Coverage of anthropology by major electronic indexes: A comparison

Reference Services Review

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 134-157

  Sutton, Ellen ^a   Foulke, Lori ^b  

^a Suburban Library System Reference Service   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bibliographies; Databases; Indexes; Information resources management; University libraries

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986091936     PISSN: 00907324     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00907329910275141     Document Type: Review

References (29)

1. We have made use of various citation formats to assist the reader in distinguishing between indexes, monographs, and journal titles. Throughout this article, titles of print indexes will be bolded and underlined;titles of electronic indexeswill be bolded and italicized/titles of monographs will be underlined/andtitles of journals will be italicized
2. One newsletter, Anthropology Newsletter, was included in the Core-Plus List. This publication of the American Anthropological Association was included on the basis of its key articles about the field. It is an important resource for the anthropologist as well as the anthropology librarian
3. The print index has a separate“reviews supplement”
4. The NOTES field is used for brief comments explaining the nature of the publication rather than notes about the subject content/the most frequent type of comment regards language, such as“English summary”. Infrequently used in journal article citations
5. This can be a problem in a search such as“ethics of anthropological field work” or “quantitative methods in sociocultural anthropology” when the words “anthropology” or “anthropological” are in so many journal names
6. While a journal list is available on the Internet at http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/anthind/Titles/journals.html, it does not indicate extent of indexing for individual titles. To view this information, librarians are referred to the 1992 list
7. In the past, AIO had some difficulty displaying diacritics, but these problems seem to have been resolved
8. Sociological Abstracts, Inc. used to produce both Sociological Abstracts and LLBA, Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts. These products are now produced by a division of Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
9. Sociological Abstracts, Inc. used to produce both Sociological Abstracts and LLBA, Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts. These products are now produced by a division of Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
10. This category encompasses interdisciplinary, General social science, general academic and disciplinary journals in the social sciences that are of interest to cultural anthropologists and/or that include articles that are anthropological in nature
11. This category encompasses interdisciplinary, General social science, general academic and disciplinary journals in the social sciences that are of interest to cultural anthropologists and/or that include articles that are anthropological in nature
12. Please note that since this study, the number of journals has increased to 2, 300 and additional formats such as books, book chapters, and association papers have been added. It is not known how anthropology coverage has been affected by these changes
13. This is a departure for ISI/SSCI's only subject approach is through paired words from the article title which constitute its Permuterm Subject Index
14. Additional Core+ titles appear in other Wilson indexes, which when factored in, bring the total to 38 (28 percent of the Core+ List). Fourteen titles from the Core+ List appear in Humanities Abstracts: American Antiquity, American Journal of Archaeology, Antiquity, Archaeology, Comparative Studies in Society & History, Ethnomusicology, Folklore, International Journal of American Linguistics, Journal of African History, Journal of American Folklore, Journal of Asian Studies, Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Language, nd World Archaeology. Three Core+ titles appear in General Science Abstracts: American Anthropologist, Human Biology, and Nature
15. For coverage of journals that cut across anthropological subdisciplines (e.g. ethnoarchaeology, paleoethnobotany), Anthropological Literatureproves best. These may be counted among the class of specialized journals within the field of anthropology and so tend to fall outside the scope of coverage of most social science and more general indexes
16. Two popular science journals were included, because of their frequent publication of articles relevant to anthropology topics:Nature and Science
17. This particular product line was not examined during this study
18. This is a complex issue with which many library networks and consortia are currently grappling but one which is beyond the scope of the current article
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