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Mastering AHCI for Multidisciplinary Citation Indexing

Learn about AHCI part of Web of Science, its features, searching options, pitfalls, and how to effectively use this multidisciplinary citation index for humanities and arts research.

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Mastering AHCI for Multidisciplinary Citation Indexing

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  1. WISER: Humanities Arts & Humanities Citation Index Isabel D. Holowaty, History Librarian Elizabeth Mitchell, HFL Graduate Trainee 2007-8

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

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

  4. What is the AHCI • Fully covers 1,144+ scholarly journals • Provides access to publications from 1975 forward • Averages 2,300 new records per week • Contains a current total of 2.5+ million records • Contains unique implicit citations that refer you to actual representations of a book, a work of art, a music score, or anything else. • As of January 2000, the Arts & Humanities Index contains searchable, full-length, English-language author abstracts.

  5. AHCI subject coverage

  6. Searching options For reference to journal article, book review (General Search) For reference to a cited work (Cited Ref search)

  7. Locate Full-text General search Author? Title? Subject? Cited references Article A Times cited

  8. Research before the article Cited references

  9. Research after the article Times cited

  10. Cited Reference search Author/ Work Article B Cited by whom?

  11. Features 1 • 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 2 • Cross-searching with other disciplines: • > Social Sciences, Sciences • Exporting, saving, printing • Alerts • Save and re-run searches

  13. Pitfalls • Foreign language titles are translated! • Search compound names in two ways: • van gogh v* or vangogh v* • Cited works are heavily abbreviated, inconsistently referenced and frequently wrong • No abstracts for pre-2000 entries in AHCI • Subject searching is difficult

  14. Questions? Demonstration Hands-on

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