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Library Research Skills for Land and Food Systems

Web of Science

You will see Web of Science listed in many UBC Library Research Guides. This is because Web of Science is a core article index for the sciences, indexing the content of over 10,000 journals and conference proceedings from Agriculture to Zoology.

Introduction to Web of Science (video)

This video below shows the following search strategies in an introduction to Web of Science:

  • Searching using Boolean operators AND, OR; truncation; phrase searching
  • Sorting results by Times Cited
  • Limiting to review papers

Web of Science Advanced Searching (Videos)