If you are deeply curious whether a journal or periodical is
available in one or another full text database or if you want to know in
which database its contents are indexed so you will know where you can
check to see if that periodical has any articles on one or another topic
of interest, there is a resource to help you that is free of charge on the
internet. Yale University to the rescue. In particular the medical
school library of Yale University. The resource is, however, in no way
just limited to medical resources. JAKE is an online tool that enables
one to determine where a periodical is indexed and where, if at all, the
periodical contents are available full text online as part of a database
or as part of a periodicals aggregation service like JSTOR or MUSE. The
service will tell the user which databases and journal aggregation
services that it covers in its list of databases. One simply goes to the
JAKE website and types in the journal title that one is interested in
checking and does the search to get to the desired information about the
journal, indexes that cover it and resources where fulltext of that title
can be found, if any. By the way, JAKE is not some nice person at Yale who
has been doing a great deal of work, JAKE stands for (hold your hats for
this acronym rendition and remember this is Yale we are talking about
here) Jointly Administered Knowledge Environment.
Jointly Administered Knowledge Environment (JAKE)
search jake:
http://jake.med.yale.edu/
All About JAKE
http://jake.med.yale.edu/docs/about.html
jake: the database list
http://jake.med.yale.edu/docs/dblist.php3
Jointly Administered Knowledge Environment (jake) FAQ
http://jake.med.yale.edu/fom-serve/cache/1.html
I hope that quite a few of the members of this discussion group
will find this information useful.
Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
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