WISER Social Sciences: Electronic Resources

1. WISER Social Sciences: Electronic Resources Mark Janes (Social Sciences Subject Consultant) and Gillian Beattie (Research Support, Social Science Library)

2. WISER Social Sciences: Electronic Resources • This session: • General overview of the e-resources available to social scientists • Demonstration of some key bibliographic, full-text, and data resources • Pointers to other sessions and specialist help

3. WISER Social Sciences: Electronic Resources WISER Social Sciences: Key search skills. Wednesday, 1 November WISER Social Sciences: Keeping up-to-date. Wednesday, 8 November WISER Social Sciences:  Full-text electronic journals. Wednesday, 15 November WISER Social Sciences: Quality information on the Internet. Wednesday, 22  November WISER Social Sciences: Citation searching with Web of Knowledge. Wednesday 29 November

4. WISER Social Sciences: Electronic Resources • Specialist help and training within OULS: • Law databases - Law Library • Business & Management - Saïd Business School • Education databases - Educational Studies Library • Area Studies – Area Specialist or area library • Psychology- Radcliffe Science Library • Archaeology – Sackler Library • Anthropology, Economics, Politics, Sociology - Social Science Library • Official Publications – Official Papers, Radcliffe Camera

5. WISER Social Sciences: Electronic Resources • Accessing e-resources • On campus: • Just click the link to the resource, or use ATHENS password as required • Off campus: • ATHENS password, or connect to Oxford network (Departmental server, college server, or VPN) • OxLIP is the access point in each case: http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/oxlip/

6. WISER Social Sciences: Electronic Resources • OxLIP gives access to: • Approx 155 resources listed under Social Sciences (listed by Subject or Title) • Secondary sources • Online catalogues, bibliographic databases, indexes of publications • Primary sources • E-journals, full-text of theses, working papers, reports and official publications, news sources, data • E-journals, news services, official papers, and area studies under “All subjects”

7. WISER Social Sciences: Electronic Resources • For example, an economist may: • Search for articles on EconLit and working papers on RePEc • Check for news articles on Lexis Nexis • Browse the day’s financial headlines on FT.Com • Access e-journals via TDNetand Business SourcePremier • Download a report from Source OECD • Access UK company information on FAME • Download macroeconomic data from ESDS

8. WISER Social Sciences: Electronic Resources • Bibliographic databases: • IBSS (International Bibliography of the Social Sciences) • CSA Illumina (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts) • ISI Web of Knowledge/ Social Science Citation Index • SCOPUS • EconLit • PAIS • Worldwide Political Science Abstracts • Sociological Abstracts (Sociofile)

9. WISER Social Sciences: Electronic Resources • IBSS: • Anthropology, economics, political science, sociology • 1951 onwards – updated weekly • 2,600+ journals – good non-English language coverage • Maintained by the LSE

10. WISER Social Sciences: Electronic Resources • Searching IBSS: • Basic search • Search by keyword and/ or author • Limit to latest updates, to records that include abstracts, or by publication date • Advanced search • Search by keyword, author, title or journal • Truncation (use $), wildcards (use ?) and Boolean searching • More limits available – full-text, language, publication type and subject subset

11. WISER Social Sciences: Electronic Resources • Working with your search results: • From any individual record: • View the complete reference or abstract • Access full-text article (if available) • Find citing articles (works better for older articles) • Combine searches to narrow down results • Results Manager: • select and format records • display on screen; print; email; save; or export to reference management software (e.g. EndNote)

12. WISER Social Sciences: Electronic Resources • CSA Illumina: • Access to a wide range of full-text and bibliographic databases, including: • ASSIA (Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts • PAIS International (Public Affairs Information Service) • Worldwide Political Science Abstracts • Search across a general subject area, or within specific database(s)

13. WISER Social Sciences: Electronic Resources • Searching CSA • Quick search • use * for truncation • multiple words will be treated as a phrase • Advanced search • allows combined searching across a number of fields • limit to latest updates, journal articles only, or English language only • specify how your results are presented

14. WISER Social Sciences: Electronic Resources • Working with your search results: • Use the tabs to view results by type, or click the ‘+’ to see results broken down by database • From any individual record: • check electronic and print availability in Oxford • view the complete reference, including abstract • run a new search using one or more of the article descriptors • Search tools: • Combine searches • Search history • Alerts • Outputting your results: • sort by date or relevance • select results to save, print or email • results can be imported into reference management software

15. WISER Social Sciences: Electronic Resources • Primary resources