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Arts and Humanities Citation Index and other resources for Modern
Languages
Nick Hearn
Friday, 28th May 2010
• What is ‘Arts and Humanities citation database’?
• Three ways for using A&HCI in ML study• To find articles buy author, title, subject• To explore a subject area• To explore research and publishing in your subject area
• Types of search• Basic search• Advanced search
• Citation search• Citing references• Cited reference
• Related records search
• Comparison with other citation indexes – pros and consGoogle Scholar, Scopus, JSTOR (JSTOR has only some features)
Session outline
General searchGeneral Searches
Citation Searches
2008
1963
2001
1997Earlier papers referred to in‘your’ paper
2008
2006
Papers thatcite your
paper
2010
2010
Papers that share one or more citation in common - related
Three uses of A&HCI in ML
• Use as another bibliographical database for searching like MLA (or in combination with MLA and other databases: cross-searching)
• Use to trace development of the subject or to explore a new subject area
• Use to see impact of your publications or place your next publication in the journal with the most impact
How to locate A&HCI
Web of Knowledge
Web of Science
Arts and Humanities Citation Index
Main features
Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI) • 1975-present• subject coverage: language, linguistics, literary reviews, literature, poetry, theatre• journal coverage: 63 journals in Romance literature, 22 journals on German and
Dutch literature, 10 journals on Slavonic (For details of titles go to Master Journal List)• Very current: 2300 new records added each week• Approx 15, 250 new cited references each week
MLA• 1926-present• Subject coverage: folklore, language,linguistics, literatureJournal coverage: 4,400+• Updated 9 times a year• Last update 20.4.10
HINT: To find out which ML journals are
available on A&HCI go to Web of Science Page and then click
on Training and Support,From there go on to ‘Benefits and
Resources’, then click on ‘Master Journal List’
General search for Author
Sample author search: Search for all articles by
Professor G. Smith (Formerly Professor of Russian at Oxford University previously at Birmingham University
Writes on Russian poetry and versification (among other subjects)
To find articles by an author
• Author search, Author finder, Most cited
• ALL citing articles (a complete listing including misfires) – using Cited Reference Search
• Pitfalls: Basic entries in ‘skeleton’ references are sometimes inaccurate
General Search for Title
Sample Title Search:
Gérard Defaux ‘Une cannibale en haut de chausses: Montaigne la différence et la logique de l’identité’
• Title search
• AH&CI treatment of titles in foreign language journals
General Search for Subject
Sample subject searches:
Balzac and Realism; Sartre and existentialism;
Review search: Muller and ‘green plums’
• Doing a basic topic search
• Subject indexing in A&HCI compared with MLA
• Cross-searching
• Reviews
Some features of A&HCI
Sample advanced search: All content of the journal Critica Hispanica for 2009
Sample alert: Set up alert for Chomsky, N. ‘Verbal behavior – B.F. Skinner’, 1959
• Advanced search (Sophisticated field searching) cf MLA
– Importance of using correct search syntax
• Setting up alerts (Email and RSS)
• Transferring to bibliographical software such as Refworks or Endnote
Using A&HCI to explore a subject area
Sample cited reference searches: Goethe Wanderers Nachtlied; Bach’s Cantatas
Sample related records search: Pushkin Evgenii Onegin
• Citation search
– Searching for articles citing pieces of music, pictures, poems
letters etc
• Related records search
– Looking at records which share references with an initial
relevant record
Using A&HCI for one’s own publications, research, career
Sample search: ts=Bakhtin og=Oxford at Oxford, Cambridge and Sheffield
• Looking at articles by competitors (Related Records, citations)
• Looking at citation counts of other academics in your department
• Using Advanced Search to find Departments specializing in topic area in which you are interested
• Using Journal Citation Reports to find the best journal in which to place your article.
Comparison with other citation indexes – pros and cons
Google Scholar
Scopus
Arts and Humanities Citation Index
JSTOR
Features: Paid or Subscription?; Indexing: human or computer?; Help?; Alerts?; Types of search?; Access to full-text?
Coverage: Science or Humanities?; Types of document? Books, articles, other?; Period of time covered
Google ScholarFEATURES:
Free
Indexing done by computer algorithms
Help Yes –- no list of journals covered (but possible to search by in one publication)
Alerts but only Email – no RSS….yet…
No search by references
Includes unindexed references
Subject searching based on Google algorithms
Not cross-searchable
Includes related records search
Direct access to full-text of article/book etc (but full access only for items out of copyright)
COVERAGE:
Includes Humanities subject areas including Modern Languages
Also covers books!
Includes foreign-language material (but English lang. predominant)
Long tail – goes back a long way
ScopusFEATURES:
Paid subscription
Indexing done by computer
Help – includes list of journals covered
Alerts by Email,not RSS,also by Mobile Phone!
Possible to search by references
Includes unindexed references
Subject searching – records include abstracts searchable by key-word
Cross-searchable
Includes related records search
Can export to Refworks
Direct access to full-text of article
COVERAGE:
Very little Humanities material
Does not cover books!
Very little (no?) foreign-language material
Limited time-scope for Humanities journals
JSTOR
FEATURES:
Paid subscription
Free text searching by keyword (Full text database)
Help – includes list of journals
No alerts
No search by references
Does not Include unindexed references
Cross-searchable
No related records search
Compatible with Refworks
COVERAGE:
A lot of Humanities material
Does not cover books!
No foreign-language material
‘Long tail’ but ‘moving wall’
Over to you
Do your own search on A&HCI, Google Scholar, Scopus or JSTOR
Do an Arts and Humanities Citation Index work-out.
Set up an RSS Feed and use to set up feed for articles from A&HCI
Set up a Refworks account and use for articles from A&HCI
Don’t hesitate to ask if anything is unclear
