new version of WoS now has marked items list

Tue Oct 16 18:21:00 EDT 2007

Dear Ms. Pikas -

Actually several of my colleagues at Thomson monitor this list - indeed,
I can't imagine Dr. Garfield permitting me NOT to monitor it!  He always
forwards items he thinks I should be particularly aware of.  I happen to
have correponded with Loet on his JCR analyses and visualizations, so I
decided to reply to him directly and I am attaching my explanation of
how to get to the fully capable Marked list.  The marked list, now that
it has been incorporated into the expanded beta, works exactly as it
always did - it's just a slightly different navigation path.  

The "quick output" options (in the gray bar at the bottom of the results
page) allows you to output a minimum format  of Authors, title, source
(with or without Abstract), or a "full record" which includes ALL the
fields, affiliations, references, IDS number, full author names...the
whole shooting match - with the further option of including or excluding
the cited references.  Although I'm a data-hound, that format's a bit
much even for me - but when I am doing a LOT of downloads (to export
several thousand items for analysis), I find the quick output (saved to
a tab-delim file) is actually quicker than the old marked list.  For
other analyses, where I want to home in on particular data elements, I
use the old-fashioned marked list - as I described to Loet.  

I am not involved in the design of Web of Science or Web of Knowledge -
but I will forward your comments to the key development and design
people here.  

As a dedicated Web of Science user myself, I admit to having had an
initial skepticism about the new look - but, as I get used to it, I find
that I've lost none of my favorite and familiar operations, but that the
most typical functions (in the hands of a less experienced searcher) are
easier to use.  Give it a chance...  If you think there's something
missing or messed-up, let me know - if I can't direct you to it, I'll
find someone who can address your particular concern.

I noted to Loet that I don't post to the listserv.  If you do want to
make these instructions available to the members, please note that they
are from Thomson Scientific.  Thanks.

Marie McVeigh

Marie E. McVeigh
Senior Manager, JCR & Bibliographic Policy
Editorial Development Department 

Thomson Scientific
3501 Market Street
Philadelphia, PA  19104

Tel        +1 215 823 6105
Fax       +1 215 384 4706
marie.mcveigh at thomson.com
www.isinet.com
http://scientific.thomson.com

Better Decisions Faster

-----Original Message-----
From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics
[mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Pikas, Christina K.
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 4:13 PM
To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU
Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] new version of WoS now has marked items list

Dear Loet-
Oh dear.  I see that you're right.  

As a librarian I've been so caught up in the (other) glaring problems
(such as the inability to suppress EndNote Web and the lack of a marked
list and starting people in a meaningless cross search that's like
mystery meat) that I missed this.  I would hope someone from Thomson
Scientific monitors this list?

So the default (and alas only) format doesn't export affiliations or
references? What on earth were they thinking?

I shall try to give feedback through my channels if you all want to do
the same.
Christina

________________________________

From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics on behalf of Loet
Leydesdorff
Sent: Tue 10/16/2007 3:45 AM
To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU
Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] new version of WoS now has marked items list

Dear Christina, 

It seems to me that we have lost the option to select fields. For
example, to include cited references, but to exclude abstracts. 

With best wishes, 

Loet

________________________________

Loet Leydesdorff
Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), Kloveniersburgwal
48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. 
Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20- 525 3681 loet at leydesdorff.net
<mailto:loet at leydesdorff.net> ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/
<http://www.leydesdorff.net/>  

________________________________

	From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics
[mailto:SIGMETRICS at listserv.utk.edu] On Behalf Of Pikas, Christina K.
	Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 10:12 PM
	To: SIGMETRICS at listserv.utk.edu
	Subject: [SIGMETRICS] new version of WoS now has marked items
list

	Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe):
http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html 
	I thought it would be fair for me to pass this along since I
sent up the alarms when the previous version did not have a marked list.

	From the newsletter:
	Marked List

	*	You can use the Marked List to help you manage your
search results within ISI Web of Knowledge, to easily print, export,
save or download records 
	*	Every record you mark is automatically submitted to the
Marked List when you navigate away from the page 
	*	You can also click on the Submit Marks button to create
your Marked List 
	*	You can export your Marked List records to EndNote Web
or other reference management tools 

	I think all subscribing libraries now have access to both old
and new interfaces.  The new is at: http://newisiknowledge.com
<http://newisiknowledge.com/> 

	Christina K. Pikas, MLS 
	R.E. Gibson Library & Information Center
	The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory 
	Voice  240.228.4812 (Washington), 443.778.4812 (Baltimore) 
	Fax 443.778.5353 
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