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Web of Science

Web of science is a collection of multidisciplinary databases and so useful for most researchers. this guide will show you how to use it to find the information you are looking for.

Accessing Web of Science

Introduction to Web of Science

Web of Science is a platform that gives you access to a number of different databases. The default is for Smart Search in Web of Science Core Collection. On the home page, you have the option to search All Databases above the search box. You can find out more about Smart Search on our Smart Search page. 

Screenshot of the Web of Science homepage. There is an empty search box. Above it there is a toggle button to choose to search All Databases or Core Collection.

Click on Advanced Search to get more details about what you can search. By clicking on Search in: Web of Science Core Collection you can see what indexes are included in the Collection. Alternatively, you can click on Editions to choose an individual database to search or to search all databases at once. 

Screenshot showing the database options that can be viewed in the Advanced Search tab

Web of Science brings back results from over 22,000 journals, over 308,000 conferences and over 151,000 books in 254 categories. It is therefore a useful platform for all the subjects taught at Imperial. 

 

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