Xavier University Library: Journal Guides: Electronic Journal Collections

ACM Digital Library (all full-text; RefWorks help; XLinks; title list) includes ACM journals, proceedings and SIG newsletters. It is produced by and the user interface is provided by the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM).

American Periodicals Series (APS) (1740-1900; updated quarterly; all full-text; RefWorks help; XLinks; title list) covers the development of American culture, politics and society across 150 years. It is arranged in three series: 1740 to 1800, the period of transition from British colony to emerging nation; 1800 to 1850, pre-Civil War and the era of debate over slavery; and 1850 to 1900, Civil War and Reconstruction. It covers 1,100 historic American journals including Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine, Independent Reflector, Medical Repository, Liberator, North American Review, Harper's Bazar, Vanity Fair, and Ladies Home Journal. Magazines of these periods cover the literature, science, religion, arts, and history of the time. It is produced by and the user interface is provided by ProQuest.

Annual Reviews (some 1932-present; all full-text; XLinks) offers a comprehensive collection of critical reviews written by leading scientists in 30 disciplines within the biomedical, physical, and social sciences. It is produced by and the user interface is provided by Annual Reviews.

China Online Journals (1997-present; all full-text; updated weekly; user guide) provides access to about 257 Chinese journals in the arts and humanities; however, we currently have access to more than 6,000 journals in agriculture science, the arts, business, economics, government, health, humanities, law, medicine, politics, science, social sciences, and technology. It provides complete bibliographic data in English, including the title of the journal, but the abstract and full-text is in Chinese. It is produced by the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China (ISTIC) and the Chinese Ministry of Science & Technology (MOST). The user interface is provided by Wanfang/Oriprobe.

Directory of Open Access Journals (all full-text) contains over 700 multidisciplinary, scholarly full-text journals that use a funding model that does not charge readers or their institutions for access. Journals included must exercise peer-review or editorial quality control and report primary results of research or overviews of research results to a scholarly community. It is produced by and the user interface is provided by Lunds Universitets Bibliotek.

Electronic Journal Center (about 1995-present; updates dependent upon publisher; all full-text; RefWorks help; XLinks; saving searches) is a multidisciplinary collection of about 5,000 journals published by Academic Press, American Chemical Society, American Institute of Physics, American Physical Society, American Psychological Association (PsycARTICLES), Association of Computing Machinery, Berkeley Electronic Press, BioOne, Blackwell, Cambridge University Press, Elsevier, Emerald (MCB University Press), Ingenta, Institute of Physics, Kluwer, Lawrence Erlbaum, Optical Society of America, Oxford University Press, Project MUSE, Royal Society of Chemistry, Springer-Verlag, Thieme and Wiley. Scholars can be notified by email about new relevant articles according to subject, author or journal title. It is compiled by and the user interface is provided by OhioLINK.

HighWire Press (all full-text) provides access to more than 1,099 high impact, peer-reviewed journals from oveer 130 scholarly publishers. It is produced by and the user interface is provided by HighWire Press, a division of Stanford University Libraries.

JSTOR (1st issue of 1st volume to 3 years from present; all full-text; RefWorks help; XLinks; title list) provides online access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in a variety of academic disciplines including the arts, business, demographic studies, humanities, social sciences, and science.

Periodicals Archive Online (most from first issue to 1995; RefWorks help; XLinks) provides the backfiles of periodicals in ancient civilizations, history, humanities, linguistics, literature, philosophy, and religion. Users can serach for articles by keyword, author, article title, journal title, language, journal subject, and year. Users can browse journals by title or journal subject. It is produced by Chadwyck-Healey and the user interface is provided by ProQuest.

ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source (formerly ProQuest Nursing Journals; 1986-present; all full-text; RefWorks help; XLinks; title list) offers the full-text of 444 nursing and related publications. Study paths permit users to view full-text articles recommended by a board of experienced nurse educators on topics relevant to the typical nursing curriculum. It is produced by and the user interface is provided by ProQuest.

PubMed Central (all full-text) is a free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), developed and managed by NIH's National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) in the National Library of Medicine (NLM).

Fill out this Document Delivery & Annex Request Form to request a copy of an article from a journal that Xavier does not have in print, electronic or microform formats. Make sure you have searched the Electronic Journal Locator and the Print & Microform Journal Locator (see above) for the journal title you need. Articles may take 1-14 days to arrive. You will be notified of their arrival in your Xavier email account.

Journal Citation Reports (2006) permits users to evaluate and compare journals using 2006 citation data drawn from over 7,500 scholarly and technical journals form more than 3,300 publishers in over 60 countries. The science edition contains data from over 5,900 journals and the social science edition over 1,700 journals. It can show you the most frequently cited journals in a field, the highest impact journals in a field and the largest journals in a field. Citation and article counts are important indicators of how frequently current researchers are using individual journals. It is produced by the Institute of Scientific Information (ISI) and the user interface is provided by Thomson. Click the Additional Resources tab to access this database.

Cabell's Directories provides full-text directory information for business, education and psychology journal publications. Each journal entry includes submission information (editor’s name, address, phone, fax, email, web address); publication guidelines (manuscript length, copies required, format, fees, style, computer submission); circulation data (reader type, frequency, number of subscribers, publisher, price); review information (type of reveiws, number of in-house and external reviewers, acceptance rate, time it takes to review, percent of invited articles, reviewers coments, publishing fees); manuscript topics included; and manuscript guidelines. To begin searching click Members in the menubar. It is produced by and the user interface is provided by Cabell Publishing, Inc.

Ulrich's Periodicals Directory (full-text directory information) contains information on currently published as well as discontinued periodicals. It includes magazines, journals, newletters, newspapers, conference proceedings, and electronic publications. Each entry includes a description, publisher, country of publication, ISSN, start year, status (active or inactive), price, frequency, ending issue, if refereed, format (print or electronic), if abstracted or indexed, where abstracted or indexed, language, editor, URL, and reviews. It is produced by and the user interface is provided by R.R. Bowker.