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About Web of Science Core Collection

Web of Science Core Collection is the world's leading citation database. It contains records of articles from the highest impact journals worldwide—including open access journals— conference proceedings and books. Coverage of some titles dates back to 1900.

For a complete list of journals covered by Web of Science Core Collection, consult the Master Journal List.

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New Features and Announcements

Open Access

Open access status is provided across the Web of Science platform as a result of a partnership with ImpactStory, a not-for-profit organization that recently launched oaDOI, a knowledgebase of Open Access (OA) content. This knowledgebase makes it possible to discover and link to legal Gold (journal level), Hybrid Gold (open content in an otherwise paywalled journal), and Green (author self-archived) OA content. This partnership improves discoverability and access to article-level OA content by not only adding more links to OA content, but also by prioritizing the links to the best version of OA content when multiple versions of an article are available.

The OA status of a document can be one of the following:.

  • Gold: A freely accessible final version of an article. Consult the copyright owner for any re-use or licensing requests. Articles are located at a publisher website in one of the following:
    • A journal that publishes only open access articles.
    • A journal that allows individual authors to pay an article-processing charge for their research to be open access in an otherwise subscription-based journal.
    • A journal that allows archival content to be open access after a period of time. 
  • Green: A freely accessible version of an article located in a subject-based repository such as PubMed Central or in an institutional repository. This version of the article may vary from a peer-reviewed accepted manuscript to the final published version based on the journal’s policies. Because the accepted manuscript may vary from the final published version, they are labelled distinctly as Green Accepted and Green Published respectively.
  • No: Only subscribers may access the full-text of the article.

A key advantage of the partnership with oaDOI is the ability to prioritize the open access links so the user sees the version of record at the publisher’s site first, followed by the final version at a repository, and then the accepted manuscript at the repository last. Only one open access link is provided.

Users may refine search results to identify these open access articles to ensure they can read the articles regardless of their library’s holdings.

These values are also available for export as part of the full record.

Early Access

Early Access will be introduced for articles in the Web of Science Core Collection, starting in December, 2017. This doctype indicates an article that has been electronically published by a journal before it has been assigned to a specific volume and issue. These articles are also known as "articles in press" or "publish ahead of print" depending on the publisher's branding..

These articles provide earlier discoverability, and are fully indexed, including a new online publication date from the publisher. These articles accrue Time Cited counts in this earlier stage of publication so the most complete view of the article's impact is preserved. Full Web of Science functionality, including alerts and export to output, is also offered.

Daily Alerts

For your saved search history within the Web of Science Core Collection, you can now specify that search results can trigger a daily alert, in addition to the other alert frequencies.

Sort and Filter

Commonly used filters have been made more accessible. Additionally, with the addition of Open Access and Early Access information, searches and search results can now be filtered by these values.  

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The Web of Science Platform

Citation Indexes

  • Web of Science Core Collection
  • BIOSIS Citation Index
  • Chinese Science Citation DatabaseSM
  • Data Citation Index
  • Russian Science Citation Index
  • SciELO Citation Index

Product Databases

  • Biological Abstracts 
  • BIOSIS Previews
  • Current Contents Connect
  • CABI: CAB Abstracts and Global Health®
  • FSTA® - the food science resource help
  • Inspec®
  • KJD-Korean Journal Database
  • MEDLINE®
  • Zoological Records

Derwent Innovations Index

You can view records in the Derwent Innovations Index from within the new platform and user interface but this particular product runs on its own search engine.

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Coverage in the Web of Science Core Collection

Science, Social Science, Arts & Humanities Coverage

  • Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED) --1900-present Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)

  • Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) --1900-present Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI)

  • Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI) --1975-present Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Science (CPCI-S)

  • Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) -- 2015-present

Conference Coverage

  • Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Science (CPCI-S) --1990-present

  • Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Social Science & Humanities (CPCI-SSH) --1990-present

Book Coverage

  • Book Citation Index– Science (BKCI-S) --2005-present

  • Book Citation Index– Social Sciences & Humanities (BKCI-SSH) --2005-present

Chemistry Coverage

  • Current Chemical Reactions (CCR-EXPANDED) --1985-present

    Includes Institut National de la Propriete Industrielle structure data back to 1840

  • Index Chemicus (IC) --1993-present

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System Requirements

The following versions were fully tested in the latest version of the Web of Science platform.

Windows® Operating Systems & Browsers

  • Windows XP (Basic Support)
  • Windows 7 (Recommended)
  • Internet Explorer 8 (Basic Support)
  • Internet Explorer 11 (Recommended)
  • Firefox 38
  • Chrome 43.

Macintosh® Operating Systems & Browsers

  • Mac OS X10.9 (Recommended)
  • Safari 7
  • Firefox 38

Clarivate Analytics does not support beta versions Web browsers.

Note for Windows XP Users of Internet Explorer 8

Please download the KB2416400 patch (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=11262) if you receive the error “HTML Parsing Error: Unable to modify the parent container element before the child element is closed (KB927917).”

About Internet Explorer 11

Internet Explorer 11 only works with Windows 7 and Windows 8. For best search results, we recommend that you use a combination of Internet Explorer 11 and Windows 7.

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JavaScript Requirements

JavaScript is a scripting language that makes Web pages interactive. JavaScript must be enabled in your Web browser in order for Web of Science to work properly.

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System-Related Issues

This section covers system-related issues and how you can fix those issues.

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Problems with Viewing Chemical Structures in Firefox

When using Firefox, you may sometimes see a blank chemical structure image appear on the following pages.

  • Compound Results
  • Compound Details
  • Reaction Results
  • Reaction Details

To fix this problem, press the F5 key to refresh the page in order to view the chemical structure.

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These and other product names mentioned herein are registered trademarks of their respective owners.

The Web of Science platform identifies Open Access status at the journal level from a number of sources including metadata provided directly by publishers and the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). Metadata from DOAJ is used under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC-BY-SA) license.

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Journal Coverage Changes in Web of Science Core Collection

The list of Journal Coverage Changes shows:

  • Title changes
  • Title updates
  • Reactivations
  • Dropped titles

The list is automatically updated each month and represents a rolling 12-month list of journal title changes.

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Global Customer Support

If you have questions about our products, contact our Global Customer Support Center. Technical support representatives can answer questions about the data, as well as questions about appropriate search and retrieval techniques. Questions about network connections and/or the use of your Web browser should be directed to your network administrator.