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Subject:      PERIODICALS: ABBREVIATIONS: A Selection of Periodical
              Abbreviation Lists on the Internet
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Before computerized databases became common and available through
telecommuications networks to remote end users, print indexes ruled
information indexing for what one could find about a topic from journals
and magazines.  Keeping the size of print publications is always an issue
as the more pages to a source, the more the cost of publication.  Hence it
was standard practice in most periodical indexes to use abbreviations for
periodicals and for other repetitive information in the index.

Computer storage space is very cheap by comparison, hence with time the
trend has been in databases for the use of full journal titles, but this
practice is by far not universal.  PubMed and Medline, for example, do not
provide the full title of journals, but rather use abbreviations for
journals in the citations in the Medline database.

I posted some of these journal abbreviation sources in a post about
Fibromyalgia, here is this list where it will not be buried at the bottom
of that post and there are many additional sources for these abbreviations
that have been added here.  So the result is an expanded rather than an
abbreviated list that readers of this list may want to view periodically.


BIOLOGICAL JOURNALS AND ABBREVIATIONS
Periodicals Index
<http://home.ncifcrf.gov/research/bja/>

Journal Abbreviation Sources
<http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/JAS.htm>

Titles of Medical Journals and their Abbreviations (JO)
<http://www.bibl.amwaw.edu.pl/LPJ/jour_a_c.htm>

Batch Citation Matcher and Journal Lists
<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/citmatch_help.html#JournalLists>

ISI (SCI) Journal Abbreviations
<http://library.caltech.edu/reference/abbreviations/>

Journal Titles and Abbreviations
<http://www.library.ubc.ca/scieng/coden.html>

FRONTIERS IN BIOSCIENCE;
JOURNAL NAME ABBREVIATION, ISSN NUMBER AND COVERAGE
<http://www.bioscience.org/atlases/jourabbr/list.htm>

Biomedical Journal Title Search This service searches over 8,000 titles,
including 3,854 titles currently indexed for MEDLINE.
This service can assist in converting the full title of a biomedical
journal to an abbreviation, or, from an abbreviation into the full title.
<http://library.med.ohio-state.edu/abrv/>

Mathematical Reviews'
Abbreviations of Names of Serials
<http://www.ams.org/msnhtml/serials-list/annser_frames.html>

HLAS Journal Abbreviations
<http://lcweb2.loc.gov/hlas/journals.html>
Retrospective List
<http://lcweb2.loc.gov/hlas/rjaba-al.html>

Journal of Economic Literature
AEAweb: JEL: Journal Abbreviation List
http://www.aeaweb.org/journal/abbrev.html
<AEAweb: JEL: Journal Abbreviation List>

Journal Titles and Abbreviations (BIOSIS Format)
<http://csssrvr.entnem.ufl.edu/~pmc/journals/all_journals.htm>

SIMBAD : List of journal abbreviations
<http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simjnl.pl>

Core Journals Covered in CAplus [Chemistry]
<http://www.cas.org/sent.html>

MathSciNet
Search the Journals Database
Enter a journal abbreviation, journal name, partial name, or an ISSN:
<http://www.ams.org/mathscinet/searchjournals>

Archives -- List of Journals Indexed in AGRICOLA
<http://www.nal.usda.gov/indexing/ljitoc.htm>

The National Library of Medicine's List of Serials Indexed for Online
Users
<ftp://nlmpubs.nlm.nih.gov/online/journals/lsiweb.pdf>

Yale University Science Libraries
Help: Journal Abbreviations
<http://www.library.yale.edu/science/help/jrnlabbrev.html>

Bibliographic Code Abbreviations
Abbreviations for the journals and conference proceedings contained in the
ADS Abstract Service have been divided into several lists:
All Journals      (including Observatory Bulletins and Circulars)
All Conferences   (including NASA Reports and Books)
Refereed Journals
Non-Refereed Publications
<http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs_doc/journal_abbr.html>

