| Producer | ProQuest |
|---|---|
| History | 1932–present |
| Languages | Multi-lingual |
| Access | |
| Providers | Multi-platform |
| Cost | Subscription |
| Coverage | |
| Disciplines | multidisciplinary (all subjects); |
| Record depth | abstracting and indexing coverage, including print indexes, online indexes, and indexing and citation databases; from more than 400 global sources (including Scopus and ISI Web of Science) |
| Format coverage | academic and scholarly journals (all types); open access publications, peer-reviewed titles; popular magazines, newspapers, newsletters; annuals, continuations, conference proceedings; trade publications, consumer magazines, newsletters and bulletins; limited selection of membership directories, comic books, puzzle and game books; titles that have ceased publication since 1974; irregularly published publications, regularly published publications, available free, and available paid subscription only; small publishers, large commercial publishers, scholarly society publishers, independent publishers, and not-for-profit publishers (90,000 publishers). |
| Geospatial coverage | 215 countries (International-global) |
| No. of records | 336,000+ |
| Update frequency | daily |
| Print edition | |
| Print title | Ulrich's |
| Print dates | annual (limited data available compared to web) |
| ISSN | 0000-2100 |
| Links | |
| Website | about |
Ulrich's Periodicals Directory (ISSN 0000-0175, and ISSN 0000-2100) is the standard library directory and database providing information about popular and academic magazines, scientific journals, newspapers and other serial publications.[1]
The print version has been published since 1932, and was founded by Carolyn F. Ulrich, chief of the periodicals division of the New York Public LibraryasPeriodicals Directory: A Classified Guide to a Selected List of Current Periodicals Foreign and Domestic.[2]
It is now also supplied on-line as Ulrichsweb, which provides web-based and Z39.50 linking to library catalogs. The online version includes over 300,000 active and current periodicals.[3]
Coverage is international, with some emphasis on English-language publications. The information is derived from the publishers and verified by the journal. It includes
Earlier published by R.R. Bowker, it moved to CSA, a fellow subsidiary of Cambridge Information Group, in 2006.[4] Following the merger of CSA and ProQuest, Ulrich's moved to ProQuest subsidiary Serials Solutions.[5] The "Serials Solutions" name was retired in 2014.
