Library and Information Science Research Guide

Open access archive for scientific or technical documents, published or unpublished, on Librarianship, Information Science and Technology, and related areas. Aims to further the Open Access philosophy by making available papers in Library and Information Science (LIS) and related fields. It is a free-access international archive, in line with the Free Online Scholarship (FOS) movement and the Eprints movement, based on the Open Archive Initiative (OAI) standards and protocols.

Indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.

Multidisciplinary index covering the journal literature of the sciences (Science Citation Index Expanded) as well as both the Social Sciences Citation Index and the Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Approximately 70% of the records have author abstracts. Online coverage from 1900 to present.

NoveList is a fiction database that provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations, and much more for over 120,000 fiction titles. It also includes other content of interest to fiction readers, such as Author Read-alikes, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, and Feature Articles. For school media specialists and teachers there are Standards-Based Thematic Units and Picture Book Extenders, as well as specific teaching guides for using fiction in the classroom.

Fulltext of many LIS journals, including Asian Libraries, Aslib Proceedings, Collection Building, Electronic Library, Journal of Documentation, Online Information Review, Program, and more.

The national information system supported by the U.S. Department of Education, the National Library of Education, and the Office of Educational Research and Improvement. ERIC provides access to information about a wide viariety of education-related documents, including the full text of more than 2,200 research digests, and citations and abstracts from over 1000 educational and education-related journals.