Serials in Cyberspace:

Serials in Cyberspace Contents: Selected Sites With Electronic Journal Collections & Services: Academic/Research Sites (U.S.) Academic/Research Sites (Outside of the U.S.) Miscellaneous Collections & Resources (International) Selected E-Journal Titles Associations, Societies, Organizations, Programs, etc. (includes ISSN information) Other Useful Sources (Not E-Journal Specific) About this Page (scope/contact/update information)

Selected Sites With Electronic Journal Collections & Services

Academic / Research Sites (U.S.)

• Association of Research Libraries - home page. The ARL Office of Scholarly Communication recorded the growth of electronic publications through the Directory of Scholarly Electronic Journals and Academic Discussion Lists from 1991 to 2000. In 2001, ARL decided to cease publication of the directory. As of July 2003, archives of the last four editions of the online directory were made freely available at http://www.arl.org/scomm/edir/archive.html

• The Association of American University Presses (AAUP) - includes information on scholarly publishing and scholarly journals.

• Bowling Green State University, Libraries & Learning Resources includes access to electronic journals by A to Z listing, and by title or subject searching. Web version of an ACRL Poster Session (April 1997), Managing Electronic Journals in Times of Change by Julie Rabine & Linda Rich, offers an interesting overview of the electronic journals program at Bowling Green.

• CIC Web Site (Committee on Institutional Cooperation, the academic consortium of the Big Ten universities and the University of Chicago)
  • CIC Electronic Journals Collection - a managed collection of selected and fully cataloged scholarly and research e-journals, which was a three year pilot project ceased on May 15, 2000.

• Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries Electronic Journal Access - includes a link to Gold Rush, a suite of web-based tools to help librarians better manage subscriptions to electronic resources.

• The Columbia University Libraires web site includes a link to E-Resources, which includes E-Journals (as well as databases, e-books, e-news, e-images, e-music, GIS data, et al.). There is also an A-Z Subject Index, with a "Quick Search" option to electronic journals.

• jake (Jointly Administered Knowledge Environment) - jake is a reference source for finding, managing, and linking online journals and journal articles. jake does this by managing online resource metadata with a database union list, title authority control, and linking tools, as well as making it possible to add a local holdings layer. An article about jake, "jake: Overview and Status Report", by Kimberly Parker, Cynthia Crooker, and Dan Chudnov (all from Yale) was published in Serials Review 26(4):12-17, 2000.

• The Harvard Libraries offer an e-research link, which includes links for finding e-journals and e-resources.

• Library of Congress - web site includes:
  • The Newspaper & Current Periodical Room, from LC's Serial and Government Publications Division.
  • Periodical Titles On the Web (short list)
  • News and Periodical Resources on the Web.

• Los Alamos National Laboratory's Research Library - provides information resources to the Los Alamos National Laboratory research community including maintaining an extensive e-journal collection. An article, "Creating Electronic Journal Web Pages from OPAC Records" in Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship no. 15 (Summer 1997) offers background information on LANL's approach to providing access to e-journals.

• MIT Libraries - home page includes a link to the VERA (Virtual Electronic Resource Access) - for ejournals and databases.

• National Library of Medicine
  • NLM's Main Reading Room Journal Collection - consists of the latest 10 years of the 200 most frequently requested English language journals held at the National Library of Medicine. These journals cover biomedical and various allied subject areas.
  • NLM's List of Journals Indexed in Index Medicus
  • Journal Selection for Index Medicus MEDLINE® (factsheet)

• NewJour Electronic Journal & Newsletter archive - includes announcements and links to new serial titles on the Internet as they are posted to the NewJour list.

• North Carolina State University (NCSU) Libraries - Library Information System, includes access to the NCSU Libraries E-journal Finder.

• Stanford University Libraries & Academic Information Resources (SUL/AIR) provides links to E-Resources, with links to Electronic Journals (among others). There is also a separate link to online newspapers.

• University at Buffalo Libraries - home page includes a link prompting users to search for specific journal titles (restricted to UB users). The general public may search for electronic resources by subject.

• University of California, San Diego - The Library's home page, includes a link to Electronic Journals (search engine and subject listings). Other e-journal lists and links can be found under Electronic Journals, Newsletters, etc.

