THOMSON SCIENTIFIC
Thomson Scientific
Web of Knowledge
September 29, 2005
ICOLC Conference
AGENDA
 Web of Knowledge Advantages
 Innovation
 Consortia Relationships
 Questions
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Overview
The Web of Knowledge remains the premier integrated information solution
for scholarly discovery and quality information
Web of
Knowledge
Advantages
• WoK is the only solution that combines quality, depth, diversity and enhanced functionality
• Thomson combines premium content with smart discovery
• Exceeds user expectations: For the last 3 years –nearly 90% of our customers rate their satisfaction
as high to very high
• WOK Usage continues rapid growth
Innovation
&
• Web of Knowledge innovations are informed by close collaboration with our customers
• Resulting in ongoing, user-defined, iterative development
Results
Compared
with Others
• Web of Knowledge quality, tools and power is unmatched and unavailable elsewhere
• Preferred solution for consortia worldwide
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Web of Knowledge Advantages
The Web of Knowledge will continue to be the simplest and most powerful
scholarly research solution, providing an integrated environment…*
High Quality
Multidisciplinary
Powerful Search
Scholarly Content
Intuitive
Analysis Tools
*“The Web of Science demonstrates the ideal
combination of power of use and ease of use.”
--Peter Jaczo, ONLINE, November 2004
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The Web of Knowledge Platform
The Web of Knowledge is anchored by Thomson Scientific premium core content,
complemented by carefully selected partner content, and supported by powerful tools
ISI Web of Knowledge
Selected Partner Content:
Thomson Scientific
Premium Content
•INSPEC
•PsycINFO
•CAB Abstracts
Bibliographic Resources:
Journal Literature:
•Food Science & Technology
Abstracts
•Web of Science (SCI, SSCI,
AHCI)
•Current Contents Connect
•BIOSIS
•Zoological Record
Patents:
•Derwent Innovations Index
Conferences/Proceedings:
•ISI Proceedings
•MEDLINE
Bibliographic Tools
• EndNote
• Reference Manager
• ProCite
• RefViz
Analytic Resources
• Journal Citation Reports
• Essential Science Indicators
• Custom Research Services
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Web of Knowledge Advantages
High Quality Multidisciplinary Scholarly Content
Web of Science is the core of Web of Knowledge
Quality
Extremely thorough, detailed
journal evaluation and selection
processes for every journal.
Depth
Sciences – to 1900,
A Century of Science
Social Sciences – to 1956
Arts & Humanities – to 1975
Unique Data
Selection, Cover-to-Cover
Indexing, Diversity, Depth,
Author Cited References for over
100 years.
Diversity
Coverage of the Sciences, Social
Sciences, and Arts & Humanitiesover 250 disciplines
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Web of Knowledge Advantages
High Quality Multidisciplinary Scholarly Content
The Web of Science - the Trusted Resource for revealing the World’s Scholarly Archive
Leading STM
Publisher Archives
Springer, Wiley, Elsevier, etc
Not for Profit, Scholarly
and Academic Press
Publications
Open Archives,
Open Access
Journals
Full Text Aggregators
JSTOR, Highwire, etc
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Web of Knowledge Advantages
The Web of Knowledge platform has broad coverage and deep backfiles
Journals
Technical
& Serials
Reports
Web of Science
BIOSIS Previews
Inspec
Derwent Innovations Index
PsycINFO
ISI Proceedings
Conference
Proceedings
Dissertations
Books
ALL DISCIPLINES -- Science, Social Science, Arts & Humanities
Life Sciences
Physics, Electr Eng, Computing
12 Million+ Inventions – Chem-Biochem, Engineering, Electronics
Psychology & Psychiatry
ALL DISCIPLINES -- Science, Social Science, Arts & Humanities
Zoological Record
Zoology – Taxonomy, Biodiversity
CAB Abstracts
Agriculture & Applied Life Sciences
Food Science
& Technology Abstr
MEDLINE
Patents
Food Science & Technology
Clinical Medicine
1900
1969
1898
1966
1880
1990
1970
1910
1969
1950
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Web of Knowledge Advantages
High Quality Multidisciplinary Scholarly Content
Web of Knowledge is the only solution that ensures quality results across disciplines
Web of Knowledge Usage 2003-2005
140,000,000
120,000,000
100,000,000
80,000,000
60,000,000
40,000,000
20,000,000
0
Web of Knowledge
Sessions
Web of Science Queries
Web of Knowledge
Queries (excl. WoS)
2003
2004
2005
Projected
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Web of Knowledge Advantages
Powerful Search
Smart Discovery: The Web of Knowledge combines ease of use with unparalleled search power
• Premium Content is critical, but content alone is not enough to drive
discovery in today’s digital environment
• The strength of the ISI Web of Knowledge lies not only with the information it
contains, but quite simply with the way it works
– A common, easy-to-use interface modeled on the Web of Science is extended to all
bibliographic databases.
