Web of Knowledge
Current Contents Connect, Web of Science, Cross Search

including Email Alerts and RSS Feeds

From The University of Adelaide Library

By Mick Draper Last updated September 2006

We'll follow a search on the topic

What information is available about sleep deprivation in children or adolescents?

[Note that PubMed will find many more citations than Web of Knowledge on this topic]

Access to Web of Knowledge

Using the Catalogue

Click on the Catalogue tab at the top of the Library web site.
You could also click on Library Catalogue at the end of the line
Find books, journals etc. using the Library Catalogue

Don't (ever) use the catalogue in the Quick Search options as this is likely to leave you with thousands of irrelevant items to sort through.

Type web of knowledge into the Search for: box of the catalogue and click on the Search button.

Click on Web of knowledge in the Full Title area.

Click on the link Click here to access.

The Web of Knowledge home page will appear.
From here you can choose a database to search under the pull down menu at Products & Features .

You can also reach this point by searching one of the particular Web of Knowledge databases such as Current Contents Connect, or Web of science using the Library Catalogue.

As well as using the catalogue you can get access to Web of knowledge using the databases site from the Library web site.

Click on databases in the line Find articles using databases.
Don't use Databases in the Quick Search options as this doesn't work at all.

Click on the link to Paediatrics.

Scroll down to click on Web of knowledge.

You could also click on any of the Web of knowledge bibliographic databases such as Current contents connect or Web of science.

You may be required to enter your student number and password.

You can also link directly from Web of Knowledge to these databases on trial Biological Abstracts [Biosis]; CAB Abstracts; INSPEC, and Zoological Record until 30th September, 2006.

If you searched using Web of Knowledge click on Products & Features to select the database you want
by clicking on it and then clicking the GO button.

Web of Science can be used for subject searching but it's main use is for finding articles that cite articles you already know about. Searches on subjects or cited references will provide you with information on

• the citations in the bibliographies of the each article found,
• the number of times each article has been cited and details of the citing articles,
• and an Analyze feature.

There is an email alert option for topics or for new articles that cite known articles. These alerts can be sent out as often as weekly. Web of Science covers more journals than Current Contents Connect.

Current contents connect Classic search allows you to enter your searches one line at a time, all versions of CCC have daily email alerts, but covers fewer journals than Web of science. CCC also includes the 'Analyze' feature.

Cross search can search all databases similtaneously but doesn't have email alerts. You can save your search and run it at a later date. Doesn't allow line by line entry of searches. Cross Search doesn't have access to 'Analyze'.

Before starting a search

Before beginning a search it's useful to put the topic you are searching in the form of an answerable question such as the one at the top of the screen.

What information is available about sleep deprivation in children or adolescents?

There are two concepts here Sleep Deprivation and Age. It's useful to produce a logic grid by adding synonyms or alternative terms below each of the two concepts.

sleep deprivation	child
	adolescent

PubMed's MeSH database is often a good source of alternative terms for concepts.

You logic grid may end up looking like the one below.

sleep depriv*	child*
insufficient sleep syndrome*	adolescen*
sleep fragmentation*	youth*
disrupt* sleep*	teen*
sleep* disturb*

Using a logic grid helps with search logic. All the terms in each column should be combined using OR logic and enclosed in round brackets. The two column searches are joined by AND logic.

In Web of knowledge searches, phrases have to be enclosed in quote marks "sleep depriv*"
or the search will be done as sleep AND depriv*.

The search above becomes

("sleep depriv*" or "insufficient sleep syndrome*" or "sleep fragmentation*" or "disrupt* sleep* " or "sleep* disturb*") and (child* or adolescen* or youth* or teen*)

Let's begin in Current contents connect.
Click on Current contents connect in the Products & Features list of Web of Knowledge. then click on the GO button.

Click on the CC Classic Search button to be able to enter your search column by column.

Click in the boxes to the left of any 'editions' you don't want to search. The tick marks will be removed.

Change the date range to search if required.

Type in the search terms from the first column joined by or in the search box.
You won't need to bother with the brackets in CC classic search.
Click on the SERCH button.

The search result appears.
Scroll down to view the result.

Now type in the search from the second column.
Click on the SEARCH button.
This search will be independant of the first search at this stage.

Click in the boxes to the left of these two results.
Click in the circle to the left of AND.
Click on the COMBINE button.

Click on the search result to view the citations.

You can change the number of citations displayed from 10 per screen to 25 or 50.

Click on the article title in a citation to view the document type, language, abstract, keywords, and author details.

