Discovery: finding the way forward | Research Information

"For many researchers searching for scholarly content, databases such as Web of Science, PubMed, Scopus and Google Scholar, are the springboard. Each database is practical to use, offers numerous search facilities, and in the case of PubMed and Google Scholar, is free.

Crucially, each houses a staggeringly vast array of different types of content, which Jessica Turner, head of scientific research business at Web of Science provider, Clarivate Analytics, believes will always be key to discovery.

As she points out, a hefty 96 million records over 32,000 journals are contained within the Web of Science, with some dating back to 1900. ‘This includes a core collection of globally significant literature but also regional citation indexes such as the Chinese Science Citation Database and SciELO for Latin America,’ she says. ‘We also have specialist databases in many subject areas as well as books, proceedings and data-sets to cover the full scholarly communication life-cycle.’"