Web of Science Help Guide
Information about how to search Web of Science (WoS).
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Saving Searches and Creating Alerts
Saving Searches
- How to save your search resultsGuidance from UW Health Sciences Librarians.
- Saving Search History & Creating AlertsGuidance from Clarivate.
Creating Search Alerts
- Sign in to Web of Science (WoS).
- Run a search in Web of Science (WoS) from the Search or Advanced Search page to find records for which you want to create an Alert.
- Click the Create Alert bell icon to open the Save Search History overlay dialog.
- You will be prompted to sign in, either sign-in to your existing individual WoS account or register for an individual WoS account.
- Enter a descriptive Alert Name and click Create Alert.
- Your e-mail name will appear in the Email Address field. Select an e-mail format: Plain Text, HTML, EndNote, or Field Tagged.
- Click the Save button.
- Click the Close button to return to the Full Record page.
- The default frequency is Weekly emails, click Manage Alerts to change the name, update email frequency, change email recipient(s) address(es), rerun the search, disable the alert, and more.
- Creating Document & Journal AlertsGuidance from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Library.
Search Web of Science
Most Popular from Web of Science
- Web of Science Core CollectionSearch scholarly journals, books, and proceedings in the sciences, social sciences, and arts & humanities and navigate the full citation network. Defaults to searching all four Editions; change this selection by clicking on the Editions dropdown menu above the search box:
- Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED): 1900-present
- Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI): 1975-present
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index (AHCI): 1975-present
- Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI): 2018-present
- Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED): 1900-present
More Web of Science Indices
- Preprints on Web of ScienceDiscover preprints for key research articles ahead of the formal publication in a journal from a range of international selected and evaluated preprint repositories in the sciences, social sciences, and arts & humanities.
- Grants IndexSearch for your topic to view which grants funded research on similar topics.
- ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global on Web of Science"Enables researchers to seamlessly uncover early career, post-graduate research in the form of more than 5.5 million dissertations and theses from over 4,100 institutions from more than 60 countries, alongside journal articles, conference proceedings, research data, books, preprints and patents." (Source)
- Korean Journal Databases on Web of ScienceProvides access to articles from multidisciplinary journals covered in KCI. KCI is managed by the National Research Foundation of Korea and contains bibliographic information for scholarly literature published in Korea. Search in Korean or English.
- SciELO Citation Index on Web of ScienceProvides scholarly literature in sciences, social sciences, and arts & humanities published in leading open access journals from Latin America, Portugal, Spain, and South Africa. Search in Spanish, Portuguese, or English.
- MEDLINE on Web of ScienceThe U.S. National Library of Medicine's (NLM's) premier life sciences database. Due to the functionality of automatic term mapping, including MeSH terms, most librarians recommend searching MEDLINE via PubMed.