Keyword searching for journal articles using Social Science

Citation Index

Kate Jackson

Social Science Citation IndexAccess to SSCI is through OXLIP+

(remember to log in on Oxlip+)Huge index of literature in the social

science and behavioural scienceIncludes ‘times cited’ feature to help

evaluate sourcesAllows you to print, email or save resultsAllows you to find where results are within

Oxford including electronic access.

Social Science Citation Index

Choose “Web of Science”

Enter your search terms using “connectors” between them:OR – one term or the other e.g. women OR femaleAND – both terms e.g. women AND violenceSAME – both terms in the same sentence e.g. Women SAME violence“ “ – phrase e.g. “human rights”, “South Africa”, “United Nations”

To search by subject choose ‘Topic’

Make sure that the SSCI is ticked

Results Page

Number of results

List results by date, times cited or relevance

You can refine your results using the box on the left hand side. You can refine by broad subject or by document type. There are also options to refine your search such as by title of specific journals or sources (source titles)

You can print, email or save results to reference management software. There is also the option to save to a marked list that you can view at the end. To do this you need to tick the box next to the items and click on the relevant button above.

Click on title to get an abstract and further details including keyword and articles citedSource has the full citation

and when it was published

Find it@ Oxford links through to where the article may be available in Oxford including online sources

Time cited states how many times this article has been cited in other articles

Results List

Article’s bibliography

More Information and finding full text online

Later articles that have cited this item

Click to find it full text

Finding the full text of an article

Click on Find it @ Oxford. This brings up a list of databases or ejournals that have the article. For example here the article is available in 4 places. Click on Go next to your preferred source. Please note it may not take you directly to the article.

There is also a list of print holdings as well as related articles

The link will take you through to the correct database. In this example it has taken us to straight to the article but be aware that this may not happen in each instance depending on the database. If it does not take you straight to the article you may need to use the search facilities within the database to find the article.

Full text of article

Finding full text in print: SOLO

If the journal is not available online you can use SOLO (http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/ )to find a copy in print or use the print listing under Find it@ Oxford