Thomson Scientific has a long history of providing access to bibliographic
data from the highest quality research in the sciences, social sciences, and
arts & humanities. Bibliographic data is invaluable for the discovery process,
but more serious and discerning research often requires study of published
materials in their entirety. Thomson Scientific Links are a set of internal
tools and external relationships designed to bring the literature's full text
directly to the researcher as efficiently as possible.
How Thomson Scientific Links Works
Thomson Scientific Links is a combination of several important processes:
- ongoing processing of the Thomson Scientific Citation Databases
- regular processing of each publisher's electronic content
- creation of the Links table for linking ISI Web of Knowledge to primary
content and links to ISI Web of Knowledge from the publisher's site
- integration of the Links table into ISI Web of Knowledge
for intelligent and easy end-user links functionality
Thomson Scientific Links begins with the Thomson Scientific Citation Databases, a multidisciplinary bibliographic collection from over 8,000 international scholarly journals. All bibliographic information and the citations or references are processed, unified and indexed. These steps now support linking the Thomson Scientific source records (the basic bibliographic data) to the corresponding full-text documents. This process also provides the basis for cited reference searching.
The matching of the bibliographic information in ISI Web of Knowledge and the publisher content occurs on a regular and ongoing basis as the publishers provide journal data feeds to Thomson Scientific. Data is provided either directly from the publisher—or from a file provided by CrossRef which includes all DOIs and metadata for participating members of CrossRef. The publisher's bibliographic data is processed and used to create a links table. When the publisher's data matches corresponding Thomson Scientific records in the links table, a full-text link button is posted on the article full record in ISI Web of Knowledge.
How to Activate Links to Full Text
As part of our commitment to customer service, Thomson Scientific will gladly handle all of the details to activate links between
ISI Web of Knowledge and your electronic journal subscriptions. Thomson Scientific will work with virtually any format list provided, making setup as easy as possible for our customers. To activate
Thomson Scientific Links or update your existing links account, simply send an e-mail message to the Links Team at
ts.isilinks@thomson.com with the following information:
- Full institution name
- Your full name
- Your telephone number
- Your ISI Web of Knowledge URL
- Your list of titles for linking by publisher/content host
Alternatively, you can call us at +1 215-823-1722.
Links to Full Text
Full text linking enhances your ISI Web of Knowledge and/or Thomson Pharma subscriptions. Once the fields are activated in your account, the full text is just one or two mouse clicks away. Our goal is to provide users with comprehensive bi-directional links for navigation back and forth between records in Thomson Scientific resources and corresponding full-text documents and references. Whether your access is through the Internet, an institutional intranet, or a combination of both, Thomson Scientific enables links to your information resources no matter where they reside.
Thomson Scientific actively seeks full-text linking partnerships with primary journal publishers and content hosts for all available electronic journals covered by ISI Web of Knowledge. Currently, Thomson Scientific links to over 7,000 unique full text titles, and over 20,000 journal instances. These include a growing population of open access journals and retrospective archives.
For a complete list of journals that can be accessed via Thomson Scientific Links, click here.
For a complete list of publishers and sites that can be accessed via Thomson Scientific Links, click here.
Intranet ISI Web of Knowledge Customers
ISI Web of Knowledge intranet customers who have also elected to hold primary
content locally can utilize
Thomson Scientific Links. Link processing will
be done at Thomson Scientific and a customized Links table will be built. Intranet
ISI Web of Knowledge customers will receive from Thomson Scientific the appropriate
table for installation on their
ISI Web of Knowledge server.
In addition, for consortia, links for each individual participating site can
be customized. A Links table will be tailored precisely to a site's collection.
If you are an intranet customer with an interest in activating Thomson Scientific Links, please contact your Thomson Scientific Account Manager.
Links to Other Resources
Thomson Scientific Links offers navigation to a wide range of scholarly information resources including genetic, chemical and patent information.
National Center for Biotechnology Information GenBank Database with Medline
Links are available from Medline within ISI Web of Knowledge to the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) GenBank database. The GenBank database is a free and publicly available genetic sequence database hosted by NCBI. Thomson Scientific enables access to GenBank's protein sequence database and the DNA database from corresponding records in ISI Web of Knowledge.
Other Thomson Scientific Links Options
Links can also be enabled from ISI Web of Knowledge to your library's online public access catalog (OPAC)—integrating additional information resources. Your customized OPAC query can easily be integrated into your account—using ISSN or title.
Customers now have another option for linking all their electronic resources and services using OpenURL. You can integrate a link-server as a source of links in Thomson Pharma and most ISI Web of Knowledge products. The link button can also be customized to your institution.
How to Activate OPAC or OpenURL Links
To activate OPAC or OpenURL links, contact the Links Team at ts.isilinks@thomson.com. For OPAC links, provide the link gateway URL for your OPAC utility. For OpenURL links, provide the base URL of your OpenURL server, and the gif URL for the button if you want the link to be customized.
Thomson Scientific will continue to add more linking partners, more databases, and more information resources to its menu of options, allowing our customers flexibility and choice in creating an integrated information environment.
For more information, please contact the Links Team at
+1 215-823-1722.
