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Chemistry: Core Journal Lists

These are lists of journals that have been identified as core titles for the field of chemistry.

Chemistry-Specific Journal Lists

Journals Indexed for the CrossFire Beilstein Database (PDF)
A list of around 180 journals that are indexed for the Beilstein CrossFire database of organic chemistry.
Chemical Abstracts Service Core Journals Indexed in SciFinder Scholar
Journals which are indexed cover to cover and which can be browsed by by table of contents in SciFinder Scholar (Chemical Abstracts). Includes journal abbreviations and ISSN.
Chemical Abstracts Service Document Delivery Service (CAS DDS) Title Search
The DDS Title Search database contains serials currently received at Chemical Abstracts Service and nonserials whose publication date is within the past ten years. DDS Title Search provides only the full title of a publication.
ChemPort
Journals in SciFinder Scholar (Chemical Abstracts) that have links to full-text articles. Includes date of online coverage. Access to full-text is dependent upon library subscription and the originating internet domain of your computer.
ISI Journal Lists
ISI provides a searchable listing of the more than 16,000 international journals, books and proceedings included in the citation indexes that it produces. Coverage as a whole encompasses the sciences, social sciences and arts and humanities. Discipline-specific lists are linked below.
Journal Abbreviations Used in the Journal Molecules
A representative list of chemistry journals with full and abbreviated titles provide by the journal, Molecules.
List of Journals Indexed in MEDLINE
The List of Journals is a PDF document that lists the almost 4000 journals that are indexed by MEDLINE (follow the "Terms and Conditions" link). Titles are listed in four sections: (1) Alphabetic listing by abbreviated title, followed by full title; (2) Alphabetic listing by full title, followed by abbreviated title; (3) Alphabetic listing by subject field; and (4) Alphabetic listing by country of publication.
PubMed Journal LinkOut Providers
Journals in PubMed which have links to the full text. Journals are in alphabetic order by title (journal abbreviation) and years of full text availability. Clicking on the links by year will search PubMed for that journal's articles published in that year for which there is access to the provider's Web site. Access to full-text is dependent upon library subscription and the originating internet domain of your computer.
Rolf Claessen's Journal List
Alphabetic list of chemistry journals with link to their web homepages. Access to full-text is dependent upon library subscription and the originating internet domain of your computer.
Science and Engineering Journal Abbreviations
A list, in journal abbreviation order, maintained by Kevin Lindstrom, Chemistry Librarian at the University of British Columbia.
University of Regensburg Chemistry and Pharmacology Electronic Journals Library
The EZB is a directory of journals evaluated collectively by 215 libraries and research centers. It contains over 4,300 open access titles along with journals that require subscription for access and those that provide only table of content information.The Chemistry and Pharmacology section lists around 1,100 titles.
Virtual Library: Science: Chemistry: Journals
A list of journals organized by publisher that comprise a "core list" for the field of chemistry. In most cases, links to the electronic version of the journal are provided.

General Reference Journal Lists

AcqWeb
AcqWeb is intended as a metasite for acquisitions librarians. AcqWeb provides linkages to book and journal publishers, organized alphabetically and by subject.
Directory of Open Access Journals : DOAJ
The aim of the Directory of Open Access Journals is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals thereby promoting their increased usage and impact. The directory may be searched or browsed by subject. The DOAJ is hosted by Lund University Libraries and funded by the Open Society Institute - Budapest and SPARC (The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition).
PubList.Com
PubList, a searchable directory of over 150,000 magazines, journals, newsletters, and other periodicals, derives a large portion of its data from the Ulrich's Periodicals Directory as well as directly from publishers and document delivery companies. These arrangements allow users to find specific publications with the opportunity to subscribe, order individual articles, and buy back issues. Requires registration.

Publishing Inititatives

Budapest Open Access Initiative
The Budapest Open Access Initiative arose from a meeting convened in Budapest by the Open Society Institute (OSI) in 2001 to accelerate progress in the international effort to make research articles in all academic fields freely available on the internet. They explored methodologies for converging separate open access initiatives in order to aid the transition to open access and to make open-access publishing economically self-sustaining. The initiative has been signed by individuals and organizations from around the world who represent researchers, universities, laboratories, libraries, foundations, journals, publishers, learned societies, and kindred open-access initiatives.
Open Archives Initiative
The Open Archives Initiative (OAI) develops and promotes interoperability standards and projects that aim to facilitate the efficient dissemination of content. OAI has its roots in an effort to enhance access to e-print archives as a means of increasing the availability of scholarly communication. It has expanded its purpose to include open access strategies for a broader range of digital materials including e-journals and courseware. The fundamental technological framework and standards that are developing to support this work are independent of the both the type of content offered and the economic mechanisms surrounding that content.
SPARC : Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
SPARC is an alliance of universities, research libraries, and organizations built as a constructive response to market dysfunctions in the scholarly communication system that have reduced dissemination of scholarship and crippled libraries. SPARC's agenda focuses on enhancing broad and cost-effective access to peer-reviewed scholarship in a three pronged approach: (1) Incubation of competitive alternatives to current high-priced commercial journals and digital aggregations. (2) Public advocacy of fundamental changes in the system and the culture of scholarly communication. This encompasses outreach targeted at various stakeholder groups. (3) Education campaigns aimed at enhancing awareness of scholarly communication issues and supporting expanded institutional and scholarly community roles in and control over the scholarly communication process.