Developing NonTraditional

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Developing Non-Traditional Content Types for
Traditional Business Databases
Sam Brooks ABLD Meeting May 2, 2003
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Introduction

• EBSCOs flagship product is Business Source
  Premier (BSP)
• EBSCOs primary focus for BSP is on improving the
  followingaspects of the database
• Applying high quality thesaurus terms to records
  in the database
• Enhancing the quality and length of EBSCO-created
  abstracts
• Enhancing the quantity and quality of full text
  journals licensed,including signing long-term
  contracts with most leading publishers
• These issues will not be covered today, because
  they are likelyto appear to be too salesy.
• For this reason, a less crucial and less
  competitive area was selectedfor this
  discussion.
• However, it is important to be clear that
  non-traditional content types are a secondary
  focus for EBSCO and the discussion of this topic
  is an attempt to respect the guidelines that have
  been set for this forum.

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What are Non-Traditional Content Typesfor
traditional business databases?

• Most traditional business databases contain
  coverage (i.e. indexing, abstracts and/or full
  text) of magazines and journals, as well as some
  kind of company information component
• Non-traditional content types for business
  indexes include dozens of new data groups that
  were rarely (if ever) previously considered
  standard in these products
• Traditional business databases are defined as
  EBSCOsBusiness Source (Elite Premier) Gales
  Business ASAPand Business Company Resource
  Center H.W. Wilsons Business Periodical Index
  ProQuests ABI/INFORM(Global, Complete, etc.)

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Examples of Non-Full Text, Non-Traditional
Content Types for Business Databases

• Author Provided Content
• Author Supplied Abstracts in BSP replacing
  vendor-written abstracts
• Author Keywords soon available in BSP for
  enhanced searching capabilities
• Author Affiliations coming soon to BSP from
  some large academic publishers
• Author Email Addresses coming soon to BSP
  fromsome large academic publishers
• Linked Cited References
• Typically, ISI has been the main provider of this
  type of data
• ISI is strong in the hard sciences, but weak in
  some areasof the soft sciences, especially
  business
• ISIs Business Collection contains only 234
  journals(vs. 1100 coming to BSP in June)
• No traditional business database will replace
  ISI,but a previously weak area is now addressed

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A Result List is presentedwith References and
TimesCited links, when found.
References
Times Cited
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From the Result List, the user clicks the
References link.A list of references for the
original article are displayed.
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Indexing Abstracts for the followingnon-traditi
onal sources (coming to BSP)
(with links to full text when available and in
some cases loaded full text)

• Bibliographies
• Case Studies
• Conference Proceedings
• Corporate Reports
• Country Economic Reports, Profiles, etc.
• Government Reports
• Industry Reports, Yearbooks, etc.
• Laws and Statutes
• Market Research Reports
• Monographs/Books (by chapter)
• Pre-1971 Journal Articles
• Standards
• Technical Reports
• Thesis Dissertations
• Working Papers

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Examples of Working Paper Sites to beIndexed
Abstracted in a TraditionalBusiness Database
(BSP)

• Faculty Working Papers Stanford University
  Graduate School of Business
• Faculty Working Papers University of Michigan
  Business School
• Pamplin College of Business Working Papers
  Virginia Tech Graduate School
• William Davidson Institute Working Papers
  University of Michigan Business School
• Working Papers Columbia University
• Working Papers Financial Institutions Center at
  The Wharton School,University of Pennsylvania
• Working Papers Harvard Business School Division
  of Research
• Working Papers University of Michigan
  Department of Economics

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Examples of Working Paper Sites to beIndexed
Abstracted in a TraditionalBusiness Database
(BSP)

• Working Papers US Federal Reserve
  BoardsFinance Economic Discussion Series
• Working Papers US Federal Reserve
  BoardsInternational Finance Discussion Papers
• Working Papers Yale School of
  ManagementsAccounting Research Network
• Working Papers Yale School of
  ManagementsEconomics Research Network
• Working Papers Yale School of Managements
  Financial Research Network
• Working Papers Yale School of Managements
  Legal Scholarship Network
• Working Papers Yale School of
  ManagementsManagement Research Network

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PDF full text for the followingnon-traditional
sources (in BSP)

• Country Economic Reports, Profiles, etc.
• Grey Literature
• Industry Reports, Yearbooks, etc.
• Monographs/Books
• Pre-1987 Journal Articles

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Industry Reports Scholarly Monographs will
become part of a traditional full text database
(BSP)

• Industry Reports
• 1,600 substantial reports
• Industries ranging from bottled water in Canada
  to industrial inorganicchemicals in France to
  vaccines in the United Kingdom to
  businessintelligence software in Germany to
  wireless gaming in Japan
• Monographs
• Full text for nearly 100 business and economics
  monographs(growing to 500) from prestigious
  academic publishers
• Scholarly titles including, Changing of
  Organizational Behavior Patterns, Organizational
  Behaviour, Oxford Textbook of Marketing,
  Principles of Marketing, Principles of
  Organizational Behaviour, Social Responsibilities
  of Business, Transforming Management in Central
  and Eastern Europe, etc.

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Thank you