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TUNISIAN MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ADVANCES COUNTRY’S RESEARCH CAPABILITIES
Universities Acquire Access to ISI Web of Knowledge
Philadelphia, PA USA-London UK — February 6, 2006 — Today, Thomson Scientific, a business of The Thomson Corporation, announced that the Tunisian Ministry of Science & Technology have agreed to the terms of a one-year investment in ISI Web of KnowledgeSM. The investment means that all six Tunisian universities will gain immediate access to key components of this innovatory single environment that allows for seamless navigation to the highest quality journal and Web content, evaluation tools, and bibliographic management products. Since its inception in late 2001, ISI Web of Knowledge has delivered the unmatched quality, objective content, innovative search options and direct links that researchers require.
The national contract gives the Tunisian universities access to ten years of backfile data from the Web of Science® component of ISI Web of Knowledge. With content back to 1900, Web of Science delivers retrospective, multidisciplinary information from approximately 8,700 of the world’s most prestigious scholarly journals. It also provides the unique search method—cited reference searching—that enables users to navigate forward and backward through the literature, searching all disciplines and time spans to uncover the most relevant information to their research.
In addition to access to Web of Science, Tunisian researchers will also gain access to two vital evaluation tools—Journal Citation Reports® (JCR®) and Essential Science IndicatorsSM (ESI). Since its creation in the 1960’s, JCR and its pioneering ‘Impact Factor’ have set the standard in providing a systematic, objective way to evaluate, categorize, and compare the world's leading scholarly journals and measure their influence on the global research community. Introduced in 2001, ESI enables researchers to conduct ongoing, quantitative analyses of the research performance of scientists, institutions, countries, and journals; and track trends in science.
“We have chosen to invest in these information solutions in response to the expectations of our research community, who have expressed their wish to have these resources,” said Madame Ben Abdallah at the Tunisian Ministry of Science & Technology. “Access to these electronic resources will allow Tunisian research teams to locate and follow work undertaken elsewhere; establish crucial contact with other researchers worldwide; analyze national scientific research and its evolution; compare our research with that of developed countries; and follow research trends, developments and patterns on a worldwide scale,” concluded Madame Abdallah.
Keith MacGregor, executive vice president of Academic & Government Markets
at Thomson Scientific said, “We are delighted to have reached this agreement
with the Tunisian Ministry of Science & Technology. It will provide the
Tunisian research community with the necessary tools to support world class
research.”
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