INFORMATION ON ISLAMIC BANKING AND ECONOMICS AS REPRESENTED BY SELECTED DATABASES

Islamic banking and economics (IBE) information has been searched in 3 1 selected DIALOG's Online and CD-ROM databases to assess and compare the amount of literature covered by international databases. An analys is of data revealed that the coverage of IBE literature is not availab le in any one database; rather, it is scattered in a number of databas es. Each database has unique characteristics in their coverage pattern , therefore researchers in IBE need to search a number of databases fo r their research purposes. Of the 1215 records retrieved from the mult iple databases, 89.0 per cent of the articles were indexed in separate databases; therefore the degree of overlap between and among the data bases is minimal.