W orkshops in I nformation S kills and E lectronic R esources Oxford University Library Services – Information Skills Training Social Sciences Web of Knowledge Angela Carritt Victoria Endean

W orkshops in I nformation S kills and E lectronic R esources Workshop aims  By the end of the session you will be able to use the Social Science Citation Index on Web of Knowledge to…  Conduct a literature search  Link to full text and/or holding records  Track citations to a known article  Find related articles  , print and save results  Set up citation alerts  Access Journal Citation Reports from Web of Knowledge

W orkshops in I nformation S kills and E lectronic R esources Web of Knowledge  Web of Science  Social Science Citation Index  Arts and Humanities Citation Index  Science Citation Index  Journal Citation Reports  ISI Proceedings  Highly Cited…

W orkshops in I nformation S kills and E lectronic R esources Social Science Citation Index Vital statistics  Articles, books reviews, letters, creative works and more…  Significant articles from > 1,400 behavioural and social science journals  Selected articles from > 3,100 science journals  Approx. 130,000 records added per year.   New records added weekly

W orkshops in I nformation S kills and E lectronic R esources Each record includes…  Full bibliographic details & abstract  TOUR link to full text online / holdings  Cited References - full list of all items cited in the article (e.g. article bibliography)  Times Cited - later items (on WOK) which cite the article  Related Records - All items (on WOK) which share at least one citation in common with the article

W orkshops in I nformation S kills and E lectronic R esources Other tools…  Analysis tool  Analyses results by author, institution, country, journal, subject area etc.  Can also be used to analyze citations to the parent article  Citation Alert  s you when a new item is adding to the database which cites a chosen article

W orkshops in I nformation S kills and E lectronic R esources

Social Science Citation Index Literature searching Citation tracking Journal Citation Reports – measure impact of journals (number of citations, impact, citation life etc) Cross Search – searches all WOK databases simultaneously Science and technology only

W orkshops in I nformation S kills and E lectronic R esources 2. Select search type General Search – literature search Cited Ref Search – track citations to a known work Advanced Search – searching over a wider range of fields 1. Select database(s) to search across

W orkshops in I nformation S kills and E lectronic R esources Search by any of the fields either singly or in combination Use the indexes for help selecting search terms

W orkshops in I nformation S kills and E lectronic R esources Tips for searching  Break your query into keywords or phrases  Consider synonyms and alternative spellings e.g. American/British  Combine search terms using Boolean logic (the logical relationship between search terms) and, or, not, same

W orkshops in I nformation S kills and E lectronic R esources Tips for searching AND  Search for records containing all the terms entered – narrows search OR  Search for records containing any of the terms entered – broadens search NOT  Excludes specified term – narrows search SAME  Terms must appear in the same sentence

W orkshops in I nformation S kills and E lectronic R esources Boolean logic AND  Retrieves records in which both search terms are present crime povertyunemployment All 3 search terms

W orkshops in I nformation S kills and E lectronic R esources Boolean logic OR  Retrieves records in which at least one of the search terms is present College University college OR university

W orkshops in I nformation S kills and E lectronic R esources nuclear Boolean logic NOT  Retrieves records where one search term, but not the other, is retrieved radiation radiation NOT nuclear

W orkshops in I nformation S kills and E lectronic R esources Tips for searching - brackets  Use brackets to determine the order terms are searched in  Search statements inside brackets are carried out before those outside the brackets (standard OR code) AND ethic* (infant* OR bab*) AND (drug* OR alcohol*) AND abus*

W orkshops in I nformation S kills and E lectronic R esources Tips for searching - wildcards Use truncation to find plurals and alternative endings *Represents any number of letters at the end of a word school* finds school, schools, schooling

W orkshops in I nformation S kills and E lectronic R esources Tips for searching - wildcards ?Represents one letter in a word ioni?ation finds ionisation and ionization $Represents one letter or no letters Barthold$ finds Barthold, Bartholdi, Bartholdy

