This document provides instructions for using various features of the Web of Knowledge database, including registering an account, saving searches, creating search and citation alerts, and using the citation map tool. It notes that the interface is expected to be redesigned in January 2014 and free webinars are available to preview the changes.

1. Web of Knowledge
(Web of Science / Biological Abstracts)
Search and citation alerts
&
Citation maps
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2. Changes Coming!
Many of these screen shots will be out-of-date
soon. Web of Science is re-designing their
interface, and the changes are expected to take
effect in January 2014.
Free webinars are available to see a preview at:
http://wokinfo.com/redesignpreview. This includes
a recorded session. Attendees of live sessions will
be given access to a preview database after the
session.
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3. Register an Account
with Web of Knowledge
To take advantage of Web of
Knowledge’s personalization functions,
you will need to have an account. To
sign in, or to create a new account,
select Sign In at the top.
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4. Register an Account
with Web of Knowledge
To create an account, select Register,
otherwise, sign in.
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5. Register an Account
with Web of Knowledge
Customize your account settings.
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6. Saved Searches
Favorite searches can be saved so that
they’re easily repeated in the future.
After performing a search, select
Search History.
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7. Saved Searches
All of the searches you’ve performed during this
session with Web of Knowledge will appear. You
may delete some of the unsuccessful searches if
you like, before saving.
To save the searches, select Save History.
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8. Saved Searches
Assign the search a name, and
additional description if needed.
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9. Saved Searches
To locate previously saved searches,
select Saved Searches and Alerts,
then Saved Searches fro the top
menu.
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10. Saved Searches
Choose the search that you wish to
run, and select Open.
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11. Saved Searches
Run search will re-run that search for
you.
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12. Saved Searches
Before the search is processed, you
are given options for timespan
limiters. This can help to eliminate
items that you’ve already discovered
in previous searches.
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13. Saved Searches
In this case, the search looked at just the last 4 weeks.
There were no hits in the search for all variables, but 12
were found in a search that wasn’t narrowed to the
subject of Forestry. Click that section to see the items.
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14. Search Alerts
If you would like e-mail notifications about new search
results, consider creating a search alert.
In the previous examples, a message appeared saying
that Alerting was not available for All Databases.
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15. Search Alerts
So, you will need to limit your search to just one
of the Web of Knowledge Databases.
To do this, click the select a database tab, and
then choose one of the databases.
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16. Search Alerts
In these search results, you will se an
option so Create Alert / RSS above the
results. Click this to create an alert.
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17. Search Alerts
Enter the appropriate information for
your alert, and then save it.
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18. Search Alerts
A confirmation message will appear.
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19. Search Alerts
When you review your saved searches,
the search alert will be included.
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20. Citation Alerts
If you would like to know of any times
that a specific article is cited in
another Web of Knowledge article,
you may set up a citation alert.
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21. Citation Alerts
The box on the right lists the Web of
Knowledge articles that are currently
citing the article. To learn of future
citations, select the Create Citation
Alert button.
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22. Citation Alerts
Enter your e-mail address and select a
format for the e-mails.
Note that these alert expire after 1
year.
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23. Citation Alerts
To review or edit your citation alerts,
select Saved Searches and Alerts,
followed by Citation Alerts at the top
of the page.
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24. Citation Alerts
Alerts can be renewed, edited, or
deleted from this list.
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25. Citation Map
Another citation-tracking feature of note is the
Citation Map. The citation map shows both:
• Articles that the current article has cited.
• Articles that have cited the current article.
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26. Citation Map
Select Citation Map from the box on
the right.
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27. Citation Map
You an choose from
• Forward only – showing only articles that have cited the current article.
• Backward only – showing only the articles that the current article has cited.
• Both – Showing both articles cited in the article and articles that have cited
the article.
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28. Citation Map
Make your choice, and then select
Create Map.
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29. Citation Map
You may get a warning before running
the application, select accept, and
then run.
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30. Citation Map
The current article
appears in the
middle of the
illustration.
The list of all
associated articles
appears at bottom
left.
Information about
the currently
selected article
appears at the
bottom right.
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31. Citation Map
By double-clicking on an item in the map, or an item in the list at bottom
left, the information in the box at bottom right will change to the
currently selected article.
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32. Citation Map
The Citation Map can be saved as an
image by selecting Manage, then Save
Citation Map As Image at top, left.
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33. Citation Map
Click the word here to download, and
then save or open the map. It will be
available as a .png file.
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34. OneSearch
Many of the Web of Science articles also appear in OneSearch. If you
see this, be sure to select View this record from ISI Web of Science,
rather than the FindIt button, otherwise, you may see this:
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35. OneSearch
Using the FindIt button in this case
makes it appear that the article isn’t
available.
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36. OneSearch
But using the Web of Science link will
take you to it!
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