Web of Science produced by Thomson Scientific, comprises 5 databases covering all subject areas. There are three multi-disciplinary citation indexes drawn from over 8830 international journals, and an index giving access to individual papers from about 4,500 scientific and technical conferences per year. As of March 2006, the total number of Web of Science records is approximately 37 million.

Weill Cornell Medical Library has access to the following indexes:

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Science Citation Index Expanded

The Science Citation Index Expanded is a multidisciplinary index, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the sciences. It indexes more than 5,900 major journals across 150 scientific disciplines, covering approximately 2,100 more journals than its SCI print and CD-ROM counterparts, with all cited references captured.

SCI Expanded provides access to current information and retrospective data from 1900 forward. It averages 19,000 new records per week and includes approximately 423,000 new cited references and approximately 775 new cited references to patents per week. Overall SCI Expanded contains a current total of over 23 million records. As of January 1991 it contains searchable, full-length, English-language author abstracts for approximately 70% of the articles in the index.

Some of the disciplines covered include biochemistry, biotechnology, medicine, neuroscience, oncology, pediatrics, pharmacology, psychiatry, surgery and veterinary science.

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Social Sciences Citation Index

The Social Sciences Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the social sciences. It indexes more than 1,725 journals spanning 50 disciplines, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals.

SSCI provides access to current information and retrospective data from 1956 forward. It averages 2,900 new records per week and includes approximately 60,000 new cited references. As of January 1992, SSCI contains searchable, full-length, English-language author abstracts for approximately 60% of the articles in the index.

Some of the disciplines covered include public health, psychology, social work and substance abuse.

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Arts & Humanities Citation Index

Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It indexes 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals.

A&HCI provides access to current information and retrospective data from 1975 forward. It averages 2,300 new records per week and includes approximately 15,250 new cited references per week. A&HCI contains a current total of over 2.5 million records. It holds unique implicit citations that refer you to actual representations of a book, a work of art, a music score, or anything else. A&HCI also contains title enhancements added to ambiguous or hard-to-categorize article titles to clarify article contents.

Some of the disciplines covered include art, architecture, history, language, literature, music, radio, tv and film, religion and theater.

Some Features:

The "Distinct Author Identification System" uses citation data to create clusters of papers likely written by the same author. This system reduces the ambiguity of authorship that can happen when different researchers share the same name.

Launch CrossSearch from the Summary page to retrieve only those records found in your subscription product databases that are unique. The search is based on the terms that you enter in the Topic field via Quick Search or General Search.

Export selected records to a library in EndNote, Reference Manager, or ProCite.

Select the number of results (10-50) to display on the Summary page from a show number per page drop-down list.