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Web of Science contains more than 32 million records from 8000+ journals in all disciplines. Web of Science is composed of three subfiles:
- Science Citation Index.
A multidisciplinary index to the literature of science and technology, providing access by cited author, cited publication reference, journal title, and author institution, and topic (keyword in title or abstract), among other searchable fields. A valuable resource tool for researchers wishing to trace the impact an article has on the field.
Updated weekly, with approximately 19,000 new records and 423,000 cited references added each week. From January 1991, English-language author-supplied abstracts are also available for keyword searching.
- Social Sciences Citation Index
A multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the social sciences. It fully indexes more than 1,725 journals across 50 social sciences disciplines, and it indexes individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals.
Updated weekly, with 2,900 new recirds and approximately 60,000 new cited references added each week. As of January 1992, contains searchable, full-length, English-language author abstracts for approximately 60% of the articles in the index.
- Arts and Humanities Citation Index
a multidisciplinary index covering the journal literature ofthe arts and humanities. It fully covers 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, and it indexes individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals.
Updated weekly, 2,300 new records and approximately 15,250 new cited references are added each week. As of January 2000, the Arts & Humanities Index contains searchable, full-length, English-language author abstracts (as available) for the new articles entered into the index.
AHCI also includes unique implicit citations that refer you to actual representations of a book, a work of art, or a music score. Contains title enhancements added to ambiguous or hard-to-categorize article titles to clarify article contents.
By setting up a Web of Knowledge registered user account, searchers can receive periodic updates of new research in their field and save searches to be re-run periodically. |
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