Databases for the

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Academic Library
Databases for the
Reykjavik, 17 Oct 2005
Tim Collins, Paul Donovan, Tuomo Leppikangas
Academic Databases Business
Databases Full Text Linking
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EBSCO offers over 150 databases serving all
library types worldwide

• Academic
• Public
• School
• Hospital
• Federal Government
• Corporate

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Results from Library Journals Survey of
Academic Libraries conducted April 2004
The number one reference source owned by
academic libraries in electronic-only format is
EBSCOhost databases, maintained by 83.3 of
academic libraries. The most popular reference
source with library patrons, according to
academic libraries, is far and away EBSCOhost
databases, cited by 75.1 of academic libraries.

This means that EBSCOhost is the most used
research toolin more than 90 of the
universities that have access to it.
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Development in Nordic countries EBSCO is a safe
choice

• EBSCO databases are in 90 of the academic
  libraries in
• Denmark
• Estonia
• Finland
• Norway
• Sweden

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Europe April 2005
EBSCO full text databasesare in 76 or moreof
the universities EBSCO full text databasesare
in 50 to 75of the universities EBSCO full
text databasesare in less than 50of the
universities
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U.S. Colleges Universities by State July 2005
EBSCO full text databasesare in every college
university EBSCO full text databasesare in
many colleges universities EBSCO full text
databases are not yetin many of the colleges
universities
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Some International Customers of EBSCOs Business
Source
London School of Economics
Cologne
University of Tokyo
Seoul National University
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Why is EBSCO a safe choice?
1 The Worlds Largest Collections ofActive Full
Text, Peer-Reviewed Journals 2 The Highest
Ranked Journals 3 The Deepest Back
files 4 The Industrys Highest Quality Full
Text Format 5 Quality Choice, but Inexpensive
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Academic Search Premier the worlds largest
scholarly, multidiscipline full text database for
academic institutions.
Abstracted and Indexed Serials 8,195 Full
Text Serials 4,655 Peer-Reviewed,
Abstracted and Indexed Journals
6,849 Peer-Reviewed, Full Text Journals
3,610 Academic Search Premier also contains
Author Supplied Abstracts (85) Author Supplied
Keywords (hundreds of peer reviewed
journals) Author Affiliations Author E-mail
Addresses Searchable Cited References (in over
1,000 peer reviewed journals) Native PDFs (over
75)
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Business Source Premier
The worlds most complete source of full text
business information
Full text publications Full text peer-reviewed
journals available in full text(soon with 250 of
those dating back to 1965 or the first issue
published) Full text trade journals and general
business magazines Full text monographs/books Fu
ll text country economic reports,reviews,
studies surveys Full text industry
reports Full text market research reports Full
text case studies
8,328 1,114 1,215 144 1,455 3,872 528 86
Plus 10,000 company profiles with more than
2,000 SWOT analyses

• Figures as of July 18, 2005

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Full text available in ASP BSP
of Journals that will linkto full text in ASP
BSP
Database
AGRICOLA Biological Abstracts (BIOSIS) CINAHL Econ
Lit ERIC GeoRef Inspec MEDLINE MLA International
Bibliography PsycINFO RILM SPORTDiscus
386 533 444 293 790 331 767 1,754 559 907 373 682
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Active Full Text Journals That Overlap with ISIs
Web of Science
Academic Search Elite (ASE) 868 Academic Search
Premier (ASP) 1,897 ProQuest Research Library
750 Expanded Academic ASAP 508

