How Can I tell where a given Periodical is currently being indexed, or once was indexed, and what issues have been indexed? (Indexes frequently do not cover complete runs of a given periodical, but start indexing at some point after the periodical begins publishing, and stop indexing before the periodical stops publishing.)
Ulrichsweb: This online directory tells where current and recently ceased publications have been indexed. It covers the entire world, and currently lists over 125,000 currently published periodicals in every country of the world. But over the years, it has covered over 300,000 periodicals, most of which have ceased publication. (Do they have a database of all 300,000+ periodicals?)This database tell where the periodical currently is, or once was indexed in what databases, and where the periodical is available full text;
https://ulrichsweb.serialssolutions.com/title/1387678616925/244120
Ulrich's International Directory (hard copy): This directory tells where a listed periodical was indexed. These hardcopy directories are no longer published (the last set was published in .) They are often found in large academic and public libraries. This hard copy directory began in 1932 with its first edition, and so there has been double coverage of periodicals by Ulrich's and Ayer's (Gale) from 1932 through the present. But in the years when the Standard Periodical Directory and Periodicals Directory were being published, there was triple and quadruple coverage for some years.
Sheridan Database Journal List
This is a database of all the 131,000 periodical titles that are covered by the databases that Johns Hopkins subscribes to, including Johns Hopkins Medicine, and the Welch Library. It is much like the Where Indexed, Where Full Text database that I have proposed, and tells what database a given periodical is available in, full text, which certainly a huge service. But the Sheridan database does not tell everywher the periodical is indexed.
http://findit.library.jhu.edu/journal_list
Aarhus University Libraries resources: http://wx7cf7zp2h.search.serialssolutions.com/?L=WX7CF7ZP2H&V=1.0&tab=ALL&N=100&S=T_AZ&C=A
This list an estimated 300,000 full text periodicals and books, and tells what database they are located in; Aarthus University is the second largest university in Denmark.
WorldCat: https://www.worldcat.org/ Tells where "all" periodicals and books are available, full-text, in almost any source available;
University Microfilms International (UMI) Directory of Microfilms, 1992:This hardcopy directory, no longer being published, tells where a given periodical was ever indexed, even if only partial runs of the periodical were indexed. This directory lists all the thousands of periodicals that UMI made available for sale in the pre-internet era. It told when the first issue was, title changes, etc. It also told whether the publisher provided an index of the periodical, even though the periodical may not have been indexed elsewhere. This UMI directory also lists the major Abstracting and Indexing services and the periodicals that they ever covered.
Database Coverage Listings: Every database indexing or providing full text of periodicals and articles provided a listing of the periodicals covered with their database. Many such coverage listings tell the exact issue dates of coverage, but some only tell the years of coverage, in which case is is uncertain if the coverage for such years began at the first of that year and ended at the end of that year.
Yellow Reference Book at Sheridan: This was a reference book that showed where periodicals were indexed and their dates of coverage by the major periodical indexes in the pre-internet era. It licted all the periodicals covered by some of the major indexes, such as Reader's Guide, Humanities Index, Social Sciences Index, etc. I believe it is in the Z, 6941 area of Sheridan and other academic libraries. I think it may have been called "Chicorel Index to Abstracting and Indexing Services, but I am not sure. The call number area for this title is Z, 6293; So check this area too.
The Index and abstract directory : an international guide to services and serials coverage.
Birmingham, Ala. : Ebsco Pub., ©1989- Apparently this or was a directory telling the coverage of periodicals in the various indexes. But I do not recall seeing it. It is not available at Hopkins for some reason, or anywhere else in Baltimore, but is available at four libraries in the WDC area, including the LOC, Georgetown - Law, Institute for Defense Analysis library in Alexandria, VA, and the National Defense University Library in WDC. It is available at only two libraries in Michigan: U of M, and Wayne State. It is not available in Windsor, ON. In Ohio, it is available at Kent State, Wiburforce Univ (east of Dayton) Springfield Univ (NE of Dayton), Ohio State, State of OH library, Cleveland Public Lib, Cleveland State Univ, and Case Western Univ, all in Clleveland, OH.
WISE Where Indexed - Where Full Text Database: Because there are so many databases of periodical articles these days, with varying and duplicate coverage of periodicals, I am going through all of the periodical article databases, getting their coverage lists, and combining them into one gigantic "Where Indexed - Where Full text" database. Ulrichsweb covers currently published and recently ceased periodicals, but one does not always have access to Ulrichsweb, so having a separate listing is of value (But it has to be updated). This will be of particular value for old periodicals that are not in Ulrichsweb, in which case, one would have to search and search through numerous databases to find the database that covers the periodical one is interested in. This may already have been done by some of the above reference books and other reference books.
How can I tell what periodcial and article indexes and databases exist in the present and existed in the past, both hard copy, and online?
To do this, just go to Worldcat, and check under the various official subject headings that cover abstracing and indexing services. One of the official subject for these types of reference sources is "Abstracting and Indexing Services", but there are several other official subject headings, that may show reference books and databases that index, or once indexed periodicals. Many of these abstrcting and indexing services have come and gone, just like the periodicals they caover.
Abstrcting and indexing services are consided to be a serial, and so they are covered in Ulichsweb under the subject, "Abstracting and Indexing Services", and you can go to one, find that subject, click on it and get the entire list of such services that are currently being published or made available in databases, and then download the entire list with all the details.
There are also periodicals that apparently tell the latest abstract and indexing services that start, and any new indexes that are published by any in the industry. To tell the latest indexes, you could always search the following subject headings, and then sort by year, and check the latest year. Among the official Worldcat subject headings that cover periodical article indexes and databases are:
Abstracting and indexing services
Abstracting and Indexing -- Directory
Abstracting and indexing services -- Directories
Periodicals -- Abstracting and indexing
Periodicals -- Abstracting and indexing -- Directories
Periodicals -- Abstracts – Indexes
Periodicals -- Indexes – Bibliography
Subject Areas:
Science -- Abstracting and indexing
Technology -- Abstracting and indexing
Specific Indexes and Full Text Databases:
(These include indexes where a journal publisher can attempt to get his journal or other periodical indexed.) These include:
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Directory of Research Journal Indexing
Eurasian Scientific Journal Index
High Beam:
Open Academic Journal Index (OAJI)
Periodicals Content Index: previous name, until 2006, of Periodicals Index Online; see below;
Periodicals Index Online (Indexes over 4,700 international periodicals in the humanities and social sciences, from their inception to 1995. Very few are full text; Formerly (until 2006): Periodicals Contents Index (United Kingdom):
http://wisewiki.org/tiki-index.php?page=Periodicals+Index+Online
ROAD (Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources)
Science Library Index
Scientific World Index
Database Providers, Commercial, Nonprofit, Government, and Others:
Dialog
Ebscohost
Complete list of Ebscohost databases, and the titles of their coverage:
https://www.ebscohost.com/title-lists
Gale
Lexis-Nexis
ProQuest
Readex, Div. of Newsbank
Science Citation Index Company
Thompson Reuters
University Microfilms (now part of .....)