The Zurich University participates in the Electronic Journals Library (EZB) in Regensburg ‹https://ezb.uni-regensburg.de/ezeit/index.phtml?lang=en›, listing more than 20'000 scientific journals. This library is one of the best and most extensive catalogs regarding electronic journals. Titles are collected cooperatively while data are recorded in a shared central database. Each institution can manage its licensed journals on its own. Subscribed full-text journals are presented next to public electronic journals with a standardized interface, thus offering a fast and structured access to scientific full-text journals.
The EZB, on the one hand, offers an access that is thematically oriented (journals ordered by subject of study), on the other hand, it provides an alphabetic order as well as a search function.
There are more and more public journals online. These journals are
a valuable addition to other published forms of information as
regards scientific expert knowledge. DOAJ
‹https://www.doaj.org/› is
a comprehensive catalog of public online journals (full-text
collection). These journals have been collected and ordered to
facilitate the access to these media. DOAJ strives to collect all
public online journals, regardless of their discipline, after
passing a certain quality check (peer review, editorial).
Scientists having a special expertise in the research
topic selected make peer reviews of submitted articles. Generally, the
double-blind method is used; reviewers don't know anything about the
author and vice versa.
Electronic journals provided by the GIUZ library (or the Zentralbibliothek
Zurich) are peer reviewed.
Electronic journals found at the Web of Science or Scopus are also peer reviewed: ‹https://www.hbz.uzh.ch/en/fachinformationen/geographie-human/DB_humangeographie.html›. Most of the journals available at the GIUZ library are peer reviewed. Corresponding references can be found in the credit note or on the first or last pages. The following journals, designed (also) for teachers, are peer reviewed (only available in German): Geographische Rundschau, Geographie heute, Praxis Geographie.
JSTOR ‹https://www.jstor.org/› was established in 1995 to create an interdisciplinary, scientific archive, now containing more than 1'000 scientific journals in digital form. The JSTOR project's characteristic feature is the fact that all journals are digitalized retrospectively from their beginning. This means that these journals are available digitally from edition 1 onwards, some of them going back to the 19th century and beyond. JSTOR searches through journals in alphabetical order and via subject, title, or editor. Additionally, its database provides the options «basic search» and «advanced search», including animated search guidelines (both with full-text search).
The Zurich Open Repository and Archive ‹https://www.zora.uzh.ch/› contains the entire academic output of members at the University of Zurich. Most publications can be accessed directly. Others are not public due to copyright laws; however, it is possible to make an inquiry which will then be forwarded to the author. In general, such an application will be allowed, especially if there is also a reasonable justification.
The GIUZ library provides a large compilation of links to electronic journals on its website ‹https://www.netvibes.com/geobib#GIS%2FGIVA›.