SocINDEX

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SocINDEX
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In April 2005, EBSCO will release SocINDEX

• SocINDEX will replace Sociological Abstracts as
  the most comprehensive sociological research
  database
• SocINDEX will contain a 15,000 term Sociology
  Thesaurus developed by top lexicographers
• SocINDEX will have the highest quality records
  All core titles will have the following
• Informative abstracts
• Aggressive application of subject headingsfrom a
  superior controlled vocabulary
• Searchable cited references

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Journals Covered SocINDEX vs. Sociological
AbstractsCoverage Policy
Core Journals
Priority Journals
Selective Journals
Total
Sociological Abstracts SocINDEX
1,809 274 563 972 2,222 627 516 1,079
Competitive data from March 10, 2005
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Number of Records Covered SocINDEX vs.
Sociological Abstracts
Number of Records Added Per Year
Total Number of Records in Database
Update Frequency
Sociological Abstracts SocINDEX
Monthly 28,000 620,000 Weekly 50,000 1,301,147
Data for Sociological Abstracts pulled from the
CSA website on March 10, 2005.
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Backfiles Covered SocINDEX vs. Sociological
Abstracts
Category of Coverage
CSA Sociological Abstracts
EBSCO SocINDEX
Begin Date of Indexing Begin Date of
Abstracts Begin Date of Searchable Cited
References Begin Date of PDFs
1963 1895 1973 1895 2001 1895 NONE 1895
NOTE Some SocINDEX backfile records will not be
completed until January 2006 PDFs only
available via SocINDEX with Full Text
Competitive data from March 10, 2005
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SocINDEX vs. Sociological Abstracts

• Comparison of Top Ranked JournalsMichael P.
  Allen (Professor of Sociology at Washington State
  University) The Quality of Journals in
  Sociology Reconsidered

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Top Ranked Journals Have DramaticallySuperior
Backfiles in EBSCOs SocINDEX
Competitive data from March 10, 2005
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Top Ranked Journals Have DramaticallySuperior
Backfiles in EBSCOs SocINDEX
Competitive data from March 10, 2005
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Top Ranked Journals Have DramaticallySuperior
Backfiles in EBSCOs SocINDEX
Competitive data from March 10, 2005
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In addition to superior backfiles, SocINDEX will
provide higher calibereditorial treatment of the
top ranked journals

• SocINDEX
• All 39 are CORE
• All 39 have cover to cover coverage to volume 1,
  issue 1 for indexing, informative abstracts, and
  searchable cited references
• Sociological Abstracts
• Only 26 are CORE
• 10 are PRIORITY
• 3 are SELECTIVE

Competitive data from March 10, 2005
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SocINDEX with Full Text

• While CSAs Sociological Abstracts has no full
  text, SocINDEX with Full Text will contain
  hundreds of full text journals including PDFs for
  many of the top ranked journals back to volume 1,
  issue 1
• Many of these full text journals will not be
  available in any other full text database

Coming in April 2005
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20 of the Top 39 Sociology Journals will be
Available in Full Textvia SocINDEX with Full
Text Back to the First Published Issue
EXHIBIT F1
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20 of the Top 39 Sociology Journals will be
Available in Full Textvia SocINDEX with Full
Text Back to the First Published Issue
20 of the top 39 sociology journals will have
full-text from volume 1, issue 1 to present, and
of those, 13 (62) are not available in JSTOR
SocINDEX with Full Text will also contain
hundreds of additional full text journals
EXHIBIT F2
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SocINDEX with Full Text will include500 full
text books monographs, including

• Advances in Criminological Theory
• Adventures in Criminology
• Alcoholic Society
• Anthropology, Development and Modernities
• Behavioral Theory in Sociology
• Changing Family Values
• Changing Suburbs
• Child Protection and Family Support
• Children and the Changing Family
• Citizen Science
• Civil Society
• Community Society
• Companion to ContemporaryBlack British Culture

• Complexity Theory and the Social Sciences
• Constructive Sociological Theory
• Crime Social Organization
• Crime, Disorder and Community Safety
• Crisis in Sociology
• Culture, Modernity and Revolution
• Culture, Society and Sexuality
• Dying Process
• Education Policy and Realist Social Theory
• Elites and Society
• Emotions in Social Life
• Essays on the Sociology of Culture
• Family Social Change

