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Reading About Digital Libraries: Bibliographic Resources: Serials

See also Bibliographic Resources: Books and Internet/Web Bibliographies

Contents

1. Electronic Serials Search Tools
2. Selected Individual Titles

ELECTRONIC SERIALS SEARCH TOOLS

• All Academic: An Academic Clearinghouse. All Academic, Inc. " The service indexes over 200 refereed journals and provides a browseable list of 350 academic journals listed by discipline or alphabetically. All Academic catalogs abstracts and full-text scholarly publications. In addition to the more than 200 indexed journals, All Academic also indexes scholarly works in the form of books, magazines, convention papers, working papers, scholarly projects, editorials, and book reviews. The index is updated regularly and includes thousands of potential resources to choose from." Date accessed: 2002-12-14. Date added: 2002-12-14.
• Ejournal SiteGuide: a MetaSource (Produced by Joseph Jones, University of British Columbia Library, Vancouver, BC).
• Electronic Journal Miner (Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries).
• Electronic Journals Resource Directory (Peter Scott, University of Saskatchewan Libraries). This site allows you to add or modify Web resources relating to electronic journals.
• DIEPER: Digitised European Periodicals. Göttingen, Germany: Niedersaechsische Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek. Multilingual interface: English, French, and Greek. A central registry of restrospectively digitized periodicals in Europe and around the world, DIEPER also researches standards for such collections. Date added: 2002-09-08.
• FindArticles.com (LookSmart and the Gale Group). Searchable database to Web versions of periodical articles (popular and scholarly) dating back to 1998 from more than 350 publications. Articles can be printed or e-mailed.
• HealthInterNetwork. An international effort organized by the World Health Organization to provide free access to health sciences literature to developing countries, this site includes links to other free collections of medical and health publications. The bibliographic databases can be searched by anyone. Date accessed: 2005-02-27. Date added: 2005-02-27.
• Health Sciences Ejournals (National Network of Libraries of Medicine).
• MagPortal.com (Hot Neuron LLC). Search for free, Web-based (electronic) magazine articles.
• OnlineNewspapers.Com. Locate thousands of online newspapers by country, continent, region or alphabetically by title.
• PubMed. Bethesda, MD: National Library of Medicine. Locate and view abstracts for medical and health sciences literature. PubMed also provides links to free full-text Web resources. Date added: 2005-02-27.
• PubMed Central: An Archive of Life Science Journals. Bethesda, MD: National Library of Medicine. " A digital archive of life sciences journal literature." Access to the journals is free and they can be browsed by issue date or keyword searched.   In some cases, such as the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association, a complete run of a serial and its successor title can be viewed online or downloaded as Adobe Acrobat PDF files. Date accessed: 2005-02-27. Date added: 2005-02-27.
• Scholarly Journals Distributed Via the World Wide Web (Robert Spragg, University of Houston Libraries, Houston, Texas). All of these journals are supposed to be free or do not require user registration.
• Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of Information (Compiled by Marian Dworaczek hosted by the University of Saskatchewan Libraries, Canada).

