Subject: Science Citation Index (SCI) Dear Researcher, NCSI announces the launching of yet another important CD-ROM service - SCIENCE CITATION INDEX ON CD-ROM (SCI). This service is brought to you by NCSI, in association with the IISc Library. 1. WHAT IS SCI? The Science Citation Index (SCI) produced by Institute for Scien- tific Information, USA, is a multidisciplinary index to over 3300 major journals covering 100 scientific disciplines. The SCI indexes every article of significant item - including letters, notes, comments and editorials in every publication it fully covers. 2. AVAILABILITY : NCSI has SCI CDs from 1993 - 1996. These provide access to bibli- ographic data only, and not to abstracts. 3. FEATURES OF SCI DATABASE : Two of the features that make SCI unique are Cited References and Related Records. CITED REFERENCES : When you search by citation, you look up for either a specific author, or any particular paper of his or a patent to see how many articles in the database cited that author or his particular paper or patent. To illustrate this further by an example - Suppose Prof G. Padmanabhan wants to know who has cited all his papers, or anyone of his publications, NCSI can retrieve from SCI for the years 1993 -1996 only, list of all articles published during 1993 -1996 that have cited him or anyone of his papers. RELATED RECORDS : Another feature that may be of interest is the Related Records field in SCI. Article A is said to be related to Article B, if they have at least one bibliographic reference in common. Usually, the more the number of refer- ences two articles have in common, the stronger the subject relationship is between them. 4. WHAT CAN THE SCI CDs AT NCSI BE USED FOR? In addition to keyword based searching to find all papers on a specific topic, SCI is better suited for citation searches : 1. To get the list of articles published during 1993-1996 which have cited all the publications of a First Author. Format : Full Name of the First Author along with initials, if any. For Example : padmanaban-g 2. To get the list of articles published during 1993-1996 which have cited anyone of the publications of an author. Format : Full Name-Year-Journal Name-Volume-Pagination. For Example : Padmanaban-g-1989-Trends-Biochem-Sci-V14-P492 Note: Only First Author can be searched as a Cited Author. 5. HOW CAN YOU ACCESS THE SCI CDs AT NCSI? SCI CDs available at NCSI are stand-alone versions (network version is too expensive). You can search the CDs by either sending your request by e-mail to one of the NCSI staff members mentioned below or carry out searches yourself by visiting NCSI. If you are sending your queries by e-mail, please use the follow- ing format : ------------------------< Cut here >-------------------------- SCIENCE CITATION INDEX SEARCH REQUEST FACULTY/STAFF REQUESTING THE SEARCH : DEPARTMENT : TEL. NO. : E-MAIL : SEARCH QUERY : Please carry out the following searches on SCI CD (1993- 96) (select the appropriate option): 1. Subject search (mention the topic)___________________ 2. Cited author search (publications during 93-96 citing this author) (mention the complete author name, including initials and broad subject area)_________________________ 3. Cited paper search (publications during 93-96 citing this paper)(mention the first author and complete details of the paper)____________________________________________ ----------------------------< Cut here >------------------------ You can send your e-mail queries to one of the following NCSI staff or get in touch with them to visit NCSI for conducting the search yourself. 1. Ms. Anuradha Deshpande - anu@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in 2. Ms. K. Thulasi - thulasi@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (Phone : 2511, 2654, 2655) Your's sincerely, T.B. Rajashekar Associate Chairman, NCSI, IISC raja@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in 28 January 1997