jake is a great web tool that indexes the holdings of 139 databases: http://jake.med.yale.edu/ You can type in the name of a journal and it will bring up some brief information on the database. If you click on "complete details", you will be provided with a list of databases the journal is indexed in, including those that have full-text. Elaine Watson, Documents/Reference Librarian Albertsons Library, Boise State University 1910 University Drive, Boise, Idaho 83725-1430 Tel. 208-426-1737 Email: [log in to unmask] >>> Cathy Donaldson <[log in to unmask]> 10/13/00 12:23PM >>> Re: > One of our biggest problems is how to let our patrons know we do have the > *contents* of these periodicals even if we don't subscribe individually. Can > you imagine the workload of putting every periodical represented in Infotrac > or Dow Jones or Lexis/Nexis in our OPAC--especially when the contents of > these databases change frequently? <SNIP> FWIW, There are, or at least, there used to be 2 publications that tried to track which periodicals were in which databases, when I was doing biz ref years ago. One is The Directory of Periodicals Online: News, Law & Business from Federal Document Retrieval. The other was Books & Periodicals Online: a Guide to Publications Contents. They were still around in the early 1990s. I've no idea if they're still alive, transmuted, or now completely dead in their grave, but basically, I kept both at my desk and referred to them all the time before I went to do any sort of online search. I used it to direct patrons looking for specific things as well. They covered primarily business and law. Don't remember if there was much art involved, as that wasn't my field at the time. But if memory serves, at least one of them included Nexis. They were an absolute god send. Cheers Cathy Donaldson library director Art Institute of Seattle __________________________________________________________________ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] Administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html Questions may be addressed to list owner at: [log in to unmask] __________________________________________________________________ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] Administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html Questions may be addressed to list owner at: [log in to unmask]