– Yet, for our Partners, the unique controlled-indexing strengths of each database is maintained.
Ease of Use + Search Power = Smart Discovery
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Web of Knowledge Advantages
Powerful Search
Consistent Indexing Empowers
Unique Search Features in Web of Science
• Only Resource that Fully Utilizes ALL the Key Citation Relationships!
– Cited Reference
– Citing Reference
– Co-Citation
• Most Current, Deepest, and Most Consistent Navigation
• Valuable Cited Reference Search For Full Citation Tracking
• Citation-based Related Records Reveal Research Pathways
• Integrated Citation Pathways for Richer Discovery
– Across Databases: e.g. BIOSIS Times Cited to Web of Science
– Article Citation to Journal Impact: Web of Science to Journal Citation Reports
– Institutional Impact to Article Citation: Essential Science Indicators to Web of Science
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Web of Knowledge Advantages
Powerful Search
Superior ease of use for both Information professionals and researchers
For the information professional…
For the researcher…
• Advanced search capabilities
• Familiar & intuitive interface
• Best-in-class cited reference searching
• Backward and forward citation navigation
across 105 years of scholarship
across 105 years of content
• Single user interface across multiple
essential research databases
• Quick search
• One-click search and linking
• Custom links, OpenURL, XML Gateway
• Refine within result set
• Comprehensive usage reports
• Simultaneous searches across all databases
with consolidated result sets
• Dedicated support and account
• Powerful and dependable research tools
management staff
• Customized training
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Web of Knowledge Advantages
Intuitive Analysis Tools
The Web of Knowledge toolkit allows users to analyze, assess, measure, and publish
Current Web of Knowledge Research Toolkit
Standard Tools
Analyze
Other Available Tools
Personalization
Bibliographic
Management
Onfolio
Alerting
Additional Tools in
Development
RefViz
Chemical Structure,
Patent
Additional Task-based Tools for Authors (In Development):
• Intuitive integration with Bibliographic Managers
• Publication List Management
• Enhanced Author Search
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Web of Knowledge Advantages
Intuitive Analysis Tools
Analyze tool reveals research
trends.
Einstein’s 1935 paper is being
cited more frequently today
than at any time in its 70 year
history
At research institutions
throughout the World
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Web of Knowledge Advantages
Bibliographic Management Tools
ResearchSoft software suite supports the entire research cycle
• EndNote®, Reference Manager® and ProCite®:
Literature
Search
Manage references and producing bibliographies
• WriteNote®: Web-based bibliography tool
• SciPROOFTM—Unique proofing tool checks MS Office
documents for correct scientific and chemical notation
Publication
& Report
Experiment &
Data Collection
and more
• RefVizTM: Text analysis and visualization software that
reveals trends and associations in references
Research
& Analysis
• OnfolioTM:New Web information manager to read RSS
feeds, collect and organize online content and publish
to e-mail, blogs and Web sites
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Web of Knowledge Advantages
Authoritative Tools
Unique Metrics and Indicators fully integrated in to ISI Web of Knowledge
based on citation relationships designed for: administrators, information
professionals, and publishing authors
ESI – Essential Science
Indicators
JCR – Journal Citation
Reports
Which researchers are in the top 1% in agricultural
research?
What is the impact factor of this journal?
How does my institution compare with XX Univ?
What are the hot journals in Chemistry?
What are the hot papers in chemistry?
What are the top 5 journals in immunology
based on impact factor?
Is my paper in the top 10% of articles published in
1995 in cell biology?
How is XXX publishers journals trending based
on impact in the last 5 yeas?
What are the newly emerging disciplines in Clinical
Medicine?
