1 Online Searching, 4 th ed. Chapter 6 Web of Science Cited Reference Search Example 2: Using the Cited Work Index pp. 121 – 123 Librarian’s Guide to Cultivating Database Skills for Research and Instruction

2 The next “cited reference search” challenge: finding articles that have cited Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes (1988) ooo… that’s a long gnarly title. I bet people have come up with all KINDS of variations on that one… So either we need to guess and truncate like mad (e.g.: brief hist* t*) – or Select from the index: the list of all values used in this field.

3 (typing…) Produces…

4 Results (click) Presto! “OK” puts it all in the search interface

5 (wow) Some Examples from the Cited Reference Index…

6 S – S. – S. W. – SW – Stephen – Stephen H. (??) – Stephen W. – Steven (??) W. – they are all different. And some are just *wrong!*

7 Showing a little of the final results – articles citing SW Hawking’s Brief History of Time (based on the two forms of the citation most frequently used) Another work with wide ranging impact…

8 Librarian’s Guide to Online Searching, 4 th edition Cultivating Database Skills for Research and Instruction End of this search example