TIANJIN ACADEMIC LIBRARY ACQUIRES ISI WEB OF KNOWLEDGE
Ten Prominent Chinese Universities Acquire ISI Web of Knowledge
Philadelphia, PA USA-London UK - November 28, 2005 — Today, Thomson Scientific announced that Tianjin Academic Library Document and Information Center (TALDIC) has obtained access to ISI Web of KnowledgeSM—the integrated, Web-based platform designed to support all levels of scientific and scholarly research within academic, corporate, government or nonprofit environments. TALDIC is an affiliated organization of the Tianjin Municipal Education Commission. TALDIC serves higher education in the city of Tianjin, supplementing the city’s demand for economic construction and social development. Thomson Scientific is a business of The Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC).
“By bringing ISI Web of Knowledge to TALDIC’s scientific and technical personnel, we also are bringing them a better understanding of world science and the development of modern technology,” said Professor Feng Chengbai, director of TALDIC. “ISI Web of Knowledge will help our teaching and scientific-research institutions better grasp and analyze relevant scientific and technological trends.”
“We’re pleased to be able to offer TALDIC’s researchers and information professionals access to Web of Science® through ISI Web of Knowledge,” said Adam Klein, vice president of Asia Pacific, Thomson Scientific. “These internationally recognized institutions understand the importance of having the tools necessary to conduct research with greater efficiency.”
Web of Science® is a key component of ISI Web of Knowledge. With multidisciplinary content back to 1900 from more than 8,700 of the most prestigious journals, Web of Science is the leading scientific information resource of choice for information professionals and researchers worldwide. The unique Web of Science feature—cited reference searching—allows users to navigate forward and backward through the multidisciplinary literature to uncover all the information relevant to their work, and allows researchers to learn who is citing their work, and the impact they, or their colleagues, are having on the global research community.
Along with Web of Science, TALDIC also acquired access to six other components of ISI Web of Knowledge including: Current Chemical Reactions®—a resource that covers the latest synthetic methods reported in the world’s leading organic chemistry journals; Index Chemicus®—a text and substructure-searchable database that reports over 200,000 new compounds each year; Journal Citation Reports®—with its pioneering “Impact Factor”, JCR has set the standard in providing a systematic, objective way to evaluate, categorize, and compare the world's leading scholarly journals; Essential Science IndicatorsSM—a resource that ranks the performance of scientists, journals, institutions (universities, corporations, and government laboratories), and countries across 22 fields; MEDLINE®—the U.S. National Library of Medicine’s premier database of biomedical records and abstracts; and INSPEC®—the world’s leading bibliographic information service that provides access to scientific and technical literature.
About Tianjin Academic Library Document Information Center
Tianjin Academic Library Document & Information Center (TALDIC), headquartered at Tianjin Polytechnic University (formerly the Tianjin Institute of Textile Science and Technology), is an affiliated organization of the Tianjin Municipal Education Commission. TALDIC serves higher education in the city of Tianjin, supplementing the city’s demand for economic construction and social development.
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