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Search options in electronic journals

Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek (EZB) – electronic journals library

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.

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

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.

Web of Science and Scopus

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

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).

ZORA

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.

Other electronic journals

The GIUZ library provides a large compilation of links to electronic journals on its website ‹https://www.netvibes.com/geobib#GIS%2FGIVA›.

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