SEARCH & RESEARCH -- Electronic journals/E-magazines/Netzines/Webzines

The 5 stars of online journal articles — a framework for article evaluation (D-Lib Magazine, Jan/Fe 2012, Volume 18, Number 1/2) - peer review, open access, enriched content, available datasets & machine-readable metadata; See also Tim Berners-Lee's Five Stars of Linked Open Data(2009);


______________________________________________________________________________________

AcqWeb's directory of journals, newsletters & electronic discussion archives                              26 August 2011

Alternative Press Center(APC)                                                                                                 24 August 2001
non-profit collective dedicated to providing access to & increasing public awareness of alternative press. Founded 1969..one of the oldest self-sustaining alternative media institutions in US; recognized as a leading guide to alternative press in US & world.

American Fabian (reprints; originally published 1895-1900) (full serial archives)                        25 February 2010

American Journal of Science, 1881- (formerly American Journal of Science & Arts)                     28 March 2009
only geology & related earth science nowadays but for many years covered a wider range of scientific & artistic endeavors; search & browse online collection of 140+ volumes; FAQ & link to other digital collections created by Carnegie Mellon University;

Australian Journals OnLine                                                                                                       30 April 2004
2000+ magazines, journals with Australian content searchable by keyword (in title, subject, or both) & browsable; hyperlink to URL, description, ISSN, etc.

ArXiv e-print service                                                                                                                31 July 2003
physics, mathematics, non-linear science & computer science owned, operated & funded by Cornell University

BioOne Online Journals                                                                                                            21 September 2007
scientific societies, libraries, academe & private sector aggregation of fulltext high-impact bioscience research journals published by small societies & not-for-profit organizational publishers; integrated, cost-effective access to biological, ecological & environmental sciences

BMJ: British Medical Journal (& predecessor journals) (partial serial archives)                            25 January 2011
BMJ: Vols. 297 to 337;  1988 to 200; Br Med J (Clin Res Ed): Vols. 282 to 296;  1981 to 1988; Br Med J: Vols. 1 to 281;  1857 to 1980; Assoc Med J: Vols. 1 to 4;  1853 to 1856; Lond J Med: Vols. 1 to 4;  1849 to 1852; Prov Med Surg J: Vols. 2 to 16;  1841 to 1852; Prov Med J Retrosp Med Sci: Vol. 4;  1842

Builder(London) short lived periodical that lasted around 10 years in the mid 1800's                  25 July 2010
v 1 No.1(31 Dec 1842 - V. 3 No. 108(1 Mar 1845) useful information on architecture, engineering, design, & construction industry of that era; annual index;

Century Magazine(partial serial archives)                                                                                    10 June 2010
began publication in 1881 as a successor to Scribner's Monthly Magazine, ceased publication in 1930. Copyrights were renewed for issues at least as far back as 1923.

Chicago Manual of Style FAQ                                                                                                  14 July 2001
Wonder where to break a URL at the end of line, whether the ban on splitting infinitives stands, or how many spaces to put after a period?; questions that vex

Chinese ejournals    Open access in Chinese ejournals                                                            13 January 2012

Citebase Search searching various eprint archives; in development                                             23 March 2007

Classical Quarterly scholarly journal on ancient Greek & Roman literature & civiliation                19 July 2011
published by Classical Association of Great Britain began  in 1907, as spin-off of Classical Review (1887-1922). A new series began in 1951. No issue copyright renewals exist for this journal. It is still published today; 1907-1922: Hathi Trust has volumes 1-16 of this journal, scanned from copies at U of Michigan. Later volumes are currently searchable but not readable online; See also Classical Association: Classical quarterly;

Core meta-list of open access eprint archives                                                                            27 May 2003

