COMPLETING THE RESEARCH PICTURE: ADDING BOOKS TO WEB OF SCIENCE SM August 2011.

COMPLETING THERESEARCH PICTURE:ADDING BOOKS TO WEB OF SCIENCESM

August 2011

COMPLETING THE RESEARCH PICTURE: ADDING BOOKS TO WEB OF SCIENCE SM

Scholarly communicationtakes many forms, the diversityof these forms ever increasing within that vast resource weknow as “the web”.

However, whether the physical medium is print or electronic, primary authoritative dissemination of written scholarly works is still driven by conference proceedings, journals, and books.

COMPLETING THE RESEARCH PICTURE: ADDING BOOKS TO WEB OF SCIENCE

While books are not often associated with “timely” dissemination of information, scholarly books typically provide an overall comprehensive analysis of a topic.

Thorough background information, historical context, and discussion of related topics are all characteristics of the scholarly book.

Simply put, books commonly provide a broader, deeper, more-well rounded treatment of a topic than journals and other forms of scholarly communication.

For this reason books will continue to hold an extremely important place within the immense, diverse universe that is scholarly literature.


While we recognize the importance of books as intellectual resources, they are in turn importantto the career ambitions of academicians.

In many fields of study the publication of a bookis viewed as essential for promotion and tenure, particularly in the humanities.

Scholarly books, in more ways than one,are integral to the world of higher learning.


As we see with journal articles, the influence of individual scholarly books may vary dramatically.

However, we are all familiar with landmark works of research and scholarship that have been produced in book form.

Examples over the course of the past century span a range of disciplines – History, Psychology, Sociology, Economics, Physics, Education…

These works are highly cited within journal and conference proceedings literature.


Cited by over 3,300 articles within

Web of Science, the

English version alone.

Cited by over 2,300 articles within Web of

Science

Cited by over 4, 700 articles

within Web of Science


http://wokinfo.com/products_tools/multidisciplinary/bookcitationindex/

As with everything Thomson Reuters does with content, quality is extremely important.

All books will be reviewedby our Editorial staff.


• Science and Social Science and Humanities-- coverage includes publications back to 2005

• Content will be comprised of scholarly books, both electronic and print, that present fully referenced articles of original research, or reviews of the literature.o Both multi-authored and single-authoredo Series and non-serieso Encyclopedias, Reference Books generally not included,

though graduate level texts may be considered.

• Full indexing of Books and individually-authored Book Chapters.o Capture of all fundamental bibliographic

information as well as author cited references.

The Book Citation Index, within Web of Science


Commercial, Society, University press participation --

Our Acquisitions efforts are still in full stride and havebeen under way for some time.

•We first approached Commercial publishers, such as Wiley-Blackwell and Springer, given the sheer volume of material which they produce along with our solid, longstanding relationships with this group.

•Society and University presses followed, and these groups are particularly important to our Social Science and Arts & Humanities coverage.

Links to full text from the Book Citation Index is a priorityas well, as it is for all Web of Science content.

•We will of course employ primary mechanisms suchas the DOI and OpenUrl. Links from OPAC systems as well.

•We are also in conversations with e-bookaggregators to establish direct links to collections.


Commercial and Society presses agreeing to contribute, so far --

American Geophysical Union

American Society for Microbiology

Annual Reviews

Brill

CABI

Cold Spring Harbor Press

CRC Press

CSIRO Publishers

De Gruyter

East-West Center

Edward Elgar

Emerald Publishing

European Respiratory Society

Mary Ann Liebert

ME Sharpe

Palgrave Macmillan

Pan-Stanford

Psychology Press

Routledge

Royal Society of Chemistry

SIAM

Springer

Wageningen

Wiley-Blackwell

World Scientific Publishing

Geological Society UK

Geological Society US

Hoover Institute

IFP Energies nouvelles

IGI Global

Intellect Ltd

IOS Press

John Benjamins

Karger

Maney Publishing

Martin Woodhead/Chandos


University presses agreeing to contribute, so far --

Athabasca University

Australia National University Press

Cambridge University Press

Edinburgh University Press

Fordham University

Gallaudet University Press

McGill-Queen’s University Press

MIT Press

Monash University Press

Nottingham University Press

Princeton University Press

Purdue University Press

University of Adelaide Press

University of Alaska

University of British Columbia Press

University of Colorado

University of Minnesota Press

University of North Carolina

University of Pennsylvania Press

University of California Press

Utah State University Press

Wilfrid Laurier University Press


Subject area coverage as of 8/29/2011 –

SUBJECT AREA COVERAGE

Agriculture/Biology 5%

Social & Behavioral Sciences 40%

Clinical Medicine 6%

Life Sciences 6%

Physics/Chemistry 12%

Engineering/Computing/Technology 13%

Arts & Humanities 18%

To Date:

Social Sciences + Arts & Humanities 58%

Natural Sciences 42%


• Target Coverage at Launch – 25,000 books

By Jan 1, 2012 --- target 28,000+ books

• 10,000 new books added each year

• Reciprocal links to/from book records and book chapters

Target Launch – Mid-October 2011

The Book Citation Index, within Web of Science


WEB OF SCIENCEBook Citation Index

The influence of scholarlybooks is clear, as is their integration with journal and proceedings literature.

We will bring these resources together in Web of Knowledge, with introduction of the Book Citation Index into Web of Science later this year.


Journals

WEB OF SCIENCE Book Citation Index

Conference

Book

Results Summary


All Author Cited Sources are captured and displayed, with

links to citing articles.

Full Record-- Single-Authored BookA hub for direct links to additional related information.

A highly cited report. Not indexed in Web of Science, yet its record of citation is displayed along with

links to all citing articles.

A conference proceedings paperindexed in Web of Science.

A journal article indexedin Web of Science.



Times Cited =citing articles.In this display,all cites to thisbook are from

journal articles.


Full Record -- Single-Authored BookA hub for direct links to

additional related information.


One may also Refine by Book

Series title.




Full Record -- Book Chapter, from a multi-authored Book in Series.

Both the Authors of this Chapter and the Volume (Source) Editors are presented.


From this record for a book chapter, we can easily navigate to the record for the entire volume of the series…



From this record for a book chapter, we can easily navigate to the record for the entire volume of the series… and then display all chapters within this volume, with linksto each.



Perform a Citation Report on the Chapters of a multi-authoredbook to view combined citation influence and trend of citation forthis volume.



Times Cited

Related RecordsAuthor Cited References

Authoritative, integrated Journal, Conference,

and Book content.

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