Library Guides: Web of Science Help Guide: FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Yes. A citation manager is highly recommended.

Yes. Use quotes around your phrase to indicate the database should only retrieve results with that exact phrase.

Preprints on Web of Science
Discover 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.
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 Science
Provides 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 Science
Provides 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 Science
The 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.