Open Access Journals in Communication Studies: Indexing in Five Commercial Databases

Autor: Sonia Poulin, Robert Tomaszewski
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian. 33:3-14
ISSN: 1544-4546
0163-9269
DOI: 10.1080/01639269.2014.866019
Popis: This study investigates the degree of indexing of gold open access (OA) journals within the field of communication studies in five major commercial bibliographical databases commonly subscribed to by academic libraries and used by researchers and students. Results of the study indicate that 32 percent of the 147 gold OA journals identified were indexed in the five target databases. The communication studies databases provided the most complete indexing, while among the multidisciplinary databases, Scopus provided more coverage, compared to Academic Search Complete and Web of Science.
Databáze: OpenAIRE