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INTRODUCTION
This is a directory of the Web sites of journal aggregators and full-text periodical database vendors. The address of the Web pages of these organizations is provided as well as some basic information about the number of titles they offer. For the journal aggregators, additional information is given about the number of publishers for whom they aggregate journals and whether they locally store the full text of the journal articles or point only to the publisher's site. This is supplemented with information about related citation database systems from the aggregator/vendor or other firms linked to this full-text content. In the case of journal aggregators who do not mount the full text of electronic journals but point to the publisher's site, there may be other linking relationships set up by those publishers, but these are not reported here.
The directory should help you start on your pursuit of journal aggregators or full-text periodical database vendors who can provide the titles your library needs. As with any directory about a changing industry, check the Web sites yourself for updated information.
ACADEMIC JOURNAL AGGREGATORS
Blackwell Electronic Journal Navigator (EJN)
http://navigator.blackwell.com
EJN hosts 1,788 journals. Participating publishers include Blackwells, Oxford University Press, and Taylor & Francis among others. EJN Journals are linked to National Library of Medicine databases, such as MEDLINE, through Blackwell Biomedical Resource Navigator, a joint project with HealthGate.
Swets Subscriptions Services is merging with Blackwell Information Services; see Blackwell Navigator above. As a result of the merger, SwetsNet's interface will change and will be combined with Blackwell Navigator to create SwetsnetNavigator. After that merger, the combined company, Swets Blackwell Information Services, will have a new URL: www.swetsblackwell.com.
EBSCO
www.ebsco.com
EBSCO Online provides access to more than 3,300 journals from 100+ publishers. Among the publishers are Routledge, Blackwell, and SpringerVerlag. Full text is located at publisher sites. Content is linked to SilverPlatter and Chemical Abstract Service's ChemPort as well as EBSCO's...