1. IBSS – supporting social science researchers Rebecca Ursell, IBSS Manager Jane Ferguson, Marketing Manager

2. Introduction Background and main benefits IBSS coverage Support for IBSS users Searching on IBSS

3. Main benefits for researchers Over 2.5 million bibliographic records International coverage Weekly updates Historic coverage back to 1951 High quality information Unique coverage

4. 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

5. IBSS coverage Core subjects Interdisciplinary subjects Supporting subjects

6. International coverage

7. 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)

8. 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 Studies Overseas: 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

9. Support for IBSS users www.ibss.ac.uk

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. Advanced search

14. Results list (1)

15. Results list (2)

16. IBSS record

17. Basic search

18. New feature – images (1)

19. New feature – images (2)

20. Basic search (2)

21. New features – relevance ranking (1)

22. New features – relevance ranking (2)

23. Thesaurus searching (1)

24. Thesaurus searching (2)

25. Thesaurus searching (3) Geographic terms

26. Combining searches (1)

27. Combining searches (2)

28. 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 2HD tel: + 44 (0)20 7955 7455 fax: +44 (0)20 7955 6923 email: ibss@lse.ac.uk www.ibss.ac.uk