Search for journal titles and articles

Journals or periodicals are continuous publications such as journals, newspapers, magazines. Learned journals report on developments in scholarly research in the form of articles which ar normally refereed by peers (peer-reviewed) in the field of expertise to which the journal is dedicated. Professional journals are newsletter-type publications of associations and are written for members of the association. They often contain a mixture of news, brief articles and letters along with information on forthcoming events such as conferences. Most statistics and official publications are also continuous publications. The EBIB holding list of current/continuous publications includes this type of publications as well. Nevertheless, statistics and official publications are treated as a seperate item on the portal starting page.

Journal titles can be searched in library catalogues or in bibliographies. The LIBIS-catalogue includes records for all the periodicals which are acquired by the K.U. Leuven and LIBIS-net libraries. The LIBIS-catalogue does not include information on the articles within those periodicals. To find references to individual journal articles by subject, article author, or article title, use periodical indexes or indexing & abstracting databases.
To find the (full) text of the articles use catalogues to locate the journal (title) or use full-text (journals) databases. Journal articles
The main type of tool that will help you to find articles on your topic is that of indexes and abstracts. These are reference sources which record in an organized way the contents of journals. Increasingly abstracting and indexing services for journals are available on CD-ROM and online as full text. This means that CD- ROM or website provides access to the full-text of articles which have been indexed by the service. Therefore there is no need to search first the CD-ROM and afterwards locate a copy of the relevant journal.

  • Bibliographies, abstracting & indexing services:
    • Multidisciplinary:
      • IBZ -Internationale Bibliographie der Zeitschriftenliteratur aus allen Gebieten des Wissens. (GBV)
      • ZDB -ZeitschriftenDatenBank
      • Francis Bulletin signalétique. (CNRS)
      • Online Contents PICA - Database with Table of Contents of journals in Dutch libraries. Articles (print copies) easy accessible via InterLibrary Loan.
      • Ingenta is more than a classic abstracting and indexing service, it is a global research gateway, giving the opportunity to search accross 15 subject gateways, e.g. Economics & Business, Mathematics& Statistics, Computer & Information sciences etc. Subject area resources include: online journals, statistical data, e-prints, software, technical reports, grey literature, reference resources, specialist e-communities. You have only free access to the full text of journals for which K.U.Leuven pays a subscription. For access to other journal articles there is a pay-per-view system. Pay-per-view deliveryof electronic articles is dependant on publisher policy and a small number of electronic journals are not available as pay-per-view. EBIB does not have (yet) a library deposit account for pay-per-view delivery. Please contact the librarian if you have questions.
      • For the latest bibliographic data of journal articles use Current Contents Connect. Weekly updates of the most current version of the CC databases. Browse tables of contents by discipline or journal title for articles, editorials, meeting abstracts, book reviews etc.
    • Specific discipline:
    • EconLit is a source of citations and abstracts to economics research going back to 1969. EconLit includes journals indexed for years in the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) as well as books and dissertations. In addition, EconLit includes citations to articles in collective volumes indexed in the annual volumesof the Index of Economic Articles and the full-text of JEL book reviews. EconLit also incorporates the Abstracts of Working Papers in Economics (AWPE) database, licensed from Cambridge University Press.
      Title list of journals indexed in EconLit.
      List of descriptor codes JEL classification
    • Index of economic articles in journals and collective volumes (Festschriften, conference publications, collected essays, proceedings, books of readings) [print format] EBIB holdings : 1969- 1992 level 91 journal collection, alphab. on title
    • IDEAS covers 148 journals, i.e. article references with full text and/or contact - order information.
    • INSPEC produced by the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE). The database dates back to 1969. Over 3500 scientific and technical journals and some 1500 conference proceedings, as well as numerous books, reports and dissertations are scanned for relevant articles to abstract and index for inclusion in the database. Subjects covered: physics, electrical/electronic engineering, computing, control engineering and information technology, materials science, oceanography, nuclear engineering, geophysics, biomedical engineering and biophysics.The full scope of subject coverage is given in the INSPEC Classification scheme, see especially section C Computers & control and section D Information technology.
    • MathSciNet, the Mathematical Reviews Database is the database of bibliographic information and reviews created and maintained by the American MathematicalSociety (AMS). Journals, conference proceedings, and books of mathematics research are covered going back to 1949 and updated daily. Go to the AMS website for more info.
    • Zentralblatt MATH, is the abstracting and reviewing service of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of the FIZ Karlsruhe. Subject coverage since 1984: pure mathematics (e.g. algebra, logic, topology, geometry, analysis) , probability theory, statistics, mathematical physics, classical, solid and fluid mechanics, numerical mathematics, mathematical programming, theoretical computer science and automation theory, systems theory, control, operations research, economics, information and communication, circuits, coding, cryptography, applications in biology, chemistry, sociology, psychology. For more info go to the MATH website.
    • Other disciplines:
      Complete overview of all databases available via K.U.Leuven intranet. You can also go the websites of other K.U.Leuven libraries, which offer you more information for specific disciplines, and manuals for certain databases (mostly only in Dutch), e.g. Handleidingen databanken sociale wetenschappen.
  • Citation indexes:
    Citation indexes are based on the concept that references (citations) in a book or article indicate subject relationships between the current article and previous and posterior publications. Contrary to the most other bibliographic systems, with citation indexes you can search forward in the time, from older to later publications. Web of Science (WoS) consists of three separate databases that can be searched independently or in combination: Science Citation Index (SCI), Social ScienceCitation Index (SSCI), Arts and Humanities Index (AHCD). WoS is a product of the Institute of Scientific Information (ISI), as is Current Contents and Journal Citations Reports (JCR). Go to the ISI website for more info.
  • Journal titles:
    To locate a print or electronic copy of a journal use journal catalogues to find out which library collection has the journal you are looking for. Serials directories are lists of journal titles with publisher's and price info but without location. Access to full text journals is handled as a separate item.Referecence databases often link directly - via the button - check for holdings - to the periodicals union catalogye Antilope for the journals which are not available full text (e.g. ABI/Inform, EconLit, Inspec, Current Contents, Ebscohost etc.).
  • Journal catalogues:
    • In the LIBIS-catalogue journal titles are integrated in the title index, e.g. if you Browse indexes for Harvard Business Review you get 8 items incl. the journal with a list of copies & holdings in the different LIBIS-Net libraries.
    • Use Antilope - the union catalogue of periodicals - to find journals in the Royal Library,other university, research and special libraries in Belgium. Also the collections of the Technische Universiteit Delft (TUD), the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie voor Wetenschappen (KNAW), the Landbouwuniversiteit Wageningen (BLUW) ,the Institut National pour l'Information Scientifique et Technique (INIST) and the British Library Document Supply Centre (UK). You can easily put an ILL request for items from this libraries. You can also search Antilope via the CCB - Union Catalogue of Belgian Research Libraries
    • Online Contents PICA - Database with Table of Contents of journals in Dutch libraries is not only a bibliogrpahic tool, but also a union catalogue of periodicals in Dutch libraries.
    • ZDB - ZeitschriftenDatenBank is the union catalogue of periodicals in German libraries.
    • Myriade - Catalogue collectif national des publications en série, union catalogue of periodicals in French libraries.
  • Lists of journals:
    • Current awareness services:
    To find articles published within the last six months, many may not yet have been indexed. Therefore you wille need to use alerting or current awareness services.An alerting service lets you know what has just been published or is about to be published. Alerting services attempt to bridge the gap between the time an article is published in a journal and the time when it is indexed in an indexing journal.

