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Three indexes:Social Science Citation Index
Index to Legal PeriodicalsIndex to Foreign Legal
Periodicals
What are they?
• Social Science Index– Social and behavioural sciences– Huge index going back to 1970 and updated daily– Includes abstracts and links to full text when available
• Index to Legal Periodicals– Anglo-American legal literature– Includes many articles on international law
• Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals– Non Anglo-American legal literature
Social Science Citation Index
Part of Web of Knowledge and Web of Science
Web of Science - allows you to restrict your search to “Social Sciences”. This excludes Science and Arts articles
Searches the whole of Web of Knowledge – returns lots of science articles as well as Social Science.
To restrict your search by date or to Social Sciences
To search by subject choose “Topic” from the drop down. Other options include Author, Title, publication, etc
Enter your search terms using connectors between them:OR – one term or the other (synonyms)AND – both termsSAME – both terms in the same sentence“ “ - phrase
Restrict your search to Social Sciences
Searching
Sort by date, times cited etc
Title links to more information including keywords, abstract, bibliography and citing articles
Checks to see if full text is available online
Bibliographic details – you will need these to find the full article in print.
Number of articles which have cited this article
Refine options: Narrow your results by entering more keywords or by choosing results from a particular subject etc
Your results: sorting, refining, viewing
To print, e-mail or save items check the boxes and then use “Print”, “E-mail”, “Add to marked list” options.
Add to marked list option is good if you want to make several searches and collect up references as you go. At the end choose “Marked list” and then print / email etc.
Printing and emailing your results
Viewing more information: abstract, cited by, references
Refine options: Narrow your results by entering more keywords or by choosing results from a particular subject etc
Your results: sorting, refining, viewing
1. Click “Find it @ Oxford” to locate full text
2. The dialogue shows it is available from two databases (HeinOnline and JSTOR)
3. Following the link from “Find it at Oxford” takes you to the correct database but not to the article. Find the article by choosing the correct vol and page number
4. Full text
Finding full text
Index to Legal Periodicals (Wilson web)
•Two indexes: 1918-1981, 1981-present
•Anglo-American but include articles on International law
Which field?•Smart Search - searches title, subject, keywords, author, journal title – best for subject searching•Court cases – finds articles discussing particular cases (includes international courts and tribunals and domestic courts)•Statute – finds articles discussing legislation (but does not include treaties and international agreements)
To limit to peer reviewed only
Tick the databases you want to search
Search tips•Smart search – do not use “”, truncation symbols or connectors•When searching using other fields:•“ ” to search for a phrase (e.g. “human rights”) • * to truncate (e.g. child*) •? – wildcard (e.g. wom?n)
Links to full text where available
Title links to full bibliographic details, keywords etc
Clickable list of subject headings allows you to find other relevant articles
Mortar board = peer reviewed
Receive new articles meeting your criteria by RSS or email alert
To print, e-mail, save, export – tick relevant records first
Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals
•Non-Anglo-American law (e.g. public & private international law; Islamic; socialist)
•1985 onwards•Shares the “Ovid” interface with other
databases
Use “” – phrasesAND
Sort options
Find full text
More information including country of publication, descriptors (keywords)
To print, email, save – check boxes and then appropriate option (on left)