OPEN ACCESS?

Online availability of full-text journals and databases at ITM

Dirk Schoonbaert, 3/3/5ITM Library

Bibliographical databases

Structured description of a well-defined universe (e.g. the local book collection, all articles in 5.000 selected journals)

Available online since over 40 years No digital full-text, but (seamless?)

interlinking (article vs. journal level)

Library databases (12)

ITG Book and Document Holdings ITG Student Dissertations (1912-present)

ITG Staff Publications (1900/1930-present)

Ebola and Marburg Virus Disease Literature

Health Care in Developing Countries …

Linking to electronic full-text

Article level: FTXT: Full-text link Currently limited to major international databases

(e.g. Medline, Global Health, Veterinary Science Database, …

Journal level: *LHM: Local holdings message ‘Check electronic journals list’, where relevant + indication of printed collection, if available

Citation databases

Bidirectional retrieval Multidisciplinary contents Bibliometric assessment tool Science Citation Index (1970’s) => Web of

Science (ISI Web of Knowledge, incl. Journal Citation Reports => Impact factors)

Alternative: Scopus (Elsevier, 2004) Free alternative: Google Scholar (2004)

Current awareness

Current Contents Connect (ISI, 1960’s): [browse contents vs. search keywords]

TOCAS – Table of Contents Alert Service (ITM) [clickable; incl. new books]

Various: individual journals or publishers, via e-mail, etc. [contents pages vs. keyword searches]

Electronic full-text – what is available ?

ITM journals list [+ intranet] ITM AtoZ list PubMed Central + BioMed Central Free Medical Journals; Scielo, …

Electronic full-text – additional ITM resources

ASM journals Blackwell Science Ebsco Biomedical Collection Cochrane Library Clinical Evidence Harrison’s Internal Medicine Mandell’s Infectious Diseases

Starting links

http://lib.itg.be/journals.htm http://lib.itg.be/ebooks.htm http://lib.itg.be/datab.htm http://lib.itg.be/biblinks.htm Intranet > Academische diensten >

Bibliotheek > …

Requests: ‘docdel@itg.be’