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WISER: Humanities Citation searching with Web of Knowledge

WISER: Humanities Citation searching with Web of Knowledge. Isabel Holowaty OULS History Librarian Shona McLean Senior Library Assistant, History Faculty Library. Aim What is it How does it work Features & Pitfalls Demonstrations Hands-on Questions. What is Web of Knowledge

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WISER: Humanities Citation searching with Web of Knowledge

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  1. WISER: Humanities Citation searching with Web of Knowledge Isabel Holowaty OULS History Librarian Shona McLean Senior Library Assistant, History Faculty Library

  2. Aim • What is it • How does it work • Features & Pitfalls • Demonstrations • Hands-on • Questions

  3. What is Web of Knowledge • Web of Science (AHCI, SSCI, SCI) • Multidisciplinary citation indexes covering the journal literature of all disciplines • Journal Citation Reports, Highly Cited, etc.

  4. What is the Art & Humanities Citation Index? • Fully indexes 1,180+ leading scholarly journals. • Provides access to articles from 1975 to the present. • Weekly additions: 2,300 new records + 15,250 new cited references. • Current total of 2.5+ million records. • Contains citations that refer you to actual representations of a book, a work of art, a music score, or anything else. • As of January 2000 contains searchable, full-length, • English-language author abstracts.

  5. AHCI subject coverage

  6. Searching options 1. To find journal article or book review (General Search) 2. To find work citing a particular work (Cited Ref search)

  7. Cited references Article A Author? Title? Subject? Times cited General search

  8. General search

  9. Cited by whom & where? Work B Cited Reference search (Reverse look-up) Note: Can also be used for works published before 1975.

  10. Cited Reference search

  11. Features • All content of a journal is indexed, not just articles • Citation searches & analysis: Highly cited • Author affiliation searches • Find illustrations of artistic or musical works • Refine by subject, source, document types, authors, etc. • Combination searches • Search history

  12. Features • Cross-searching with other disciplines, e.g. Social Sciences, Sciences • Exporting, saving, printing • Alerts • Save searches • My Web of Knowledge

  13. Pitfalls • Foreign language titles are translated! • Cited works are heavily abbreviated, inconsistently referenced and frequently wrong • No abstracts for pre-2000 entries in AHCI • Subject searching is difficult • Remember to save results per page

  14. Questions? Demonstration Hands-on

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