ULRICH'S INTERNATIONAL PERIODICALS DIRECTORY is a unique, current, comprehensive and continuously updated source of information on selected periodicals and serials published in the United States and throughout the world. It includes annuals, continuations and conference proceedings, deriving input data from over 70,000 U.S. and foreign serials publishers. Approximately 40,000 discontinued titles from 1974 onward are included. ULRICH'S INTERNATIONAL PERIODICALS DIRECTORY gives you full buying and ordering information on the major output of international serials publishing. Complete bibliographic citations, with buying and ordering information, subject information, and Dewey Decimal Classification Number for all currently available issues are provided.

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Years of Coverage

Contains current serials published regularly, as well as serials published annually and irregularly.

Default fields for unqualified searches

TI, SU, AL

The following alphabetical list provides the two-letter label, the relevant alias, and an example for each ULRI field.

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                Label        Name/Example
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                ai           Abstracting & Indexing Codes
                example:     bk-rev-dig.ai.

                al           Annotation Analytic
                example:     natural history.al.

                an           Accession Number
                example:     1421566.an.

                at           Alternate Title(s)
                example:     british edition.at.

                cr           Circulation
                example:     12850.cr.

                cy           Country Code
                example:     us.cy.

                dd           Dewey Decimal Number
                example:     616-02.dd.

                ds           Distributor
                example:     newsweek.ds.

                ed           Editor
                display only

                fc           Format Code
                example:     umi.fc.

                fq           Frequency
                example:     w.fq.

                is           ISSN
                example:     0099-5355.is

                nt           Notes
                display only

                pb           Publisher
                example:     williams wilkins.pb.

                pc           Publication Code
                example:     ui.pc.

                pr           Price
                display only

                sf           Special Features
                example:     film rev.sf.

                st           Status Code
                example:     active.st.

                su           Subject
                example 1:   medical sciences.su.
                example 2:   001788.su.

                ti           Title
                example:     new yorker.ti.

The following are the Ovid limits for the Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory database.

                Limit Name             Example

                Status Code
                Sentence Syntax:       limit 1 to active

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