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Web of Science Compiled by Jen Eidelman E-mail: [email protected] Telephone: 021 650 2773 A brief overview: Search Refine Sort Export to bibliographic manager Analyse results Save Create your personal account Sign in Save Searches – Re-run searches Create Alerts / Citation alerts

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Web of ScienceCompiled by Jen Eidelman

E-mail: [email protected]: 021 650 2773

A brief overview:

• Search

• Refine

• Sort

• Export to bibliographic manager

• Analyse results

• Save

• Create your personal account

• Sign in

• Save Searches – Re-run searches

• Create Alerts / Citation alerts

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Database searching - Web of Science

From the dropdown menu you can choose ‘All Databases’ to search across all the databases.

If you search in the ‘Web of Science Core Collection’ you will be able to create search alerts & RSS feeds.

Alerts are not enabled when you search in ‘All Databases’.

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Database searching - Web of Science

Change drop down menu to topic

Change timespan to limit your search to specific years

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Refine results of search here

Choose how to sort the results of your search

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Analyseresults of search here

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Rank results by various fieldse.g. by Research Area

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Web of Science

The SFX button will tell you if the full text of the article is available or not.

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The full text is available from 3 databases e.g. Wiley Online

Click on the Link

Web of Science - SFX

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Click on Get PDF to get the full text.

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Hover your mouse at the bottom of the page to see all the icons. Click on the save icon to save the article to your computer

Web of Science – Save the article

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Tick the box.Export the information (bibliographic details) to RefWorks

Web of Science - Export to RefWorksOrganise your work and create a reference list in

RefWorks

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Web of Science – Export to RefWorks

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Login to RefWorksOrganise your work and create a reference list in RefWorks

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The information (bibliographic detail) is imported to RefWorks

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Web of ScienceSign in to create a personal account

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• Click on the ‘Search History’ tab• And then click on ‘Save History / Create Alert’

Keep up to dateSave Searches / Create Alerts

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• Give your search a name

• Click ‘Save’

Keep up to dateSave Searches / Create Alerts

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Web of ScienceFind Saved Searches

and Alerts

• Click on ‘My Tools’ • Click on ‘Saved Searches and Alerts’ to

see all your saved searches

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“A useful way to follow the development of a specific line of research, is to identify key authors or key documents in the field and then keep track of any new documents that cite those authors or documents. To do this manually would be fairly time-consuming, however it is possible to set up citation alerts in certain databases.”

Please see the library guide:Keeping up to date in Science & Engineering

http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/sci-tech-uptodate/citation-alerts