Title: Citation Indexes to Integrated Information Resources and Beyond:
1Citation Indexes to Integrated Information
Resources and Beyond Navigating Scholarly
Information to Accelerate Discovery
John A. Adams Senior Manager, Product
Development ISI October 3, 2001
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3The Vision Cited references scholarly discovery
- Dr. Eugene Garfield 1955 article in Science
- Cited references more than acknowledgements, but
links to discover hidden conceptual
relationships - Cited reference searching no specialised
vocabulary (the reference is the search term) - Citation analysis concepts
- Bibliographic coupling (M.M. Kessler),
- Co-citation clustering (E. Garfield, H. Small),
- Citation rankings, Impact factors
4From print to the ISI Web of Science
- Print Online Magnetic Tape CD-ROM
- Web finally, the right technology
- ISI Web of Science (Introduced in 1997)
- Citation indexes through a Web interface
- Traditional Bibliographic Boolean Searching
- Citation Searching
- Citation Navigation (Cited References, Times
Cited) - Back files (SCIE - 1945) (SSCI - 1956) (AHCI -
1975) - Average Back File subscription is 17 Years
- Aggressive feature development (upcoming Version
5.0)
5Additional Products
- Retrospective Products
- Derwent Innovation IndexSM
- ISI ProceedingsSM
- Specialized Content Products
- ISI ChemistrySM
- BIOSIS Previews
- Current Awareness Products
- Current Contents Connect
- Evaluation / Analytical Products
- Journal Citation Report on the Web
- ISI Essential Science IndicatorsSM
6Introduce the ISI Web of KnowledgeSM platform
- Link bibliographic records to the full text
- Link similar records between various products for
value add data - Links features between products
- ISI Web of KnowledgeSM platform (2001)
- All ISI resources in a single, Web-based
environment for navigating quickly and easily
through research-oriented/ scholarly information,
anytime, from the desktop
7ISI Web of Knowledge platform Phase I (2001)
- Content
- Evaluated, multidisciplinary
- Diverse (journals, proceedings, patents, chemical
compounds and reactions, Web sites and Web
documents) - Enhanced by complementary, subject-specific
coverage - Tools
- Searching, browsing, alerting, linking, exporting
- New Technologies
- MuscatDiscoveryTM an advanced indexing and
retrieval technology from SmartLogicTM Group, PLC - ISI Links Gateway for centralised links management
8Muscat Query Engine
- Traditional ISI engines Boolean (exact match
systems) - Modular infrastructure allows quick
implementation - New MuscatDiscovery query engine
- Probabilistic model (close match system)
- Searching both structured and unstructured data
- Relevance, weighting of terms supports Boolean
- Two applications
- Automatic searching of full-text of Web
documents - Cross-content searching
9ISI eSearchSM full-text search of Web documents
- Integrates journal article retrieval with Web
document retrieval without disrupting the search
process - Takes Boolean search terms and translates to
2-part query (selection, then weighting) - Automatically retrieves evaluated Web documents
from Current Web Contents
10ISI eSearch
11ISI CrossSearch cross-content searching
- Concept searching of different journals,
proceedings, patents from a single interface,
with consolidated results - Dynamic Boolean Form searching, based on users
selections - De-duplicated summary list with multi-product
access - Single-sessioning across resources
- This is the first phase of the ISI Web of
Knowledge of platform
12ISI CrossSearch cross-content searching
13The ISI Links Gateway
- Linking Questions
- Who is the user? Where does the user want to go?
What is the appropriate copy/ instance? - Past product-by-product duplication of
authentication, access, and routing - Current central server for all links management
- Intra- and inter-content links
- Customer archives (OPACs)
- SFX context-sensitive reference links
- Links to publisher full-text
14RoboLinks hybrid linking system
- No Dead Links policy
- Direct electronic feeds from publishers
stability - Algorithmic (optimistic) links
- Other algorithmic links try to create a link on
demand - ISI RoboLinks pre-verifies the link
- Provides stability while allowing expansion
- 2,500 full-text titles and counting
15ISI Web of Knowledge
16ISI Web of Knowledge platform Future
- Introduce a Portal environment
- Expanding content sources to complementary,
subject-specific resources through new
partnerships - CAB Abstracts (agriculture)
- INSPEC (engineering)
- Extending all tools across all content in the
platform - Expansion of full-text links and SFX-enabling
- Continued development of features in individual
resources (advanced set-searching in WoS)
17Thank you!
John A. Adams Senior Manager, Product
Development , ISI john.adams_at_isinet.com ISI Web
site http//www.isinet.com