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Web of Science

Web of Science is an indexing and abstracting database covering multidisciplinary and international peer reviewed scientific and scholarly research​.

It provides access to:

  • Over 21, 000 high-quality journals across the
    • Science Citation Index Expanded
    • Social Sciences Citation Index
    • Arts & Humanities Citation Index
    • Emerging Sources Citation Index
  • Over 225,000 conferences in the Conference Proceedings Citation Index
  • Over 128,000 books in the Book Citation Index
  • Over 16 million open access papers

Web of Science covers a wide range of subjects including:

  • Life Sciences
  • Biomedical Sciences
  • Engineering
  • Social Sciences
  • Arts
  • Humanities 

Web of Science is an indexing and abstracting database which means you will only get access to the article if the library has a separate subscription to the journal the article is published in (check using the Find It button), or it is freely available on the publishers website, or if it is published in an Open Access journal (see video guide for more information).

You can access Web of Science from the link below.

 

Web of Science training videos 

        

You can find a full list of training videos for the Web of Science Platform on Clarivate's YouTube Channel.