The Thomson Reuters sales representative visited the library yesterday to tell us about new developments in Web of Knowledge. The development that I liked best was the Web of Knowledge browser search extension.
This tool puts Web of Science into the browser’s search bar for Firefox 2 and above and Internet Explorer 7 and above. A search in Web of Science can be done directly by using the search box in the top right corner of a browser. There’s no need to go to the Web of Knowledge Web site or to navigate through the library’s Web site first.
There are a couple limitations to the search extension.
It only will work for on-campus computers or computers connected to the university’s VPN. Off campus users not on the VPN still need to go through the library’s Web site to authenticate.
The search is sent as a “Topic” search. This works fine for searching for information on a topic and for searching for an article by title. It does not work for searching by author because “Topic” searches don’t include the author field. Even a search for a particular article will fail if the author’s name is included in the search.
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