Web of Science®                                                                                                        

The Web of Science provides seamless access to information from the world’s most influential, highly-utilized scholarly literature across a broad range of topics which covers more than 12200 of the most prestigious, high impact research journals in the world going back to 1898.  

Web of Science also provides a unique search method called cited reference searching. With it, users can navigate forward, backward, and through the literature, searching all disciplines and time spans to uncover all the information relevant to their research. Users can also navigate to electronic full-text journal articles. There are 3 databases available for access in Sciences, Social Sciences, and Arts & Humanities.    

With Web of Science one can:

Science Citation Index Expanded – 1999-present

Social Science Citation Index  - 1999-present

Arts & Humanities Citation Index – 1999-present  

With Web of Science one can:

Conduct comprehensive literature search

Track development of ideas and research topic

Identify the global impact of important articles

Find potential collaborators with significant research output

Manage collected references effectively and enjoy writing

More information:

http://science.thomsonreuters.com/products/wos/

http://scientific.thomsonreuters.com/training/wos/#overview

http://scientific.thomsonreuters.com/ts/media/scpdf/webofscienceqrc.pdf