[WEB4LIB] Automated searching of Web of Science?

[Araby Greene]

We subsidize the UnCover Reveal service for our users, who can get regular
email alerts for selected journal Tables of Contents or the results of saved
searches.

To promote the service, our Document Delivery librarian offers regular
training sessions for new users. After attending a training session, each
new user gets a login ID and password. Faculty, staff, and students may use
UnCover Reveal.

For more info, see the CARL UnCover web site, http://uncweb.carl.org/

We have Web of Science, but do not use it for this purpose.

-araby greene
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Araby Greene
Web Development Librarian
Getchell Library | http://www.library.unr.edu/
784-6500 ext. 343 | araby at unr.edu

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Stedman" <libr093 at it.canterbury.ac.nz>
To: "Multiple recipients of list" <web4lib at webjunction.org>
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 11:24 AM
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Automated searching of Web of Science?


> Hi,
>
> My first posting ever; I hope it isn't too much of an asinine question!
>
> We have recently been forced to cancel our subscription to Current
> Contents due to budget constraints.
>
> We are currently looking at alternative ways for providing our
> university community with tables of contents services.
>
> We have a subscription to Web of Science, but its functionality
> is not ideal for this purpose.
>
> Have any libraries pioneered the use of scripts to interrogate Web
> of Science semi-automatically, to enable automated searches and
> downloads against the weekly updates on the citation indexes, so
> as to get around the real hassle of having to select/deselect,
> downloading many hits 10 at a time, with several webpage calls for
> each 10?
>
> I would be most interested to hear comments regarding the
> possibility (or impossibility) of this, or any other ideas out there.
>
> Regards
> Tim Stedman
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Tim Stedman
> Electronic Resources Librarian
> Information Services
> University of Canterbury Library
> Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand
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