Century of Science, the product from Thomson Scientific that enables cited reference searching from 1900 to present, is now available to Stanford users through Web of Science (SciSearch). It will be available through SearchPlus at LANL in the fall of 2005.
With the addition of Century of Science, SciSearch now covers 1900 to the present. Century of Science is fully integrated with SciSearch and the two parts of the file can be searched together or separately. SciSearch is a multidisciplinary index to the literature of science, technology, and medicine. The database indexes over 5,000 journals representing all areas of science. An important feature is the ability to perform cited reference searches, finding recent papers that cite an earlier work. Until recently, the database covered the time period from 1945 to the present.
Century of Science indexes over 250 journals in all scientific disciplines from 1900 through 1944. Journals selected for inclusion in Century of Science are among the most frequently cited titles. Century of Science indexes many of the seminal scientific works of the first half of the twentieth century, including papers of Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Sir Alexander Fleming, and others.
The cited reference searching feature of SciSearch and Century of Science extends the reach of the database to even earlier years. Because authors cite earlier works of any time period and in any format, it is possible to use cited reference searching to discover information about works not covered by the database. For example, SciSearch can find papers that cite the works of Charles Darwin, or even of Aristotle and earlier authors. Century of Science enhances this powerful feature of SciSearch.
SciSearch is available though the SULAIR databases page at:
