Database News for September 2003

The University Libraries are pleased to announce a new subscription to the Web of Science and Current Contents Connect on the Web. Through the Web of Knowledge interface, users can now search for articles and cited references from more than 8,000 journals in all fields of scholarly inquiry. Citations date from 1945 up to the previous day.

The Web of Science contains more than 32 million records from 8000+ journals in all disciplines. Now, you no longer need to make an appointment to conduct cited reference searching in your field! Web of Science is composed of three subfiles:

• Science Citation Index, 1945-
  • A multidisciplinary index to the literature of science and technology, providing access by cited author, cited publication reference, journal title, and author institution, and topic (keyword in title or abstract), among other searchable fields. A valuable resource tool for researchers wishing to trace the impact an article has on the field.
  • Updated weekly, with approximately 19,000 new records and 423,000 cited references added each week. From January 1991, English-language author-supplied abstracts are also available for keyword searching.
• Social Sciences Citation Index, 1956-
  • A multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the social sciences. It fully indexes more than 1,725 journals across 50 social sciences disciplines, and it indexes individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals.
  • Updated weekly, with 2,900 new records and approximately 60,000 new cited references added each week. As of January 1992, contains searchable, full-length, English-language author abstracts for approximately 60% of the articles in the index.
• Arts and Humanities Citation Index, 1975-
  • A multidisciplinary index covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It fully covers 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, and it indexes individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals.
  • Updated weekly, 2,300 new records and approximately 15,250 new cited references are added each week. As of January 2000, the Arts & Humanities Index contains searchable, full-length, English-language author abstracts (as available) for the new articles entered into the index.
  • AHCI also includes unique implicit citations that refer you to actual representations of a book, a work of art, or a music score. Contains title enhancements added to ambiguous or hard-to-categorize article titles to clarify article contents.

By setting up a Web of Knowledge registered user account, searchers can receive periodic updates of new research in their field and save searches to be re-run periodically.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Current Contents Connect is also offered through the Web of Knowledge interface. Current Contents is a current awareness service, updated daily, indexing recent journal publications, as well as selected web sites and monographs of interest. With Current Contents, you can configure up to 25 saved searches or mark up to 25 journals to receive email updates when new articles are published in your field.

Current Contents Connect is organized in broad subject editions, which are then further subdivided into more narrow categories. Current Content editions include:

• Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences (ABES)
• Social and Behavioral Sciences (SBS)
• Clinical Medicine (CM)
• Life Sciences (LS)
• Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences (PCES)
• Engineering, Computing & Technology (ECT)
• Arts & Humanities (AH)

Current Contents also includes smaller subject collections for:

• Business Collection (BC)
• Electronics & Telecommunications Collection (EC)

Have questions about Current Contents or Web of Science? Please contact the Reference Department or visit the ISI help pages for online tutorials and live training sessions.

 

On Thursday, September 4th, join us for special Lexis Nexis Training Sessions:

• 9:00-10:00 Lexis Nexis Academic
  Newspapers, broadcast transcripts, court decisions, trade magazines, and more
• 10:00-11:00 Lexis Nexis Statistical
  Statistical data from U.S. federal and state governments, as well as international sources
• 11:00-12:00 Lexis Nexis Congressional
  Track current or historical legislation, member biographies, voting records, selected committee hearings and reports
• 1:30-2:30 Lexis Nexis Academic
  Newspapers, broadcast transcripts, court decisions, trade magazines, and more
• 2:30-3:30 Lexis Nexis Statistical
  Statistical data from U.S. federal and state governments, as well as international sources
• 3:30-4:30 Lexis Nexis Congressional
  Track current or historical legislation, member biographies, voting records, selected committee hearings and reports

All sessions will be held in Mullins 102 Open to all interested students, faculty, and staff. No registration necessary. For more information, call or come by the Reference Desk (479-575-6645).

 

 

Help is here! Try out RefWorks, a web-based citation manager.

Learn how RefWorks can help you collect, organize, and format bibliographic citations from many library databases.

Workshops will be on Friday September 19th in Mullins Library Room 102:

• 10:30 – 12
• 1:30 – 3:00
• 3:00 – 4:30

No registration necessary. For more information, call or email the University Libraries Reference Department: 575-6645 or refer@uark.edu