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WISER: HumanitiesArts & Humanities Citation Index
Isabel D. Holowaty, History LibrarianElizabeth Mitchell, HFL Graduate Trainee 2007-8
Aim
• What is it• How does it work• Features & Pitfalls• Demonstrations• Hands-on• Questions
What is the AHCI
• Part of Web of Science (AHCI, SSCI, SCI)• Multidisciplinary citation indexes covering the journal literature of all disciplines
• Web of Knowledge: Web of Science, Journal Citation Reports, Highly Cited, etc.
What is the AHCI
• Fully covers 1,144+ scholarly journals• Provides access to publications from 1975 forward• Averages 2,300 new records per week• Contains a current total of 2.5+ million records • Contains unique implicit citations that refer you to actual representations of a book, a work of art, a music score, or anything else. • As of January 2000, the Arts & Humanities Index 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
For reference to journal article, book review (General Search)
For reference to a cited work (Cited Ref search)
General search
Author?
Title?
Subject?
Locate Full-text
Research before the article
Research after the article
Cited Reference search
Cited by whom?
Features 1
• 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 2
• Cross-searching with other disciplines:
> Social Sciences, Sciences
• Exporting, saving, printing
• Alerts
• Save and re-run searches
Pitfalls
• Foreign language titles are translated!
• Search compound names in two ways:
van gogh v* or vangogh v*
• Cited works are heavily abbreviated, inconsistently
referenced and frequently wrong
• No abstracts for pre-2000 entries in AHCI
• Subject searching is difficult
Questions?
Demonstration
Hands-on
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