Cosmopolitan has selected articles online                                                                                     9 May 2010
began publication in 1886 as a general interest family magazine, & quickly became a major venue for popular fiction. Issue copyright renewals began prior to 1923. For some time during the early 20th century, it combined publication with Hearst's International Magazine. (Hearst bought the magazine in 1905; the company still publishes it today.) After Helen Gurley Brown became editor in 1965, Cosmopolitan became a women's magazine focusing on sex, romance, health & beauty, & popular culture. The magazine published today continues that general emphasis, with multiple editions tailored to different countries; 1886-1922: Hathi Trust has most volumes through 1922 readable online(when I checked it was missing volumes 13, 14, 16, 38, 40, 43, & 62 from the first 73 volumes);

Digital Document Quarterly                                                                                                      14 May 2005

Digital information in Information Research field  freely accessible journals & newsletters           21 November 2002

Directory of electronic publications.5th ed. ARL(Association of Research Libraries)                 24 August 2001
copy directory or specific entries for internal purposes, personal use, or study by an individual, an individual library, or an educational or research institution.

Directory of Open Access Journals  Search/browse 1485 open access publications                  18  March 2005
by subject or title; new titles; direct links; publisher, language, ISSN, keywords, start year; open access scientific & scholarly journals that use a quality control system. All subject areas & languages; 70222 articles, 375 searchable at article level (Nov 2004)

Economist Historical Archive subscription through National Library of Australia's eResources    16 December 2008
8000 editions of Economist  magazine from 1843–2003 fully digitised & keyword searchable witf full-colour images, exportable financial tables, & a gallery of front covers;

eContent staff blogs                                                                                                               3 March 2007
ONLINE insider: Marydee Ojala; Intelligent Agent: Robert Berkman; Library Stuff: Steven M. Cohen;

EEVL's Ejournal Search Engines                                                                                               1 December 2004

eFeeds(sm): Web Feeds from Electronic Journals                                                                      30 June 2004
categorized registry of electronic journals that offer RSS/XML, Atom, or other Web feeds

EJI(sm): Registry of Innovative E-Journal Features, Functionalities, & Content                            31 August 2001
categorized registry of electronic journals, journal services, knowledge environments with innovative access, organization, or navigational features, functionalities, or content. E-Journals with multimedia components listed in M-Bed(sm), those with pay-per-view access in Just-in-Time(sm). Some e-journals in EJI(sm) require free registration or a paid subscription to access select registry entries.

Ejournal hosting providers                                                                                                     15 April 2004
Allen Press - STM all sciences; Atypon - STM, general; Extenza - general; Highwire Press - STM, some humanities & social sciences; Ingenta - general; MetaPress - STM, general; Project Euclid - maths, statistics; Project muse - humanities, social sciences; Scitation(AIP) - physical sciences, engineering, all sciences

Electronic Journal Miner                                                                                                              2 July 2005
Electronic Journal Access Project by nonprofit Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries(The Alliance) provides title & subject organization of electronic serial publications(e.g. journals, newsletters, magazines, ezines, webzines) on Internet.

Electronic Journals: A Selected Resource Guide                                                                           28 February 2004
for library staff involved in selection, management, & distribution of electronic journals; systems staff involved in providing access; managers making electronic journals available in their libraries; & publishers, vendors & distributors of electronic journals.

Electronic journals with RSS feeds                                                                                               11 November 2004
U of Saskatchewan Library directory-400 browsable, searchable ejournals with feeds

EmailUniverse.com                                                                                                                      9 January 2005
resources, directories, community, tools, tips, tricks, suggestions, ideas, strategies to help entrepreneurs with email newsletter marketing

English Historical Review, 1886-1922 archived                                                                             11 March 2010
oldest journal of historical scholarship in English-speaking world;  now published by Oxford University Press; official EHR website has information about journal, & electronic access to recent articles (most available only via subscription or purchase); 

English Review magazine of literature, criticism, & political commentary published in early C20 London  7 January 2010
founded by Ford Madox Hueffer(later Ford) in 1908. He edited the first 15 issues. Austin Harrison took over as editor in 1910, other editors from 1923 onward. The magazine ran until 1937, when it was absorbed by National Review;

e-zine-list: John Labovitz's e-zine-list                                                                                            24 August 2001
world list of electronic 'zines, accessible via Web, FTP, email, other services; updated monthly; updated 17 Jun 2001; 4389 zines; now unsupported(Aug 2001)

