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Web of Science Core Collection

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

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.