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Web of Knowledge Advantages
Customized Services
Web of Knowledge includes powerful customized services
Customer Need:
Web of Knowledge Solutions:
• Supporting Federated Search
– XML Gateway
Customized Integration
– OpenURL inbound/outbound
• Comprehensive resource linking service
• Custom Analytic reports and Datasets offered by our skilled team of
Custom Research
Customer Support
expert bibliometricians –
• Customer Advocate group
• COUNTER-Compliant Usage Reporting
Institutional Research Management
• “360o Journal Use” Project
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Innovation
User-Integrated Development
Thomson Scientific takes customer feedback seriously
• Focus on the User:
– Incorporates the user (researcher or information professional) in every development and
design decision
• Multiple Touch Points Ensure Global Customer Satisfaction:
– Strategic Advisory Board of information scientists, library administrators, and researchers
– Ongoing review programs with major customers / consortia
– “Feedback loops” in context of Web of Science use
– User Panels: In-depth quarterly reviews with dozens of researchers from around the world,
working with and commenting on proposed developments
– Pilot Projects: 5-10 institutions “partner” with TS for a particular development initiative
– On-Site usage studies and user integration in every development decision
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Innovation
Recent and Upcoming Enhancements
Q1 2005
• Current Contents
Connect Enhanced
• MEDLINE
Q2 2005
Q3 2005
Upcoming
(In Plans)
• JCR Web 4.0
• Publication year
search and sort
• Enhanced Author
Search
• Redesigned cited
reference lookup
pages
• RSS Alerts
• INSPEC archive
• Century of Science
• Sort entire result set
by Times Cited
• Full text links from
summary page
• Enhanced set
combination results
• Search within results
set
• User selectable
number of records
per page
• One click search from
full record and
controlled vocabulary
• Full journal title on cited
reference look-up
• Open Access links
• Export, email, print,
and save from
summary list and full
record
• Set combinations
and reference sets in
CrossSearch
• Improved crossproduct navigation
• Publication list
management
• 360o Journal Use
Reports
• Web Citation Index
• EndNote/Web of
Knowledge seamless
integration
• Enhanced ESI
• Analyze by country /
territory
• Set combination in
query
• Links entitlement report
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Web of Knowledge is Unmatched
Unmatched Elsewhere
No other resource offers the level of selectivity and editorial quality found
within Web of Science journal content
Unavailable Elsewhere
Access to such a diverse, deep, influential collection with navigable cited
reference links across 105+ years
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Consortia Relationships
Web of Knowledge is the only premium solution
You Have a Choice
Suggested Consortia Evaluation Criteria
Breadth and Depth of Coverage
Integration with other database content
Quality and Completeness
Enhanced Tools
Citation Searching
Power and Ease of Interface
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Consortia Relationships
Web of Knowledge
From the Reviewers Standpoint
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Peter’s Digital Reference Shelf
“ What makes Web of Knowledge stand out from the crowd is the synergy though the most powerful system of cited references that
links millions of scholarly papers ..”
“Searching for cited and citing references may be too involved for many potential users, depending on software issues. The
enhanced software of WOS shows that the process can be made easy and instantly rewarding”
•
Charleston Advisor -
“ For a citation index , it is of particular importance that the longest chronological scope possible be available”
“ Most graduate students and faculty, will have considerable experience with WOS before arriving at their subsequent university, and
will expect to find it and have its full capabilities present
•
D Lib Magazine ….
“ it is important for all researchers to note that until Google gives a full account of that it is indexing and how oftern that index is
updated, it cannot be considered a true scholarly resource
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Consortia Relationships
Web of Knowledge
Web of Knowledge For Consortia
• Close to 90 % of our customers buy our databases through consortia
• We partner with over 200 consortia world wide – over 70 in Europe, the Middle
East and Africa
• The average business relationships with key consortia have been in place for
over a decade
• The average consortia has acquired back to 1975 – 40% have back to 1945
• 70% of our consortia agreements are for 3-5 years at significantly reduced
renewal increases
• We provide individual customers with a choice of database resources to leverage
consortia purchasing power across the entire Web of Knowledge solution
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Consortia Relationships
Web of Knowledge
Web of Knowledge For Consortia
• Consistency Case : BIOSIS integration case ( pricing and access )
• Innovation Case - Tiered Pricing ( one of the first vendors )
• Responsiveness Case - Unlimited access
• Partnership Case - FECYT ( regional consortia to national)
• Partnership Case - JISC ( central to individual funded )
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Web of Knowledge Advantages
What Our Customers Say
The Web of Knowledge is preferred by novice and expert researchers worldwide
“I love the sheer power of the search capabilities”
Student, Brazil
“By far my favorite tool for doing a literature review.”
Medical Student, USA
“I ordinarily use Web of Science and,
“Easy to use and a wide choice of journals,”
to my opinion, this is the one of the
Information Specialist, The Netherlands
best databases in the world.”
Researcher, Czech Republic
“Other tools have no such relevance as ISI, and
“The ability to mark the articles
they cannot provide the graph of the search
and return to a list of them is amazing.”
results. That's why I like ISI so much.”
Educator, Japan
Student, China
“It's absolutely essential for all my research awareness
today. Not only do I know the active areas of research,
using ISI Web of Science, I also know who are the expert
scientists in the field and I also get their contact
addresses. This is excellent for me!”
Neurobiologist, Sweden
“It provides up-to-date
information in very convenient
fashion. I like the categories,
and find it easy to use.”
Information Specialist, UK
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Conclusion
The Web of Knowledge remains the premier integrated information solution
for scholarly discovery and quality information
Web of
Knowledge
Advantages
• WoK is the only solution that combines quality, depth, diversity and enhanced functionality
• Thomson combines premium content with smart discovery
• Exceeds user expectations: For the last 3 years –nearly 90% of our customers rate their satisfaction
as high to very high
• WOK Usage continues rapid growth
Innovation
&
• Web of Knowledge innovations are informed by close collaboration with our customers
• Resulting in ongoing, user-defined, iterative development
Results
Compared
with Others
• Web of Knowledge quality, tools and power is unmatched and unavailable elsewhere
• Preferred solution for consortia worldwide
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AGENDA
 Web of Knowledge Advantages
 Innovation
 Consortia Relationships
 Questions
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