Xavier University: Library: Database Guides: Tenure & Promotion Resources

Web of Knowledge (alternative link; 1980-present plus citations to older cited references; updated weekly; some full-text; RefWorks Help; tutorial; citation alerts; saving searches & creating alerts; journal titles) includes the following multidisciplinary citation databases which can be searched separately: Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index, and Social Sciences Citation Index. The unique feature of these databases is that researchers can take a known, relevant paper and find other more recent papers that cite it. It also includes Journal Citation Reports, BIOSIS Citation Index, BIOSIS Previews, Derwent Innovations Index, and MEDLINE. Click Select a Database to search these databases separately. Click Sign In to save searches and receive search history and citation alerts. It is produced by and the user interface is provided by Thomson Reuters.

Google Scholar (much full-text; RefWorks & FIND IT @ XU help) provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Google Scholar helps you identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research. Use the advanced search for maximum search capabilities and use Scholar preferences to display FIND IT @ XU and RefWorks direct export links.

Scopus (much full-text; 1823-present; RefWorks help) contains 18,500 titles with 70% from international sources. It includes 17,000 peer-reviewed journals, over 3 million conference papers, 600 trade publications, 24 million patents, and 359 book series. It covers the arts & humanities as well as the social, health, physical, and life sciences. Users can search by keyword, author, article title, journal, and other parameters. Citations include cited references and times cited information as well as journal ranking information. This database contains about 2,400 embedded full-text journals in addition to the full-text provided via OhioLINK. It is produced by and the user interface is provided by Elsevier. XU faculty, staff, and students need to authenticate via OhioLINK both on and off campus using their MyXU portal username and password.

Journal Citation Reports (alternative link; 2006-present) is one of the databases included in Web of Knowledge. Click Select a Database to search it separately. This databases permits users to evaluate and compare journals using 2006 citation data drawn from over 7,500 scholarly and technical journals form more than 3,300 publishers in over 60 countries. The science edition contains data from over 5,900 journals and the social science edition over 1,700 journals. It can show you the most frequently cited journals in a field, the highest impact journals in a field and the largest journals in a field. Citation and article counts are important indicators of how frequently current researchers are using individual journals. It is produced by the Institute of Scientific Information (ISI) and the user interface is provided by Thomson.

Eigenfactor.org ranks the most influential journals using citations in the academic literature as tallied by JCR (Journal Citation Reports). Users can search by journal name or subject category and limit their searches to a particular year from 1995-2006. There is a subject category mapping tool and top ten lists for major categores (science, social science, university theses). There is also a journal cost-effectiveness seach by subject category. It is produced by and the user interface is provided by the Bergstrom Lab, Department of Biology, University of Washington.

RedJasper Journal-Ranking.com provides an online, interactive journal ranking service across all disciplines. Allows users to configure their ranking interests as well as provide a more reasonable method to evaluate a journal's impact. Users can search for ranking by journal or browse the most common journals by rank. It is produced by and the user interface is provided by RedJasper, a business and technology consultant.

SCImago is a journal ranking system based on Elsevier's Scopus® database. Users can browse journal indicators by subject area and subcategory. Journal searches can be limited to country and/or year (from 1999-2006). Users can also search for a particular journal by title or words in the title. Individual journal searches provide tabular data and numerous graphs. Comparative searches are possible for 2-4 journals and provide a graph and tabular data from 1999-2006. It is produced by and the user interface is provided by the SCImago Research Group.

Cabell's Directories provides full-text directory information for business, education, psychology/psychiatry, and computer science/information systems journal publications. Each journal entry includes submission information (editor’s name, address, phone, fax, email, web address); publication guidelines (manuscript length, copies required, format, fees, style, computer submission); circulation data (reader type, frequency, number of subscribers, publisher, price); review information (type of reveiws, number of in-house and external reviewers, acceptance rate, time it takes to review, percent of invited articles, reviewers coments, publishing fees); manuscript topics included; and manuscript guidelines. To begin searching click Member Area in the menubar. It is produced by and the user interface is provided by Cabell Publishing, Inc.

MLA Directory of Periodicals lists over 4,400 periodicals in the areas of literature, covered in the MLA International Bibliography. It provides print and electronic availability, contact information, subscription information, advertising rates, publishing information (scope and subjects covered), and information about submissions for publication. It is produced by the Modern Language Association of America and the user interface is provided by EBSCO Publishing.

Ulrich's Periodicals Directory (full-text directory information) contains information on currently published as well as discontinued periodicals. It includes magazines, journals, newsletters, newspapers, conference proceedings, and electronic publications. Each entry includes a description, publisher, country of publication, ISSN, start year, status (active or inactive), price, frequency, ending issue, if refereed, format (print or electronic), if abstracted or indexed, where abstracted or indexed, language, editor, URL, and reviews. It is produced by and the user interface is provided by R.R. Bowker.

Turnitin.com is a plagiarism prevention and detection service which can be accessed directly or through Blackboard. If TurnItIn is used within Blackboard neither students or faculty need to set up an account. See these manuals for the Blackboard version of TurnItIn for students and faculty. If the direct, non-Blackboard version is used, both faculty and students need to set up a user profile to use this service. Faculty will need the administrative account ID and password to set up their profile. Contact the research help desk at 513 745-4808 for this information. Faculty also need to set up a class with a separate class ID and password. Faculty then need to give the class ID and password to their students before they can set up their accounts and submit their papers to TurnItIn. See these training pages for the direct, non-Blackboard version of TurnItIn for students and faculty.

RefWorks (Quickstart guide; RefWorks help) is a bibliographic management service that permits users to create a database of references, in-text citations and bibliographies formatted in a citation style of your choosing. A link to this resource is on every database list in the left menu. RefWorks is available to faculty and students across various platforms. Special features include RefMobile, lifelong access, RefShare, RSS feeds, RefGrab-It, COS Scholar Universe, exports from Google Scholar, and attachments. Call the reference desk at 513 745-4808 if you are asked for the Group Code. To create a permanent rather than a temporary account make sure you access RefWorks from the library's webpages.