News and tips by and for staff providing reference services at the Newman Library, Baruch College (New York, NY).
Clarivate recently added a new database to the Web of Science interface. The Preprint Citation Index helps you find articles that haven’t been formally published yet but are available on preprint servers and see who has been citing them already.
A direct link to the Preprint Citation Index can now be found on the A-Z databases page on the “O-P” tab. For more info from Clarivate about this new database, see this February 3 announcement.
In many (but not all) records for journal articles in OneSearch, you’ll find one or more red arrow icons that let you run a new search to find either records for the sources cited in that article or records for sources that have cited the article you’ve found. This ability to navigate in either direction along the chain of citations is similar to what you can do in Web of Science or in Google Scholar. While this feature will aid in the discovery of related items, if you’re looking for an authoritative and more comprehensive source of citation data, Web of Science is the place to go.
In the brief record display that you see in search results pages, some records will feature none of the icons, some will fill feature one of the icons, and others will have both. Here is a screenshot showing two records in the search results where one record has one icon and the other has both:
If you mouse over the icons, you’ll see tool tips that explain what each icon does:
If you click through to the full record for journal article record, at the bottom of the page, you’ll see the icons repeated along with explanation of what each one does:
This page of documentation in the Ex Libris Knowledge Base explains where the citation data comes from and which citations are actually visible when you run searches using the citation trail icons:
Primo currently matches the metadata provided by CrossRef with the records in PC (Primo Central) to build the citation trails. Only records that belong to the collections that your institution has activated in PC will appear in the lists.
Louise and I were wondering if Harvard Business Review is indexed in Web of Science. It turns out it is.
If you run a search for all articles in it in Web of Science, it yields close to 16,000 records. If you click the “View Journal Information” link in an article record, you’ll get this snapshot of HBR:
We now have access to four new databases, all of which use the Web of Science interface. There are now separate listings for each of these on the A-Z databases list:
We have recently expanded our subscription to Web of Science so that additional content with citation counts will show up in search results:
For more info:
We have also added additional databases that can be searched in using the same interface; I’ll detail those in a separate blog post.
Another tip from Rita: records for Harvard Business Review case studies (or things that look like they might be records for them) are turning up in confusing places. We’ve all known for a long time that the only way students or faculty can get full text access to Harvard Business Review case studies is to buy them directly from the publisher. But our students will often see things in our databases that look like they might give access. Here are some examples that Rita recently alerted me to.
Article Records That Are About a Case Study
Here is an example of an article record in Web of Science (that can also be found in OneSearch) has a title that can easily lead some users to think that it contains the full text. Note that it includes a “Find It @ CUNY” button. If the user were to click that, they’d get a window suggesting that full text is not available but that the item could be requested via ILL, which in fact would not be possible.
This situation is not unlike those articles that turn up in Factiva announcing the publication of some marketing report that leads users to think we must have access to it somewhere.
Records in Business Source Complete for Case Studies
Until today, I didn’t know that EBSCO has indexed all of the Harvard Business School case studies. If you go to this publications listing for “Harvard Business School Cases” in Business Source Complete, you can browse all the records that are included. Here’s a sample record for one of these indexed case studies:
Note that this record, too, also features a “Find It @ CUNY” button. Clicking that button will also lead you to a window that mistakenly gives the impression that the item can be ILLed.
What To Do
When users ask about the case studies, there’s not much more we can do than steer them to the publisher’s website to purchase them. We’ll bring these issues up with EBSCO and Ex Libris to see if there’s something to be done about the way link resolvers display for HBR case studies, as this special content breaks the usual patterns and rules we have about ILL, full text access, etc.
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).
Web of Science has finally updated its interface, something that has been long in coming. Here are the most notable changes:
More details can be found on this blog post from Thomson Reuters.
Mike Waldman’s email message today about the upcoming change to the way EBSCOhost databases will show search results (a move from reverse date sorting to relevancy ranking) made me wonder which databases we have that show search results by date as the default and which ones sort by relevance by default. If there are some that sort by date by default, it is possible that Mike can change the settings to relevance.
Here’s a quick roundup of database sorting defaults. Please note that I haven’t included every database we have; just some of the big ones or the ones that use the same platform for access to multiple databases.
Sort by Date by Default
Sort by Relevance by Default
Should we make any changes to these default settings? Please post your comments here.