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IBSS – supporting social science researchers
Rebecca Ursell, IBSS ManagerJane Ferguson, Marketing Manager
Introduction
• Background and main benefits
• IBSS coverage
• Support for IBSS users
• Searching on IBSS
Main benefits for researchers
• Over 2.5 million bibliographic records
• International coverage
• Weekly updates
• Historic coverage back to 1951
• High quality information
• Unique coverage
Background
• Established 1951- set up by International Committee for Social Science Information and Documentation
• Since 1989 produced by London School of Economics and Political Science
• Funded by ESRC since 1995 - free to all UK HE & FE institutions
International coverage
Current IBSS journals by region
25%
31%7%
22%
4%
6%2%
1% 2%
UK
Western Europe(excluding UK)Eastern Europe
North America
South & Central America
Asia
Africa
Middle East
Oceania
Types of material
• Journal articles (60%)– 2,800 titles regularly covered– 500+ irregular titles– 60% of titles published outside UK and US– Cover-to-cover indexing of scholarly journals
• Book reviews (30%)
• Books (8%) • Chapters (2% - but c. 5% for current material)
Selection of journals
• Serials Review Group of LSE Library (= 60% of journal coverage)
• Submissions from specialist institutions, including:UK: School of Oriental and African Studies; School of Slavonic and East European Studies; University College London; Institute of Commonwealth StudiesOverseas: Sciences Po Paris (over 400 French journals, mainly politics); German National Library Kiel; Japanese Sociological Society; Polish Academy of Sciences; Parliamentary Libraries of Hungary and Finland
• Suggestions from IBSS Editorial Advisory Board
• Requests from academics; submissions from publishers; IBSS editors’ recommendations
IBSS resources
• IBSS subject guides and user guides
•Online tutorials (available in August)
•Lists of journals covered
•Case studies and examples of search strategies
• IBSS blog at www.ibssblog.wordpress.com
Searching on IBSS
•IBSS database currently available via service provider Ovid
•From August available via EBSCO
•For log-in details visit your institution’s Library website
New EBSCOhost 2.0 interface
New features:– “Simple” Basic Search – Four new search modes– SmartText Searching– New Result List Display– Article and Image Preview Feature– Collapsible Result List Panes– New result relevancy indicator bar
IBSS contacts
• Content and coverage issues : r.ursell@lse.ac.uk• Training and marketing issues: j.l.ferguson@lse.ac.uk• General queries: ibss@lse.ac.uk
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences The London School of Economics and Political Science
10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HDtel: + 44 (0)20 7955 7455 fax: +44 (0)20 7955 6923
email: ibss@lse.ac.ukwww.ibss.ac.uk
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