Searching with Web of Science
Web of Science is a online database service that indexes journal articles from the fields of science, social sciences, and humanities. The information is indexed to allow you to search for specific articles by topic, author, or by author's address. In addition to this indexing the Web of Science also allows citation searching. Citation searching is when you can search for not only the original work, but for all of the works that used the original one as a source, otherwise known as a cited reference. This guide is intended to explain how to do a cited reference search. For a basic search please refer to the online help.
Web of Science is comprised of three separate citation indexes:
Science Citation Index Expanded - indexes 5700 major journals that cover 164 areas of discipline in the field of science. The index covers the time period of 1987 - present, is updated weekly and contains over 17,000,000 articles.
Social Science Citation Index - indexes 1725 journals that cover 50 areas of the field of social sciences. In addition to journal articles it also indexes letters, corrections, as well as proceedings and monographic series. The index covers the time period of 1987 - present.
Arts and Humanities Index - indexes 1100 journals in the fields of Arts and Humanities. It has a multidisciplinary focus and includes the areas of theatre, television, radio, art, film, folklore, dance, history, and language. Critical reviews of art exhibits, music scores, dance performances, theatre and poetry are available as well. The index covers the time period of 1987 - present, is updated weekly and contains over 2,000,000 records.
How to do a Cited Reference Search:
You will want to do a cited reference search when you already have identified an article on a particular topic and you wish to find out what other authors have used that article for their research. The information you will need before you start will be the citation or bibliographic information from your article, this includes: article title, author(s), journal title, volume number, issue number, pages, and publication date.
From the Cofrin Library's web site (http://www.uwgb.edu/library) click "Online Databases"
From the Online Databases page scroll through the alphabetical listing of databases, highlight Web of Science, and click the connect button.
To do a cited reference search you need to click
the Full Search button: 
At the Full Search Screen you will need to make few choices:
Choose the database you wish to search.
You can search one or all three at the same time. Click in the box
to the left of the database name. (Tip: if you have an article
that covers a scientific topic you probably do not want to search the
Arts and Humanities Index.)
Choose the date range. The default
is all years, but can search a single year, multiple years, or even the
most current week.
Choose the type of search you are going
to do. For a cited reference search you will click on the Cited
Ref Search button. 
The first step in doing a cited reference is to find your article in the database, this is called doing a Cited Reference Lookup and is requested from the Cited Reference Search screen. There are three separate fields on this screen in which you can enter the information about your article, but it is only required that you put information into one of them to retrieve results.
Cited Author: the cited author field
is where the name of the author from your article is entered. (Tip:
if the article was published since 1987 you can enter anyone of the authors
listed in the article, first, middle, or last, but it can only be one.
If it was published before 1987 you must enter the first author listed.) Enter the last name of the author (Tip: if the name is longer than
15 characters, truncate with an * after the 15th character.), followed
by a space and then enter the first and middle initials (Tip: up to
3 initials may be entered, but not complete names. The best search is
to enter only the first initial and follow it by the * to find all possible
references.). The example entered below shows the author David
C Dettman entered as Dettman DC*. (Tip: for author
names that contain non-alphanumeric characters or embedded spaces, search
with and without the variations to get all the possibilities. i.e. O'Brien
= o'brien or obrien.)
Cited Work: the cited work field
is where the name of the journal your article is from is entered.
(Tip: the journal name must be entered in abbreviated format.)
Using the journal title abbreviations list (Tip: to link to this click
the word list that is directly above the entry box.) enter the name
of the journal. The example below shows the Journal of Economic
Behavior & Organization entered as j econ behav organ (Tip:
it is advised that when searching a title that you truncate each word,
but you must enter a least 3 characters.) Multiple journal abbreviations
can be search at the same time by using the Boolean operator OR. (Tip: it is advised to search for various forms of the cited work.)
Cited Year: the cited year field
is where the date the article was published is entered. Enter the 4 digit
year of publication or a range of years using OR. (Tip: it is advised
to search for the years before and after the publication date to include
any possible variation, and that you only use this search field in combination
with one of the other two.) The example below is searching for a publication
from 1986, but it is entered to also include 1985 and 1987.
Enter information into at least one of the fields listed above and then
click the lookup button. 
The Cited Reference Search screen will
then appear listing the search results. The results shown here are all
of the items that matched the information you entered. If you have more
than one choose review the list and mark those that you feel best match your
article.
(Tip: Items that have been published since 1987 will be hyperlinked and will
display a full record, those published prior to 1987 will not be linked and
the information listed will be all the information available. Sometimes this
can also happen to articles published after 1987, when this occurs that indicates
that the article is not normally indexed by Web of Science, but it is listed
because it was in a bibliography of another work.)
Once all of the matching items have been marked, click the Search button 
.
The Cited Reference Search
Results--Summary screen will then appear. This screen displays
the citations to the items that matched your search request. The items
listed here will be articles or books that have used the article you search
on as a reference. In the example from above there were 2 hits for
the cited author and work. The results for those 2 hits are shown
below. (Tip: if any of the hits are from publications prior to
1987 they will not display on the results screen. This is due to the
fact that our subscription only goes back to 1987.)
Click on any of the linked titles to see more
detailed information about that particular source.
The Search Results - Full Record Screen should now be displayed. On this screen you will get information such
as, the complete citation (this includes: title of the article, a listing
of all the authors, name of the journal, volume number, issue number (if any),
pages, and date of publication), abstract (if available), document type, language,
cited references, times cited, address of the main author at time of publication,
publisher, and ISSN number.
