Science Communication in Electronic Journals in the Field of Traffic and Transport

  • Mira Bačić
  • Darko Furač
  • Vesna Golubović
Keywords: journals in the field of transportation sciences, data bases with full text articles, IS! selection, impact factor, secondary databases

Abstract

Electronic journals have become an inevitable source ofscientific information. Their advantage, in relation to theprinted journals results from the characteristics of the media:they are available to all the interested users at the same time, beforethan the printed version, and they are not necessarily relatedto the location of the library. Since one of the basic roles oflibrarians in the process of disseminating scientific and professionalinformation is to provide the users with the informationwhich they need and when they need it, the librarians tend to informthe users primarily about the available electronic sources.The objective of this work is to systematize the journals in thefield of transportation sciences through an overview of journalsthat are available to the Croatian academic community in thedatabases of full text articles at the National and University Library,and the libraries of scientific institutions and faculties,which are gathered around the subsystems of the Scientific InformationSystem. In the aggregated databases of EBSCO Publishing,34 journals from the field of transportation scienceswere selected, and in the publisher databases the following wasselected: 8 titles by the publisher Kluwer Academic Publishing,24 titles by the publisher Elsevier Science, 6 titles by SpringerVerlag and 3 titles by the publisher John Wiley & Sons. For theselected full text journals the Impact factor (IF) was used fromthe Journal Citation Reports (JCR). The data on indexing andabstracting rates in the secondary databases for individual journalswere taken from the ULRICH'S database.

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Bačić M, Furač D, Golubović V. Science Communication in Electronic Journals in the Field of Traffic and Transport. Promet [Internet]. 1 [cited 2024Oct.11];17(4):217-24. Available from: http://traffic.fpz.hr/index.php/PROMTT/article/view/637
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