This promotional film for the Institute for Scientific Information is one of several produced in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The ISI was founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1960 by Eugene Garfield, a prominent American information scientist and a pioneer in the field of scientometrics. The ISI introduced citation indexing databases for scientific scholarship and research, tracking the citations of previous and related works between scientific papers. Opening with a cartoon about the history of scientific research and publishing, the film explains the innovation of the ISI and the concept of citation indexing. This video was taken from a DVD copy, but the original was likely recorded on 16mm film.