• University of California, Santa Cruz offers access to a search engine of Electronic Full Text Journals -- most of which are available only from UC IP addresses only. Registered users can retrieve alphabetical lists of journals arranged by publisher. Some of the publishers that are listed include: Springer, Wiley, ACM (Association of Computing Machinery), JSTOR, ACS (American Chemical Society) Publications Online, Institute of Physics Online Journals, Kluwer, Pergamon, North-Holland, Elsevier, IDEAL/Academic, Cambridge, and Oxford.
  • The Electronic Resources page links to several Journal Databases, including some that are available to all web users and some that are restricted to UCSC users only.

• University of Houston Libraries hosts Charles Bailey's Scholarly Electronic Publishing Biography, as well as a directory of Scholarly Journals distributed via the World-Wide Web. UH is host to the popular Internet discussion forum PACS-L.

• University of Michigan Library - offers a access to an Electronic Journals and Newspapers List.

• University of Minnesota Libraries provides access to a search engine and alphabetical listing of electronic journals (articles and more)

• The University of Pennsylvania Library provides a link to an E-Resource Locator, which offers a "selection by type" search option where e-journals may be searched.

• University of Tennessee, Knoxville Libraries home page, with its link to E-Journals includes access to e-journals by subject list.

• University of Vermont Libraries - the link to Find articles and more includes alphabetical and and an alpha- subject page of e-journal listings.

• University of Virginia Library - Home page section of "Collections" includes links to Journals and Index Collections and Newspapers and News Services. The Electronic Journals page offers a listing of e-journal services and providers to which the Library subscribes.

• University of Washington Libraries - home page provides a direct link to Electronic Journals.

• Vanderbilt University's Heard Library provides alphabetical listing and search interface to Electronic Journals.

• Virginia Tech University Libraries - includes a link to Ejournals, which includes options for searching by title or subject (use limited to Virginia Tech community). See also:
  • Virginia Tech's Digital Library and Archives (formerly the Scholarly Communications Project). Historical Information/About DLA offers information about how Virginia Tech began working with members of the university community in 1989 to help them create online resources such as electronic journals and to use library services such as electronic reserve with its centralized access to course materials.
  • Virginia Tech also provides access to archives for the discussion list VPIEJ-L which was founded for discussion of electronic publishing issues, especially those related to Scholarly Electronic Journals.

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Academic / Research Sites (Outside of the U.S.)

Australia

• Australian National University Library - Web pages includes a link to electronic journals -- with additional links to electronic journal collections, selected electronic journal sites, and pre-print archives.

• Monash University Library offers a link to page of Electronic Journals. Individual journal titles can be found by searching the Monash Voyager Catalogue.

• The National Library of Australia website includes a database of Australian Journals Online (AJOL) - AJOL is the National Library of Australia's database of Australian electronic journals, magazines, webzines, newsletters and e-mail fanzines. The database provides details and links to over 2000 titles that include local and overseas works with Australian content, authorship and/or emphasis as well as entries for sites which advertise or promote Australian journals with a presence on the web.

Belgium

• Les Bibliothèques de l'Université de Liège (pages d'accueil) - The library, U.D. Walthère Spring offers access to an extensive listing of scientific journals / La bibliothèque U.D. Walthère Spring offre une liste des journaux scientifiques.

Brazil

• SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online) - an electronic library covering a selected collection of Brazilian scientific journals. A project developed by FAPESP - Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo, in partnership with BIREME - the Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information. The FAPESP-BIREME Project envisages the development of a common methodology for the preparation, storage, dissemination and evaluation of scientific literature in electronic format.

Canada

• Bibliothèque Virtuelle de Périodiques - A collaborative project between librarians and documentalistes in France and in Québec, offers a directory of freely accessible, scholarly French-language periodicals. Includes a search engine and subject listing arranged by Dewey classification categories. La Bibliothèque Virtuelle de Périodiques est un projet franco-québécois développé et mis à jour par une quinzaine de bibliothécaires et documentalistes. À ce jour, elle répertorie environ 500 revues et magazines électroniques offrant leur contenu sur Internet. Leur mission est de répertorier le plus grand nombre possible de périodiques électroniques offrant un contenu intéressant, en particulier pour les étudiants francophones de niveau secondaire à universitaire. Le contenu de la base de données se limite aux publications électroniques gratuites qui offrent du texte intégral dans le World Wide Web.

• The McGill University Library offers throught its Electronic Data Resources Service an alphabetical index of available electronic journals.

