Thomson Scientific's expanding Web of Knowledge: beyond citation databases and current awareness services

As end-user demand for easy access to electronic full text continues to climb, an increasing number of information providers are combining that access with their other products and services, making navigating their Web sites by librarians seeking information on a given product or service more daunting than ever. One such provider of a complex array of products and services is Thomson Scientific. This paper looks at some of the many products and tools available from two of Thomson Scientific's businesses, Thomson ISI and Thomson ResearchSoft. Among the items of most interest to health sciences and veterinary librarians and their users are the variety of databases available via the ISI Web of Knowledge platform and the information management products available from ResearchSoft.     

The ISI Web of Knowledge,a modern system for the information support of scientific research: a review

This paper describes an automated system for information support of scientific research, the ISI Web of Knowledge, which is one of the largest systems in the modern world; approximately 150000 users turn to it each day. The system was created in 1992 based on the experience and achievements of the well-known American information firm Institute for Scientific Information, which was purchased by Thomson Corp., a Canadian information-publishing firm. The main principles of the building of this system, the information resources used in it, and the main directions of its development are characterized.     

Transitioning from Print to Electronic Information Delivery: An Update from the National Research Council Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information

Canada's national science library, the National Research Council Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information, is in the process of transforming its traditional document delivery services to meet the emerging needs of users. As such, the Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information has developed a suite of Web-based services, partnerships, and collaborations to better serve its users. These components have been brought together to create new service offerings such as Discover, and the National Research Council Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information Standards Store. Quicker, more flexible and convenient access to the world's scientific, technical, and medical information from the Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information and from sites where users congregate across the Web is the goal of Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information's new breed of information delivery services.     

ISI Web of Knowledge跨库检索功能与操作技巧

ISI web of Knowledge是新一代的学术信息资源整合体系，是Web of science的最新升级平台。本文主要介绍了这一体系的跨库检索功能及其操作技巧。     

Index to Volume 55, 2011

This article reports a national study of Internet users' usage of cable television Web site features to illustrate the dynamics of cross-media use in electronic media and explore the role of cable television network Web sites in network branding and viewership. Our findings indicate that younger Internet users are much more likely to use television Web sites than older Internet users. Despite the low use of the enhanced features of television Web sites, the increase in the number of Web site feature usage positively predicts viewer loyalty, subscriber loyalty, and to a lesser extent, new subscriber attraction for cable networks.     

Incorporating web browsing activities into anchor texts for web search

Anchor texts complement Web page content and have been used extensively in commercial Web search engines. Existing methods for anchor text weighting rely on the hyperlink information which is created by page content editors. Since anchor texts are created to help user browse the Web, browsing behavior of Web users may also provide useful or complementary information for anchor text weighting. In this paper, we discuss the possibility and effectiveness of incorporating browsing activities of Web users into anchor texts for Web search. We first make an analysis on the effectiveness of anchor texts with browsing activities. And then we propose two new anchor models which incorporate browsing activities. To deal with the data sparseness problem of user-clicked anchor texts, two features of user’s browsing behavior are explored and analyzed. Based on these features, a smoothing method for the new anchor models is proposed. Experimental results show that by incorporating browsing activities the new anchor models outperform the state-of-art anchor models which use only the hyperlink information. This study demonstrates the benefits of Web browsing activities to affect anchor text weighting.     

基于ISI Web of Knowledge的BIOSIS Previews数据库探析

在分析BIOSIS Previews众多检索软件平台的基础上，重点探讨了基于ISI Web of Knowledge平台的BIOSIS Previews数据库特点及其检索方法。     

PageRank算法的原理简介

在介绍PageRank算法基本思想、基本公式和计算实例的基础上,介绍如何利用PageR- ank算法提高网页PR的方法,最后指出PageRank算法存在的不足,并对其发展趋势进行分析。     

