WISER: Humanities Citation searching with Web of Knowledge Isabel Holowaty OULS History Librarian Shona McLean Senior Library Assistant, History Faculty 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 ArchaeologyArchitecture ArtLiterary Reviews LinguisticsLiterature TheatrePoetry LanguageRadio, Television & Film ClassicsPhilosophy HistoryReligion MusicDance Asian StudiesFolklore
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
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