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Overview

The Zetoc service provides Z39.50-compliant access to the British Library's Electronic Table of Contents (ETOC). The database contains details of approximately 20,000 current journals and 16,000 conference proceedings published per year. With over 20 million journal and conference records, Zetoc covers every imaginable subject in science, technology, medicine, engineering, business, law, finance, the arts and humanities. The database covers the years from 1993 to date and is updated daily. A list of journal titles covered by Zetoc also provides the ISSN, latest issue and date loaded.

Provider:

Jisc

Posted:

Sep 21, 2015 12:31pm

Updated:

Oct 6, 2015 2:45pm

Source

This entry is sourced from the Jisc Academic Database Assessment Tool (ADAT). Much of that information was originally provided to ADAT by the database vendor as of November 2012. CRL is not responsible for, nor does it make any claim as to, the accuracy of the information.

Details

Collection Content

Subject Areas:

Arts and Humanities

Health and Life Sciences

Science, Engineering and Technology

Social Sciences

Resource Types:

Bibliographical citations

Specifications

Summary

Zetoc Alert is a current awareness service that sends you email alerts matching the search criteria that you have provided whenever new data is loaded into the database. The searches may be for particular journals, for authors and for keywords from the titles of articles and papers. These email Alerts will be sent on the day the new data is loaded into the database.

Zetoc RSS provides RSS feeds for journal articles.

Inclusion Policy

All articles and papers are held by the British Library Document Supply Centre.

Geographical Coverage

Global.

Gap Fill Policy

Yes, wherever possible.

Archive Policy

No. Coverage starts from 1993.

Embargo Rules

None.

Update Frequency

Daily - overnight approximately 10,000 new journal articles or conference papers are added.

Content Classification

DDC and LCC

Keywords and Indexes

BLDSC shelfmark

Authority Files

No. (Zetoc is used to provide authoritative journal name information for the Names project.)

Citation Linking

Not directly.

Full Text Linking

3 options are always made available to the user:

OpenURL & COinS
Inter library loan
British Library Direct

Where an institution have not registered an OpenURL resolver, links are provided to search Google Scholar Scius and Copac.

Other Information

Access Control

For eligibility details, see the 'Access' section of our FAQ

Authentication

For http access:

IP Address
Classic Athens
SAML Compliant (e.g. Shibboleth)
Member of UK Access Management Federation

For Z39.50, only IP is currently available.

Accessibility

An accessibility audit of the Zetoc information pages has been produced.

Access Keys

To make it easier to navigate to the main Zetoc facilities, access keys are being introduced. Those currently provided are:

1 for the Zetoc homepage
2 for Zetoc Alert
3 for Site Map
4 for Zetoc search
5 for FAQs
6 to skip the navigation bar
0 for the list of access keys

Most browsers support access keys, though older versions may not. Use of access keys varies according to machine and browser. On Windows you can usually press alt together with the access key or alt with shift and the access key. On Macintosh use Ctrl with the access key.

Usage Stats

Available Online

Terms and Provider Details

Provider:

Jisc

Website:

https://www.jisc.ac.uk

Main Address:

One Castlepark

Tower Hill

Bristol

BS2 0JA

United Kingdom

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