Web of Science (Science Citation Index and Social Citation Index) will be moving to a new interface over the next few months. You can start using the new interface now by clicking on the “Access the New Version” button on the center of the page header of the Web of Science page.

New features of the interface include:

• Retrieve up to 100,000 results, automatically sorted by the journal cover publication date.
• Easily refine and analyze your search results.
• Saved searches from the previous version of ISI Web of Knowledge will run in the new version. Searches saved in the new version will only run on the new version.
• Journal Citation Reports®, Essential Science Indicators^SM, and Highly Cited Researchers^SM are available from the Additional Resources tab in the new version. They will be configured in the new interface in an upcoming release.
• During the period of when both versions are available, items saved into EndNote Web from either version will link to the older version of ISI Web of Knowledge.
• Marked List functionality will be provided by mid-November. In the meantime, users can output records by printing, emailing, or saving directly to EndNote Web.

The old interface will be available until January 2008.

LexisNexis Academic has moved to the new interface.

New features include:

• Shepard’s Citations will expand to cover all federal and state courts
• Company Dossier will be included in all U.S. subscriptions
• Search across broad content such as all news or all federal and state cases
• Powerful source selection using language, geographic, topic, and other facets
• Ability to create ad hoc combined sources
• Sophisticated results clustering feature
• SmartIndexing Technology™ at work throughout the interface
• Support for article-level linking
• Support for federated searching

CIOS has added a new feature to complement our ComIndex and ComAbstracts databases: ComVista.

ComVista is a guide to programs of study in communication-related departments in North American higher education. ComVista can help you make better decisions about places to work or study and it can assist in the evaluation of a program’s impact in the field.

1. Use ComVista to find information on colleges and universities by state or province. Select a state or province and you’ll be shown a list of all 4 year colleges and universities with substantial communication or journalism departments. Select an institutional profile to view a summary of the significant research specialties of faculty who work in the communication-related programs within the institution.

Or select the option to view a profile of departments and faculty. You’ll be shown a roster of communication-related departments and faculty teaching courses in them. Select a faculty member within a department and you’ll be able to review all his or her published research appearing in the CIOS’s comprehensive ComAbstracts database (personal or institutional subscription required).

2. Use ComVista to locate colleges and universities that are leading centers for research in the field’s primary areas of study. Select an area of research and you will be shown a ranked list of the top institutions associated with published research on the selected topic.