September 2000
Newsletter #35
 

Faculty Essential to Successful Storage Project

Dick Ross Leaves Library

Gelardin New Media Center
Center Funded

Reserve Changes to Improve Service

Library Open 24 Hours, 5 Days a Week

60 CD-ROMs Available from Faculty Offices

Improved Access to Databases Off-Campus

Much More Than a Web of Science

E-Books Arrive with NetLibrary

Tax Questions Answered

New Old Books

Contributors

Much More than a Web of Science

The Web of Science includes far more than its title might initially suggest, as it makes available both the Science Citation Index Expanded and the Social Sciences Citation Index. The Web of Science is now accessible campus-wide to Georgetown faculty, students, and staff. Web of Science allows researchers to begin with a known, relevant article or paper and find more recent articles that cited the original article entered. Articles may also be searched by author, title, or keyword. With Web of Science, these two multidisciplinary databases can be searched independently or simultaneously. Web of Science is updated weekly, with coverage available back to 1995. Additional backfiles will be purchased over the next several years.

Web of Science Journal Coverage

Web of Science Features and Benefits

Using the Web of Science researchers can:

• navigate forward and backward in time through the research literature;
• discover key papers by ranking search results according to "times cited";
• locate all cited authors, not just first authors, for articles indexed in the citation databases;
• track "times cited" information for articles on a weekly basis through automatic updates; and
• through the Related Records function, find an unlimited number of relevant items sharing one or more cited references.