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Details for article 38 of 170 found articles
| Title: |
Decision-Making Factors Related to Bibliographic Database Cancellation |
| Author: |
Banks, Ronald A. |
| Appeared in: |
Behavioral & social sciences librarian |
| Paging: | Volume 25 (2006) nr. 1 pages 93-110 |
| Year: |
2006-10-27 |
| Contents: |
The database analysis strategies used to decide whether the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Library should maintain a subscription to the electronic database Wilson Social Sciences Abstracts(Wilson SSA) are described. A variety of analyses were conducted: comparison of journal title coverage with four other multi-subject databases available at UIUC (Social Sciences Citation Index, EBSCO Academic Search Elite, Current Contents, and Infotrac); usage statistics; comparison of actual journal year coverage between SSA and the database that offered the highest percentage of title coverage (Infotrac); search retrieval analysis for a small number of subjects; and comparison of journal coverage between Wilson SSA and a multi-social science database search across nine Cambridge Scientific Abstracts social sciences databases. Results showed a high degree of overlap in title, as well as year coverage between SSA and the targeted comparison databases, and low usage/high costs for the SSA product at UIUC. Despite some strong support for maintaining the subscription to SSA from a small number of UIUC faculty, students, and librarians, the decision was made to cancel Wilson Social Sciences Abstracts. |
| Publisher: |
Routledge |
| Source file: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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