Reference Reviews: Péter’s Jacso Digital Reference Shelf Looks at Annual Reviews Archive and Science Direct

Reference Reviews: Péter’s Jacso Digital Reference Shelf Looks at Annual Reviews Archive and Science Direct

+ Annual Reviews Archive

Annual Reviews form an exceptionally high impact publication series in about 30 disciplines, providing excellent literature reviews on the most current issues in the subject fields. The full text of more than 20,000 reviews are freely searchable. The full text itself is not open access but the documents from the “Annual Review of …” series are very reasonably priced for instant download.

+ ScienceDirect

The largest of the scholarly publishers’ digital archives now has nearly 8 million full-text searchable journal articles and as many open access bibliographic records (about 75% of them with open access abstracts, according to my test searches). ScienceDirect sports a rejuvenated, swifter, and breezier software, which nevertheless needs correction in the algorithm of matching cited and citing items. 

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