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WISER: Humanities
Arts & Humanities Citation Index
Isabel D. Holowaty, History Librarian
Elizabeth 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