FROM BOBST LIBRARY

Where Do I Find E-Journals?

by Andrew Gessner

[Ed: Links to web pages and/or e-mail addresses which have become inactive since the publication of this article have been enclosed in curly brackets { }. Replacement links have been provided where possible.]

The range of e-journal subject areas is as broad as that of their printed equivalents. Ease of access, format, and quality also vary widely. There are several online directories that list available e-journals.

As mentioned in the article "Is the E-Journal Academically Respectable?" the Scholarly Communications Project has about a dozen e-journals linked to its home page, {http://borg.lib.vt.edu} Replacement URL: http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/. Among these are the Chicago Journal of Theoretical Computer Science, a peer-reviewed scholarly journal published by MIT Press, and Modal Analysis: The International Journal of Analytical and Experimental Modal Analysis, published by the Society for Experimental Mechanics, Inc.

The Committee on Institutional Cooperation has a directory of about 50 journals, with links, at {http://ejournals.cic.net/}. These are also primarily scholarly journals, such as Architronic: Electronic Journal of Architecture and Journal of World Anthropology.

The motherlode of online e-journals is probably the directory maintained by the Association of Research Libraries at {http://arl.cni.org/} Replacement URL: http://www.arl.org/. This directory has hundreds of journals, ranging from peer-reviewed journals such as American Mathematical Society Bulletin and Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language to Practical Anarchy Outline: The Practical Aspects of Anarchy. Although this directory does not have direct hypertext links to the various journals, addresses for subscribing are provided. [ C ]

Andrew Gessner was a Reference Associate at Bobst Library at the time of this article's publication.
{gessnera@elmer1.bobst.nyu.edu}

Posted 28 February 1996. Last reviewed 30 November 2005.