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WISER: Humanities Citation searching with Web of Knowledge Isabel Holowaty OULS History Librarian Alison Maloney Senior Library Assistant, Bodleian Library

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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

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Aim

• What is it• How does it work• Features & Pitfalls• Demonstrations• Hands-on• Questions

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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.

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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.

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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

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Searching options

1. To find journal article or book review (General Search)

2. To find work citing a particular work (Cited Ref search)

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General search

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General search

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The WebResearch after the article & Research before the article

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Cited Reference search (Reverse look-up)

Note: Can also be used for works published before 1975.

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Cited Reference search

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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

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Features

• Cross-searching with other disciplines, e.g. Social Sciences,

Sciences

• Exporting, saving, printing

• Alerts

• Save searches

• My Web of Knowledge

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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

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Questions?

Demonstration

Hands-on