SELECTED INDIVIDUAL TITLES

• Ariadne (ISSN 1361-3200 UK Office for Library and Information Networking [UKOLN]). Issue 1 (Jan. 1996)-. Searchable Internet/Web journal with many articles on digital libraries and electronic publishing. Each issue includes a news and events section of upcoming conferences, seminars and workshops. Date updated: 2004-08-08.
• Cultivate Interactive (Digital heritage and Cultural Content [DIGICULT] Programme, The European Commission).
• Current Awareness Application of New Technologies in Libraries (Maintained by Erik Arfeuille distributed by Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Central Library, Belgium). Week 1 (Jan. 1-5, 1996)-. Electronic current awareness service based on periodicals received by the library. date updated: 2004-08-09.
• Current Cites: An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Articles, Books, and Digital Documents on Information Technology. (ISSN 1060-2356 Library, University of California, Berkeley hosted by the Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE). Vol. 1, no. 1 (August 1990)-. Electronic current awareness service available on the Web or by e-mail subscription. All issues can be searched or browsed only issues published since 1994 are available as either plain-text or HTML.
• DigiCULT Thematic Issue. Luxembourg: European Commission, DigiCULT Forum. No. 1 (August 2002)-. ISSN 1726-3484. Requires registration in order to view or download individual issues. Date accessed: 2002-08-30. Date added: 2002-12-14.
• DigiCULT.Info: A  Newsletter on Digital Culture. Luxembourg: European Commission, DigiCULT Forum. No. 1 (July 2002)-. ISSN 1609-3941. Requires registration in order to view or download individual issues. For a related title see: e-Culture: A Newsletter on Cultural Content and Digital Heritage. Date accessed: 2002-07-30. Date added: 2002-12-14.
• Digital Document Quarterly: Perspectives on Trustworthy Information. Saratoga, CA: HMG Consulting, Vol. 1, no. 1 (1st Quarter 2002)-. Self-published by independent consultant and inventor H.M. Gladney. Date accessed: 2002-06-21. Date added: 2002-06-21.
• D-Lib Magazine: The Magazine of the Digital Library Forum (ISSN 1082-9873 Corporation For National Research Initiatives sponsored by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency [DARPA]). July 1995-. Searchable/browsable electronic journal devoted to digital library issues. Each issue also includes conference and workshop announcements relating to digital libraries and  digitization. Date updated: 2004-08-08.
• eBook Web News Channel:
• e-Culture: A Newsletter on Cultural Content and Digital Heritage (Luxembourg: DG Information Society, The European Commission). Vol. 1, no. 1 (January-February 2000)-. Also known as: DigiCULT Newsletter. Each issue includes an Events section with announcements of upcoming conferences, seminars, and workshops. Note: This is not the same publication as DigiCULT.Info: A Newsletter on Digital Culture. Date updated: 2004-08-09.
• Exploit Interactive (Telematics for Libraries Programme, The European Commission). Ceased publication, Issue no. 7, October 2000. Site content may not be available after 2002.
• First Monday (ISSN 1396-0466 University of Illinois at Chicago Library). Vol. 1, no. 1 (May 1996)-. Peer-reviewed Internet/Web journal with many articles on electronic publishing and digital libraries.
• High Energy Physics Libraries Webzine (ISSN 1424-2729 CERN Scientific Information Service, Switzerland). Issue 1 (March 2000)-. Web magazine devoted to the management of high-energy physics electronic libraries.
• Info@UK. London, England: British Council. Issue 1 (April 2001)-. Compiled by the Information Management Research Institute, University of Northumbria Monthly, for the British Council, this monthly  newsletter about aspects of the " Information Society" in the UK and around the world is available in Adobe Acrobat PDF or Microsoft Word. Date accessed: 2002-10-07. Date added: 2002-10-07.
• Information Highways Magazine. Toronto, ON: e-Content Institute. Bi-monthly. Canadian magazine for Internet/Web producers with partial online content back to December 1999/January 2000. Date updated: 2004-08-09.
• Information Research: An International Electronic Journal (ISSN 1368-1613 Tom Wilson). Vol. no. 1 (April 1995)-. Peer-reviewed Web journal established and published by a Professor Tom Wilson at University of Sheffield, UK. Contents can be searched by author, title, keyword and subject. Site includes a set of Digital Resources links to other information research Web sites.
• International Journal on Digital Libraries. Berlin, Germany: Springer Verlag. ISSN 1432-1300 (electronic edition) ISSN 1432-5012 (printed edition). Vol. 1, no. 1 (1997)-. The table of contents and issue abstracts can be browsed for free, but the articles themselves are only available by subscription or on a pay-per-view basis.  Date accessed: 2002-10-07. Date added: 2002-10-07.
• The Journal of Electronic Publishing (ISSN 1080-2711 University of Michigan Press). Vol. 1, no. 1-2 (Jan.-Feb. 1995)-vol. 8, no. 1 (August 2002) University of Columbia Press, vol. 8, no. 2[?] (December 2003)-. Peer-reviewed Web journal about electronic publications. Site-search engine is available along with author, title and volume lists. Date updated: 2004-08-09.
• Journal of Digital Information (ISSN 1368-7506 supported by the British Computer Society and Oxford University Press hosted by the Hosted by the University of Southampton, UK). Vol. 1, no. 1 (1997)-. Peer-reviewed searchable Web journal on " the management, presentation and uses of information in digital environments" .
• Journal of Internet Cataloging: The International Quarterly of Digital Organization, Classification and Access (ISSN 1091-1367 Haworth Press). Vol. 1, no. 1 (1997)-. Table of contents for each issue of this hardcopy journal and some online content. Copies of articles can be ordered through the Haworth Document Delivery Service.
• LIBRES: Library and Information Science Research Electronic Journal. Australia: Curtin University of Technology. Vol. 1, issue 1, 1990[?]-. ISSN 1058-6768. Date added: 2002-01-15.
• LTWorld (ISSN 1475-018X Library Information Technology Centre (LITC), South Bank University, London, UK). The focus of this online news service is library systems and elecronic publishing, including e-books. Site includes links to e-books and e-libraries. Date added: 2001-12-18.
• New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia. This journal was acquired by Taylor & Francis and appears in both print and digital forms. Taylor & Francis journal URL: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13614568.asp. Date updated: 2004-08-09.
• RLG DigiNews (ISSN 1093-5371 Research Libraries Group and Cornell University Library, Department of Preservation and Conservation). Vol. 1, no. 1 (Apr. 15, 1997)-. Searchable/browsable newsletter about the digital library field. Includes a calendar of events. Date updated: 2004-08-09.
• Russian Digital Libraries Journal (ISSN 1562-5419 Institute of the Information Society, Russia). Articles are in English and Russian from 1998 to 2000.
• SIG-IRList. Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIG-IR), Association for Computing Machinery. Vol. 1, no. 1 (1985)-. Newsletter on information retrieval issues, including ones relating to digital libraries. Date accessed: 2002-10-25. Date added: 2002-10-25.
• TICER Digital Library Literature Service (Tilburg Innovation Centre for Electronic Resources [TICER], Tilburg University Library, Tilburg, Netherlands). A current aware service available by e-mail and at the Web address.

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