Why can't I access Web of Science?
The Library has not been able to renew several databases and journals in 2023, including Web of Science.
Due to the University’s challenging financial situation and the need to significantly reduce capital budget expenditure, which supports the Library’s collection budget for 2023, subscriptions have had to be reviewed rapidly, and cancellations made without much warning.
Web of Science is an indexing, abstracting and citation tool which has significant overlap in titles indexed with Scopus, very similar functionality, and costs considerably more than Scopus. A recent article comparing the master journal lists of Web of Science (13,610 journal entries) and Scopus (40,385 journal entries) found that 99.11% (13,489 entries) of the Web of Science titles are also in Scopus. Coverage in Scopus is much wider – 66.07% (26,269 entries) of titles are not in Web of Science (Singh et al, 2021).
For more information please read our blog post.
For a list of databases and journals relevant to your area, or to ask for advice, please contact your Subject Librarian.
We apologise for the inconvenience this decision will cause.