On Mar 28, 2014, at 13:44, Fischlin Andreas wrote: > Indeed. And the attached picture may help further: > > [cid:ddca7c28-b7dd-4169-865d-5de300526a45@intern.ethz.ch] > > On 28/Mar/2014, at 13:08 , Reto Stöckli wrote: > >>>> >>> >>> But their web pages seems to say Web of Science, not Web of Knowledge, even >>> if their domain name is webofknowledge.com. And is it WoK, WoS, or WOK, WOS? >> >> That confusion can be solved a bit by not looking at TM registered company >> names but at the way of how databases in Web of Science (or Web of Knowledge >> if you want) are ordered. >> >> WOK DB consists of >> -> WOS DB >> -> BIOSIS DB >> -> CCC DB >> -> DII DB >> -> FSTA DB >> -> INSPEC DB >> -> SciELOCI DB >> >> Each of them may have different collections of sub-databases, and each >> database may have different editions. >> >> So the whole WOKSearch access searches the WOK databases and not WOS >> databases. One can of course select the WOS database only for search. Which >> is, what is currently done in my BibDesk implementation. >> >> I would suggest to have the Server settings as follows: >> - type: Entrez, Z39.50, WOK, DLBP >> - Name: Web of Knowledge WOS >> - Database: WOK > > I concur with all you say Reto, but AFAIK Name has little to do with WOS. > Thomson Reuters offers so called web services giving access to WOK. WOS is a > data base within WOK that is dedicated to natural sciences. At a university > where you would focus on agricultural sciences then you would subscribe to > WOK while having as default the data base FSTA in use, not WOS. At a social > science university you would perhaps not even subscribe to WOS. Thus WOK has > first of all nothing to do with WOS. Therefore: > > - Type: Entrez, Z39.50, WOK, WOK Lite, DLBP or Entrez, Z39.50, WOK, DLBP > (I no longer care, given the checkbox is dynamic) > - Name: Web of Knowledge (WOK) (is a web service, or service, comes either > as WOKSearchPremium or WOKSearchLite)
The "Name" is not the name of the service (i.e. type), but of the *server*, that is, including all its (other) settings. So this should be something like Web of Science, not Web of Knowledge. The latter is the name for the type (service). So the name should depend on the database more than the service. > - Database: ? (what is this, the default data base or something else?) Since > Thomson Reuters calls WOK not a data base but a web service, I argue there is > no Database WOK. There may be a default data base for WOK, e.g. WOS. At best > you could call all currently available data bases offered by WOK at any > moment as WOK. But then I would call this Database = ALL. > No, it definitely should not be WOK, because if anything, WOK is not in any way a database. It may be WOS. >> >> I would then change the behavior of the Database setting to not specify the >> DB edition (like SCI, like it is done now), but to change the databaseID >> (WOS, BIOSIS etc.) like it should be. > > Yes, as it should be. > So it is possible to search the other databases like BIOSIS with the same code? The documentation only seems to mention WOS as an option for the databaseID. But I am a bit worried with backward compatibility if this is changed to databaseID etc. All this data from the old groups and servers is around on computers everywhere with the old settings. Perhaps then we need to take care of this and explicitly check for the known available DBs, and if the setting is not one of them use WOS instead. >> >> I've also re-implemented the times-cited and the ISI openURL retrieval. > > Excellent! > > Cheers, > Andreas > >> >> Reto Christiaan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-develop mailing list Bibdesk-develop@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-develop
