All Web of Science databases include searchable author abstracts and together cover more than 8,000 international journals in the sciences, social sciences, and the arts and humanities. WOS provides access to current information and retrospective data from 1990 forward. It enables users to quickly navigate from complete bibliographic information, author abstracts, cited references, and author and publisher addresses to selected full-text journal articles and other scholarly resources. Drexel University faculty and students can access Web Of Science from the Hagerty Library home page . Select it from the Electronic Resources menu either under Databases by Title or under Databases by Subject .
Remote access is also available.
The Topic search option permits searching using words or phrases that describe a topic, linked together with the operators AND or OR . The Topic search option searches for a topic in the title, abstract and keyword fields of all the articles in the database. The Person search option, permits searching for articles written by a particular author, that cite a particular author's work or are about a particular author. The Place search option, permits searching using a corporate or institutional name, a geographic location or a department or division within an institution. For example, using this option you can easily search for all publications authored by members of Drexel University's Department of Environmental Engineering, even if you don't know the names of individuals publishing in that department.