Ezine machine                                                                                                                              5 May 2003

eZINEsearch Searchable directory of ezines                                                                                7 May 2004
See also E-Zine Master List & Ezine Universe e-mail newsletter directory

E-ZineZ - Handbook of Ezine Publishing produce & publish an Internet e-mail newsletter             24 August 2001

Guide to FOS [Free Online Scholarship] Movement.Peter Suber                                                  10 May 2002
terminology, acronyms, initiatives, standards, technologies, players in FOS movement; Peter Suber's Free Online Scholarship site - newsletter, blog, timeline of FOS movement; premier guide to scholarly open archives

Gold Rush                                                                                                                                    19 September 2001
lists serials embedded within aggregations or databases such as EBSCOhost & Gale InfoTrac; find best databases on specific topics or from specific journals; links to your subscriptions

Google Books                                                                                                                              11 October 2004
50 Years of American Motorcyclist Online(American Motorcyclists Association); Ebony magazine, 1945-Browse Life Magazine Archive & search inside specific issues; Browsable list of magazines available in GB Search Database; Google Library Project: is digitization for purposes of online indexing Fair Use under Copyright Law?(Congressional Research Service); Google Magazine Archive via GB can now access issues of CIO, CSO, InfoWorld & Network World dating back to 1970s by title, publisher or ISSN; Popular Science archive now online free;

Gopher Central eNewsletter Directory of  free newsletters & ezines                                                20 September 2005

Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899                                                                  26 June 2011

Illustrated London News Historical Archive 1842-2003                                                           15 June 2011
for subscribers of National Library of Australia eResources; Search the complete full colour archive of this iconic illustrated newspaper. Great artitsts & contributors including Rudyard Kipling, Charles Dickens & Agatha Christie;

Index Morganagus evaluated  fulltext index of library-related electronic serials(Eric Lease Morgan) 25 March 2007

Informed Librarian Online                                                                                                            6 July 2003
monthly tables of contents from 250+ library & information-related journals, e-journals, magazines,e-magazines, newsletters & e-newsletters

Internet Library of Early Journals                                                                                                 12 July 2002
C18 & C19 journals; images with bibliographic data: Gentleman's Magazine, Annual Register, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Notes & Queries, The Builder, & Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Blackwood's, Gentleman's, Notes & Queries, & Philosophical Transaction searchable

Internet Resources Newsletter: Internet In Print Index                                                                   2 December 2001
Alphabetical list of Internet magazines & journals reviewed in Internet in Print section of newsletter, link to relevant issue of newsletter;

Inter-university Consortium for Political & Social Research (ICPSR)                                             8 May 2006
storing & preserving social & political science data

Jan Szczepanski's Lists of Open Access Journals  4000 current journals, 600 historic                    1 November 2005

Journal of eScience Librarianship(JESLIB) launching in Fall 2011(US)                                            31 July 2011
open access, peer-reviewed journal published quarterly that advances the theory & practice of librarianship with a special focus on services related to data-driven research in the physical, biological, & medical sciences;

JournalTOCs free alert service (Gary Price review)                                                                     16 September 2010
search latest Table of Contents(TOCs) of 14228 journals from 607 publishers; search
(404539 TOC articles) by journal title or keywords; browse by publisher or subject; Developers can use API(application programming interface) to embed search functionality within their web applications & use journal TOC RSS feeds metadata; select & save journal TOCs in MyTOCs folder to read your at your convenience or export as OPML file into your favourite feed reader; Register to ensure MyTOCs are permanently saved;

JSTOR: free "early journal content                                                                                                    8 Sept 2011
content in JSTOR published prior to 1923 in US & prior to 1870 elsewhere freely available includes discourse & scholarship in arts & humanities, economics & politics, & in mathematics(tutorial);

