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If you are searching for scientific jour- online. For example, the Pacific Journal of Old or New, Free nals or information on a scientific topic, Mathematics will list this information: iden- the Web offers a wide range of archives, tifier, nyjm.albany.edu:8000/PacJ/; publisher, or Not: The Web directories, and search engines. The fol- Mathematics Department, University of lowing Web sites have won awards, are California, Los Angeles; languages, English, Has Journals easily accessible, or have a user-friendly French, German; ISSN, 0030-8730; key interface. They will lead you to various words, mathematics; and start year, 1997. for All science-related publications, from peer- reviewed journals in various languages to —www.scirus.com universities’ press releases. Another search engine? But we already have Google and others! Well, Scirus is ACS Journal Archives— a science-specific search engine. That pubs.acs.org/archives means it filters out nonscientific sites. “For The American Chemical Society (ACS) example, if you search on Dolly, Google has been chemistry research finds Dolly Parton, Scirus finds the cloned since 1879. It now publishes 31 journals, sheep”, says the Scirus “about us” page; “if and the complete archives of 25 of them you search on mad cow disease, Scirus finds are online! In the ACS Journal Archives, peer-reviewed articles from ScienceDirect, you can search the full texts of all titles Google finds Web pages only.” The site, published by ACS and obtain articles in launched by Science, allows users HTML (from 1996 forward) or PDF for- to locate university sites and find reports mat. You can go directly to the archives and articles easily. Scirus lets you narrow or travel through time with the ACS down your search by subject, types of Journal Timeline. This nicely designed information, and information sources. You timeline contains important historical can also restrict your search by date range dates for ACS, information on chemis- or just scientific conferences, abstracts, or try Nobel laureates, and links to articles patents. written by them in ACS’s journals. The Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division Institute of Physics Electronic of the Association of American Publishers Journals Archive—iop.org/EJ/ recognized the ACS Journal Archives with The Institute of Physics (IOP) is an inter- the 2002 Best Internet-Based Electronic national association that “promotes the Product in Mathematics/Science award. advancement and dissemination of phys- ics”. Its Web site offers access to journals Directory of in physics, mathematics, and computer Journals—www.doaj.org science worldwide. You can search current Are you looking for peer-reviewed journals journals by subject or title or look at the with free access—in other words, journals in archives—which go back to 1874. When which users have the right to read, down- you access a journal by title, the site gives load, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to you a link to the full text of the current the full texts of the articles—in all subjects issue, a menu with the journal archive, and and various languages? Then, the DOAJ is a list of articles that have been accepted for the Web site you need. The directory lets publication. Although you need a subscrip- you search by subject or by journal title. tion to access the archives, all papers pub- The search result will show you the title lished in IOP journals are free for 30 days of the journal, the identifier (URL where from the date of online publication. the full content is posted), the publisher, languages in which the journal is available, DIEGO PINEDA prepared this column while a the ISSN, key words, and the first year for Science Editor intern. which articles in the journal are available

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