Humanities International Index. H.W. Wilson. New York. 1974. Q. Available through Ebscohost.
Introduction:
❖ Humanities Source was ideal for Students, Researchers and Educators interested in all aspects of the humanities. This includes studies in art, history, communication, culture, literature and philosophy.
❖ Humanities International Index is a comprehensive database covering journals, books and other important reference sources in the humanities.
❖ Formerly the American Humanities Index, this database contains bibliographic records from a multitude of U.S. and international journals, books and reference works.
❖ Humanities International Index provides citations and abstracts for articles, essays and reviews, as well as original creative works including poems, fiction, photographs, painting and illustrations.
❖ This database provides cover-cover indexing and abstracts for journals, books and other important reference sources in the humanities from around the world.
❖ Regular monthly updates ensure subscribers can retrieve the latest material on wide range of arts and humanities subjects, aided by a completely interactive thesaurus and the capability to link to electronic full text of many journal articles.
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❖ Humanities International Complete was an essential resource for students, researchers and educators interested in all aspects of the humanities, with worldwide content pertaining to library, scholarly and creative thought. Humanities International Complete was a valuable collection for libraries looking to provide comprehensive coverage of the humanities with full-text content.
❖ Humanities Source Ultimate offers a wide variety of resources, such as feature articles, interviews, obituaries, bibliographic, book reviews and original works of fiction, reviews of ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, operas and plays that illuminate human thinking, action and interaction. In addition, hundreds of English-language and native-language full- text journals full-text journals form Asia, Ocarina, Europe, and Latin America being a global perspective to reaching the human experience.
(Note: “Core" coverage refers to source which are indexed and abstracted in their entirely (i.e., cover to cover), while "Priority" coverage refers to sources which include only those articles which are relevant to the field).
Evaluation:
1. Authority: Humanities International Index is a comprehensive database covering journals, books and other important reference sources in the humanities. It is online available and only accessible to registered users. Published by EBSCO. EBSCO is a leading provider of research databases, e-journals, magazine subscriptions, e-books and discovery service to libraries of all kinds. For more than 70 years, this have improved research with quality content and technology.
2. Scope: Indexing and abstracts for more than 2,600 journals. Nearly 2,200 active indexed journals are included in it. There are nearly more than 4.3 million records.
Subject list includes:
• Archeology
• Arts History
• Classical Studies
• English + American Literature
• Film + Media Studies
• French Language + Literature
• German Language + Literature
• Humanities
• Italian Language + Literature
• Jewish Studies
• Medieval + Renaissance Studies
• Museum Studies
• Near Eastern Studies
• Religion
• Spanish Language + Literature
3. Treatment: This Humanities & Social Sciences Index for many years by was ideal students, researchers and educations interested in all aspects of the humanities. This includes studies in art, history, communications, culture, literature and philosophy and by combining it all into learning products that are useful, reliable and enjoyable. An international abstracting and indexing tool for research in the humanities, Humanities Index includes over 370 internationally respected humanities journals and weekly magazines published in the UK and other English-speaking counties, as well as quality newspaper published in UK.
4. Arrangement: Articles arranged alphabetically and especially letter by letter arrangement. Each article provides the thorough cross references list is given at the end of the sub headings. The cross reference offers the readers to understand and overview of the related articles.
5. Special Features: Regular monthly updates ensure subscribers can retrieve the latest material on wide range of arts and humanities subjects, aided by a completely interactive thesaurus and the capability to link to electronic full text of many journal articles. The hundreds of cover-to-cover indexing and abstract for journals (English-language journals), books and other important reference sources bring a global perspective to reaching the human experience.
6. Physical Features: This index available in electronic format covers the most essential scholarly journals in humanities and social science including political science, history etc. It is a successor to the combination of humanities and social science.
7. Merits: As the information in the field of humanities is dynamic and it grows continuously in a good pace. It become difficult for the user to search the desired information without the help of such documents. To avoid this, it assists the user in following ways:
• Help readers decide if it is necessary to read the entire document.
• Assist information users to remember the important findings on a topic.
• Assist Information users understand a write-up serving as a pre- read.
• Allow index write-ups achieve quick recovery and cross-referencing.
• Allow readers/decision makers make efficient judgement without bordering about details.
8. Drawbacks:
• This indexing and abstracting document contain information only in the field of humanities.
• Though it is an international publication but for a document like this it is not possible to cover (index and abstract) all the documents of the globe which are not well known and confined to a particular region.
References:
1. https://www.ebsco.com/products/reseach-databases/humanities-source-0
2. https://databases.library.jhu.edu/databases/database/JHU03400
3. https://www.proquest.com/search/?searchKeyword=Humanities+internatio+index
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