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Database descriptions and quick links

Use these descriptions in your databases list to help users understand what content and features they can expect from your Web of Science resources.

Point users to the right database resource within the Web of Science platform using our list of direct links. Link to a database, or even an individual index within the Core Collection.

Just copy and paste. Add to your library home page, Libguide curriculum page or anywhere you direct people to tools and resources.  Take them directly where you want them to go.

Web of Science Core Collection

Bring multidisciplinary content into one search platform with the Web of Science Core Collection. It connects billions of pathways to inspire new ideas. Ensure quick breakthroughs and teamwork with detailed data on journals, conferences, and books across various fields.

  • Discover connections in over 254 categories, 22,000+ journals, 308,000+ conferences, and 151,000+ books.
  • Find global research insights through the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
  • Stay updated with key conferences and books, discover experts, and access your library catalog and eBooks.
  • Explore 120 years of indexed data to trace ideas across time and fields.

Web of Science Core Collection is updated daily - seven days per week.

Direct link to Web of Science Core Collection


Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)

Science Citation Index Expanded is a multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the sciences. It fully covers major journals across 182 scientific categories and includes all cited references captured from indexed articles.

Publication years: 1900 to present

Direct link to Science Citation Index Expanded


Social Science Citation Index (SSCI)

Social Sciences Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the social sciences. It fully covers journals across 47 social sciences categories and includes all cited references captured from indexed articles.. 

Publication years: 1900 to present

Direct link to Social Science Citation Index


Arts & Humanities Citation Index (AHCI)

Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the arts and humanities, covering 1975-present. 

Direct link to Arts & Humanities Citation Index 


Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)

ESCI captures scientific, social science, and humanities trends and developments beyond the high-impact literature. The journals selected and reviewed by our editorial team have identified as important to key opinion leaders, funders, and evaluators worldwide.

Direct link to emerging Sources Citation Index


Book Citation Index (BKCI)

The Book Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index of monographs and books-in-series in the sciences. It includes the published scholarly literature of books and book chapters selected by Web of Science Group editorial staff.

Book citations are seamlessly integrated with other citation indexes in Web of Science Core Collection to provide a more complete citation count of an author's published work. 

2005 to present

Direct link to Book Citation Index (Science)
Direct link to Book Citation Index (Social Sci & Humanities)


Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI)

The Conference Proceedings citation indexes include the published literature of the most significant conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions in a wide range of categories. They cover journal and book-based proceedings in science, social sciences, and humanities across 254 categories. Use these indexes to track emerging ideas and new research in specific fields.

1990 to present

Direct link to Conference Proceedings Citation Index (Science)
Direct link to Conference Proceedings Citation Index (Soc.Sci. & Humanities)


Index Chemicus

Index Chemicus contains the structures and critical supporting data for novel organic compounds reported in leading international journals. It is a vital source of new information on biologically active compounds and natural products.

Publication years: 1993 to present

Direct link to Index Chemicus

Current Chemical Reactions 

Current Chemical Reactions contains single- and multi-step new synthetic methods taken from leading journals and patents from 36 issuing authorities. The overall reaction flow is provided for each method, along with a detailed and accurate graphical representation of each reaction step.

Publication years: 1985 to present.

Direct link to Current Chemical Reactions

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Citation Index

The world's most comprehensive, curated, multidisciplinary collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, offering over 5.5 million records for post-graduate works from thousands of universities. Link to full text options on the ProQuest Platform from your Web of Science search results.

  • Updated weekly.

Direct link to ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Citation Index

Preprint Citation Index

Discover preprints from leading international preprint repositories in the sciences, social sciences and arts & humanities in one place. Connect preprints to author profiles and peer reviewed journal literature in the Web of Science, and link directly to the preprint repositories to view versions of a preprint and download full text.

Direct link to Preprint Citation Index

Derwent Innovations Index

Combines unique value-added patent information indexed from over 50 patent issuing authorities in the Derwent World Patent Index (1963-present) with patent citations indexed from the Derwent Patents Citation Index (1973-present).

  • Search across clearly written patent titles and abstracts that highlight the novelty, use, advantage, and claims of each invention.
  • Search precisely using international patent classification codes or unique Derwent Class Codes.
  • Combines patents from multiple patent issuing authorities into a single patent family for easy and complete discovery of each invention.
  • Monitor an invention's influence by navigating patent citations.
  • Updated weekly.

