The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced a five-year commitment between the Scottish Higher Education Digital Library (SHEDL) and Thomson Reuters to advance the global impact of Scotland's research efforts through citation connections within the Web of Science. Thomson Reuters Web of Science provides a single destination for the world's largest collection of research data, publications, proceedings and patents to be utilised from the initial stage of discovery through the application of scholarly research. The unified web-based platform will provide researchers in Scotland with the ability to perform granular and big-picture analyses via a full range of data, tools and technology.
The collaboration between Thomson Reuters and SHEDL, a cooperative comprising Scotland's universities and research institutions, will enable researchers in Scotland to uncover new theories, spot emerging trends and evaluate their work within the global research landscape with a comprehensive view into possible funding opportunities from one platform. Built upon a core collection of journal literature from the sciences, social sciences and arts and humanities, the citation connections within Web of Science build upon its foundation as the world's most trusted citation index and provide users with access to more content to advance their workflow - Book Citation Index; Data Citation Index; Biosis Citation Index; Zoological Record; Derwent Innovations Index; and Current Contents Connect.
The Web of Science also enables scholars to apply robust research metrics throughout the entire research process, to pinpoint the most relevant research, improve search, measure collaboration, and track impact of research by integrating data from the leading Thomson Reuters Research Analytics tools - Journal Citation Reports and InCites.
Jisc Collections, an organization supporting the provision of digital content for education and research in the United Kingdom, worked with Thomson Reuters and SHEDL to facilitate this effective collaboration.