Koninklijke Bibliotheek(KB national library of the Netherlands)                                                     8 May 2006
archive for Reed Elsevier(world's largest publisher of STM journals), Kluwer Academic, BioMed Central, Blackwell Publishing, Oxford University Press, Taylor & Francis, Sage Publications, Springer, Brill Academic Publishers; digital copies of Elsevier journals; e-Depot concept creates secure digital archive using IBMs DIAS (Digital Information & Archiving System); metadata as well as full-text imaged content since May 2004;

Koori Mail, 1991-  fortnightly national indigenous newspaper now digitised & searchable               16 June 2011
Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Australia through 500 editions of Koori Mail from grassroots communities to big end of town & national affairs; owned & controlled by Aboriginal people for Indigenous Australians, either as sponsorships & scholarships or dividends to the owning community organisations;

Listener Historical Archive, 1929-1991(BBC)  free trial                                                                12 April 2011
collaboration between BBC Worldwide & Gale, part of Cengage Learning to search 125000 pages of the publication digitised from originals in full colour; accessing transcripts of many early BBC broadcast recordings & commentary;

LivRe: Portal to Free Access Journals on Internet                                                                         12  August 2006
Directory of 2500+ free access electronic journals listed by subject; physical sciences, biological sciences, humanities; 

LOCKSS(Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) technology                                                                28 February 2006
open source software to collect, store, preserve, access local copy of authorized content on standard desktop hardware; low-cost, persistent, accessible ejournal content as published; secure, peer-to-peer polling & reputation system; 300 journals from American Meteorological Society, Berkeley ElectronicPress, BioMed Central, BioOne, Blackwell Publishers, Cambridge University Press, Emerald Group Publishing, History Cooperative, Institute of Physics, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Nature Publishing Group, Project Muse, Springer, Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics, Usenix Association; A private dark archives version of LOCKSS called CLOCKSS(C is for controlled) is being done by Edinburgh University, Indiana University, New York Public Library, Rice University, Stanford University, University of Virginia for a failsafe archive of major commercial publishers (including Elsevier, Springer, John Wiley & Sons, Blackwells) in event of a major disruption of service; CLOCKSS, LOCKSS, SOCKSS, FROCKSS?

Making of America Journals                                                                                                        26 February 2006
American Jewess 1895-1899; Appleton's 1869-1881(2 series); Catholic World 1865-1901; DeBow's 1846-1869, 1952 index(3 series); Garden & Forest 1888-1897; Ladies Repository 1841-1876(3 series); The Old Guard 1864; Overland Monthly 1868-1900(2 series); Princeton Review 1831-1882(3 series) Southern Literary Messenger 1835-1864, 1936, Contributor index; Southern Quarterly Review 1842-1857(3 series); Vanity Fair 1860-1862

McClure's Magazine, 1893 - 1922                                                                                           25 February 2010
 illustrated American magazine that published literature & journalism in C19 & early C20;

Modernist Journals Project(MJP) Brown U & U of Tulsa                                                            7 January 2010
multi-faceted project to be a major resource for study of modernism & its rise in English-speaking world, with periodical literature central; chronological range of 1890 to 1922(earliest journals currently on site date from 1904), & geographical range to wherever English language periodicals were published; range of genres extends to digital publication of books directly connected to modernist periodicals & other supporting materials for periodical study; Periodicals database(journals published 1890-1922); Poetry: a magazine of verse(1912-1921); Introduction to The English Review by Nora Tomlinson; Ford Madox Ford & The English Review(Ralph Ruedy, PhD dissertation, 1976); individual issues of British & American periodicals, 1910 - 1911 (OCR, not part of MJP searchable database); Virginia Woolf famously observed that “on or about December 1910 human character changed”; Search; Journals; Books: Essays; Biographies; chronological range,1890 - 1922, English language periodicals wherever published;

Multi-Searching System E-Connect: Ways to electronic publications                                             26 February 2006
individual linking systems only for private & public-legal, i.e. not-commercial use, free of charge; direct access to fulltext or online-order by Subito;

Notes and Queries, November 1849 - June 1922 (Online Index with links to some fulltext)               24 May 2009
a sort of 19th Century Wikipedia in which anyone could contribute in a weekly published paper on a wide range of topics; index links to all volumes in public domain sorted by date; All links default to Internet Archive collection, where available. Alternate sources are Google Books collection & U of Michigan collection;

