Analysis of BioOne Journal Collections: Their Quality, Indexing Coverage, and Scholarly Content

Abstract

This study examined the 130 current full-text titles in the BioOne.1 and BioOne.2 collections to determine whether they are peer-reviewed, contain book reviews, and are supplied by document delivery vendors. We identified indexing coverage in 11 major databases in agriculture and life sciences: Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA), AGRICOLA, Biological Abstracts, BIOSIS Previews, CAB Abstracts, Current Contents, Environmental Sciences and Pollution Abstracts, GeoRef, Scopus, ISI Web of Science, and Zoological Record. We concluded that the majority of the titles in BioOne collections are refereed and scholarly, indexed in several of the major indexing and abstracting journals in the field of agriculture and life sciences, and available via several major document delivery vendors. We find both BioOne collections to be valuable, useful, cost-effective journal aggregations.

KEYTERMS:

• AGRICOLA
• BioOne
• Biological Abstracts
• BIOSIS Previews
• book reviews
• CAB Abstracts
• Current Contents
• databases
• document delivery
• ISI Web of Science
• journal indexing
• Scopus
• Zoological Record

The authors thank Jeremy Smith, Library Technical Assistant III, Chemistry and Biochemistry Library at the University of Arkansas, for his help in checking and double-checking the figures and creating the tables.