• As of July 18, 2005

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Active, Full Text Journals That Overlap with
Leading Humanities Databases (These statistics
illustrate the extent of Humanities coverage in
each full text database)
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
ISI Arts Humanities Citation Index
MLA International Bibliography
Historical Abstracts
ATLA
Academic Search Premier (ASP) 258 258 399 506 329
ProQuest Research Library 241 196 309 418 316 Expa
nded Academic ASAP 159 154 221 337 225
Figures as of July 18, 2005
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Active, Full Text Journals That Overlap with
Leading Social Sciences Databases (These
statistics illustrate the extent of Social
Sciences coverage in each full text database)
ISISocialScience Citation Index
Sociological Abstracts
PsycINFO
ERIC
Academic Search Premier (ASP) 541 606 740 454 ProQ
uest Research Library 339 468 351 228 Expanded
Academic ASAP 256 381 315 155
Figures as of July 18, 2005
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Active, Full Text Titles Compared
(D) Total Active Full Text Titles A - (BC) D
(C) Ceased Naturally or Changed Names (Full Text
Titles)
(B) Unnaturally Halted Full Text Titles
(A) Total of Full Text Titles
Academic Search Elite (ASE) Academic Search
Premier (ASP) Expanded Academic ASAP ProQuest
Research Library
2,048 13 268 1,767 4,515 20 562 3,933 2,203 238
329 1,636 2,501 215 279 2,007
Database
Figures as of July 18, 2005
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Active, Full Text (FT), Peer-Reviewed Journals
Compared
(D) Total Active FT, Peer-Reviewed Journals A -
(BC) D
(C) Ceased Naturally or Changed Names (FT,
Peer-Reviewed Journals)
(B) Unnaturally Halted FT, Peer-Reviewed Journals
(A) Total of FT, Peer-Reviewed Journals
Academic Search Elite (ASE) Academic Search
Premier (ASP) Expanded Academic ASAP ProQuest
Research Library
1,503 9 126 1,368 3,627 15 332 3,280 1,339 208
86 1,045 1,297 181 81 1,035
Database
Figures as of July 18, 2005
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Active, Full Text Serials Compared
(D) Total Active Full Text Titles A - (BC) D
(C) Ceased Naturally or Changed Names (Full Text
Titles)
(B) Unnaturally Halted Full Text Titles
(A) Total of Full Text Titles
Business Source Elite (BSE) Business Source
Premier (BSP) ABI/INFORM Global ABI/INFORM
Complete Business Company Resource Center
1,128 53 290 785 8,109 58 671 7,380 1,655 84 31
9 1,252 2,691 93 584 2,014 2,991 131 670 2,190
Database
Figures as of July 18, 2005
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Management Journals Ranked
Study by Coe Weinstock from Academy of
Management Journal
OngoingFT/PDFCoverageis uniqueto EBSCO
Embargo Period (in months)
Rank
Journal
BSP PDFs
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Administrative Science Quarterly Jun 1956 to
present 0 Academy of Management Journal Jan 1958
to present 0 Harvard Business Review Oct 1922 to
present 0 Management Science Oct 1954 to
present 12 Operations Research Feb 1952 to
present 12 Academy of Management Review Jan 1976
to present 0 Industrial Labor Relations
Review Oct 1947 to present 0 California
Management Review Sep 1958 to present 0
Marketing Journals Ranked
Study by Gordon and Heischmidt from Journal of
Marketing Education
OngoingFT/PDFCoverageis uniqueto EBSCO
Embargo Period (in months)
Rank
Journal
BSP PDFs
1 2
Journal of Marketing Jul 1936 to
present 0 Journal of Marketing Research Feb 1964
to present 0
Data (for both of the above) from July 28, 2005
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MIS Journals Ranked
Mylonopoulos Theoharakis http//www.bus.ucf.edu
/csaunders/newjournal.htm
Rank
Journal
BSP FT/PDF Coverage
ABI FT/PDF Coverage
1 2 3 4
Dec 1987 to present (2-year FT
embargo) Publisher has announced that they will
only work with EBSCO
Mar 1977 to present (no embargo)
MIS Quarterly
Jan 1965 to present (no embargo)
Communications of the ACM
Jan 1991 to present
Mar 1990 to present (1-year FT embargo)
Mar 1999 to present(1-year FT embargo)
Information Systems Research
Jun 1984 to present(no embargo)
Jan 1995 to Oct 2001 (halted FT)
Journal of Management Information Systems
POM Journals Ranked
Ranking from Barman et al (Relevance)
http//www.bus.ucf.edu/csaunders/newjournal.htm
Rank
Journal
BSP FT/PDF Coverage
ABI FT/PDF Coverage
1 2
Journal of Operations Management
None
None
International Journal of Production Research
None (No AI)
Nov 1961 to present (1-year FT embargo)
Data (for both of the above) from July 28, 2005
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Accounting Journals Ranked
Hasselback et al, appeared in Accounting Forum,
March 2002, Volume 26, Issue 1, Pg 45
Rank
Journal
BSP FT/PDF Coverage
ABI FT/PDF Coverage
1 1 3 4 4 4
Mar 1963 to present (1-year FT embargo)
Journal of Accounting Research
None
Mar 1926 to present (no embargo)
Mar 1998 to present (1-year FT embargo)
Accounting Review
Journal ofAccounting Economics