The cited references link will display a list of all of the works that
this article used. The author/work you searched on should be in this list.
In the example from above that particular work used 27 references. For
an example of the cited references screen see below. (Tip:
all references will be listed, but only those publications since 1987 will
be linked to provide you with the full record information.)
The times cited link will display all of the works that have used this
article as a reference. In the example above this particular article has been
cited 1 time.
By clicking on the Related Records button 
the
Related Records Summary screen will display. This is a list of
articles whose cited reference lists include at least one of the sources cited
by the original (parent) article, whose title appears at the top of the screen. (Tip: Articles that share the largest number of sources with the original
article are listed first.)
Printing, Saving, Exporting, and E-Mailing Records:
As you are searching in Web
of Science you can Mark Records that you with to print, save,
export, or e-mail. Next to each record on the results screen there is
a small check box that you can click in to mark records or when viewing the
full record you can mark a record by clicking on the Mark button 
.
Once you have marked all of the records you want you can then click on the
Marked List button 
and all of the records you have marked will display. In addition to
this list you will also now have the options of printing, saving, exporting
or e-mailing the records.
Printing - Click on the Format for
Print button 
. A text only version of your records will appear and you can then click the
print button on your browser.
Saving - Click on the Save to File
button 
.
The "Save As" dialog box will appear allowing you to name your
file and save it in a text format (.txt). This file can then be opened
using any word processor.
Exporting - Click on the Export
button 
.
A dialog box will appear asking you how you wish to handle the file it is
going to download. You can use this function to export records directly
into a ProCite or Reference Manager database.
E-mailing - Click on the E-mail
button 
. The e-mail screen will appear where you can enter any valid e-mail address
and a note of up to 250 characters. (Tip: the note will help you identify
the e-mail when it appears in your account.) Then click the send
e-mail button.
How to know if the library owns a particular article:
You now have a list of articles that have cited your author or work and you would like to know if the Cofrin Library owns those articles. Web of Science does not indicate anywhere on the search results if the library owns a particular article, do to this you will need to search the Cofrin Library Catalog. The instructions below will take you through determining library holdings.
- Connect to the Cofrin
Library Catalog from the library's web site or directly at: http://cofrinweb.uwgb.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&PAGE=First.
- Click the "Subject/Title/Journal Title
Search" button.
- Click the radio button next to the words "Journal
Title." (Tip: to know if the library owns a particular article you
need to search on the title of the journal that the article was published
in.)
- In the search box enter the title of the journal.
(Tip: this is the title of the journal not the title of the article. Also do not enter any initial articles: the, a, or an if they are at the
beginning of a title, start with the second word instead.) For example,
to find out if the library owns the Journal of Economic Behavior and
Organization you can type it in just as shown.
- Three different results can happen when you
search for a journal title:
- The brief record is displayed. This page will give you the information regarding which volumes of the
journal the library owns, in what format, and where they are located. (See step 6 for further information about holdings.)
- A list of titles appears.
This usually happens when there is more than one item with a similar
title or when a journal title has changed names. Click on the
one that seems most appropriate. (Tip: if the journal has changed
names the one listed first will have the most current issues as it will
be the current title.)
- An error message will appear stating that "Your search resulted in no hits." First, make sure that you have spelled everything correctly and that you have not entered The, A, or An as the first word. If everything is correct then this message means that the Cofrin Library does not own issues of that particular journal title. At this point you will need to request this item through Interlibrary Loan. Please see a reference librarian for help with this if you have never submitted an ILL request.
- The brief record is displayed. This page will give you the information regarding which volumes of the
journal the library owns, in what format, and where they are located. (See step 6 for further information about holdings.)
Once you have located a brief record for the title you are looking for you will now need to look at the holdings information to determine if the library has the volume you need. Scroll down the record to the section that indicates location, recent issues, other issues, etc.
- Location - this will tell you where
in the library it is located. For journals they are found mostly
in the Periodical Area, which is located on the 4th floor of the library.
(Tip: a journal will be in paper unless the location indicates that
it is microfilm).
- Call number - the journals are
not given call numbers, but rather filed alphabetically by title. (Tip:
again do not use any initial articles when looking for a journal title
on the 4th floor.)
- Recent and Other Issues - this is where the volumes and dates that the library owns will be listed. Look at the volume and date ranges to determine if the one you need is listed. (Tip: we can own a journal title, but still not own the particular volume that you are looking for.)
(Tip: there can be more than one holdings
note for a journal title, so be sure that you look at the entire record.)
Logging Off
The library's subscription to Web
of Science is limited to only two users at any one time, so we ask
that when you are finished that you click the Logoff button 
. This will free up a port for the next user.
(Tip: Web of Science
will automatically log you off if you leave it inactive for more than 15 minutes.)
Getting Further Help:
Online help is available from Web
of Science while searching by clicking on the Help button 
,
which is located on the top and bottom of every screen. Web
of Science online help is screen specific, this means that if you
are on the related records screen you will be given help for that screen.
For the full help contents click on the help button at any point and then
click the help contents button that appears.
Contact a Reference Librarian. As always the reference librarians at the Cofrin Library are available to help with any of your research needs. You may contact them at: (920)465-2303 or by email at: refdesk@uwgb.edu.