Web2.0环境下用户参与图书馆信息组织的可行性分析——基于用户接受的实证研究

Web2.0环境下越来越多的用户参与到图书馆信息组织过程中,为了了解用户参与图书馆信息组织的意识和意愿,对武汉大学在校师生进行问卷调查。调查显示,用户对Web2.0相关技术较熟悉并经常使用,具备参与图书馆信息组织的能力;用户普遍认同参与图书馆信息组织会对自己有帮助,有着较高的参与意愿;不少用户缺乏参与意识,对参与方式不够了解。图书馆可通过加强对用户参与图书馆信息组织方式的宣传、重视用户培训、采取适当的激励措施等方法,促使用户积极参与图书馆信息组织。     

信息计量方法在我国高校学科评估中的应用——以郑州大学为例

通过美国科学情报研究所（ISI）建立的科技文献数据库Web of Science中的SCI—Expanded数据为依据,对2005—2014年郑州大学发表并被SCIE收录及引用的2937篇论文,从论文数量、学科分类、文献类型、来源出版物、合作机构、通讯作者及论文资助情况等10个方面进行了统计与分析,通过定量数据从侧面反映了郑州大学近几年的科研和学科发展,以期为学校的学科建设和科研绩效评估提供数据参考和支持。     

ISI's Journal Citation Reports on the Web

This column features an overview of the Institute for Scientific Information's (ISI) Journal Citation Reports (JCR) database. Basic searching techniques are presented, as well as simple ways to manipulate data contained in the file. The Journal Citation Reports database can provide information on highest impact journals, most frequently used journals, "hottest" journals, and largest journals in a field or discipline.     

创建科学研究的学术信息资源整合体系—ISI Web of Science学术资源体系结构、概况、特点与检索

介绍了美国科技信息研究所ISI出版的Web of Science学术信息资源数据库的结构、概况、检索功能与特点,并指出ISI凭借其独特的引文机制和强大的跨库检索能力,将全世界学术信息资源整合在一起,为科研人员和科研机构创造了一个科学研究的数字环境,促进了知识与技术的创新与发展。     

文摘索引型数据库检索系统的现状与发展趋势

以ISI Web of Knowledge信息源为例,从10个方面介绍文摘索引型数据库检索系统的现状和发展趋势。     

The Web impact of open access social science research

For a long time, Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) journal citations have been widely used for research performance monitoring of the sciences. For the social sciences, however, the Social Sciences Citation Index® (SSCI®) can sometimes be insufficient. Broader types of publications (e.g., books and non-ISI journals) and informal scholarly indicators may also be needed. This article investigates whether the Web can help to fill this gap. The authors analyzed 1530 citations from Google™ to 492 research articles from 44 open access social science journals. The articles were published in 2001 in the fields of education, psychology, sociology, and economics. About 19% of the Web citations represented formal impact equivalent to journal citations, and 11% were more informal indicators of impact. The average was about 3 formal and 2 informal impact citations per article. Although the proportions of formal and informal online impact were similar in sociology, psychology, and education, economics showed six times more formal impact than informal impact. The results suggest that new types of citation information and informal scholarly indictors could be extracted from the Web for the social sciences. Since these form only a small proportion of the Web citations, however, Web citation counts should first be processed to remove irrelevant citations. This can be a time-consuming process unless automated.     

Design and evaluation of a personal digital assistant- based alerting service for clinicians.

PURPOSE: This study describes the system architecture and user acceptance of a suite of programs that deliver information about newly updated library resources to clinicians' personal digital assistants (PDAs). DESCRIPTION: Participants received headlines delivered to their PDAs alerting them to new books, National Guideline Clearinghouse guidelines, Cochrane Reviews, and National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Alerts, as well as updated content in UpToDate, Harrison's Online, Scientific American Medicine, and Clinical Evidence. Participants could request additional information for any of the headlines, and the information was delivered via e-mail during their next synchronization. Participants completed a survey at the conclusion of the study to gauge their opinions about the service. RESULTS/OUTCOME: Of the 816 headlines delivered to the 16 study participants' PDAs during the project, Scientific American Medicine generated the highest proportion of headline requests at 35%. Most users of the PDA Alerts software reported that they learned about new medical developments sooner than they otherwise would have, and half reported that they learned about developments that they would not have heard about at all. While some users liked the PDA platform for receiving headlines, it seemed that a Web database that allowed tailored searches and alerts could be configured to satisfy both PDA-oriented and e-mail-oriented users.     