W orkshops in I nformation S kills and E lectronic R esources Workshop aims Hypertext link to article abstract Number of records found Terms used in search Move through results in sections or jump to another page of results

W orkshops in I nformation S kills and E lectronic R esources All items on the database which share one or more items in their bibliography Later items which cite this article Article’s bibliography

W orkshops in I nformation S kills and E lectronic R esources Workshop aims Use ‘tour’ to see the Oxford University holdings for this journal title

W orkshops in I nformation S kills and E lectronic R esources Link to OLIS record for journal holdings Link to online details where available Article details

W orkshops in I nformation S kills and E lectronic R esources Sort results in a different order Search within results to filter or narrow your search Selected records are added to the marked list

W orkshops in I nformation S kills and E lectronic R esources Marking and extracting records  Select the check box to the left of each record you want to mark – click “add to marked list”  Choose the option “select records on page”  Enter the range of records to print

W orkshops in I nformation S kills and E lectronic R esources Marking and extracting records  Select the fields to be included for each record  Selected records from subsequent searches can be added to the original “marked list”

W orkshops in I nformation S kills and E lectronic R esources Go to “marked list” after selecting the records you want to export

W orkshops in I nformation S kills and E lectronic R esources Select the output option Enter an address if delivery is via this option Select the fields you want to have exported

W orkshops in I nformation S kills and E lectronic R esources To track citations to a known work

W orkshops in I nformation S kills and E lectronic R esources Use “Thomson list” to check the correct abbreviation for the journal. Note sometimes there is more than one abbreviation. Use connectors if necessary e.g. Boston U* Law Rev* e.g. searching for citations to Simons, K “Rethinking mental states” Boston University Law Review 72 (3): May 1992

W orkshops in I nformation S kills and E lectronic R esources Select the appropriate article by checking the tick box (to see title hover your mouse over view record). Then choose Finish Search

W orkshops in I nformation S kills and E lectronic R esources Analyze the articles citing the parent record e.g. articles citing “Rethinking Mental States”

W orkshops in I nformation S kills and E lectronic R esources Choose how to analyse the citations

W orkshops in I nformation S kills and E lectronic R esources e.g. analayzing the articles which cite “Rethinking Mental States” by author. 4 of the citation are by KW Simon, 3 by AC Michaels. Authors who have only cited the article once are not listed. To include them in the list change “Minimum record count (threshold)” to 1.

W orkshops in I nformation S kills and E lectronic R esources e.g. analayzing the articles which cite “Rethinking Mental States” by institution.

W orkshops in I nformation S kills and E lectronic R esources Advanced search – searching in a wider range of fields than general search

W orkshops in I nformation S kills and E lectronic R esources 1.Specify the fields to search (e.g. ts=multiculturalism AND au=bloggs…) 2.Use connectors between search terms as in the general search 3.If you want to use connectors to combine your search term and to search across more than one field, you must use parentheses to separate the searches belonging to each field e.g. ts=(multicult* AND education*) AND py=(1999 or 2000) If your boolean search itself requires parentheses you must nest them e.g. ((law or legislation) SAME terror*) AND cu= (England or Scotland or Ireland) Available fields

W orkshops in I nformation S kills and E lectronic R esources e.g. ts= ((law or legislation) SAME terror*) AND cu= (England or Scotland or Ireland)

W orkshops in I nformation S kills and E lectronic R esources To view results click on the result number

W orkshops in I nformation S kills and E lectronic R esources e.g. search results for ((law or legislation) SAME terror*) AND cu= (England or Scotland or Ireland)

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Statistical analysis of impact the impact of key journals

W orkshops in I nformation S kills and E lectronic R esources

Calculation showing how often the average article was cited during the year Total number of citations to the journal for the year Number of years from current year accounting for 50% of citations Calculating showing how often articles were cited during the first year after publication More information at Impact factors should be used with care – see

W orkshops in I nformation S kills and E lectronic R esources e.g. journals by impact factor