thorough coverage of pure and applied research in food science, food technology, and food-related human nutrition; produced by IFIS Publishing. FSTA is the largest food science database currently available, providing concise, comprehensive summaries of food-related literature found in journals, books, conference proceedings, reports, theses, patents, standards, and legislation, with international content from over 90 countries and 40 languages, and over 705,000 records.

FSTA includes value-added abstracts written by specialist scientists and enhanced information content relevant to food science, as well as the FSTA Thesaurus, a collection of carefully chosen keywords related to the fields of food science, food technology, and food-related human nutrition.

• Inspec

Inspec is a comprehensive index to literature in physics, electrical/ electronic technology, computing, control engineering, and information technology, produced by the Institution of Electrical Engineers. Updated weekly, Inspec has more than 8.7 million records dating back to 1969. More than 350,000 records are added annually from over 3,500 scientific and technical journals, and 2,000 conference proceedings. Specialized search aids include controlled index terms from the Inspec Thesaurus, Inspec Classification codes, structured numerical data indexing, chemical substance controlled indexing, and astronomical object indexing.


Inspec Archive includes over 70 additional years of backfiles -  873,700 fully searchable and indexed records back to 1898.

• MEDLINE

The U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) premier bibliographic database indexes life sciences records from 1950 to the present in biomedicine and life sciences, bioengineering, public health, clinical care, and plant and animal science. With over 15 million references to journal articles in the life sciences from over 4,900 worldwide publications in 30 languages, this resource covers journals, newspapers, magazines, and newsletters. More than 571,000 complete records were added in 2004.

Through ISI Web of Knowledge, users can search MEDLINE with or without MesH terms, NLM's controlled vocabulary thesaurus; and search for chemical substances using standard chemical names or CAS registry numbers. They can also link to NCBI databases for genetic sequencing information, and from MEDLINE full records to PubMed Related Articles. Furthermore, ISI Web of Knowledge users can discover the most recent information by viewing MEDLINE In-Process records, recently added records that haven't yet been fully indexed.

• Zoological Record

The definitive animal biology resource and the world's leading taxonomic reference provides researchers with unparalleled breadth and depth of coverage of every field in animal biology, including biodiversity, taxonomy, veterinary sciences and wildlife management. Zoological Record covers all aspects of zoology, including resources not found elsewhere, and is the world's leading taxonomic reference.
This comprehensive resource includes articles indexed from over 5,000 serials each year, plus non-journal coverage, with 72,000 new records annually, for a total of over 1.8 million records dating back to 1978. For years, Zoological Record has been the unofficial register of animal names, enabling users to determine the first appearance of an animal name in published literature, track changes in the classification and relationships of organisms, checking for new species descriptions, keep abreast of endangered species and their protection, and keep up with animal biology research. ZR indexing contains the 6,000-term ZR Thesaurus, with controlled terms arranged in hierarchies, and indexing of new organism names and changes to the names of organisms.

• Journal Citation Reports

The recognized authority for evaluating journals, with unique journal and category data Journal Citation Reports on the Web offers a systematic, objective means to critically evaluate the world's leading journals. It is the only journal evaluation resource that provides statistical information based on citation data. By compiling articles' cited references - supplied by the publishing authors themselves - JCR Web helps to measure research influence and impact at the journal and category levels, and shows the relationships between citing and cited journals.

• Essential Science Indicators

Don't just retrieve information … evaluate it!  Essential Science Indicators helps users identify key scientific findings, measure research performance, and track significant trends in science. It enables them to conduct systematic, objective analyses of international scientific literature because it puts all the resources users need in one place - with comprehensive data, easy-to-understand statistics, and valuable links to other resources.

• The Analyze Tool

  Results analysis reveals hidden trends and patterns.  The Analyze Tool allows users to refine their searches by grouping results by author, publication year, institution, language, subject category, document type or source title, and more. These subsets of information, displayed in an easy-to-interpret graphic format, allow for easy identification of hidden trends and patterns within particular areas of research. Researchers gain insight into emerging fields of science and the leading researchers in these fields, and can trace the history of particular fields of study.

Bibliographic resources

• EndNote Web

EndNote Web is the Web-based organizer and writing solution fully integrated into the ISI Web of Knowledge platform.  This full-featured option will deliver a wide range of organizing, importing and formatting capabilities via the Web, plus enhanced capabilities using desktop plug-ins to browsers and word processors.  EndNote Web will help users easily build their personal reference collections by searching ISI Web of Knowledge, PubMed and hundreds of online library catalogs. Dynamic links to Times Cited and Related Records will give ISI Web of Knowledge users one-click access to the latest information on a reference article. And the popular Cite While You Write will help Microsoft Word users create bibliographies instantly.

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• EndNote

Millions of researchers, scholarly writers, students and librarians depend on this full featured desktop edition to make creating bibliographies easy and efficient. Users can create multiple libraries of unlimited size and manage images and PDF files along with references. EndNote can be used out of the box or customized easily.

Additional Thomson Scientific productivity solutions:

• ProCite offers flexible search and management options that make this the right solution for managing detailed projects and special collections.
• Reference Manager is the powerful bibliographic solution for workgroups, networks and collaborative projects.