OCLC Electronic Collections Online                                                                                           8 May 2006
e-journal archiving access to 6000 journals from 70 publishers; cross-journal, fulltext search; hosts journal only if publisher allows OCLC perpetual archiving rights

Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints & Open Access Journals  7 March 2005
1300+ English-language books, conference papers(including digital video), debates, editorials, e-prints, journal/magazine articles, news, technical reports; exemplifies open access movement's efforts to provide free access to & unfettered use of scholarly literature; 1999 to August 31, 2004 some earlier; 78% on Internet

Open Access Journal Publishing Resource Index                                                                             27 May 2011   
SPARC(Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition) free online information & documents to support launch & operation of open-access journals; See also Society publishers with Open Access journals. 2nd edition(below);

Open Access News (See Timeline of Open Access Movement  below)                                        3 January 2005
Putting peer-reviewed scientific & scholarly literature on the internet free of charge & copyright & licensing restrictions. Removing barriers to serious research

Open Access Resources                                                                                                            7 June 2005
Directory of Open Access journals(DOAJ); Directory of Open Access repositories; SHERPA Project; OSI; JISC; CURL; SPARCEurope;Open Archives Initiative

Open J-Gate - world's largest OA English language journals portal   (Informatics(India) Ltd)         26 February 2012
database of journal literature indexed from 4386 OA journals(2366 peer reviewed scholastic journals) with links to fulltext at Publishers site; journals classified in a 3-level hierarchy; Table of contents(TOC) browsing; search by author title abstract, author address/institution, Keywords;

Open Publish: The National Library of Australia's open access journal service                                14 July 2011
hosted on Open Journal Systems(OJS) open access journal management & publishing system that assists with every stage of the refereed publishing process, from submissions through to online publication & indexing;

Pearson's Magazine(UK version, 1896-1939)                                                                           25 February 2010
British magazine of literature, politics, and the arts, published in London in  late C19 & early C20.

Pearson's Magazine (US version, 1899-1925)                                                                            25 February 2010
American magazine of literature, politics, & the arts, published in New York in late C19 & early C20; began publication in 1899 as a spinoff of the British magazine. The last issue of the American magazine was published in 1925;

Periodicals.net indexes 97000 publications online                                                                        27 October 2003
searches keyword, title, subject, ISSN, coverage type (full, abstract, index), vendor; vendor/title list with dates of coverage & link to homepage

Petroleum Journals Online                                                                                                           1 October 2005
petrophysics, production geology, drilling, production, reservoir engineering, petroleum management & economics; building now;

Photoplay 20th century American film fan magazine, 1911-1980 (partial archive)                        24 July 2011
title sometimes changed to include titles of publications it merged with, like Movie Mirror & TV-Radio Mirror. Issue copyright renewals began with January 1944 issue, though some articles & short stories had copyrights renewed separately;

PLoS Biology(Public Library of Science)                                                                                     3 November 2003
works of exceptional significance in biological science; molecules to ecosystems; works at interface with other disciplines

Portico electronic journal archiving service(2005-)                                                                       16 March 2006
funded by JSTOR, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Ithaka, & Library of Congress; archiving agreement with Oxford Journals, division of Oxford University Press; formerly Electronic-Archiving Initiative(JSTOR 2002-);

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America                        26 May 2011
1915-recent: Issues in the official PNAS online issues archive are free to access 6 months after publication; 1915-1922: Hathi Trust has volumes 1-8 freely accessible as page images;

Publications with free archives on Web  links to page with title, URL, timespan                             21 June 2002

Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR)                                                                           1 February 2008
Categories: bioag,busecon,ejournal,liberal,physci; Registry of 1000 institutional repositories & open access ejournals;

Royal Society(London, GB)                                                                                                                23 July 2011
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, by Royal Society (Great Britain) (partial serial archives, 1665-1886)New Online Books; Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series A, by Royal Society(Great Britain) (partial serial archives, 1888-2001); Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B, by Royal Society (Great Britain) (partial serial archives, 1887-1921)

Royal Society digital journal archive freely available until 30 November 2010                                    28 October 2010
dates back to 1665 & contains 66000+ articles, from first ever published inworld's first science journal Philosophical Transactions to most recent cross-disciplinary article published in youngest journal Interface Focus; News;

Scholarly Journals Distributed Via World Wide Web                                                                    5 January 2005
Web-based scholarly journals that offer access to English language article files without requiring user registration or fees.

