IBSS supporting social science researchers

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• IBSS supporting social science researchers
• Rebecca Ursell, IBSS Manager
• Jane Ferguson, Marketing Manager

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Introduction

• Background and main benefits
• IBSS coverage
• Support for IBSS users
• Searching on IBSS

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Main benefits for researchers

• Over 2.5 million bibliographic records
• International coverage
• Weekly updates
• Historic coverage back to 1951
• High quality information
• Unique coverage

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Background

• Established 1951- set up by International
  Committee for Social Science Information and
  Documentation
• Since 1989 produced by London School of Economics
  and Political Science
• Funded by ESRC since 1995 - free to all UK HE
  FE institutions

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IBSS coverage
Core subjects
Interdisciplinary subjects
Supporting subjects
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International coverage
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Types of material

• Journal articles (60)
• 2,800 titles regularly covered
• 500 irregular titles
• 60 of titles published outside UK and US
• Cover-to-cover indexing of scholarly journals
• Book reviews (30)
• Books (8)
• Chapters (2 - but c. 5 for current material)

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Selection of journals

• Serials Review Group of LSE Library ( 60 of
  journal coverage)
• Submissions from specialist institutions,
  including
• UK School of Oriental and African Studies
  School of Slavonic and East European Studies
  University College London Institute of
  Commonwealth Studies
• Overseas Sciences Po Paris (over 400 French
  journals, mainly politics) German National
  Library Kiel Japanese Sociological Society
  Polish Academy of Sciences Parliamentary
  Libraries of Hungary and Finland
• Suggestions from IBSS Editorial Advisory Board
• Requests from academics submissions from
  publishers IBSS editors recommendations

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Support for IBSS users

• www.ibss.ac.uk

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IBSS resources

• IBSS subject guides and user guides
• Online tutorials (available in August)
• Lists of journals covered
• Case studies and examples of search strategies
• IBSS blog at www.ibssblog.wordpress.com

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Searching on IBSS

• IBSS database currently available via service
  provider Ovid
• From August available via EBSCO
• For log-in details visit your institutions
  Library website

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New EBSCOhost 2.0 interface

• New features
• Simple Basic Search
• Four new search modes
• SmartText Searching
• New Result List Display
• Article and Image Preview Feature
• Collapsible Result List Panes
• New result relevancy indicator bar

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Advanced search
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Results list (1)
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Results list (2)
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IBSS record
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Basic search
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New feature images (1)
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New feature images (2)
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Basic search (2)
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New features relevance ranking (1)
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New features relevance ranking (2)
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Thesaurus searching (1)
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Thesaurus searching (2)
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Thesaurus searching (3) Geographic terms
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Combining searches (1)
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Combining searches (2)
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IBSS contacts

• Content and coverage issues r.ursell_at_lse.ac.uk
• Training and marketing issues j.l.ferguson_at_lse.ac
  .uk
• General queries ibss_at_lse.ac.uk
• International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
  
• The London School of Economics and Political
  Science
• 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
• tel [phone]
• fax [phone]
• email ibss_at_lse.ac.uk
• www.ibss.ac.uk