WHAT DATABASES SHOULD YOU KNOW? - WEB Of SCIENCE

In this week breaking the line we would like to introduce a bibliographical database rather than publisher database. By name the Web of Science which is provided by Clarivate and here we can find journals with high impact factor. From this database in social sciences the Social Sciences Citation Index - SSCI - can be very useful. It reviews nearly 3,400 journals on 58 social science topics. We can find more than 9 million records and 122 million citations from 1975 till our days. Important to notice if you want to search only in this part of the Web of Science you need to choose this. You have an opportunity for that in a black row over the searching bar with opening the ‘Editions’. In the aspects of search we can make simple and advanced searches. The last one can be solved by adding a plus searching bar with the plus symbol. If we click to the ‘Advanced Search’ there you can have an opportunity for search by field code, when the users need to put together the search question by themselves. As we write in the first line this is a bibliographic database which means the majority of datas don’t have full-text access. However, there are exceptions. If the article is findable in any other database, repository or publisher - never mind this free or not - then we can find a link which points to the full text. By the text of the link we can say this is free (free accepted article form repository, free full text from publisher) or not (view full text vagy full text from publisher).

Why is this good?

Because you can find up-to-date literature relevant to a seminar dissertation, dissertation, or any other school assignment.

How can I access it from home?

VPN, Siboleth, Stunnel, (ELTE IP)