Factiva
This database provides the full text from nearly 8,000 sources from newswires,
newspapers, magazines, and journals in 22 languages for a wide range of
subjects.
You
may want to use ISI Web of Science (Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences)
and this database to find citing references.
Based
on the style and format of references in Factiva, the best way to search
for citing references is to use the cited title of the article/book
chapter/conference article and combine it with SAME operator
with the cited author in the search statement in a full text records
of the database.
This
is a full text search where searching means matching your search statement
with statements the full text article.
The
SAME operator retrieves articles where the two words appear in the same
paragraph.
It
is not advisable to use the AND operator as this would retrieve
many irrelevant records.
There
are some journals for example, Foreign Affairs & Asian Affairs,
which are commonly used in the context of political science articles. If the journal
title is used in the search statement, it would retrieve irrelevant
results.
Here
is an example on how to search for citing references for a book chapter.
Kuo Pao Kun, "Knowledge Structure and Play - A View..." in
State-society relations in Singapore, eds. Gillian Koh, et.al., (Singapore:
Institute of Policy Studies, 2000).
Type
in this search statement: (Kuo same knowledge structure). At the "Search
for free-text terms in:" field, select "Full Article"
from the drop-down menu. Click on "Run Search".
The
results are as shown. Click on the first record
You
will notice the example has been cited as a footnote.
Click
here to find out more search techniques.
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