COMPLETING THE RESEARCH PICTURE: ADDING BOOKS TO WEB OF SCIENCE SM August 2011
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COMPLETING THERESEARCH PICTURE:ADDING BOOKS TO WEB OF SCIENCESM
August 2011
COMPLETING THE RESEARCH PICTURE: ADDING BOOKS TO WEB OF SCIENCE SM
Scholarly communicationtakes many forms, the diversityof these forms ever increasing within that vast resource weknow as “the web”.
However, whether the physical medium is print or electronic, primary authoritative dissemination of written scholarly works is still driven by conference proceedings, journals, and books.
COMPLETING THE RESEARCH PICTURE: ADDING BOOKS TO WEB OF SCIENCE
While books are not often associated with “timely” dissemination of information, scholarly books typically provide an overall comprehensive analysis of a topic.
Thorough background information, historical context, and discussion of related topics are all characteristics of the scholarly book.
Simply put, books commonly provide a broader, deeper, more-well rounded treatment of a topic than journals and other forms of scholarly communication.
For this reason books will continue to hold an extremely important place within the immense, diverse universe that is scholarly literature.
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While we recognize the importance of books as intellectual resources, they are in turn importantto the career ambitions of academicians.
In many fields of study the publication of a bookis viewed as essential for promotion and tenure, particularly in the humanities.
Scholarly books, in more ways than one,are integral to the world of higher learning.
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As we see with journal articles, the influence of individual scholarly books may vary dramatically.
However, we are all familiar with landmark works of research and scholarship that have been produced in book form.
Examples over the course of the past century span a range of disciplines – History, Psychology, Sociology, Economics, Physics, Education…
These works are highly cited within journal and conference proceedings literature.
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Cited by over 3,300 articles within
Web of Science, the
English version alone.
Cited by over 2,300 articles within Web of
Science
Cited by over 4, 700 articles
within Web of Science
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http://wokinfo.com/products_tools/multidisciplinary/bookcitationindex/
As with everything Thomson Reuters does with content, quality is extremely important.
All books will be reviewedby our Editorial staff.
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• Science and Social Science and Humanities-- coverage includes publications back to 2005
• Content will be comprised of scholarly books, both electronic and print, that present fully referenced articles of original research, or reviews of the literature.o Both multi-authored and single-authoredo Series and non-serieso Encyclopedias, Reference Books generally not included,
though graduate level texts may be considered.
• Full indexing of Books and individually-authored Book Chapters.o Capture of all fundamental bibliographic
information as well as author cited references.
The Book Citation Index, within Web of Science
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Commercial, Society, University press participation --
Our Acquisitions efforts are still in full stride and havebeen under way for some time.
•We first approached Commercial publishers, such as Wiley-Blackwell and Springer, given the sheer volume of material which they produce along with our solid, longstanding relationships with this group.
•Society and University presses followed, and these groups are particularly important to our Social Science and Arts & Humanities coverage.
Links to full text from the Book Citation Index is a priorityas well, as it is for all Web of Science content.
•We will of course employ primary mechanisms suchas the DOI and OpenUrl. Links from OPAC systems as well.
•We are also in conversations with e-bookaggregators to establish direct links to collections.
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Commercial and Society presses agreeing to contribute, so far --
American Geophysical Union
American Society for Microbiology
Annual Reviews
Brill
CABI
Cold Spring Harbor Press
CRC Press
CSIRO Publishers
De Gruyter
East-West Center
Edward Elgar
Emerald Publishing
European Respiratory Society
Mary Ann Liebert
ME Sharpe
Palgrave Macmillan
Pan-Stanford
Psychology Press
Routledge
Royal Society of Chemistry
SIAM
Springer
Wageningen
Wiley-Blackwell
World Scientific Publishing
Geological Society UK
Geological Society US
Hoover Institute
IFP Energies nouvelles
IGI Global
Intellect Ltd
IOS Press
John Benjamins
Karger
Maney Publishing
Martin Woodhead/Chandos
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University presses agreeing to contribute, so far --
Athabasca University
Australia National University Press
Cambridge University Press
Edinburgh University Press
Fordham University
Gallaudet University Press
McGill-Queen’s University Press
MIT Press
Monash University Press
Nottingham University Press
Princeton University Press
Purdue University Press
University of Adelaide Press
University of Alaska
University of British Columbia Press
University of Colorado
University of Minnesota Press
University of North Carolina
University of Pennsylvania Press
University of California Press
Utah State University Press
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
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Subject area coverage as of 8/29/2011 –
SUBJECT AREA COVERAGE
Agriculture/Biology 5%
Social & Behavioral Sciences 40%
Clinical Medicine 6%
Life Sciences 6%
Physics/Chemistry 12%
Engineering/Computing/Technology 13%
Arts & Humanities 18%
To Date:
Social Sciences + Arts & Humanities 58%
Natural Sciences 42%
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• Target Coverage at Launch – 25,000 books
By Jan 1, 2012 --- target 28,000+ books
• 10,000 new books added each year
• Reciprocal links to/from book records and book chapters
Target Launch – Mid-October 2011
The Book Citation Index, within Web of Science
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WEB OF SCIENCEBook Citation Index
The influence of scholarlybooks is clear, as is their integration with journal and proceedings literature.
We will bring these resources together in Web of Knowledge, with introduction of the Book Citation Index into Web of Science later this year.
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Journals
WEB OF SCIENCE Book Citation Index
Conference
Book
Results Summary
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All Author Cited Sources are captured and displayed, with
links to citing articles.
Full Record-- Single-Authored BookA hub for direct links to additional related information.
A highly cited report. Not indexed in Web of Science, yet its record of citation is displayed along with
links to all citing articles.
A conference proceedings paperindexed in Web of Science.
A journal article indexedin Web of Science.
WEB OF SCIENCE Book Citation Index
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Times Cited =citing articles.In this display,all cites to thisbook are from
journal articles.
WEB OF SCIENCE Book Citation Index
Full Record -- Single-Authored BookA hub for direct links to
additional related information.
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One may also Refine by Book
Series title.
WEB OF SCIENCE Book Citation Index
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WEB OF SCIENCE Book Citation Index
Full Record -- Book Chapter, from a multi-authored Book in Series.
Both the Authors of this Chapter and the Volume (Source) Editors are presented.
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From this record for a book chapter, we can easily navigate to the record for the entire volume of the series…
WEB OF SCIENCE Book Citation Index
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From this record for a book chapter, we can easily navigate to the record for the entire volume of the series… and then display all chapters within this volume, with linksto each.
WEB OF SCIENCE Book Citation Index
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Perform a Citation Report on the Chapters of a multi-authoredbook to view combined citation influence and trend of citation forthis volume.
WEB OF SCIENCE Book Citation Index
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Times Cited
Related RecordsAuthor Cited References
Authoritative, integrated Journal, Conference,
and Book content.
2003 2007
2011
2008
1965 1998
2010
1930
2008
19381984
1972
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