Web of Knowledge has been upgraded to a new version (5.3). This includes the following new features that you may find enhances your searching:
- No stop words, so you can now search for ‘Vitamin A’ or ‘Further Education’.
- Search engine automatically helps find variations:
- stemming for plurals, including those that don’t simply end with ‘s’, e.g.tooth/teeth
- different verb tenses
- degrees of comparison e.g. loud/louder/loudest
- British/US spelling variations e.g. behavior/behaviour
- Left hand truncation now possible e.g. *saccharide - New NEAR/x operator e.g. oil near/5 spill
- Search full words in Address field (University, College, etc)
- Search full Author name (for records from 2007+)
Further information is available here: http://isiwebofknowledge.com/about/newwok/ If you need any help with searching Web of Knowledge, please contact your subject librarian.
