Find relevant information with the Web of Science (WOS)

The Web of Science (WOS) is a product of the Web of Knowledge offered by the Information Scientific Institute of the Canadian Thomson Reuters group. It enables you to search for information relevant to your work, from a combination of six international, multidisciplinary databases, including thousands of journals dating back to 1900, as well as conference proceedings and book reviews dating back to 1945.

The added value and originality of the Web of Science lies not only in the bibliometric indicators it has been offering for several decades, and which have made it so successful, but also, as a corollary, in the anteriority of the data on which these same indicators are built.

WOS is a paying product. Access to this resource therefore depends on a subscription to which your institution has subscribed. Within the framework of this subscription, access conditions can be remote or local. WOS also offers :

• weekly updates ;

• the addition of Book Series Titles since 2011;

• some forty languages, with English predominating.

The aim of this fact sheet is to familiarize you with the search modules and functionalities of the Web of Science database, and to help you build a step-by-step process that will make your search efficient in terms of time saving and relevance of results.

• What are the prerequisites for WOS research?

• How to limit keyword imprecision?

• How can I refine the results?

• How do I set up a platform watch?

• How do you transfer bibliographic references from your corpus to the EndNote Web bibliographic reference software?

• How do you decipher the notices on your references?

• Why create a profile on the base?