Periodicals

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.

• Multidisciplinary:
  • IBZ - Internationale Bibliographie der Zeitschriftenliteratur aus allen Gebieten des Wissens. (GBV)
  • ZDB - ZeitschriftenDatenBank
  • Francis - Bulletin signalétique. (CNRS)
  • PiCarta - 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.

• 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
  • EconBiz is built by ZBW,world's largest library in economics at Kiel. You will find lots of economic literature here.
  • 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 Mathematical Society (AMS). Journals, conference proceedings, and books of mathematics research are covered going back to 1949 and updated daily.
  • 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.

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.

• 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.
• 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:
  This is a comprehensive multi-disciplinary document delivery service providing access to thousands of online journals from leading scholarly, academic and business publishers.
  
• 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".
  

• PIO (Periodicals Index Online) 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.

• 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...
• 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. FEB 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.