Library and Information Studies Databases - The University Libraries

Citations to more than 300 library and information science periodicals published internationally.
Useful for library administration, various types of libraries (academic, public, school, special), library services, library collections, and other related topics.
Selectively indexes some state journals, books, conference proceedings, library school theses and pamphlets.
Largely English-language. Includes book reviews.
1984 to present but varies by title
Full text of about 100 titles from 1998 to present but some earlier
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Provides citations (no full-text) for more than 450 journals in library science, online retrieval, archives, and related information technology.
Contains journals from more than 68 countries in more than 20 languages.
Indexes book reviews.
1969 to present.
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ERIC

Abstracts for 750 educational journals (EJ) as well as published and unpublished educational materials such as school system reports, conference papers, research reports, and dissertations (ED)
Useful for library planning, librarians, library education, educational media, reading, childrens literature, media specialist, and other related topics
Includes information on libraries affiliated with educational institutions
Largely English-language. Most journals (EJ) available in Jackson Library
Most ERIC Documents (ED) available on microfiche in Documents/Microforms Division on 2nd Floor Main in Jackson Library. Many recent ED publications available in full text
1966 to present
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More info on ERIC via Institute of Education Sciences

Indexes more than 600 periodicals plus books, research reports, and proceedings.
Covers subjects such as librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, and information management.
Provides citations only (no full-text).
Dates of coverage: 1965 to present.
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Useful for information systems, reference services, collection development, reading, and other related topics .
Provides citations (no full-text), author abstracts, and cited references (footnotes to a scholarly article) to more than 2,100 peer-reviewed social science journals.
Dates of coverage: 1956 to present.
Includes the capability to perform a cited reference search, which allows you to find articles from journals that have cited a book, a patent, or another article.
Indexes articles, bibliographies, book reviews, editorials, letters, meeting abstracts, notes, review papers, reviews of software, and more.
Useful for identifying the important (ranked) Education journals by using Journal Citations Reports.
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Searches Education Full Text and Education Index Retrospective simultaneously.
Indexes almost 500 English-language periodicals and yearbooks as well as some books
Strong on educational and psychological topics including all educational levels, educational administration, child development, and counseling
1929 to present; abstracts since 1994; full text since 1996
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Provides access and search capabilities to the full text of 15 scholarly library and information science journals
dates of coverage vary by title
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Provides citations and abstracts (over 5,000 full-texts titles), from over 9,200 periodicals, newspapers and wire services titles.
Dates of coverage, 1980 to present.
Useful for library materials, school librarians, information storage and retrieval systems, collection development (libraries), electronic records, and other related topics.
Includes scholarly journals dealing with all subject areas including education, library science, physical education, and psychology.
Includes full text coverage of a few education journals not indexed elsewhere.
Good coverage of general topics and current events.
Most materials available in Jackson Library.
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Ingenta (formerly Carl UnCover Reveal)

Provides a searchable database of the tables of contents from over 25,000 journals.
Searchable by keyword.
Indexes a few of the core library and information science journals.
Ingenta also provides a notification service that delivers the table of contents of your favorite journals directly to your e-mail.
Dates of coverage: 1988 to present.
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MasterFILE Premier (EBSCO)

Abstracts for over 1,800 scholarly and popular periodicals covering all subject areas including library science .
Useful for library catalogs, archives, library web sites, libraries and electronic publishing, digital libraries, and other related topics.
Includes some full text titles not found in other resources
Most materials available in Jackson library
1884 to present Full text since 1990 but varies by title
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Mix of 2,500 scholarly and popular journals, many full-text, from a variety of subject disciplines including library science and education.
Useful for library collections, library resources, government documents, data bases, library science, and other related topics.
1971 to present; full text dates vary by title.
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Provides detailed statistical information (impact factor and total cites) to more than 8,100 peer-reviewed science and social science journals.
Dates of coverage: 1997 to present.
Corresponds to the Science Citation Index and Social Science Citation Index.
Useful for identifying the important (ranked) Social Sciences (includes Education) journals and for the Science journals.
Information Science & Library Science is one of the subject categories for important journals.
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A finding tool for fiction.
Covers books for all ages.
Allows readers to use a favorite author or book to find other authors and books with similar topics, themes, or plots.
This is not a full-text database for books.
Adds about 10,000 books to the database per year, along with reviews and descriptions when available.
Includes theme-oriented book lists, as well as, awards lists, feature articles, book discussion guides, and book talks which are brief attention-grabbing presentations of selected titles.
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Mary Krautter
Library & Information Studies Librarian

The University Libraries