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Journal Abbreviation and Acrocym Tools

• Abbreviations.com
  aka All That JAS: Journal Abbreviation Sources

• BioAbicus: Biotechnology Abbreviation & Acronym Uncovering Service

• Biological Journals and Abbreviations

• Biomedical Acronym/Definition Database
  From the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, includes definitions for over 206, 000 acronyms and abbreviations found in MEDLINE.

• Core Journals in CAPlus
  Courtesy the American Chemical Society (ISO/ISSN abbreviations standard)

• Frontiers in BioScience

• Genamics JournalSeek

• ISI Journal Abbreviations Index
  ... from CalTech Library Services, California Institute of Technology

• Journal Titles and Abbreviation
• NLM LocatorPlus  (NLM's online catalog)
  Can use this catalog to do a Journal Title search using journal title or abbreviation to identify periodical as well as periodical details such as ISSN from record.
• PubMed Journals Database
  See Fact Sheet: Construction of National Library of Medicine Title Abbreviations for ISO/ISSN abbreviations standard (as compared to ISO/ISSN abbreviations standard) .   Excerpt:   "As of March 1, 2007, NLM establishes title abbreviations based on the form used by the ISSN Centre as their abbreviated key title, whenever this is available, editing only for format as described below:

Each word in the title abbreviation is capitalized.

All punctuation is removed, except for parentheses used when a qualifier is supplied.

All diacritics are removed.

Qualifying elements which refer to format, such as (Print) or (Online) are omitted.

NLM establishes title abbreviations based on the rules outlined in Information and Documentation, Rules for the Abbreviation of Title Words and Titles of Publications (ISO 4, 3rd ed. 1997) and American National Standard for Information Sciences, Abbreviation of Titles for Publications (ANSI Z39.5--1985).  Where the ISO standard instructions conflict with the ANSI standard,  NLM generally prefers the ANSI standard, despite the fact that this is no longer a current U.S. standard.  In some instances, NLM's rules for title abbreviations differ from both existing standards."

• Wiley InterScience Acronyms, Symbols, and Abbreviations

• WorldCat
  OCLC catalog of items indexed from thousands of libraries around the world.  Can do a keyword search using journal abbreviation or title Limited to 'Serial Publications' for record that includes periodical't details (See Other Title field to find abbrevation for the journal).

• Bibliographic Projects and Bibliographic Standards  Historical information about journal abbreviations.

• The List of Title Word Abbreviations"
  Contains the words of the titles of serials processed by the ISSN network and their abbreviations. The List includes 54,000 words in about 70 languages. The words are abbreviated in accordance with the ISO 4 standard, for which the ISSN International Centre is the maintenance agency since 1974. In conformity with the field of application of this standard, the abbreviations can also be used for the abbreviations of titles of non serial publications.  ....  Online edition click here. "

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