Indexes

These are some good periodical indexes. Some of them even make available full text of articles — either for free or a fee. However, some of the best periodical indexes are available through your library. They probably have some with free full text, and they probably offer it via their Web page. You don't even need to leave the house; you just need a library card. If you live in the U.S., see my U.S. Libraries page to find your nearest library. Otherwise, use one of my other library directories

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Periodical Indexes | Journal Publishers' Sites | Indexes to Historical Journals | Back Issues of Periodicals | Dissertations and Theses | Bibliographies

Periodical Indexes

• British Library Direct - Combines an index with document delivery (for a fee) from one of the largest libraries in the world (one with a long history of interlibrary loan/document delivery service)
• Free Full Text.com - Over 7,000 scholarly periodicals (some of them with only a few issues free, however)
• High Beam - Millions of articles from journals and reference books, some for a fee (includes eLibrary)
• HighWire Press - Full-text journals in the sciences and social sciences
• HighWire Press Free Full-Text Articles
• Infotrieve ArticleFinder - Free searching, articles available for a fee
• IngentaConnect - Searching is free, but they charge a fee for the articles. When browsing for a particular periodical title, be sure to check both those with articles available online and those with articles available by fax. The original Internet periodical index (formely Uncover)
• JournalTOCs - Tables of contents for over 10,000 scholarly journals
• Magportal - Free index pointing to free full text articles
• Special Issues - Special issues of magazines, mostly trade publications (Compiled by Hill Reference Library, a business library in St. Paul, Minn.)

Academic Indexes/Search Engines:

See also

• Book Content Search Engines
• Open Access Journals
• Open Archives

Use these sites to narrow your search to academic materials, both on the free Web and in pay-per-view journal archives. Your library probably has other databases you can search for academic content and journal articles

• 1findr "Search through a growing, comprehensive collection of scientific and scholarly articles published in peer-reviewed journals" (1science)
• BASE: Bielefeld Academic Search Engine
• CORE (COnnecting REpositories) - "Aggregating the world's open access research papers," this is an index of millions of documents from thousands of journals and repositories
• Dissemin - "Detects papers behind pay-walls and invites their authors to upload them in one click to an open repository"
• Fatcat - Indexes journal articles and includes links to open access copies where available
• Google Scholar
• Classic Papers from 2006
• JURN - "Millions of free academic articles, chapters and theses"; searches open access journals and institutional repositories
• Semantic Scholar
• Yahoo Search Subscriptions - Search specialized sources that require a subscription. You will still need a subscription to access the full text, however



Web Directories of Periodical Indexes:

See also

• Magazines and Journals
• E-Journals for directories and individual periodicals
• Library of Congress E-Resources Online Catalog - Some of the electronic resources listed are only available at LC — but they might be available in your library, too — but others are free on the Web
• Free Databases

Journal Abbreviations:

• CAS Source Index (CASSI) Source Tool - Great for deciphering abbreviated journal titles; also searchable for title, CODEN, ISSN, ISBN

Journal Publishers' Sites

Many of these publishers provide indexes or tables of contents for their journals. However, you will have to pay if you want to get the full text of articles. For scholarly journals that make their articles available free, see Open Access Journals. See also Magazine and Journal Directories

• Blackwell Journals
• Cambridge Journals Online
• Sage Publications
• Science Direct - Elsevier site
• Springer (including Kluwer)
• Wiley InterScience

Directories of Journal Publishers:

• E-mail Alerting Services of Major Publishers/Vendors (Chinese University of Hong Kong library)

Indexes to Historical Journals

• Internet Library of Early Journals - Six important British journals from the 18th and 19th centuries, scanned and indexed (archived page)
• Research Society for American Periodicals: Resources - Links to many sources for the full text of periodicals, not just American and not just historic

Back Issues of Periodicals

• Back Issue Finder - Includes ephemera and other printed collectibles, as well as back issues of magazines

Dissertations and Theses

• Australian Theses
• British Library EThOS - Electronic theses online service
• Deposit DDB.DE - German dissertations and theses and other electronic documents (Die Deutsche Bibliothek)
• Dissertation.com - Dissertations and theses
• Dissertations - Collection of dissertations from outside the U.S. (Center for Research Libraries)
• Ebsco Open Dissertations Project
• ETD Individuals - Repository of electronic theses and dissertations for individuals whose institutions don't have their own repositories
• Foreign Doctoral Dissertations - Database of dissertations from universities outside the United States and Canada (Center for Research Libraries)
• Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) - Full text of theses and dissertations from member institutions
• Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD)
• OpenThesis - "A free repository of theses, dissertations, and other academic documents, coupled with powerful search, organization, and collaboration tools"
• Theses Canada - Collection of dissertations and theses dates back to 1965; full text available for theses from 1998-2002 (Library and Archives Canada)

Bibliographies

• See Bibliographies