Journals Indexed in AIO
<http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/anthind/Titles/journals.html>

Journal abbreviations
This file provides the keys to the abbreviations used in the Budapest
bibiliography. The printed introduction has been scanned and the russian
text left out. The transcription of foreign words is probably out of date,
but is nevertheless useful to understand the severly abbreviated journal
or publication names.
<http://obswww.unige.ch/webda/bdp_abr_pub.html>

Abbreviations
*For a more complete list, see Old Testament Abstracts
<http://courses.smsu.edu/vhm970f/bib/Journalabs.html>

Abbreviations Used in L'Anne Philologique
<http://library.uncg.edu/depts/ref/bibs/ROBERTS/lannee_abbreviations.html>

JOURNAL ABBREVIATIONS
National University of Singapore Library has created this list of Journal
Abbreviation Lists found at this URL:
<http://www.lib.nus.edu.sg/ecoll/ej/ejabbrev.html>

JOURNAL ABBREVIATIONS
Purdue University Libraries have provided this list of Journal
Abbreviation Lists found at this URL:
<http://www.lib.purdue.edu/vetmed/vmljrabbr.html>

Journal Abbreviations
Sheffield Hallam University has provided this list of Journal
Abbreviation Lists found at this URL:
 General Sites
 Biomedical Sites
 Chemistry Sites
 Law Sites
 More help
<http://catalogue.shu.ac.uk/screens/journalabbrev.html>

Library Endnote Journal Abbreviations
Index Medicus Journal Term List Updater
Biosciences Journal Term List Updater
Abbreviations of Legal Publications from Monash University
<http://www.unimaas.nl/media/um-layout/um/opmaak.htm?>
<http://www.ub.unimaas.nl/endnote/endnote-journal-abbreviations.htm>

ALCOHOL STUDIES DATABASE
Journal Abbreviations/Titles
<http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/alcohol_studies/alcohol/jnlabbrev.html>

Journal Abbreviations: Guide to Determining Titles
University at Buffalo
State University of New York
Arts and Sciences Library
[This is another list of periodical abbreviations lists]
<http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/asl/guides/journal-abbrev.html>

University of Windsor. Leddy Library.
ome > research help > how do I > translate abbreviations?
How do I translate journal abbreviations?
<http://athena.uwindsor.ca/units/leddy/2002.nsf/
HelpHowDoIJournalAbbrev?OpenForm>

A shorter URL for the link above:

<http://snipurl.com/74kj>

Serials Source List for Water Resources Abstracts
<http://www.csa.com/htbin/sjldisp.cgi?filename=/wais/data/srcjnl/mtwr>

MIJ-NSR Reference Styles

Database Reference Style
Traditional Reference Style
Citing References in the Text
Do's and Don'ts
List of Journal Abbreviations

<http://nsr.mij.mrs.org/info/refstyles.html>

jake: Jointly Administered Knowledge Environment
<http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/rr_gateway/jake/jake.shtml>
jake will allow you to:

determine which research database indexes a particular journal.
determine which research database contains full text of a particular
journal.
expand journal abbreviations (e.g., art bull, or j struct le)

COMMONLY USED JOURNAL ABBREVIATIONS
<http://joc.pubs.informs.org/JournalAbbreviations.html>

There are other sources for this information as well, but these journal
abbreviation lists and the websites included that provide a list of
periodical abbreviation lists above should give readers of this list a
running start towards learning full journal titles from the abbreviations
or those titles.  There is no defense against individuals or sources that
dream up their own abbreviations, rather than using recognized ones.  The
best periodical abbreviation lists to use are the ones that find the
journal abbreviation or the journal abbreviations that one is looking for
and this could be a different source each time.  In other words, one can
not know about too many of these lists.  Searching abbreviations in search
engines can be very problematic as it will tend to pull up links to
bibliographies in which those abbreviations are used.  Well it is time to
abbreviate this message.  Best of luck to all in finding the full titles
for these persistent journal abbreviations.


Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
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