Web of Science
The Web of Science database covers approximately 8,700 of the most prestigious, high impact research journals in the world. Our current subscription provides online access to the following indexes:
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Science Citation Index, 1994 to the present
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Social Sciences Citation Index, 1994 to the present
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Arts and Humanities Citation Index, 1994 to the present
Why should law school users search Web of Science? If you are doing research on the subject of patents, insurance, tax, social welfare, public health, medicine, women's studies, etc., you might find additional helpful information by searching this database.
How do you search Web of Science? Using the Quick Search option allows you to enter a term and get a quick result; a search for the term credit scoring, for example, will generate about 170 articles. The General Search option allows you to search by author, publication year, source title, etc. You can further restrict your search by language and document type. You can find the citation to a person's work by entering the person's name and publication year. For example, searching baker dw will generate a list of works by DW Baker published in different years.
Although Web of Science is a citation database, it does give you a link to some full text databases subscribed to by UConn Libraries. Try it today and you may find that it provides excellent supplemental coverage on the research topics you have been working on, aside from the databases on Lexis and Westlaw.
Yan Hong