    Use also Current Contents for the latest bibliographical data of journal articles. Full text e-journals:
    Roughly speaking electronic journals are offered in two ways:
    1. publishers who provide access to their own titles and
    2. aggregators who provide access to the content of journals, based on agreements with publishers and content providers.

    There is not always a clear distinction between both. The easiest way to access e-journals being sure you don't miss any is to start at UB-webpage e-sources

  • Databases of electronic journals
    • Ebscohost:
      A one-stop reference system, being the same time a bibliographical instrument with references to journal articles, and a full text database. Ebscohost gives access to three databases:
      1. Business Source Premier (BSP):
        Provides full text coverage of scholarly business , management and economics journals. Includes also publications covering topics such as accounting, banking, finance, international business, marketing, sales etc. Datamonitor Company profiles for ca 5000 companies worldwide.
      2. Academic Search Premier (ASP):
        Provides journal coverage for most academic areas of study, including economics, computer sciences, business, banking & finance, engineering. Although BSP is the most interesting database, there is a significant overlap with ASB and even some titles of interest only included in ASB. Title lists of Business Source Elite and Academic Search Elite
      3. EBSCOhost EJS (formerly EBSCO Online):
        Access to full text of journals with a print subscription at K.U. Leuven via the subscription agent EBSCO. EBIB has actually no subscriptions via EBSCO. Anyway you can browse a list of subject categories with journals at EBSCO online. See category Social Sciences for economics, finance etc. For each title subscription and access information is given.
    • SwetsWise (formerly SwetsNet):
      Access to full text of journals with a print subscription at K.U. Leuven via the subscription agent Swets & Zeitlinger. Includes also all the full text-journals of the publishers Blackwell/Munksgaard, Academic Press and Harcourt Health Sciences. SwetsNet is also a bibliographic and current awareness instrument, using the Tables of Contents (TOC's).
    • Ingenta:
      See Bibliographies, abstracting & indexing services
    • Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ):
      This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. There is a section "Business and Economics".
  • List of full text journals (e-sources):
    Integrated alphabetical list that includes all the full text journals available on K.U.Leuven intranet.
  • Other:
    • PCI Full Text (Periodicals Contents Index) indexes complete runs of journals, some right back to the first publication. For EBIB the subjects covered are: economics and business management (> 150 journals covered, earliest date 1852): complete title list of indexed periodicals by subject. For some of these journals PCI Full text - the online periodicals archive - offers the full text, also back to the beginning: title list of full text periodicals by subject with starting dates.
    • Social Sciences Full Text , is a biblioghraphic database, produced by the H.W. Wilson Company, that indexes and abstracts articles of English-language periodicals published in de U.S. and elsewhere plus the full text. Coverage includes a wide range of interdisciplinary fields. Abstracting coverage begins with periodicals published in january 1994, full text coverage begins in january 1995.
  • Other stuff:
    • ISI Journal Citation reports or JCR Web - a residual product of WoS- provides easy access to data that helps you evaluate and compare scholarly journals. The JCR can show you the: highest impact journals, most frequently used journals, hottest journals, largest journals etc. Online help.
    • Everything you want to know about e-journals: e-journals lists & directories, legal & business issues, usage studies etc. you can find in the Electronic Journals: a selected resource guide.
    • The Journal Storage Project JSTOR was established as an independent not-for-profit organization in August 1995. Mellon Foundation sponsored a pilot project to provide electronic access to the backfiles of ten journals in two core fields, economics and history. In 2002 the JSTOR business collection containts a total of 46 titles. EBIB is not yet a participant of the JSTOR archive, this means that we only can access a title list and info about availibility and fees.