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From the alphabetical list of databases, you can select either Social Sciences Citation Index or Science Citation Index.
Once in, you can choose to search both databases at the same time. Look in
the Current Limits area below the search boxes. Scroll down until you come to
this (NOTE: You may need to click [Change Limits and Settings] to see it):
Check both boxes to search both databases simultaneously. If you are going to be searching for an author with a common name, it is important to think this through carefully! You do not want to have to wade through a lot of irrelevant hits.
Then, you need to think about which years you want to search. Again the default is everything, but you can change it.
To do a cited reference search, you must then select Cited Reference Search in the band above the search boxes.
You have three different search statements to use: Cited Author, Cited Work, Cited Year. Because everything in the database is abbreviated, it is nearly impossible to accurately determine, or even logically guess most of the time, how to search Cited Work, so it is best to stick to the other two items. Look at the example in the box below of a reference from the end of an article.
| Block N (1995) On a confusion about a function of consciousness. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 18(2):227-247. |
Enter Cited Author using the following formula: last name [space] first initial[asterisk*]
In the example above, the Cited Author search statement would be block n*
For the Cited Year, the choice is much more obvious! In this case, 1995, is all you need to enter.
Once you have completed those 2 search boxes, click on the Search button.
Assuming your author and year were found, you will be presented with a list
of References. You may need to scroll down to see all of them. In some cases they will go for multiple screens even! Go through and Select those that are matches by clicking in the box 
in the Select column.
PLEASE NOTE The number in the Citing Articles column tells you how many different articles within the entire database cited that work that way. We do not subscribe to the entire database. We only started to subscribe in 1994 for social sciences and 1993 for the sciences. So, in some cases, you will not be able to look at all of these.
Once you have checked the boxes next to the references that match, click on the Finish Search button at the top of the list.
You will now get a Summary list of journal articles that cited the work you
searched under, in summary form. You can browse and mark your selections from this screen by checking the adjacent
box, . After you have marked all the ones you are interested in on ONE PAGE, before going on to the next be sure to click on the Add to Marked List button at the top of the results list.
To
determine if the library has the article, click on the subtle
button. That
will open another browser window and display the results of a search of the
library's journal database. It COULD lead you to the article, or to another
database that might have the article, or to a link to the OSCAR catalog's holdings
for the print journal. Or, of course, to INTERLIBRARY LOAN, if we do not have
the journal at all.
If you click on the title of an article, you will get an abstract.
To return to the larger list, click on <<Back to results list in the top left corner.
When you are ready to do something with the ones you have marked, click on Marked List in the band at the top of the screen.
From the Marked List screen, you must specify which fields you want to output. The default is to give you the bare bones citation, what you saw on the Summary list. If you want the abstract or the cited references, you must select those.
After you have done that, you have 3 basic output choices:
Format for Print or Save to File or:
It's up to you! Make your selection and follow the instructions on the screen. You might want to email even if you also print, just to have the citations in electronic form, useful for composing your own bibliography.
If you are going to do another search, be sure to click Delete This List before continuing.
Page created by Gail Gradowski on July 11, 2003.
Last modified on January 27, 2010.
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