Web of Knowledge – recent enhancements

The new release, which went live on 27 January, includes a number of new features. Watch a short video or view full information on all the new upgrade features. Key enhancements include:

• More descriptive error messages when no results are found, when too many results are found, and when searching is in progress.
• Larger click-able targets in refine panel and full record.
• Improved Institutional Registry Searching – institutional name variants automatically searched.
• Easier navigation easier via touch pad (on laptop) or touch screen (on tablet such as iPad).
• ResearcherID – now allows proxy claiming of ResearcherID – manage your academic reputation more easily by delegating to a proxy.
• Expanded the UK/US synonym dictionary.
• Left Hand Truncation will be supported in Topic, Title, UID and ID codes fields.
• Search for a cited article or book title in a Cited Reference Search.
• No more stopwords on phrases such as “Vitamin A”
• Support for proximity operator NEAR/x
• The 100,000 record limit has been eliminated so users can now conduct more accurate analysis when refining and analyzing results.
• Mark and export cited references from an article’s bibliography.
• Create a Marked List from across any of the all Web of Knowledge databases – with accessible, database-specific Marked List subsets.

Online presentation of these and all recent enhancements at:
https://www.brainshark.com/thomsonscientific/WoS_org_enhanced