An assessment of social sciences coverage by four prominent pull-text online aggregated journal packages

Authors
Black, S
Citation
S. Black, An assessment of social sciences coverage by four prominent pull-text online aggregated journal packages, LIBR COLL A, 23(4), 1999, pp. 411-419
Citations number
8
Categorie Soggetti
Library & Information Science
Journal title
LIBRARY COLLECTIONS ACQUISITIONS & TECHNICAL SERVICES
ISSN journal
14649055 → ACNP
Volume
23
Issue
4
Year of publication
1999
Pages
411 - 419
Database
ISI
SICI code
1464-9055(199924)23:4<411:AAOSSC>2.0.ZU;2-9
Abstract
The cost effectiveness and quality of full-text journals are analyzed for f our prominent online aggregated journal packages: EBSCOhost Academic Search FullTEXT, UMI Proquest Direct Periodicals Research II, IAC's Expanded Acad emic ASAP, and H.W. Wilson's OmniFile. Price data from EBSCO's Librarians' Handbook are used to assess the total and average value of social sciences journals in each package. Quality of social sciences journals coverage is c ompared based on citation impact factors as recorded in Journal Citation Re ports-Social Sciences Edition. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science Ltd.