None
None
Accounting, Organizations Society
None
None
ContemporaryAccounting Research
Apr 1992 to Dec 2004 (Halted FT)
Sept 1984 to present (6-month embargo)
Journal of Accounting,Auditing Finance
Sept 1977 to present (no embargo)
None
NOTE JAAF is currently available via BSP in
PDF from Nov 2003 to present,but EBSCO intends
to expand backfiles to Sept 1977
Data from July 28, 2005
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Finance Journals Ranked
Study by Mabry Sharplin, "Conclusions, a Final
Ranking of Finance Journals", published inThe
Journal of Financial Research
Rank
Journal
BSP FT/PDF Coverage
ABI FT/PDF Coverage
1 2 3 4
Aug 1946 to present (1-year FT embargo)
Journal of Finance
None
Journal of Financial Economics
None
None
Journal of Financial Quantitative Analysis
Mar 1966 to present (no embargo)
Mar 1987 to Dec 2003 (halted FT)
Feb 1969 to present (no embargo)
Journal of Money,Credit and Banking
Feb 1988 to Dec 2003 (halted FT)
Construction Management Journals Ranked
The Ranking of Construction Management Journals
by Chau Kwong Wing (University of Reading)
Rank
Journal
BSP FT/PDF Coverage
ABI FT/PDF Coverage
1
ConstructionManagement Economics
Mar 1983 to present (1-year FT embargo)
None
Data (for both of the above) from July 28, 2005
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Economics Journals Ranked
ISI Impact Factor http//www.in-cites.com/researc
h/2001/november_12_2001-2.html
Rank
Journal
BSP FT/PDF Coverage
ABI FT/PDF Coverage
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Dec 1987 to present (3-year FT
embargo) Publisher has announced they will only
work with EBSCO
Jan 1969 to present (2-year FT embargo)
Journal of Economic Literature (formerly Journal
of Economic Abstracts)
Oct 1886 to present (1-year FT embargo)
Quarterly Journal of Economics
None
Brookings Paperson Economic Activity
Feb 1970 to present (no embargo)
Jan 1987 to present (no embargo)
Jun 1987 to present (3-year FT embargo) Publisher
has announced they will only work with EBSCO
Journal ofEconomic Perspectives
Jun 1987 to present (2-year FT embargo)
Feb 1965 to present (no embargo)
Feb 1987 to present (no embargo)
Journal of Political Economy
Jan 1985 to present (1-year FT embargo)
Economic Policy
None
Oct 1986 to present (no embargo)
NBER Macroeconomics Annual
None
Top Specialty Economics Journal
Social Science Citation Index http//www.jrefe.or
g/rankingjrefe.html
Rank
Journal
BSP FT/PDF Coverage
ABI FT/PDF Coverage
1
Feb 1965 to present (1-year FT embargo)
Nov 1987 to Nov 1998 (halted FT)
Land Economics
Data (for both of the above) from July 28, 2005
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Superior Country Economic Data
Publisher
ABI/INFORM Complete FT Coverage
Business Source Premier FT Coverage
69 Country Forecast Reports Monitors - NO
Embargo 192 Country ReviewsNO Embargo 54 Country
ProfilesNO Embargo 30 Reference GuidesEmbargoed
(6 months) 70 Country ProfilesNO Embargo 89
Country ReportsEmbargoed (6 months) 113 Country
MonitorsNO Embargo 39 Country Career GuidesNO
Embargo 226 Country Economic Studies NO
Embargo 240 Country Competitiveness Studies - NO
Embargo 36 Country Economic SurveysNO
Embargo 100 Country Risk ReportsNO Embargo 197
Background NotesNO Embargo 1,455
Business Monitor International CountryWatch
Inc. Datamonitor EIU Country Commerce EIU
Profiles EIU Reports Global Insight Inc.
(formerly WEFA) Going Global ICON Group
International ICON Group International OECD Politi
cal Risk Yearbook SOD Total Full TextCountry
Economic Publications
None None None None 3 Country
ProfilesEmbargoed (12 months) 2 Country
ReportsNo Embargo None None None None None
None None 5
Kazakhstan.pdf
Figures as of July 18, 2005
NOTE ABI does now contain EIU Viewswire
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Superior Industry Data
Publisher
ABI/INFORM Complete FT Coverage
Business Source Premier FT Coverage
3,719 Industry Profiles(NO Embargo) 48 Industry
Forecasts(NO Embargo) 105 Industry Yearbooks(NO
Embargo) 3,872
None None None 0
Datamonitor Economist Intelligence Unit Global
Insight Inc. (formerly DRI-McGraw Hill) Total
Full TextIndustry Reports
Figures as of July 18, 2005
FarmGardenMachinery.pdf
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Superior Market Research Reports
Publisher
ABI/INFORM Complete FT Coverage
Business Source Premier FT Coverage
63 Utility Market Reports(NO Embargo) 9
MarketWatch Reports (NO Embargo) 4 PharmaWatch
Reports(NO Embargo) 452 Gartner G2 Market
Research Reports(NO Embargo) 528
None None None None 0
ABS Energy Research Datamonitor
Datamonitor Gartner Total Full TextMarket
Research Reports
Figures as of July 18, 2005
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Academic Search Premier Business Source
Premier Comprehensive Indexes of Scholarly
Journals
of Peer Reviewed Journals Indexed Abstracted
of Serials Indexed Abstracted
Database
Academic Search Premier (ASP) Business Source
Premier (BSP)
8,031 6,850 8,954 1,781

