Citation

Bačić M, Furač D, Golubović V. Promet 2005; 17(4): 217-224.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2005, Faculty of Traffic and Transport Sciences, University of Zagreb)

DOI

10.7307/ptt.v17i4.637

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Electronic journals have become an inevitable source of scientific information. Their advantage, in relation to the printed journals results from the characteristics of the media: they are available to all the interested users at the same time, often before the printed version is available, and they are not necessarily related to the location of the library. Since one of the basic roles of librarians in the process of disseminating scientific and professional information is to provide the users with the information which they need and when they need it, the librarians tend to inform users primarily about the available electronic sources. The objective of this work is to systematize the journals in the field of transportation sciences through an overview of journals that are available to the Croatian academic community in the databases of full text articles at the National and University Library, and the libraries of scientific institutions and faculties, which are gathered around the subsystems of the Scientific Information System. In the aggregated databases of EBSCO Publishing, 34 journals from the field of transportation sciences were selected, and in the publisher databases the following was selected: 8 titles by the publisher Kluwer Academic Publishing, 24 titles by the publisher Elsevier Science, 6 titles by Springer Verlag and 3 titles by the publisher John Wiley & Sons. For the selected full text journals the Impact factor (IF) was used from Journal Citation Reports (JCR). The data on indexing and abstracting rates in the secondary databases for individual journals were taken from the ULRICH'S database.

Language: en