How to Quickly Find Articles in the Top IS Journals.

Periodically, articles appear that use various criteria to rank the top journals in computer science and information systems. These rankings are helpful to faculty members and practitioners seeking the best outlet for their research. This article identifies which indexes have the best coverage of the 25 top Information Systems (IS) journals. Overall, Ingenta has the best coverage of the seven databases, indexing 24 of the top 25 journals. INSPEC and Web of Science follow Ingenta with abstracts for 21 titles. EBSCO Business Source Premier has 19 titles, 10 of which are current full text and one that is full text through September 2000. Most librarians have limited budgets with which to work and therefore must use great care in selecting subscriptions to digital resources. The cost of a subscription is an important selection criterion. Pricing is determined through negotiation between a library or library consortia and the vendor. Most often, the charges to libraries are a price per full-time equivalent number of simultaneous users to the database.