• ASP contains AI for 100 journals back to 1975
  or further
• BSP contains AI for 352 journals back to 1965 or
  the first published issue

Figures as of July 18, 2005
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How much value do the major aggregated
databasesbring to the collection of a large
research library? (Stanford Universitys
collection is analyzed in this case)
Active, full-text, peer-reviewed journals in
EBSCO Databases that are NOTavailable as active
FT in ProQuest Databases or in the Stanford
e-journal collection Active, full-text,
peer-reviewed journals in ProQuest Databases that
are NOT available as active FT in EBSCO Databases
or in the Stanford e-journal collection
2,244 459
Active, full-text, peer-reviewed journals in
EBSCO Databases that are NOTavailable as active
FT in Gale Databases or in the Stanford e-journal
collection Active, full-text, peer-reviewed
journals in Gale Databases that are NOTavailable
as active FT in EBSCO Databases or in the
Stanford e-journal collection
2,323 236
EBSCO Databases Academic Search Premier,
Business Source Premier CMMC ProQuest
Databases ProQuest 5000, ProQuest Research
Library ABI/INFORM Complete Gale Databases
InfoTrac OneFile, Expanded Academic ASAP
Business Company Resource Center All of the
above packages were merged and de-duped for this
comparison Comparisons were conducted on June
16, 2004
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EBSCO Databases

• Most academic full text available
• Highest quality PDF, most in native PDF
• Most peer reviewed/scholarly full text
• Thousands unique to EBSCO Publishing
• Many without e-journal versions
• Deepest full text and indexed backfiles
• Controlled Vocabulary and enhanced bibliographic
  records

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