Web of Science upgrade on Sunday 26 July – access may be intermittent.

wrench_03Thomson Reuters will be updating Web of Science, primarily to integrate ORCID data into their platform on Sunday 26 July.

They do not expect to have any outages or downtime during the release. But due to other scheduled maintenance work,  there may be intermittent access during that time.

Thomson Reuters apologise for any inconvenience due as a result.

*Resolved*Offsite access to Web of Science

The issue with the offsite link access to Web of Science has now been resolved.

The Web of Science offsite link for student and staff is currently broken, but users can still access Web of Science via www.webofknowledge.com

Choose UK Federation on the first page (see screenshot) and then search for St George’s to get to the Shibboleth log in page.

Screenshot of the Web of Science sign in page. Choose UK Federation from the Institution list.

Web of Science down for maintenance Sun 31 May 1-4pm

wrench_03Maintenance Sunday 31st May 2015 – Web of Science, Incites, ResearcherID and Endnote Online

Thomson Reuters have advised of the following maintenance:
Sunday 31 May 2015  1-4pm

Please be advised that they expect minimal interruption to the service for users who are logged into Web of Science(tm) , InCites(tm), ResearcherID, or EndNote(r) Online. Thomson Reuters apologise for any inconvenience due as a result.

Possible disruptions to Web of Science access Sunday 19 Oct 2pm – Monday 20 Oct 2am

The Web of Science version 5.15 upgrade is being released on Sunday, October 19.

The Upgrade/Maintenance will be managed between

Sunday 19 Oct 2pm GMT – Monday 19 Oct 2am GMT.

There is no disruption to access expected however there may be intermittent issues during the maintenance period. Thomson Reuters apologises for any inconvenience this may cause.

There are no upgrades to EndNote (Online) or Researcher ID at this time and access to these resources is not affected, links from these products to Web of Science records may be subject to a slight disruption.


Release Notes.
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Release notes for WoS 5.15 can be found at: http://wokinfo.com/news/new/

View/download directly at: http://wokinfo.com/media/pdf/wos_515_releasenote.pdf

Web of Science Training
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Webinars/Live training at: http://wokinfo.com/training_support/training/