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WISER: Humanities Citation searching with Web of Knowledge. Isabel Holowaty OULS History Librarian Alison Maloney Senior Library Assistant, Bodleian Library. Aim What is it How does it work Features & Pitfalls Demonstrations Hands-on Questions. What is Web of Knowledge - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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WISER: HumanitiesCitation searching with Web of Knowledge
Isabel HolowatyOULS History Librarian
Alison MaloneySenior Library Assistant, Bodleian Library
Aim
• What is it• How does it work• Features & Pitfalls• Demonstrations• Hands-on• Questions
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.
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.
AHCI subject coverage
Archaeology Architecture
Art Literary Reviews
Linguistics Literature
Theatre Poetry
Language Radio, Television & Film
Classics Philosophy
History Religion
Music Dance
Asian Studies Folklore
Searching options
1. To find journal article or book review (General Search)
2. To find work citing a particular work (Cited Ref search)
General search
General search
The WebResearch after the article & Research before the article
Cited Reference search (Reverse look-up)
Note: Can also be used for works published before 1975.
Cited Reference search
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
Features
• Cross-searching with other disciplines, e.g. Social Sciences,
Sciences
• Exporting, saving, printing
• Alerts
• Save searches
• My Web of Knowledge
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
Questions?
Demonstration
Hands-on