Scribner's Monthly first appeared in 1870, absorbing the second incarnation of Putnam's                 7 January 2010
ran until 1881, to be succeeded by Century Magazine. In 1887, S. Magazine appeared, starting at Volume 1, and ran until 1939. Copyrights of the issues were renewed from before 1923; absorbed Lippincott's (later McBride's) in 1916

Serials archives & indexes listings (Online Books Page)                                                                 24 May 2009
some of the major sources & indexes of free online texts, in all languages, both general & specialized; Large-scale repositories; Significant indexes & search aids; Significant smaller-scale archives; Serials(Online Books Page) lists freely accessible archives of serials( magazines, journals, newspapers, & other periodicals) 

Society publishers with Open Access journals. 2nd edition(Dec 2011)      
2nd edition is a Google spreadsheet under a CC-BY license; 2007 edition is a downloadable Excel spreadsheet under CC-BY license; See also  the article accompanying 2007 list: Society publishers with open access journals(SPARC Open Access Newsletter, November 2, 2007)  

Spectator Online Archive freemium model, browse for free, register(& pay) for fulltext (Spring 2012)   18 March 2012 
weekly magazine with conservative leaning continually-published since 6 July, 1828, currently owned by David & Frederick Barclay who own conservative Daily Telegraph newspaper; iOS app for iPad, iPhone & iTouch;

Spectator Text Project(Center for Electronic Texts in Humanities )                                                27 March 2004
innovative C18 periodical, format & style (influenced by The Tatler, 1709-11) published by Joseph Addison & Richard Steele, imitated throughout Europe & Americas; compare formats & text passages in split-screen, download DJVU plug-in free; The Tatler (1709- 1711); The Spectator (1711-14); The Female Spectator ; Le Spectateur Français; Bailey's Dictionary; Der Biedermann (1727-1728); Johnson's Rambler (1812); Steele's Plays (1894); Biography of Addison; Predictions of 1708; The Spectator, March - December 1711 also available in XML format

Spire Project: Zines, Magazines & Journals                                                                                   14 September 2001
Zines, magazines, journals & newsletters(newsprint in a separate article); task of finding periodicals

Unz.org: free website for periodicals, books, & videos                                                                    20 May 2012
students, academics, & journalists may freely use this content, perhaps producing additional writings hyperlinked to these important source materials; for criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, & research

US Newspaper Archives Papers in states from Alabama to Washington DC                                  24 August 2001

What's in the open access e-journals?                                                                                            23 June 2008
links to Directory of Open Access journals(DOAJ) lists of journals in fields of Computer science, Information science, Information systems, Information technology, Librarianship;

Wired News                                                                                                                                 18 December 2003

Working Class Movement Library: WCML                                                                                  14 May 2005
English language books, periodicals, pamphlets, archives & artefacts of labour movement, its allies & enemies, since late 1700s

ZDB(Zeitschriftendatenbank)                                                                                                         28 November 2008
world’s largest specialized database for serial titles (journals, annuals, newspapers etc., incl. e-journals) managed by Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin & held on a server of the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek; 1m+bibliographic records of serials from C16 onwards, all countries, all languages, held in 4000 German libraries (& some foreign), with holdings; advanced search to combine terms with Boolean operators; material selection: print & electronic journals; systematically ordered list of eJournals including those accessible free of charge;

Zinio Digital Magazine Stand                                                                                                          18 September 2004
Magazines such as Computeractive, Cosmo Girl, PC Magazine & Sporting News bought, downloaded & read