• The Library and Archives of Canada (formerly known as the National Library of Canada / Bibliothèque et Archives du Canada (autrefois la Bibliothèque nationale du Canada) - offers access to an Electronic Collection / Collection électronique, which incorporates formally published Canadian online books and journals. These publications are being acquired, catalogued, and permanently stored at the NLC. Public access is provided on the Internet through the World Wide Web. Catalogue records for Electronic Collection titles, including the Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), are available on NLC's AMICUS system.

• The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education Library - home page includes a link to The Electronic Journals Project, which, in collaboration with the Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto, offers a web-based interface for searching their collection of electronic journals on education.

• Université de Montréal - les Bibliothèques de l'Université de Montréal présentent une liste de périodiques électroniques et la Bibliothèque de Médicine vétérinaire offers Veterinary Journals: Tables of Contents (in English) and Littérature vétérinaire francophone (en français).

• Université Laval - la Bibliothèque de l'Université Laval offre un moteur de recherche qui sert à identifier les Périodiques que la Bibliothèque possède.

• University of British Columbia Libraries - UBC Library home page includes a search engine and a list of electronic journals (UBC subscriptions and other collections).
  Joseph Jones has also compiled Ejournal SiteGuide : a MetaSource to individual titles and to other collections of links.

• University of Guelph Library - offers a link to Full-Text Electronic Journals , which includes a search engine, as well as alphabetical and subject listings. The Library's home page also includes a listing of e-journal additions and deletions.

• University of Saskatchewan Libraries - the home page includes a link to Electronic Journals (search engine, news, updates, etc.).
  • The University of Saskatchewan also offers a telnet-searchable E-Journals Bibliography (login with Username: ej).

• University of Waterloo Library, offers a link to their Full-Text Electronic Journals. Other useful links include the Library's Scholarly Societies Project - with its subject guide and direct links to full-text archives of scholarly society serial publications.

France

• Bibliothèque nationale de France comprend un lien au serveur Gallica, où le lecteur accède à une bibliothèque multimédia dont les ressources documentaires s'étendent du Moyen Âge au début du XXe siècle. La page de Recherche offre un catalogue pour consulter la bibliothèque. Parmi les ressources disponibles, il existe une liste des Périodiques électroniques spécifiques au projet Gallica.

• Bibliothèque Virtuelle de Périodiques - A collaborative project between librarians and documentalistes in France and in Québec, offers a directory of freely accessible, scholarly French-language periodicals. Includes a search engine and subject listing arranged by Dewey classification categories. Leur mission est de répertorier le plus grand nombre possible de périodiques électroniques offrant un contenu intéressant, en particulier pour les étudiants francophones de niveau secondaire à universitaire. Le contenu de la base de données se limite aux publications électroniques gratuites qui offrent du texte intégral dans le World Wide Web.

• Latindex - El sistema LATINDEX –Indice Latinoamericano de Publicaciones Científicas Seriadas– se plantea como producto de la cooperación de una red de Centros Regionales y Nacionales de acopio, que funcionarán de manera coordinada para reunir y diseminar la información bibliográfica sobre las publicaciones científicas seriadas producidas en América Latina, el Caribe, España y Portugal.

  An Iberoamerican information system created in 1995 which contains a directory of more than 12,000 scientific and technical journals published in Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal. Based at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), this directory is updated on daily basis. It is produced cooperatively by Latindex partners located in Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Spain, Portugal and Venezuela.

• Lund University Libraries hosts the Directory of Open Access Journals.

United Kingdom

• BUBL - Bulletin Board for Libraries, includes a link to BUBL Journals. The journals are also arranged by topic. The Archive Journals page includes links to publications that are no longer issued or are no longer held by BUBL.

• eLib: Electronic Libraries Programme - This site describes the Programme and Projects funded by it, including those related to electronic journals.

• Oxford University Press - Journals information.

• SALSER - Scottish Academic Libraries SERials is a World Wide Web-based union catalogue of serials holdings in all 13 Scottish universities, the municipal research libraries of Edinburgh and Glasgow, numerous smaller Scottish research libraries and the National Library of Scotland. Through SALSER, users can not only discover which serials are held where; they can also connect to the participating libraries' On-line Public Access Catalogues (OPACs).

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Miscellaneous Collections and Resources (International)

• Directory of Open Access Journals - aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use a quality control system to guarantee the content.

