General resources

1. General resources • ASSIA • Health, social services, economics, politics, race relations, education • Indexes 650 journals from 16 countries • Covers 1987 onwards • IBSS • Economics, politics, sociology, anthropology • Indexes over 2,600 journals • Covers 1951 onwards • Good for non-English language coverage Wiser Social Sciences: OxLIP+

2. General resources • SCOPUS • Social science coverage includes development studies, SPSW, education, business and management • Indexes over 2,800 social science titles • Web of Science/ SSSI • Indexes over 1,400 titles in behavioural and social sciences • Provides references to 130,000 articles each year • Covers 1970 onwards Wiser Social Sciences: OxLIP+

3. Subject-specific resources • Development Studies • ELDIS – published by the IDS at Sussex; offers 18,000 full-text documents, subject-focused resource guides, and country profiles • World Development Indicators (statistics) and World Development Reports (full-text) from the World Bank • Economics • EconLit – abstracting and indexing service covering journal articles, books and dissertations from 1969 onwards Wiser Social Sciences: OxLIP+

4. Subject-specific resources • Politics and IR • PAIS International – A&I service with over 553,300 references to articles, books, reports, and grey literature from 120 countries • Worldwide Political Science Abstracts – indexes 1,500 publications in politics and related fields; 67% of these titles are published outside the US • Sociology • Sociological Abstracts – indexes over 1,800 journals, plus conference papers, books, and dissertations Wiser Social Sciences: OxLIP+

5. IBSS • See www.ibss.ac.uk for guides, information about coverage, etc. • When using the database, click on the question mark button for context-specific help Wiser Social Sciences: OxLIP+

6. IBSS – basic searching • Click on the button to access the basic search screen • Enter search terms and select the desired search mode: • Boolean/ phrase – to run a search using Boolean operators, or to search for terms entered as an “exact phrase” • Find all… – assumed AND (narrower search) • Find any… – assumed OR (broader search) Wiser Social Sciences: OxLIP+

7. Click on this icon to access the Basic Search screen from anywhere in the site Type in search terms here Options to limit search by date and/ or publication type Choose search mode – Boolean/ phrase, find all terms, or find any term

8. IBSS - search tips • Boolean operators: • Use AND to retrieve records that include all the terms entered (narrower search) • Use OR to retrieve records that include any one of the terms entered (broader search) • Use NOT to retrieve records that include one term but not the other • IBSS also allows proximity searching: • Near operator – ‘tax N5 reform’ will find records where ‘tax’ and ‘reform’ appear within five words of each other • Within operator – ‘tax W5 reform’ will find records where ‘tax’ and ‘reform’ appear within five words of each other, and in that particular order Wiser Social Sciences: OxLIP+

9. IBSS - search tips • Use wildcard (?) and truncation (*) symbols to allow for variant spellings and word endings • e.g. ‘wom?n’ will retrieve records containing ‘woman’ or ‘women’ • e.g. ‘politic*’ will retrieve records containing ‘politics’, ‘political’, ‘politician’, etc. • Use the search limits available to narrow down your search results by date and/ or publication type Wiser Social Sciences: OxLIP+

10. Use proximity searching (Near and Within operators) to retrieve results where your search terms occur within a specified number of words of each other Enclose two or more words in “” to search for them as an exact phrase Use * for truncation to find all forms of a particular root – e.g. bank* will return records containing banks, banking, etc.

11. IBSS – visual searching • Presents search results in an interactive visual map • You can group results by subject or publication, and follow the path of your choice to narrow down results • Preview records by clicking on the title link Wiser Social Sciences: OxLIP+

12. 1. Group results by subject or publication 4. Click on an article title to see a preview of the full record in the right-hand side bar 2. Subheadings for your initial set of results appear in the first column – click to select a path to follow and narrow down your results 3. The number of results retrieved after each selection is shown in the lower half of the column

13. IBSS – advanced searching • Allows you to specify the fields in which your search terms should appear • Combine search terms using Boolean operators AND, OR and NOT • Additional option to limit search by language Wiser Social Sciences: OxLIP+

14. Combine your search terms using Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) Use the drop-down menu to select the field in which your search term should appear Additional option to limit search by language – tick ‘English only’, or select language(s) from the drop-down menu (hold down the Ctrl key to select more than one)

15. IBSS – search results • Narrow by subject, publication or author • Sort by date, author, source or relevance • Hover cursor over magnifying glass symbol to preview full record • Click on title link to see full record • Use to check for full text • Add results to a folder to print, save, email or export Wiser Social Sciences: OxLIP+

16. Options to narrow results by subject, publication, or author Options to limit results to those with linked full text, and/ or English only Hover cursor over magnifying glass symbol to preview full record Click ‘Add to folder’ to set results aside for saving, emailing, printing, or exporting Click on ‘PDF full text’ link to go directly to full text, or ‘Find it at Oxford’ link to check for full text availability Click on title link to access the full record

17. Options to save, print, email, export, or add to folder Full record provides detailed information about the article

18. Select items in the folder to print, email, save, or export Create an EBSCOhost user account to save IBSS search results and set up alerts on IBSS searches