Journals in the core collection: Definition, identification, and applications

Serials Librarian

Volumn 51, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 51-73

  Nisonger, Thomas E ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Core collections; Core journals; Core lists; Electronic journals; Journal collection management

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249673941     PISSN: 0361526X     EISSN: 15411095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J123v51n03_05     Document Type: Review

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29. The keyword search strategies were "core" and "journals" plus "core and "books," covering the complete database from 1984 to the present.
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81. The list was complied from several core lists published by Cornell University Press between 1991 and 1996, such as W.C. Olsen, editor, The Literature of Crop Science (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1995).
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