You can print, email, save to disk, or save this citation to EndNote at this stage.

You can also set up a citation alert so that whenever Web of Knowledge detects an article that includes this citation in its bibliography you will receive an email telling you about the citing article.

If you view the citation in Web of Science you can also check the list of citations given by the authors of this article in the bibliography, and find those articles that cite this work .

Click on the RETURN TO CURRENT CONTENTS CONNECT button to go back to that database.

Click on the SUMMARY button to return to the list of citations found by your search.

In the summary display you can select citations to print, save, or email.
You can also add selected citations to a marked list, run other searches and add citations from these to the marked list, and then print, save or email the combined selected citations (like Clipboard in PubMed).

You can also use the Analyze function.

Analyze lets you sort out the proportions of citations from particular authors, institutions, journal titles etc. This might be useful if you are looking for somewhere to work in future. You can anaylze by institution to find those places that are working in a particular field. Alternatively you can find the journals that most often publish articles on the particular topic.

Saving Search History and Alerts

Click on the SEARCH HISTORY button.
(You may need to use the browser's Back button to find this)

From here you can save your search.
Click on the SAVE HISTORY button.

Before you can proceed you'll have to register your email address and invent a password.

Fill in the boxes in the the Server Save area, making sure that you click in the box for Send Me E-mail Alerts
Or you could leave this unticked and recieve new material as an RSS feed.

Select the alert type, and record format required (field tagged for EndNote),
Choose the frequency. A quick calculation will tell you about how many citations you can expect each day/week/month.

Click on the SAVE button.

On the next screen you can choose to receive an RSS feed by clicking on the XML button.

Copy the URL on the next screen.

Open your RSS feeder and add the url.

The Uni of Adelaide doesn't support a particular feeder, but you can easily find a free feeder by using a search engine and typing in free rss reader

Cross Search

Click on Cross Search in the Products & Features list.
Click on the GO button.

The list of databases, called "Selected product(s)" appears.

You can restrict the search to particular databases.
Click on the CHANGE PRODUCTS TO SEARCH button.

Click in the boxes to the left of the names of databases that you don't want included in the search.

Some of these databases are currently on trial through the Library.

When you have made your selection click on the SUBMIT button.

Enter your search including the brackets.

("sleep depriv*" or "insufficient sleep syndrome*" or "sleep fragmentation*" or "disrupt* sleep* " or "sleep* disturb*") and (child* or adolescen* or youth* or teen*)

Click on the SEARCH button.

The results will appear with one or more buttons to view the citation from at least one database.

Using the Web of Science format you can look at the citations listed in the bibliography of the article, and the citing articles.

Click on the RETURN TO CROSS SEARCH button to go back to your search results.

You can look at all the results found by any one of the Web of Knowledge databases using Filter results by product
Highlight the database you want and click on the GO button. You can choose only one database at a time.

The External Collection includes PubMed, but it isn't recommended that you search PubMed in Cross Search. Always use the "normal" PubMed

A search on the phrase nose neoplasms using PubMed in Cross Search found 2 citations in the last 5 years. Using the normal PubMed the same search found 1701 citations in the last 5 years.

Web of Science

Click on Web of science in the Products & Features list.
Click on the GO button.

Although you can do a topic search in Web of science it's more often used for citation searching.

Find those articles that cite the work

Kennedy, JD et al. 2004. Reduced neurocognition in children who snore. Pediatric pulmonology 37(4) 330-337.

To do a citation search click on the CITED REF SEARCH button.

Enter the last name of the author, first initial, and an asterisk as shown in the example.
Click on the SEARCH button.

It's best to avoid including a date and certainly try to avoid entering anything in the cited work search box.

Now you have to scroll through the author names to find the work you know about already. Sometimes authors are listed under first initial only, at other times under more than one initial.

You need to be careful because some articles are incorrectly cited. There may be entries with the wrong publication dates, wrong volume numbers, issue numbers, or page numbers.

If the entry is highlighted in blue you can rest your cursor over the View Record link and the title of the article will appear.

Click on this link to view the full Web of Science record.
You can view the articles that cite this work.

You can set up an alert so that any future articles that cite this work will be emailed to you, and you can add this to your RSS feed too.

You can also add this to an RSS feed, but unless the article is often cited you won't have much turn up each day.

If the citation isn't highlighted, or if there is more than one citation that looks like it's the article you know about,
Click in the boxes to the left of each likely citation to the article you know
Click on the FINISH SEARCH button.

When you have finished with Web of knowledge, click on the LOG OUT button.