Web of Science is an excellent cross-disciplinary database. WoS's Core Collection is one of several databases we have on their platform.
The Web of Science Core Collection consists of ten indexes containing information gathered from thousands of scholarly journals, books, book series, reports, conferences, and more. The KDI Central Library's entitlement to the Web of Science platform not include all these databases. The KDI Central Library subscribe to the SSCI(Science Citation Index Expanded) and the A&HCI (Arts & Humanities Citation Index).
1. Access Web of Science from your library’s electronic resources page.
2. Create a sign-in for Web of Science (top right corner of the landing page).
While optional, creating a sign-in allows you to:
The journals included in Web of Science are selected based on specific criteria, summarized by the publisher as "including but not limited to how often articles from the journals are cited, whether the journals are published in English, whether they conform to common publication standards in terms of format and citation," and so on.
As a general rule, the journals indexed in WoS are the top ten percent of the most-cited journals in a given discipline or field. It is not an all-inclusive or comprehensive index to any field.
The journals that they index change over time, as research emphases and publications change. It is fairly easy to discover which journals are being indexed in a given year, through the Journal Citation Reports, but relatively difficult to see the whole list of seventeen thousand journals, plus or minus.
Note: many of the citation results, such as with cited author searches, are based on all the journals in all the databases we subscribe to through this vendor, rather than just Web of Science.