The MSK Library recently added a new resource called Ulrichsweb to its roster of databases. Although mostly known as a resource used by collection development librarians for making journal-related purchasing decisions, access to Ulrichsweb can potentially benefit many others in the MSK research community.
Here’s how: Ulrichsweb is one of the only resources available today that you can use to confirm which “Abstracting & Indexing Databases” are indexing a particular journal.
Why might this matter to you? Because the degree of access and visibility of an individual article is largely determined by where it is indexed.
From an author’s perspective: If you publish an article in a journal that is not indexed in any bibliographic databases, chances are very slim that anyone will come across it to read it unless you have specifically directed them to the article. Conversely, if your journal is indexed by multiple databases, it increases the chances that more people will come across it when conducting a search on a topic.
From a research perspective: If you are trying to find an electronic citation record for an article of interest (say to add to your Endnote library so that you can later cite the reference in your manuscript), identifying which database(s) a particular journal is indexed in can save you search time by helping you to target the right place to go looking for it.
To learn more about Ulrichsweb or other information research tools, feel free to contact us at the MSK Library.
