Year: 2014

If you are looking at an article record in Web of Science, you’ll now see a link that is labeled “Look up full-text” and has the Google Scholar icon in front of it:

 

That link is just to the right of a blue button that says “Full Text” (clicking the latter sends you to our Find It service, aka SFX). Here’s a screenshot of an article record that shows the placement of the new Google Scholar link:

 

What’s even more useful and interesting about this partnership between Google Scholar and Web of Science is that if you are on campus (or you are off campus but have authenticated yourself via the proxy server), you will now see in Google Scholar citation counts from Web of Science. Here is a screenshot of an article in Google Scholar that shows the Web of Science citation counts:

 

If you click that Web of Science link in a Google Scholar record, you’ll be taken into Web of Science and show the list of articles that cite the one you found in Google Scholar.

All of this magic works effortlessly on campus. If you are off campus, you’ll first need to be logged into our proxy server. While having the Google Scholar link in Web of Science is interesting, it’s far more likely that the Web of Science citation counts and links in the Google Scholar interface will be of use to our students and faculty.

I do wish that Web of Science had thought of a better label in their interface to Google Scholar; it’s confusing in Web of Science to have the “Full Text” link to our SFX service right next to a link to Google Scholar that’s labeled “Look up full-text” (which is really what the “Full Text” does).