WISER: Humanities Arts & Humanities Citation Index Isabel D. Holowaty, History Librarian Elizabeth Mitchell, HFL Graduate Trainee

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 ArchaeologyArchitecture ArtLiterary Reviews LinguisticsLiterature TheatrePoetry LanguageRadio, Television & Film ClassicsPhilosophy HistoryReligion MusicDance Asian StudiesFolklore

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