Not Just for Scientists—ISI Web of Science!
By Virginia M. Tanji,
Electronic Collections Committee, UH Manoa Library

Do you need to know who has been citing your work? Are you preparing your dossier for tenure and or promotion? Or completing an application for a merit raise? Or perhaps you are preparing a grant and need to review key research in an area?

UH Manoa, through a subscription from Hamilton Library, has access to ISI Web of Science®, the Institute of Science’s premier portal to the Science Citation Index Expanded—5,700 journals, the Social Science Citation Index with more than 1,735 titles, and the Arts and Humanities Citation Index covering more than 1,140 journals.

ISI Web of Science provides you with access to the bibliographic information within these journals with unique linking capabilities and several search options. You can search for your topic, papers that you have written, papers published by a company or university and papers that have cited your work or the work of others.

What this means is that you can check to see if others have cited one of your publications in one of the journals indexed by ISI. The master list can be found at http://isi5.isiknowledge.com/portal.cgi/wos. There are also lists by subject areas if you are interested in which journals in your field are indexed by this powerful database.

Another way to use the "cited reference search" capability is to look up the author and citation of a seminal article in your area of research to see who is currently citing that author and particular paper or the author in general.

Go to Hamilton Library’s Web site for access to this database. If you are searching from an off-campus computer or non-UH IP address, please be sure to choose the remote link for access to the database and be prepared to type in your campus ID barcode, which has been validated at Hamilton or Sinclair Libraries.

If you need assistance with your search, please contact the librarians at Hamilton Library at (808) 956-8263 or the School of Medicine Library Resource Center at (808) 956-8666.

Please be aware that the university has access to the database from 1997 to the present only, and that ISI does not index all scholarly, peer-reviewed journals.

This expensive database has been made available at UH Manoa though special funding from the Office of the Interim Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Studies with special thanks to Edward Laws.