Research Guides: Web of Science : About

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Brita Servaes (Libraries)

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Subjects: Gender and Sexuality Studies, General, Psychology, Sociology, Urban Studies and Planning

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This Guide is an introduction to the Web of Science (WoS) database:

Learn how to do Cited Reference and Related Reference searching
Learn about Citation Networks
Use WoS to update and expand a bibliography on your topic that you've already collected

Web of Science Coverage: 1956-present. Provides indexing of the world’s leading scholarly journals, books, and proceedings in the social sciences, and navigation of the full citation network. All cited references for all covered publications are fully indexed and searchable by topic, cited reference searching, or related reference searching. Register for your own free account to track citation activity with Citation Alerts, and more.

Also available to us: indexing and open access journals articles in Spanish and Portuguese (via SciELO), or Korean (via KCI). Please select the respective databases from the Search In drop-down menu at the top of the main search page.

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