Web2.0时代的网络民意表达

以用户参与为本质的Web2.0,以其开放性、真实性、自组织性、聚合性等特性为网络民意表达注入了新元素,Web2.0通过上述革命性的传播特性为网络民意表达搭建了以开放个人为主体的意见表达机制、以开放动态互联网为技术平台的意见组织机制以及以自组织的弱联结为主要联结方式的意见传播机制,从而使得网络民意表达变得更加开放多元、成熟理性和集中有序.     

基于共异变数结构方程式的Web2.0用户心智模型

从用户角度,建立基于结构方程式的Web2.0用户心智模型,来探索图书馆用户在Web2.0环境中的态度、行为与认知。透过量化方法和调查,产生一个理论基础,作为描绘在新网络环境下的新用户知识服务的框架。该心智模型能够被用于创建和使用型人。     

Working Without a Crystal Ball: Predicting Web Trends for Web Services Librarians

ABSTRACT

User-centered design is a principle stating that electronic resources, like library Web sites, should be built around the needs of the users. This article interviews Web developers of library and non-library-related Web sites, determining how they assess user needs and how they decide to adapt certain technologies for users. According to the panel, to understand these issues, Web services librarians should (a) give patrons a way to provide feedback on library sites; (b) observe and contemplate technology in a group setting; (c) only adapt technology that addresses a specific patron need; and (d) consider the library Web site as a part of the library, not a replacement for it.     

Web上基于特定主题的RG-HITS算法研究

Web 信息检索（Information Retrieval）技术研究是应用文本检索研究的成果，它结合Web图论的思想，研究Web上的信息检索，是行之有效的Web知识发现的途径。传统HITS方法所获得的信息精确度相当低，而PageRank作为一通用的搜索方法，不能够应用于特定主题的信息获取。在充分分析了PageRank、HITS等现有算法和Web文档的相似度计算方法的基础上，提出了Web上查询特定主题相关信息发现的RG-HITS算法。它结合了Web超链接、网页知识表示的信息相关度以及HITS方法来搜索Web上特定主题的相关知识。     

Services for Graduate Students: A Review of Academic Library Web Sites

A library's Web site is well recognized as the gateway to the library for the vast majority of users. Choosing the most user-friendly Web architecture to reflect the many services libraries offer is a complex process, and librarians are still experimenting to find what works best for their users. As part of a redesign of the Oregon State University Libraries’ Web site, entry points for specific user groups were created. One of these user groups was graduate students. The purpose of this study was to explore the ways other academic libraries design their Web sites for particular user groups, specifically graduate students, in order to determine how the Oregon State University Libraries Web site compared to peer institutions. This study analyzed 112 Association of Research Libraries’ Web sites and 26 Oregon academic libraries’ Web sites to determine the availability of resources and services specifically promoted to graduate students. Since graduate students may view the library Web site through the lens of new student, researcher, or instructor, Web sites were also examined to see if sites were created with any or all of these roles in mind. Nearly a quarter of Association of Research Libraries' Web sites that were examined contained a link on the homepage for graduate students, and another 20 percent provided graduate-student information at a lower level in their site hierarchy. A majority of sites had events, subject guides, or course guides for graduate students. Information for graduate students was typically framed in the context of graduate students as researchers. Ideas and examples are given for ways to improve Web site design to better serve this user group. In order to provide improved services to these students, future studies will explore what graduate students need from academic libraries and the ways these students conduct themselves in their various roles of researchers, instructors, and new students.