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Research Support: Rhodes University Library

A Guide to assist Postgradtuate Students and Researchers know where to go for Research Support during their research journey at Rhodes University

RUL Subscriptions to critical services which support research endeavours

Clarivate

Clarivate is a global leader in providing trusted insights and analytics to accelerate the pace of innovation. Our vision is to improve the way the world creates, protects and advances innovation.

To achieve this, we deliver critical data, information, workflow solutions and deep domain expertise to innovators everywhere. We are a trusted, indispensable global partner to our customers, including universities, nonprofits, funding organizations, publishers, corporations, government organizations and law firms.

Web of Science Core Collections 

The Web of Science™ is the world’s most trusted publisher-independent global citation database. Guided by the legacy of Dr Eugene Garfield, inventor of the world’s first citation index, the Web of Science is the most powerful research engine, delivering your library with best-in-class publication and citation data for confident discovery, access and assessment.

Our multidisciplinary platform connects regional, specialty, data and patent indexes to the Web of Science Core Collection™. Our comprehensive platform allows you to track ideas across disciplines and time from almost 1.9 billion cited references from over 171 million records.

Over 9,000 leading academic, corporate and government institutions and millions of researchers trust the Web of Science to produce high-quality research, gain insights and make more-informed decisions that guide the future of their institution and research strategy.

Journal Citation Reports 

Journal Citation Reports™ (JCR) provides you with the transparent, publisher-neutral data and statistics you need to make confident decisions in today’s evolving scholarly publishing landscape, whether you’re submitting your first manuscript or managing a portfolio of thousands of publications.

Quickly understand a journal’s role within and influence upon the global research community by exploring a rich array of citation metrics, including the Journal Impact Factor™ (JIF), alongside descriptive data about a journal’s open access content and contributing authors.

EndNote Click 

Fast, one-click access to millions of research papers. This is Chrome browser extension 

 

ResearcherID 

Your Web of Science ResearcherID is a unique identifier for researchers on Publons, Web of Science, and InCites.  Your personal ResearcherID is shown at the top-right of most pages on Publons, including your profile and your private dashboard.  All the publications you add to your Publons profile will be linked to your Web of Science ResearcherID, meaning someone can use that ResearcherID to find your works in Web of Science and InCites.

Publons 

Use Publons to track your publications, citation metrics, peer reviews, and journal editing work in a single, easy-to-maintain profile.

 

 

InCites 

InCites Benchmarking & Analytics is a customized, web-based research evaluation tool that helps you develop your research strategy

 

 

Quick links to research support services