How To Search
Arts and Humanities Citation Index

> A "bibliographic data search tool", but not a full-text database.
> The electronic version of the print Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and the Science Citation Index, 1992-present.> Repository of information from thousands of scholarly journals
> The only tool of its kind and scope.
> Indispensible in scholarly research.

Searching

> Easy Search enables you to search by topic, person, or place and returns a maximum of 100 results. This is the simplest search option.
> General Search enables you to search for articles by topic, author, source title, or author address. This is the most flexible search option.
> Cited Reference Search enables you to find articles that have cited a specific work by an author.
> Advanced Search enables you to create searches using the General Search field tags and set combinations. This type of search is for expert users.
> Combine Searches enables you to combine search sets (also called queries) created from the General Search, Cited Reference Search, and Advanced Search pages. This type of search is for casual and novice users.

Truncation and Wildcards

The asterisk (*) represents zero to multiple characters.

> Enter gre* to search for words that start with Gre and end with any character or group of characters (e.g., Greece, Greek, Greeks, and Greco-roman).

> Enter Kellog S* to search for works by authors whose last name is Kellog whose first name starts with an S, and who may or may not have other initials (e.g., Kellog S, Kellog SA, and Kellog, STA).
Use the asterisk in the middle of terms to search for terms that have alternate spellings.

> Enter sul*ur to search for sulfur or sulphur.
Use the question mark (?) to search for variant single letter endings.


> Enter Barthold? to search for Bartholdy or Barthholdi.
Use the question mark to search for variant spellings.


> Enter en?oblast to search for endoblast and entoblast.

Printing, Emailing, Saving

> Save or print at any time using browser’s print/save functions
> Email, print or save Marked list.

Some things to remember

> This database is indispensible, but it serves a very specific purpose. While it can be used for searching generally for articles, other databases are better suited.
> The construction of author searching in the database makes finding articles by/about/citing someone with a common name difficult to say the least. Better to do an advanced search and add information such as institution of affiliation or subject.
> Patience is key. The database is not entirely "intuitive" and can be difficult to search. Parts of it are downright inflexible! It’s worth, however, taking some time to explore all it has to offer!
> Use the help function, particularly the "index" to guide you further.