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Reference Shelf: Journal Indexes Available for Free on The Web
- AGRICOLA, 1979-Present, is an index to world agricultural literature produced by the National Agricultural Library of the US Department of Agriculture. This database contains over 3.3 million bibliographic citations from approximately 1400 journals as well as from monographs, theses, patents, software, audio-visual materials and technical reports.
- Anthropological Index Online, 1965-Present, indexes approximately 750 scholarly journals and other serial publications in the field of anthropology held by the British Museum Department of Ethnology (Museum of Mankind). Materials are collected in all languages and for all geographical areas.
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Dissertation Abstracts 2000+
UMI/Proquest has made the two most recent years' citations and abstracts available on the Web to non-subscribers.
For older dissertations see:
Dissertation Abstracts 1861+ ChRiv-px
Citations to dissertations accepted for doctoral degrees at accredited North American institutions and more than 200 institutions elsewhere. Abstracts are available from 1980 to date. It also contains citations to masters' theses from 1962 to date. Abstracts for theses are available from 1988 to date. - Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC), 1966-Present, is a comprehensive database of literature in education. An excellent source. Full article citations are given here, along with abstracts of most articles. Be aware that ERIC indexes both published journal articles and something called "ERIC documents," which are unpublished, but are reproduced in a microfiche form held by Mugar Memorial Library.
- Ingenta/CARL Uncover
is a table of contents service covering a wide variety of professional
and academic journals.
Search by author keyword, title keyword or browse tables of contents. Selective in coverage, general in scope. Uncover also runs an article retrieval service from this site.
- Jake is a searchable database produced at Yale University that indexes the contents of over 190 online databases, making it possible to find out where a journal is: 1)indexed online or 2) published online in a full text form.
- Journal Abbreviations Sources. "All that JAS" is a clearinghouse to Web sites listing journal abbreviations and their full name. Organized by 18 broad subject categories.
- Medline (PubMed), 1966-Present. This database, produced by the National Library of Medicine, indexes the full range of medical literature. Full citation information and excellent abstracts are appended to many entries.
- REHABDATA indexes rehabilitation literature produced by the National Rehabilitation Information Center (NRIC). Coverage from 1956 to date, contains over 65,000 abstracts.
- RAND Abstracts a searchable index of documents produced by the Rand Corporation. Includes, citations, abstracts and Rand accession numbers. Boston University currently owns approximately 1500 of these publications.
See Also: Boston University's collection of subscription Electronic Indexes