 Hi, I'm Abby Kaler, a teaching and learning librarian at Western, and this video is going to show you the basics of getting started with Web of Science. First, navigate to Western Libraries online by googling www and library. This is the home page, and there are many ways to access the databases and resources that we have available to you at Western. To start, I think we should begin using this link, article databases. You can subscribe to over 200 databases, both subscription and open access databases are available here, but in particular, we're looking for Web of Science. There are two databases listed for Web of Science. The first one is the one that we want. You'll notice that you'll need to enter your Western credentials, since none of us are on campus these days, and you should be passed through to the database without problem. You can search by entering keywords. Web of Science searches a smaller set of articles and information than say Google, so start your search using broad keywords. The results of your search are found in the middle column. On the left, there are options for refining your results, which we'll look at in a second. And on the right is very valuable information about how articles can be connected to each other. Once we begin with a broad search, the refined options are going to be very useful to us. As I can see, we have 264 results in the middle here, but not necessarily ones that were very highly cited in their field. To use the refined results, scroll down. You have options to choose from those that are highly cited in the field, from recent years of publication, from different categories, which include, which are Web of Science defined in a fairly broad, different document types, articles, or proceedings from conferences, as well as mentioned before, funding agencies would have supported this research. When evaluating sources, whether it's within a database or online, evaluating who paid for the information can be key. From 264 results, we're down to just six. This is one of the best features of using an online database from the library. In addition, I can also see that the initial results are more highly cited than those that I received initially. Web of Science's best feature is its ability to show connections between articles on a topic. It does this by showing who has cited an article, and the more people who have used or cited an article, the more likely it could be important to your research. By clicking on that link of time cited, I now receive a different list of 17 articles which may be useful as I work on building my sources for my particular project or paper. This initial list is default sorted by date, but to find of those resources that cited the initial article, the ones that were most cited themselves, I can sort by time cited. Now I see that the top resource has been cited by 19 other articles or proceedings. This method of seeing how articles are connected in your research is called citation tracking and is available in other databases and resources as well. Now I'll say in my research I found an article that I am actually interested in and I'd like to get it. Look for the find it link within Web of Science and other databases in order to be passed through to Western subscription resources. This is passing me through to the library's online catalog, our kind of one stop shop for verifying a subscription information through your Western credentials. Here I can see that the title is the same, much of the information is the same. I can click access options here, but first I'm going to scroll down to see if I can view it already. I can see that the library subscribes to two different database packages. This one is called Filey Online Library. By clicking here and being passed through one more time, I can now see the article in full by reading the abstract and getting the PDF. To go back to our results list, as I'm searching I may find that there is one article that I'm interested in that may or may not be available. Again, Web of Science sometimes lists a description of articles or not. It doesn't necessarily pass you through to the full text of an article. In this case, I can see that under the view it bar, there's an option to get it through interlibrary loan. Western Libraries is connected to a number of regional and national libraries where we can borrow and share materials. By using the interlibrary loan service, I can log in using my Western credentials and access it there. Articles requested using interlibrary loan usually take up to two to three days to come in, sometimes even faster than that if you are providing as much information as possible. And by using the online database through the library, much information is passed as you've seen from one resource to the other. The article, when they find it, will be sent to you via your email address, your Western email address as a PDF. That's what we've got for the Basics for Web of Science. As many other databases, it has a number of options and features that I encourage you to explore. Again, Web of Science, like other library databases, really works to bring you connections between the articles as you do your research. If you have any other questions, please contact the Teaching and Learning Division of Western Libraries. Thanks.