Suppose you are investigating how a class of antidepressants, Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs), affect personality traits. You know a book on the subject:

Peter D. Kramer. Listening to Prozac: a psychiatrist explores antidepressant drugs and the remaking of the self. New York: Viking Penguin Books USA Inc., 1993.

Using the Social Sciences Citation Index, you can find recently published journal articles that cite Kramer's book.

Open the citation database(s) you wish to search. This sample search was performed using the 1997 Social Sciences Citation Index with Abstracts compact disc edition.