Blackwell Synergy and Ingenta full-text online journals
Mar 27, 2015
Blackwell Synergy and Ingenta full-text online journals
Publisher: Blackwell
• Name of service: Blackwell-Synergy
• Service type: online journals database
Available through two sources
1. Blackwell-Synergy: which is owned and run by Blackwell and contains Blackwell’s science, technology and medical titles.
2. Ingenta: a separate online service which contains all of Blackwell’s humanities and social sciences titles. (NB: Ingenta provides an online journals service for over 180 other publishers. You will be able to view the ToCs and abstracts for journals from these publishers but you will only have access rights to the full text of Blackwell Social Sciences and Humanities journals).[www.ingenta.com]
Content available
• Access to just over 800 leading learned journals in science, technology, medicine (on Synergy) and social sciences and humanities (on Ingenta)
• Subject Strengths– journals on Blackwell-Synergy—all life sciences,
medicine/health, ecology– journals on Ingenta—accountancy and economics,
cultural studies (especially Asian studies, African studies, Australian studies, international studies), development issues, history, management studies, social policy
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[URL’s checked o.k. Jan. 2006]