Journals
Finding & Accessing Journals at Stanford University
Use Socrates (http://library.stanford.edu/socrates),
Stanford's Library Catalog, to find journal titles available at Stanford. Socrates also includes
links to online versions of journals and holdings information that shows what volumes and years
are available for a title. Socrates does not contain details about individual journal articles.
Search a database (http://library.stanford.edu/catdb/sci.html)
to locate journal articles.
- Swain Journal List
(http://library.stanford.edu/depts/swain/collections/activejournals.html)
- e-Journals in the Stanford University Libraries
(http://www.tdnet.com/stanford/)
- Off-Campus Access to e-Journals
(http://library.stanford.edu/apcproxy/)
- Report e-Journal Access Problem
(http://library.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/tellus-ejourns.cgi)
- Search Tips
- Title abbreviations: You can search for a
title by its abbreviation (e.g. J Am Chem Soc)
as a title keyword search. Embedded terms are also retrieved
in the title keyword field (e.g. chem. will retrieve biochem
as well as chem.).
- Short, common titles: A great way to find
journals that have short, common names (e.g. Science, Nature)
is to search for them by publisher instead of their title.
For example, search AAAS and Nature as the name of the
publisher to locate Science and Nature, respectively.
- Advanced Search page: Allows you to specify
if a term is a partial word, exact word, or exact phrase.
You can also specify if term is at the beginning of a phrase
or anywhere in a phrase. You are also able to search multiple
fields at a time (e.g. title and publisher) and to limit
search results by a subject category.
- e-Journals in the Lane Medical Library
(http://lane.stanford.edu/online/ej.html)
- Viewing e-Journal Articles
While most users prefer to print PDF versions of articles, the web version
may contain abstract/full-text links for cited references as well as links
to high-resolution images, multimedia, and supplemental data. Different
readers may be required to view articles. Unfortunately,
errata (http://units.sla.org/division/dche/erata.pdf)
are frequently not linked to articles.
Services
Journal Title Abbreviations and DOI
Cancellations
Evaluation & Directory Tools for Journals
- JCR: Journal Citations Report
(Ranks Journals by Impact Factor) (Stanford only)
Provides easy access to data that helps you evaluate and compare
scholarly journals. JCR can show you the highest impact journals,
most frequently used journals, hottest journals, and largest
journals. Search by journal title, publisher, subject category,
or country.
- Ulrich’s International Directory of Periodicals
(Stanford only)
Identify new journals, referred titles, and online titles in your
discipline. Learn which databases or indexes to search for locating
article level information in a journal.
Also see: Related Links
Full-Text Searching
Most publishers now offer full-text searching for their journals. Deciding
where to search — a publisher site or an index is a key decision that impacts
what is retrieved. Article level information on publisher sites is
“invisible” to web search engines (e.g. Google). Below are some
advantages and disadvantages of doing a full-text search for a journal on a
publisher’s web site.
- Advantages:
- No lag time between time of publication and when article can be searched
- Ability to search entire contents of an issue, not just research articles
- Ability to search the entire text of an article by keyword (helpful for finding information about laboratory methods)
- Helps provide quality control (e.g. all articles are refereed)
- Efficient method to verify a citation
- No search fees
- Disadvantages:
- Possible to miss relevant research without searching multiple sites
- Key word searching can lead to overwhelming results
- Inconsistent data (e.g. author names) may make it difficult to find all relevant articles
- Potential gaps in coverage (early years may not be included)
Links to selected journal publisher sites are available on the
Alerts page.
A more comprehensive
journals list
is also available from Cambridge University. To learn more about full-text searching, see:
Not Just Full-Text Articles: Comparing the Search Function Among Chemistry Electronic Journals' Web Sites
(American Chemical Society, Elsevier, Royal Society of Chemistry, Springer-Verlag, Wiley,).
Titles Covered in Selected Databases
Knowing how many titles and what titles are covered in a database is a key factor in
deciding which database to search. Knowing the lag time between when an article is
published and when it is indexed is also important. In part, this is determined by how
often a database is updated. Being aware of which databases index the contents of a
journal cover-to-cover is also useful as some databases only index research papers.
Below are links to journal titles covered in selected databases. To search any of
these databases, please go to the database page. Note that
access to most databases is restricted to current students, faculty, and staff at
Stanford.
- Beilstein Handbook of Organic Chemistry via Crossfire (pdf) (Updated quarterly, indexes over 175 journals as of 8/03)
(http://www.mdl.com/products/pdfs/BSJournals.pdf)
- Chemical Abstracts Online via SciFinder Scholar (Updated daily, indexes over 9,000 journals as of 4/04).
- Gmelin Handbook of Inorganic and Organometallic via Crossfire (pdf) (Updated quarterly, indexes 62 journals as of 7/03)
(http://www.mdli.com/products/pdfs/GMJournals.pdf)
- Inspec (pdf) (Covers physics, electronics, computing) (Updated weekly, indexes over 3,400 journals as of 4/04)
(http://www.iee.org/Publish/Support/INSPEC/Document/Current_titles.pdf)
- PubMed (Updated weekly, indexes 10,372 journals as of 1/04)
(http://www.nlm.nih.gov/tsd/serials/lsiou.html)
- Science Citation Index/Web of Science (Updated weekly, indexes nearly 8,500 journals as of 4/04) (cover-to-cover indexing)
(http://www.isinet.com/cgi-bin/jrnlst/jloptions.cgi?PC=D)
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