CUFTS journal search tool
I have seen a few posts lately on a number of different dicussion lists that reference the now-defunct JAKE database. For folks looking for journal titles and the electronic collections that index them, CUFTS, developed at the Simon Fraser University Library, is another excellent tool to use. (As far as I can tell, JAKE is no longer being updated.)
- CUFTS Main Page
- Journal Search
- Resource Comparison (to compare titles and coverage dates of different collections)
- cufts2marc (to create USMARC records of titles in CUFTS collections)
At last count, CUFTS included 245 different electronic collections of journal titles.
If you are like me, and have access to limited journal collections, CUFTS is very handy when trying to figure out who indexes various journal titles. And while it’s always wise to get lists of journal titles directly from
the vendor, CUFTS can also help when making decisions about
subscriptions.
