Databases and Articles

Journal Title Abbreviations

Listed below are resources that may help you decipher the full title of a journal when you have available only the abbreviated journal name.

All that JAS: Journal Abbreviation Sources All that JAS is a registry of Web sites that list or provide access to the full title of abbreviated journal titles.
Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) List of science and medicine journals and journal title abbreviations indexed by ISI. (These are ISI, not CASSI, abbreviations.) This list is maintained by the Caltech Library.
The American Physical Society List contains the names and standard abbreviations of journals commonly cited in physics research literature.
The University of British Columbia Library List of science and medicine journal titles and common abbreviations.

Genamics JournalSeek From the web site: “the largest completely categorized database of freely available journal information available on the internet. The database presently contains 75949 titles. Journal information includes the description (aims and scope), journal abbreviation, journal homepage link, subject category and ISSN.”
Jake A resource developed by the Yale University in which a user can enter the abbreviation for a journal (or just one word) and view the full titles that match. The “full” record also indicates which databases index the particular journal. [Has not been updated since early 2003.]

Linda Yamamoto

Last modified: August 15, 2005