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Library of Congress Tools - see Cataloging

Britain and Ireland Association of Aquatic Sciences Libraries and Information Centres (BIASLIC)
 "...brings together librarians and information workers in marine biology, oceanography, fisheries, aquatic ecology and freshwater scientific and technological research."

The British Library

  • Bibliographic Products and Services
  • Bibliographic Standards
    Sections include: Cataloguing Standards ; International Standard Serial Number ; Subject Access ; Exchange Formats ; USEMARCON ; Name Authority Control.
    • UKMARC Manual - (dead link)
      "Welcome to the online version of the complete UKMARC Manual, reflecting the cataloguing practice of the British Library in its interpretation of AACR2 and other related standards."

The California Periodicals Database
"...built in partnership with the California State Library, represents the journal holdings not only in the University of California system, but also in over 500 libraries statewide."

CONSER: Cooperative Online Serials
The Library of Congress' international cooperative serials cataloging program and component of the Program for Cooperative Cataloging.
Includes membership information, Annual Reports, meeting summaries, the program's newsletter CONSERline, and online resources for serials catalogers

CONSER Cataloging Manual
1993 edition, includes update No. 1 (Fall 1993). The Library Corporation hopes to include the latest updates soon

CONSER Editing Guide
1994 edition.

Current Law Journal Content (CLJC)
Scanned journal contents pages.
"The database contains no articles in full-text, though it might contain links to full-text. CLJC is an indexing database (without any subject analysis) that can reconstitute the text arrangement of an issue's table of contents."
- Washington & Lee Law School

EJI(sm):
A Registry of Innovative E-Journal Features, Functionalities, and Content.
"...is a categorized registry of electronic journals, journal services, or 'knowledge environments' that offer or provide innovative or novel access, organization, or navigational features, functionalities, or content."
Compiled and maintained by Gerry McKiernan, Science and Technology Librarian and Bibliographer, Iowa State University Library

Ejournals
Health science Ejournal information from the National Library of Medicine

Electronic Journal Miner - (dead link)
"This web page provides a series of indexes (e.g. title and Library of Congress Subject Heading) to provide easy access to different electronic serials. There has been no attempt in this product to provide any evaluation of the titles in terms of content or quality."

Free Electronic Journals - (dead link)
Leiden University - gratis elektronische tijdschrifte.
"a collection of (mainly) free electronic journals and magazines on the web"

Holdings Statements for Bibliographic Items
Download free pdf version.
"This new standard replaces both the Serial Holdings Standard Z39.44 and the Non-Serials Holdings standard Z39.57."
By National Information Standards Organization, 1999.

Interactive Electronic Serials Cataloging Aid - (dead link)
"This tool primarily provides ready access to cataloging rules, interpretations, examples of MARC bibliographic records in serial and computer file formats linked to instructional annotations, and a glossary of cataloging and computer terminology"
Developed at Northwestern University Library

ISSN International Centre

Jointly Administered Knowledge Environment (jake) - (dead link) "...is a reference source which makes finding, managing, and linking online journals and journal articles easier for students, researchers, and librarians. jake does this by managing online resource metadata with a database union list, title authority control, and linking tools, as well as making it easy to add a local holdings layer. jake is free for anyone to use, modify, copy, or redistribute under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) ... Currently jake can be searched using this simple web form - (dead link). You can search for any journal title; there are over 23,000 prominent journals which are 'cross-referenced': this means that these oft-indexed titles can be found using any of the several title variations various e-resources use."
Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, Yale University School of Medicine

Newsletter on Serials Pricing Issues

North American Serials Interest Group
Includes job listings, conference proceedings, and the NASIG Newsletter.

Periodicals.net
 "97,000 publication entries await you at periodicals.net. This website offers the most comprehensive database to identify vendor(s) that host the particular sources you need for general and specialized research."
- Library Technology Alliance Ltd.

RSAP
Research Society for American Periodicals
Resources for Research
Includes links to major online newspaper and magazine collections (including Making of America (MOA) collections) from the 18th-21st century. Also listed are related organizations and periodical publishing associations.

Scholarly Journals Distributed Via the World Wide Web - (dead link)
"This directory provides links to established Web-based scholarly journals that offer access to English language article files without requiring user registration or fees."
- University of Houston Libraries

Sticker Shock
The Rising Costs of Scientific Journals
A fun site exposing the high costs of academic journals by showing what you could buy for the same price of an annual subscription. For example, instead of renewing your subscription to the Journal of Applied Polymer Science your could enjoy a brand new Toyota Corolla ($12,495.00).
- Cornell University Engineering and Computer Science Library

UK Serials Group (UKSG)

Serials-eNews

UNESCO Social and Human Sciences Documentation Centre

  • Social Science Online Periodicals (full-text) - (dead link)
    Specialized Articles from around 340 Periodicals in Social Sciences

US ISSN Center

Serial Abbreviations

Index Medicus Journal Abbreviations - (dead link)
"To aid in your MEDLINE/AIDSLINE searching, a list of all 3100+ journals (and their abbreviations) indexed in the National Library of Medicine's Index Medicus has been provided."

Mathematical Reviews' Abbreviations of Names of Serials - (dead link)



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