Support : Publications : Chronolog Archives : October 2001

Information Science Abstracts Reloaded

Information Science Abstracts (ISA), Dialog File 202, has been reloaded. As a result of the reload many improvements have been made to the file, the excellent source for abstracts covering the literature of information science.

Changes to existing fields include:

• Author field (AU=) is separated from Corporate Source and includes author's e-mail address.
• URL is added to journals, authors, and publishers where it is available.
• Variations and inconsistencies in journal names, publication dates, and country names have been corrected.

In addition, new fields have been added to enable users to pinpoint specific data more easily:

• International Standard Book Number — ISBN (BN=)
• International Standard Serial Number — ISSN (SN=)
• Conference Title (CT=)
• Conference Location (CL=)
• Conference Year (CY=)
• Place of Publication (CP=)
• Journal Announcement (JA=)
• Main Heading (MH=)
• Publication Date (PD=)
• Publisher (PU=)
• Classification Codes and Description (SH=)

No longer available are Abstract Source (AS=) and Patent Assignee (PA=).

Increased coverage. ISA is the only online database to provide complete and comprehensive coverage of all the e-journals in information science. At present 26 e-journals are included (even those which have ceased production). Some titles are: Ariadne; D-Lib Magazine; First Monday; Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship; Journal of Library Services for Distance Education; LIBRES: Library and Information Science Research; PACS-R: Public Access Computer Systems Review; and Review of Information Science. Gaps in coverage of major journals have been filled.

With its enhanced focus on e-journal coverage, Information Science Abstracts is your one-stop source for coverage of the literature on abstracting and indexing, classification, electronic publishing, the information industry, online information retrieval, information management, search engines, and more. ISA is an excellent source for librarians and information professionals needing information on the information science field.

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