| Database/index name | Index e-journals? | Criteria: Same as print journals? | research level articles required/peer reviewed | non peer reviewed materials | altering of text after publication allowed? | archiving stability required | Notes: | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agricola | yes | slightly stricter guidelines for e-only journals | ||||||
| Applied Science and Technology Index | yes | yes | no | yes | journal must have track record over time | |||
| Biological Abstracts | yes | yes | ||||||
| CAB Abstracts | no | |||||||
| Chemical Abstracts | yes | yes | journal must have a permanent address; and be publically available | |||||
| Current Contents | yes | |||||||
| EiCompendex | yes | |||||||
| GeoRef | yes | yes | no | yes | yes | URL in e-only citations; locate same as INSPEC | ||
| Inspec | yes | yes | yes | no | yes | recommended by publisher and discovered by indexers in-house | ||
| MathSciNet | yes | yes | yes | yes | ||||
| Medline | yes | yes | will not re-index articles that are updated | |||||
| Zoological Record | yes | yes | no | yes | some journals "selectively" indexed |