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Web of Science Core Collection

  • Peer reviewed journals, trade journals, books, conference proceedings.
  • Includes Wos Core Collection and GGrants Index, KCI-Korean Journal Database, MEDLINE, Preprint Citation Index, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Citation Index, Research Commons, and SciELO Citation Index.

UniOulu Core Collection order includes

  • Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-E) from 1975
  • Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) from 1975
  • Arts & Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) from 1975
  • Conference Proceedings Citation Index Science (CPCI-S) from 1990
  • Conference Proceedings Citation Index Social Science & Humanities (CPCI-SSH) from 1990
  • Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) from 2015
  • ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Citation Index.

Truncation and wildcard

replaces 0...n characters

product* > products, production, producting, producted, productive...

Left-hand truncation in the following search fields: Topic, Title, and Identifying Codes.

*behavio* > neurobehavior, biobehavioural...
*game* > game, videogamers, gameplay, ligament, gamete...

 

replaces a single character

organi?ation* > organization, organisational, organizationally...
also: organisation* OR organization*

 

$ replaces 0..1 characters

an$esthesia > anesthesia, anaesthesia

an$esthe* >  anaesthesia, anesthesia, anaesthetic, anesthetic, anaesthetics, anesthetics, anaesthetise, anesthetise, anaesthetize, anesthetize, anaesthetising, anesthetizing, anaesthetist, anesthetist, anaesthesiology, anesthesiologists...
also: anesthe* OR anaesthe*

Phrases

Double quotation marks

Use quotation marks to find exact phrases and to turn off lemmatization and the product's internal synonym finder. 

"mouse" > mouse, mice
"defence organisation" > defence organisation
"out-of-hospital" > out-of-hospital
"rangifer tarandus tarandus"
"Multiresolution gray-scale and rotation invariant texture classification with local binary patterns"

Truncation and wildcards can be used

"soci* emotion*" > socio-emotionally, social emotional
"defen?e organi?ation*" > defence/defense organisation, defence/defense organizations, defence/defense organisation's, defence/defense organizations', defence/defense organizational...

 

 Hyphenated query terms

story-tell* >  story-telling, story tellers

multi-profession* OR multiprofession* 

Boolean operators

Boolean operators AND, OR, AND NOT  are not case sensitive.

Implicit AND operator when you enter two or more adjacent term:

bio oil* energ* bio AND oil* AND energ*


Search operator precedence:

  1. NEAR/x
  2. NOT
  3. AND
  4. OR

Use parentheses to override operator precedence. The expression inside the parentheses is executed first.

(wind OR solar) AND (power OR energy)

(biodiesel* or "bio oil*") and energ*

(sme OR smes OR smb OR smbs) OR ((small* OR medium*) NEAR/3 (business* OR compan* OR enterpris* OR firm* OR corporation*))

Proximity operators

NEAR/n regardless of the order, n ≥ 0

(robot* NEAR/2 hand) Or (robot* near/3 arm)

Search fields

  • All fields: only in Core Collection; hakee kaikista kentistä.
  • Topic: search the following fields within a record: Title, Abstract, Keywords.

Creating a RIS file in Web of Science

1. Select references and click the "Export" function above the results. If you want to export all results, click the "Export" function directly. From the drop-down menu that appears, choose the option "RIS (other reference software)."

 

2. You can save the selected references, the references on the current page, or all references as a file. Choose the fields to include in the reference from the "Record Content" drop-down menu. For example, the abstract is not included automatically.

 

3. You can export up to 1000 references into an RIS file. If there are more references, create multiple RIS files. The RIS files will be found in your device's downloaded files.