The University of Adelaide Library

Computer Science Journals

Electronic/Print journals	Current journal issues	Binding	Journals in other libraries
New journal subscriptions	Journal abbreviations and lists of journals	Journal impact factors

Electronic/Print Journals

To locate a known full text electronic or print journal accessible to the University of Adelaide staff and students, search the Library's catalogue using the "Journal Title" option.

The Library holds all the full text electronic titles from ACM, IEEE journals, ScienceDirect( except for a few),Wiley,JStor(backset of journals), Springer, Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press.

Current journal issues

Many databases and electronic journals provide a free alerting service that will send updated results of a research topic search or tables of contents of a new journal issue to your email address or use RSS feeds (what's this?) to distribute the information.

The following publishers will email to you the contents of new issues at or before publication or let you save search profiles to run regularly.
ACM Digital Library - personal login
American Mathematical Society Journals Email Alerting Service
Cambridge University Press - register a personal profile
Elsevier through ScienceDirect personal login
National Research Council of Canada Publication Alert
Oxford University Press Table of Contents E-Mailing Service
PNAS CiteTrack - topic, author or citation based email alert service covering PNAS and other participating journals
Springer Link Alert
Taylor and Francis, and Carfax Email Contents Service
Wiley Saved search via Personal Home Page
The Library catalogue subscription summary screen shows the most recent issue of a print journal received.
Where the Library does not hold a journal in print or electronic form, use Interlibrary request to get it from another library.

Binding

Unbound journal issues take about 6 weeks to be bound. The Copy status screens in the catalogue show volumes at the binders with 'Binding' in the Status column of the volume. The Binding list option on the library catalogue menu shows the due date of return from binders.

Journals in other libraries

Where a journal is not held by this library or is at binding, use Interlibrary request to get journal articles from other libraries or the Intercampus loan service for journals from the Waite or Roseworthy campuses.

Check the following catalogues to find which libraries hold the journal:

Libraries Australia
Other Australian and overseas library catalogues

New journal subscriptions

Requests for new subscriptions should be given to your Research librarian. The number of new subscriptions each year is restricted.

Journal abbreviations and lists of journals

Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory: A database containing publication details of current journals including price and subscription/editorial addresses. Also as printed work kept behind the Barr Smith Library Information desk.
PubList: Internet directory of publications: A comprehensive searchable directory of journal and newspaper publication details including online availability, links to publishers' web sites. Information is derived from Ulrich's International Periodicals directory and other sources.
Alkire, L.G. Periodical title abbreviations. 9th ed. 1994: Information desk 050.148 A415p.9
Leistner, O. ITA: Internationale Titelabkurzungen von Zeitschriften, Zeitungen, wichtigen Handbuchern, Worterbuchern, Gesetzen usw. (International title abbreviations of periodicals, newspapers, important handbooks, dictionaries, laws, etc.): 3. erw. Aufl. 1981; Information desk 050.148 L532.3; Useful for European abbreviations.

Journal impact factors

Journal Citation Reports is a comprehensive, and unique resource for journal evaluation, using citation data drawn from scholarly and technical journals worldwide. It gives rankings and impact factors for multidisciplinary and international journals