Researching "Forward"
Articles should have a bibliography at the end, so searching for the materials cited in the bibliography is fairly easy (researching "backward"). What is more difficult is finding out who has used a particular article since it was published (researching "forward"). There are two tools you can use to research "forward":
1. Web of Science. Allows users to plug in a citation and see who else has used that work in another paper.
Can search by TOPIC or by CITED REFERENCES. Its strength is in the cited reference searching.
To do a cited reference search, look by author’s LAST NAME and letters of FIRST NAME and MIDDLE NAME.
NOTE: If you do not know the middle initial, use the asterisk *
2. Google Scholar. Includes a CITED BY link at the end of the citation.
You can also set up Google Scholar to include links to sources to which the UD Libraries provide access.
- Navigate to Google Scholar.
- Click on Settings at the top of the page.
- Click on Library Links at the left side of the page.
- Search for University of Dayton.
- Check the box next to "University of Dayton Libraries - Find it at UD", then click Save.
- Now, when searching in Google Scholar, you can easily find the full text of articles available through the UD Libraries.
