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

Library Collections Acquisitions and Technical ServicesPublished 1 December 1999
Steve Black
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TL;DR

The cost effectiveness and quality of full-text journals are analyzed for four prominent online aggregated journal packages: EBSCOhost Academic Search FullTEXT, UMI Proquest Direct Periodicals Research II, IAC's Expanded Academic ASAP, and H.W. Wilson’s OmniFile.

Abstract

The cost effectiveness and quality of full-text journals are analyzed for four prominent online aggregated journal packages: EBSCOhost Academic Search FullTEXT, UMI Proquest Direct Periodicals Research II, IAC’s Expanded Academic 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 compared based on citation impact factors as recorded in Journal Citation Reports—Social Sciences Edition.

Keywords

Computer ScienceDecision SciencesArts and Humanities