Direct link to Derwent Innovations Index

Data Citation Index

Discover research data sets and data studies from a wide range of international data repositories in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities.

  • Discover research data connected to articles published in journals, books, and conference proceedings.
  • Link directly to data repositories for easy access to the deposited data sets.
  • Updated weekly.

Direct link to Data Citation Index

Grants Index

Discover awarded grants from the leading government and private funding agencies from around the world. Search by Topic, Principal Investigator, Funding Agency and Grant Type.

  • Multidisciplinary.
  • Refine and analyze results to discover funding trends.
  • Link to associated Web of Science Core Collection documents.

Direct link to Grants Index

CABI: CAB Abstracts and Global Health

Provides authoritative research information on agriculture, environment, and related applied life sciences.

  • Search using unique CABI indexes including CAB Thesaurus, CABICODES, and subject descriptors.
  • Includes data from journals, books, proceedings, monographs, technical reports, and more.
  • Controlled vocabulary available.
  • Source: CABI Digital Library.
  • Updated weekly.

Direct link to CABI: CABI Abstracts and Global Health

FSTA - the food science resource

Provides thorough coverage of pure and applied research in food science, food technology, and food-related nutrition.

  • Covers topics relating to every aspect of the food chain, including all the major food commodities plus biotechnology, microbiology, food safety, additives, nutrition, packaging, and pet foods.
  • Search for food-related literature from journals, books, proceedings, reports, theses, patents, standards, and legislation.
  • Controlled vocabulary available.
  • Source: IFIS.
  • Updated weekly.

Direct link to FSTA Index

Inspec

A comprehensive index to the global journal and proceedings literature in physics, electrical/electronic engineering, computing, control engineering, mechanical engineering, production and manufacturing engineering, and information technology.

Direct link to Inspec Index

MEDLINE

The U.S. National Library of Medicine® (NLM®) premier life sciences database.

  • Explore biomedicine and life sciences, bioengineering, public health, clinical care, and plant and animal science.
  • Search precisely with MeSH terms and CAS registry numbers.
  • Link to NCBI databases and PubMed Related Articles.
  • Controlled vocabulary available.
  • Source: National Library of Medicine.
  • Updated weekly.

Direct link to MEDLINE

SciELO Citation Index

Provides scholarly literature in sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities published in leading open access journals from Latin America, Portugal, Spain, and South Africa.

Direct link to SciELO Citation Index

KCI - Korean Journal Database

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.

Direct link to KCI -Korean Journal Database

Chinese Science Citation Database

Provides bibliographic information and citations to articles in the core science and engineering journals published in the People’s Republic of China.

Direct link to Chinese Science Citation Database

Arabic Citation Index

Discover bibliographic information and citations to scholarly articles from expertly curated Arabic journals and other Web of Science content. ARCI is powered by the Web of Science and funded by the Egyptian Knowledge Bank (EKB).

  • Search in Arabic or English.
  • Identify critical Arabic research.
  • Source: Egyptian Knowledge Bank.
  • Updated as the partner provides.

Direct link to Arabic Citation Index

Zoological Record

The world’s leading taxonomic reference and oldest continuing database of animal biology.

  • Keep up on all aspects of animal biology and biodiversity issues.
  • Determine the first appearance of an animal name or new species and track taxonomic and nomenclatural changes.
  • Search with the help of extensive thesauri, including subject, geographical, paleontological and taxonomic classifier.
  • Controlled vocabulary available.
  • Browse Master Journal List and/or download Collection Lists.
  • Updated weekly.

Direct link to Zoological Record

Current Contents Connect

Complete tables of contents and bibliographic information from the world’s leading scholarly journals.

Direct link to Current Contents Connect

Biological Abstracts

An expansive index to the world’s life sciences journal literature, covering topics ranging from botany to microbiology to pharmacology.

Direct link to Biological Abstracts

BIOSIS Citation Index

An expansive index to life sciences and biomedical research covering pre-clinical and experimental research, methods and instrumentation, animal studies, and more.

  • Search across journals, meetings, patents, and books.
  • Search precisely using key terms and controlled terminology in context using fields including biochemistry, genes, and taxonomic data.
  • Navigate to related research using indexed cited references.
  • Browse Master Journal List and/or download Collection Lists.

Direct link to BIOSIS Citation Index

BIOSIS Previews

An expansive index to life sciences and biomedical research covering pre-clinical and experimental research, methods and instrumentation, animal studies, and more.

Direct link to BIOSIS Previews