Perhaps you’ve heard in the news lately about the 2007 Nobel Prize winners. These people were all honored for their important contributions to literature, science and world peace.
The 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature went to Doris Lessing, and if you are interested in reading any of her works, you can find them in BearCat, Baylor Library’s online catalog. If you choose “Search the Catalog by Author” and put in “Lessing, Doris” you will find a list of about 30 of her books, which the library has in its collection.
If you’re interested in finding the works of the Nobel Prize winners in the sciences, you should start with the database called Web of Science (log in with your Bear ID and password). This database contains a large amount of high-quality peer-reviewed information from the leading science journals.
I was specifically interested in finding out about the Nobel Prizewinners in Physics, since they had discovered the technology which drives pretty much all of today’s computer industry. So, after I logged into Web of Science I clicked on “Cited Ref Search”, then chose the “Science Citation Index Expanded” database, entered in “Fert, A” as the author and “1988″ as the year (according to the Nobel press release, this is when he published his ground-breaking work).
While I got 13 results, it’s pretty easy to tell which is the article in question – it’s the one that under the column “Times Cited” has a number over 3000! This is one of the great features of Web of Science: the ability to see what each article has cited and who has cited it. The higher the number of “times cited” the more important or influential the work has been. No wonder this guy won a Nobel Prize!
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