Electronic resources A-Z List

JCR provides information and tools to determine the scientific impact of periodicals in the fields of science and social science.

The data is derived from over 11,000 journals chosen as the most important and cited worldwide in the two categories.

The following statistical tools are available:

• the Impact Factor, which allows to determine the importance of a journal compared with others in the same scientific sector;
• the Immediacy Index, which measures how quickly a journal article is cited on average and how often journal articles are cited in the same year;
• the Cited Half Life, which measures the validity of the cited articles over time.

Full text of the historical collection of over 570 of the most important and historical international periodicals in the social sciences: economics, history (the journals of the American Historical Association are present), statistics, political science, demography, law.

Coverage is from the 1st issue, but usually includes a 3-year embargo *.

The Library subscribes to the following collections:

• Arts & Sciences I, most relevant titles: American Historical Review Journal of African American History Speculum William and Mary Quarterly Journal of American History
• Arts & Sciences II, most relevant titles: American Antiquity American Journal of Archeology American Anthropologist Annals of the Association of American Geographers Geographical Journal
• Arts & Sciences XII, most relevant titles: ABA Journal Foro Italiano Revista Chilena de Derecho Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka Zeitschrift fur Rechtspolitik

* EMBARGO: shorter or longer period during which the publisher of the journal does not provide the authorization to publish the electronic format online