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Web of Science: a Multidisciplinary Citation Database: Getting Started

Web of Science

Web of Science is the world's leading scholarly citation database that consists of various collections and citation indexes.

Coverage

  • Over 92 million records
  • More than 151,000 books
  • Over 308,000 conferences

Databases Covered

  • Science Citation Index Expanded
  • Social Sciences Citation Index
  • Arts & Humanities Citation Index
  • Emerging Sources Citation Index
  • Book Citation Index
  • Conference Proceedings Citation Index
  • Index Chemicus
  • Current Chemical Reactions
  • Preprint Citation Index

The database consists of highly scholarly and selective content with comprehensive indexing and in-dept citation and bibliographic data coverage. In addition to the Core Collections, the database also indexes proceedings of international conferences, colloquial, workshops, symposia and others. The Web of Science platform provides a unified search across the core indexes.  It is not a full-text database. However, you can search for full-text articles through the library web page or use the interlibrary loan service for whatever you cannot obtain through the library subscriptions.

Source: https://clarivate.libguides.com/librarianresources/coverage

 

 

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