Sonny Software

I have just stared with this and easily downloaded a great many books, but am at a loss as to to finding journal articles. What exactly do I do after accessing, for instance, the library of congress to track down an article? thank you.

I'm not sure the LOC site has journals online (someone please correct me if I'm wrong). The major site for journals is PubMed, but that's for the biomedical literature.

Anyone?

Jon
Sonny Software

I can confirm that the Library of Congress doesn't return any results for searches for titles or authors of articles in journals, at least not in any journals I've tried.

So I have the same question as lcb. In my case, specifically, I'm interested in an equivalent to PubMed for linguistics, philosophy or psychology journals. Does anyone know of relevant databases?

jstor, philosopher's index, ingenta are just a few. Check these web pages below. (Although they are UCLA-specific, most university libraries have similar subscriptions.)

http://www2.library.ucla.edu/search/1455.cfm
http://www2.library.ucla.edu/search/729.cfm?su=65
http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/phil/DRR.html

Just dig around, esp. in the library links. But your university will need a subscription to most of these resources in order for you to access them. Unfortunately, I'm oblivious to which ones are paid, and which ones are subscription.

Hi,

for linguistics, you can consult the free and electronic "Bibliographie de Linguistique" (Linguistic Bibliography) at:

http://www0.kb.nl/blonline/ [then click "search the database"]

This is an outstanding journal/book-reference for linguistics, and quite up to date (you'll find nothing from 2004 yet). The MLA offers faster the newer items, but is less complete; and there's no free access there.

Now I only want to find out how Bookends could easily import the data there into my bibliographic database ...

I did a quick check -- it looks to me like the results are returned in such an unstructured form that it would be difficult (or impossible) to write a reliable filter. The data sources (e.g. libraries) have to cooperate and tag data in some way if computer programs are to be able to extract the relevant bits.

Jon
Sonny Software

Jon wrote:I did a quick check -- it looks to me like the results are returned in such an unstructured form that it would be difficult (or impossible) to write a reliable filter. The data sources (e.g. libraries) have to cooperate and tag data in some way if computer programs are to be able to extract the relevant bits.

Jon
Sonny Software

Yes, unfortunately. It's an excellent source, but I still find myself doing all the typing... [sigh]. That's not Bookends fault, sure! Thanks for replying, though.

Hi,

the filter for the German library 'GBV' that ships with bookends, in fact allows to search for journal articles. The GBV includes titles in Englisch and French. There might even be more, but I don't know for sure.

Matthias