ISI WEB OF KNOWLEDGE NOW DELIVERS LIFE SCIENCES AND BIOMEDICAL CONTENT FROM MEDLINE

 

Philadlephia, PA USA-London UK - 04/07/2005 — Today, Thomson Scientific, a business of The Thomson Corporation, announced that the ISI Web of Knowledge(SM) content will be enhanced with MEDLINE®, which contains nearly eleven million records from over 7,300 different publications from 1965 to the present.

The MEDLINE data will be augmented with all the unique capabilities of the ISI Web of Knowledge premier research platform, creating a unique version of MEDLINE’s comprehensive life sciences and biomedical bibliographic data. MEDLINE through ISI Web of Knowledge will include:
  • Citation Alerts that notify users when another author has cited their work.
  • Unique links to citation information within Web of science that allows users to track a work through time to discover its foundation and influence, as well as to uncover works with common citations to reveal hidden relationships between them.

In addition, MEDLINE delivered by ISI Web of Knowledge will join the other information solutions integrated within the platform’s CrossSearch functionality, allowing users to seamlessly search across the highest-quality, multidisciplinary journal, proceedings, patent, and Web content. CrossSearch also allows for seamless access, to the multidisciplinary information resources within the platform, like MEDLINE.

“We have eagerly awaited the addition of MEDLINE to the wealth of content available through ISI Web of Knowledge, said Jim Pringle, vice president of development, Thomson Scientific. “Thomson is committed to delivering only the most essential and relevant information directly to the desktops of the researchers and information professionals worldwide. The addition of MEDLINE’s renowned life sciences and biomedical content is an exciting extension of that commitment.”

About MEDLINE

Compiled by the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) and published on the Web by Community of Science, MEDLINE® is the world's most comprehensive source of life sciences and biomedical bibliographic information. It contains records from over 4,900 publications from 1950 to present. OLDMEDLINE is the National Library of Medicine's online data of approximately 1,760,000 citations to articles from international biomedical journals covering the fields of medicine, preclinical sciences and allied health sciences from 1950 through 1965. MEDLINE® is updated weekly.


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