The Library provides access to many collections of electronic
journals, including the British Library's own journal store, ESTAR and to individual journals, to which we subscribe.
Some collections are archival (JSTOR, PCI) and provide
long back runs but not recent issues, while others provide access
only to recent years of the journals.
Most of the collections are only available from the St.
Pancras Reading Rooms, owing to licensing restrictions, and cannot
be accessed offsite. Some collections are freely
available on the World Wide Web.
| Journal Collection |
Description |
Onsite use only |
| 19th Century UK Periodicals |
Series 1: New Readerships.
Includes publications on women, children, leisure and sport, and humour. Access to 1.2 million periodical pages, with full runs of titles when possible. |
| BenthamDirect |
Bentham Science Publishers is an international STM publisher of pharmaceutical and biomedical research journals. |
| British Periodicals Collection I and II |
This collection when complete will include 460 British journals published between the 1680s and the 1930s. The latest list of titles is available on the publisher's website. |
| China Online Journals (Wanfang) |
Wanfang Data provides a wide range of China information, from Chinese studies and scientific research to business information, e.g. Chinese history, society, religions, family planning, Chinese legislation and jurisdiction, industrial innovation/technological improvement, business opportunities, Chinese medicine, industry intelligence (pharmaceuticals, chemicals, automobile, metallurgy, finance/banking, insurance, telecommunications, manufacturing, etc), Chinese food/cuisine etc.
For help with this resource: see staff at the Asian & African Studies Reference Enquiry desk. |
| CSIRO |
CSIRO PUBLISHING publishes journals presenting the latest research by leading Australian and overseas scientists and covering a broad range of subjects. |
EMERALD
|
Online access to mainly management and library and information sciences journals, published by MCB University Press. The database contains articles from its archive, back as far as 1989. |
ESTAR
|
The British Library's own system, providing integrated access to the full text of over 4000 major journals from a number of publishers. Coverage is mainly in the fields of science, technology and medicine but also includes some humanities journals. |
| HeinOnline Law Journals |
Contains more than 1,200 law and law-related periodicals in full text. Coverage is from the first issue published for all periodicals and goes up to the most current issue allowed based on contracts with publishers. Therefore, in some cases the current issues are available, but generally a user will notice a one-volume delay. Searching can be done by title or author name; full-text searching of the collection or select periodicals is also available, and date ranges may be entered to narrow the search results. |
| IEEE Xplore |
A collection of journals, conference proceedings and technical standards published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and also the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) - formerly the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE). |
| IOS Press |
IOS Press publishes international journals, ranging from computer science and mathematics to medicine and the natural sciences. |
JSTOR
|
Digitised backfiles of core scholarly journals, in the Arts, Humanities, Sciences, and Social Sciences. For each journal there is a fixed period of time ranging, in most cases, from 2 to 5 years, that defines the gap between the most recently published issue and the date of the most recent issues available in JSTOR. |
| Karger |
Online journals from Karger, mainly covering science, technology and medicine. |
| Liebert Online |
Online journals published by Mary Ann Liebert, mainly covering science, technology and medicine. |
Literature Online
|
Full-text of (mainly U.S.) journals on English and American literature and related subjects. Coverage varies, but in many cases goes back several years. |
| Nature Publishing Group |
Nature Publishing Group publishes journals and online databases across the life, physical and applied sciences and, most recently, clinical medicine. Content encompasses daily news from award-winning journalists, expert opinion and practical methodology, and more high impact research and reviews than any science publisher. Over 30 journals are published in association with prestigious academic societies. |
| Oxford Journals Online |
Online journals from Oxford University Press. |
| Periodicals Archive Online (formerly PCI Full Text) |
An archive of hundreds of digitised scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences. Searching within the full text of articles is possible. |
| Peeters |
Peeters online Journals provides worldwide access to a variety of journals in several languages. |
| Project Muse |
Online access to the full text of selected scholarly journals mainly in the arts and humanities, but also social sciences and mathematics. Coverage for selected titles now begins with volumes as early as 1993. |
| Sabinet |
Sabinet is a collection of over one hundred South African journals, covering the social sciences, arts and humanities, and law. Full text is provided for most entries. |
| SpringerLink |
SpringerLink is the premier electronic data source from Springer for researchers in biomedicine, life science, clinical medicine, physics, engineering, mathematics, computer science, humanities, economics and much more. |
SwetsWise |
Online access to 3000+ titles. Click on the 'IP Login' button on the right to gain access.
|
Taylor & Francis |
The Taylor & Francis Group publishes more than 1000 journals and around 1,800 new books each year, with a books backlist in excess of 20,000 specialist titles. |
| Wiley InterScience |
Over 1400 online journals from Wiley-Blackwell. |
Freely available via the World Wide Web |
| BioMed Central |
The research articles in all journals published by BioMed Central are available online without charge. |
| Directory of Open Access Journals |
Free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, covering all subjects and languages. |
| Free electronic journals |
A selective list of directories of free electronic journals is provided under Periodicals: A Guide to resources |
| Free Medical Journals Online |
Promotes access to medical journals on the Internet. Most titles are free, some free 6 months after publication or some after a year. |
| Free Online Chemistry Journals |
Provides access to chemistry journals on the Internet, freely available, or free for a range of years. |
| HighWire Press Journal Titles |
The Internet imprint of Stanford University Libraries. Provides access to contents lists, abstracts or full text of titles in the fields of biological, medical, physical and social sciences. |
| Internet Library of Early Journals |
A joint project by the Universities of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Oxford. The core collection for the project are runs of at least 20 consecutive years of a number of key early British journals. |
| Japan Science and Information Aggregator |
The "Japan Science and Technology Information Aggregator, Electronic" (J-STAGE) system supports science and technology information-related electronic journal release in Japan. Research papers released on J-STAGE are linked to papers on various worldwide electronic journal sites via ChemPort, PubMed, and CrossRef.
|
| The Nineteenth Century Serials Edition (ncse) |
The Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (ncse) is a free, online edition of six nineteenth-century periodicals and newspapers. ncse includes full runs of the first five titles, and a decade only of the Publishers' Circular. Titles are represented as completely as possible, including multiple editions, advertisements, wrappers, and supplements where these could be found. Titles are:
Monthly Repository (1806-1837) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Northern Star (1838-1852), Leader (1850-1860), English Woman's Journal (1858-1864), Tomahawk (1867-1870), and Publishers' Circular (1880-1890). All six journals are segmented to article level, and can be downloaded freely. |
| PubMed Central |
The US national Library of Medicine's free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature. |
| UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) |
Based on PubMed Central, the U.S. National Institutes of Health's free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature, UK PubMed Central provides a stable, permanent, and free-to-access online digital archive of full-text, peer-reviewed research publications. |