• Electronic Journals; A Selected Resource Guide - This guide is an overview and summary of issues relating to electronic journals, covering such topics as the history of e-journals, technical standards, legal and business issues, scholarly publishing issues, preservation, and archiving. Offered via the Harrassowitz web server.

• John Labovitz's E-Zine List - More than 4000 electronic 'zines, that is, serial publications produced by one person or a small group of people, done often for fun or personal reasons, often irreverent, bizarre, and/or esoteric. Zines are not "mainstream" publications -- they generally do not contain advertisements (except, sometimes, advertisements for other zines), are not targeted towards a mass audience, and are generally not produced to make a profit. JL's "new and improved e-zine-list.

• "Evaluating Index Morganagus" by Eric Lease Morgan - describes Index Morganagus, one of the first, early full-text indexes of library-related electronic serials. First, it describes why the Index was created. It goes on to give an overview of Harvest, the technology that collects, indexes, and provides access to the serials. The article outlines how the process was automated using the combination of a database application (FileMaker Pro) and various "glue" scripts (both AppleScript and Perl). It provides an analysis of the service's log files shedding light on usage patterns and librarian search behavior. It appears that Index Morganagus is no longer availble as of Dec. 2007.

• JSTOR - Journal digitizing, storage and archiving project, initially supported by the Mellon Foundation and recently established as a not-for-profit organization.

• Presseweb / Journaux sur le Web - site web suisse pour retrouver les sites web des journaux multilingues présents sur Internet. ~8000 sites sont inclus.

• Les médias québécois sur le net - par Pascal Lapointe, du Québec.

• UnCover web site and database of journal articles is now available through the web at IngentaConnect (searching is free; article delivery is fee-based).

• Yahoo News and Media - includes links to journals, magazines and newspapers via the "yahoo.com" server. Regularly updated.

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Selected E-Journal Titles

• Against the Grain
• ALCTS Online Newsletter - publication of ALA's Association for Library Collections & Technical Services.
• BiD: textos universitaris de biblioteconomia i documentació - Published in Spain, this journal accepts articles in English, French, Spanish and Catalan, and is open to collaboration.
• Bulletin des Bibliothèques de France - Revue de réflexion et d'information, BBF paraît six fois par an. Professionnels et spécialistes de l'information y discutent de toutes les questions concernant la politique et le développement des bibliothèques et des centres de documentation.
• Cataloging and Classification Quarterly (CCQ) - Tables of contents, news and announcements, et al.
• The Chronicle of Higher Education.
• CONSERline - Newsletter of the CONSER (Cooperative Online Serials) Program, published by the Library of Congress, Serial Record Division.
• Current Cites - An annotated monthly bibliography of selected articles, books, and electronic documents on information technology edited by Roy Tennant.
• CURSUS - périodique électronique étudiant de l'École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l'information (EBSI) de l'Université de Montréal.
• Le Devoir - le quotidien de Montréal.
• Edupage
• FYI France - resources, and services, of and about libraries and online digital information in France and generally in Europe.
• Hermès : revue critique - l'objectif est de proposer des textes critiques portant sur la société de l'information, les bibliothèques, les communications et la société actuelle.
• HotWired
• Journal of Electronic Publishing
• LIBRES: Library and Information Science Research
• Library of Congress Cataloging Newsline (LCCN)
• Library Philosophy and Practice - A refereed electronic journal publishing articles that demonstrate the connection between library practice and the philosophy and theory which are behind it.
• Newsletter On Serials Pricing Issues - published from 1989 to 2001, is archived at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. A searchable "freeWAIS" index of the Newsletter issues from 1991 to 1999 is also available via the webserver at NCSU.
• Prism - publication of the Office for Accreditation of the American Library Association.
• Project Muse
• Public-Access Computer Systems Review (PACS Review) - published from 1989 to 1998.
• Solaris - animée par le Groupe Interuniversitaire de Recherches en Sciences de l'Information et de la Documentation, la revue Solaris vise un certain nombre d'interrogations dans le domaine de la production-circulation des informations, des savoirs et ce dans le contexte général du processus de numérisation du signe, du développement des réseaux électroniques.
• Le Soleil - le quotidien de la ville de Québec.

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Associations, Societies, Organizations, Programs, etc.

