WISER Humanities Citation searching with Web of Knowledge

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 • 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

The Web Research 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