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SocINDEX with Full Text will include500 full
text books monographs, including

• Foundations of the Frankfurt Schoolof Social
  Research
• Gender, Health and Welfare
• Handbook of Separation and Divorce
• Homelessness and Social Policy
• Housing and Social Theory
• Human Rights as Social Representations
• In Praise of Sociology
• Key Quotations in Sociology
• Main Currents in Sociological Thought
• New European Criminology
• Practising Social Work
• Property and Power in Social Theory

• Psychology for Social Workers
• Realism and Sociology
• Reflexive Historical Sociology
• Social Action With Children Families
• Social Construction of Man,the State and War
• Social Constructivism and thePhilosophy of
  Science
• Social Movements in Malaysia
• Social Nature of Mental Illness
• Social Partnership at Work
• Social Policy
• Social Rage
• Social Relations and Social Exclusion

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SocINDEX with Full Text will include500 full
text books monographs, including

• Social Roles Social Institutions
• Social Security Reform inAdvanced Countries
• Social Theory and the Global Environment
• Social Theory, Social Changeand Social Work
• Social Work and Minorities
• Social Work and Social Care
• Social Work Business
• Social Work, Health and Equality
• Society, Action and Space
• Sociological Perspectiveson Modern Accountancy
• Sociological Research Methods

• Sociology and Development
• Sociology and Visual Representation
• Sociology Beyond Societies
• Sociology for Social Workersand Probation
  Officers
• Sociology of Health Promotion
• Sociology of Leisure
• Sociology of Nationalism
• Sociology of Progress
• Sociology, Work and Industry
• Sociology The Basics
• Subjection of Women
• Transforming Social Work Practice
• Women and Social Class

NOTE EBSCO will provide MARC records for all
full text books monographs, so they may be
loaded into the librarys catalog.
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Other Types of Content Plannedfor SocINDEX with
Full Text

• American Sociological Association conference
  papers
• 5,486 with abstracts, and of those,4,211 will
  have full text
• American Society of Criminology conference papers
• 2,000 with abstracts, and all 2,000will also
  have full text
• Conference papers from other societies including
  approximately 1,000 with abstracts, and of those,
  nearly 500 will also have full text
• Data from the Family Research Lab(University of
  New Hampshire)
• Working Papers

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SocINDEX Content Summary
Full Textin SocINDEX with Full Text
Full Text Years in SocINDEX with Full Text
Indexed in SocINDEX
Category
SocINDEX Core Journals 627 241 3,761 SocINDEX
Priority Journals 516 72 431 SocINDEX Selective
Journals 1,079 0 0 SocINDEX Monographs/Books
751 545 N/A SocINDEX Conference
Papers 8,468 6,711 N/A
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SocINDEX Academic Search EliteFull Text
Coverage Information
FT in ASE combined w/SIFT
FT years inASE combined w/SIFT
FT years in ASE
indexed in SocINDEX
FT in ASE
Category
SocINDEXCore Journals SocINDEXPriority
Journals SocINDEXSelective Journals SocINDEXMono
graphs/Books SocINDEXConference Papers
627 92 241 937 3,871 516 76 129 708 975 1,079 2
33 233 2,393 2,393 751 0 545 N/A N/A 8,468 0 6,7
11 N/A N/A

• FT Full Text ASE
  Academic Search Elite SIFT
  SocINDEX with Full Text

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SocINDEX Academic Search PremierFull Text
Coverage Information
FT in ASP combined w/SIFT
FT years inASP combined w/SIFT
FT years in ASP
indexed in SocINDEX
FT in ASP
Category
SocINDEXCore Journals SocINDEXPriority
Journals SocINDEXSelective Journals SocINDEXMono
graphs/Books SocINDEXConference Papers
627 147 241 1,456 3,871 516 158 166 1,280 1,306
1,079 390 390 3,862 3,862 751 1 545 N/A N/A 8,4
68 0 6,711 N/A N/A

• FT Full Text ASP
  Academic Search Premier SIFT
  SocINDEX with Full Text

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SocINDEX Sample Author Profile
SocINDEX will provide author profiles for the
5,000 most cited authors in the database. This
feature will be available before the end of 2005.
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