• ALA - American Library Association
• ASI - American Society of Indexers
• ASIS&T - American Society for Information Science and Technology
• ALCTS - ALA's Association for Library Collections & Technical Services
• CONSER (Cooperative Online Serials Cataloging) - includes access to CONSERline, the newsletter.
• Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) - a not-for-profit organization providing collective copyright licensing services.
• Forum Zeitschriften GeSIG - The German-speaking Serials Interest Group (GeSIG): The Serials Initiative for Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
• IFLA - IFLANET Internet services, the web site for the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions.
• ISSN Information:
  ISSN International Centre - bilingual (English/French) Web information pages via le Centre international de l'ISSN/ISSN International Centre, Paris, France. The ISSN International Centre maintains a list of each of the ISSN National Centres around the world.
  • Australian ISSN Agency at the National Library of Australia - for information about obtaining and using the ISSN for serial publications in Australia.
  • Canadian ISSN Agency
  • U.S. ISSN Center at the National Serials Data Program (NSDP), Library of Congress - for information about obtaining and using the ISSN for serial publications in the United States.
• LITA - Library & Information Technology Association.
• NASIG - North American Serials Interest Group.
• NDNP - National Digital Newspaper Program
• NELA - New England Library Association.
• UKSG - United Kingdom Serials Group
• USNP - United States Newspaper Program

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Other Useful Sources (Not e-journal specific)

• AcqWeb - For acquisitions and collection development resources (affiliation of ACQNET). Developed by Anna Belle Leiserson (Vanderbilt Law Library), currently maintained by maintained by Paul Orkiszewski (Appalachian State University Libraries).

• Back Issues and Exchange Services - A WWW listing of back issues and exchange services that have been mentioned on SERIALST, or through other networked sources, as being freely-offered through the Internet.

• CrossRef - a cross-publisher citation linking system that allows a researcher to click on a reference citation on one publisher’s platform and link directly to the cited conten on another publisher’s platform, subject to the target publisher’access control practices. The citation-linking network today covers millions of articles and other content items from several hundred scholarly and professional publishers.

• DOI - Digital Object Identifier, a system for identifying content objects in the digital environment.

• Lis-Serials - UK-based discussion list archives.

• OpenURL - overview.

• Serials Cataloging information: Tools for Serials Catalogers, maintained by Ann Ercelawn, Vanderbilt University.

• SERIALST Scope & Purpose - Web page for SERIALST, a discussion forum pertaining to Serials in Libraries. The Scope and Purpose Statement includes guidelines and instructions for using the forum and its related services (including a link to the SERIALST web archives).

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• Cataloging Directorate, Library of Congress

• Liblicense - licensing digital information resource for librarians, this web site includes information about the discussion list, the discussion list archives, a bibliography, as well as links to a number of related licensing resources.

• Library Information Servers via the Web - maintained on server http://sunsite.berkeley.edu by Thomas Dowling, OhioLINK.

• OCLC Resources and Services

• Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography -Charles W. Bailey, Jr., University of Houston Libraries, presents selected articles, books, electronic documents, and other sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet and other networks.

• Subscription Agents & Other Suppliers:
  • Association of Subscription Agents

  • Back Issues and Exchange Services - A WWW listing of back issues and exchange services that are freely-offered through the Internet.

  • Other Sources:
    || Alfred Jaeger, Inc. || EBSCO || Harrassowitz || Periodicals Service Company & Schmidt Periodicals GmbH || SwetsBlackwell || USBE (United States Book Exchange)

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  About this page:

  Serials in Cyberspace is comprised of selective listings of web sites with electronic journal collections and services both inside and outside the U.S., miscellaneous collections and resources, selected e-journal titles and other web pages concerning serials that may be of interest to librarians. It was first developed in 1994 by Birdie MacLennan to accompany an article, "Electronic Serial Sites: Collections, Resources, and Services," that first appeared in the ARL Directory of Electronic Journals, Newsletters and Academic Discussion Lists, 4th ed., May 1994.

  As web sites with serials content continue to proliferate at a phenomenal rate, it has been impossible to add or keep track of them all. This represents a small segment of selected sites and resources that I have found useful as a serials librarian. The nature of the web has changed dramatically since this site was first started. While most e-journal and full-text e-resources provided by libraries were freely accessible in 1994, many (most) now provide limited access or are significantly restricted to user communities by licensing agreements. In spite of these limitations, I still continue to maintain and update this site (like Sisyphus and his rock), but on a very irregular basis.

  Author/Creator: Birdie MacLennan (corrections and comments are welcome)
  This site is hosted by the University of Vermont.
  Last update: November 29, 2007.