ABS: Black, An assessment of social science coverage by four prominent full-text online aggregated journal packages

[Gretchen Whitney]

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AU Black, S
  Coll St Rose, Neil Hellman Lib, 392 Western ave, Albany, NY 12203 USA.

TI An assessment of social sciences coverage by four prominent
   full-text online aggregated journal packages
SO LIBRARY COLLECTIONS ACQUISITIONS & TECHNICAL SERVICES
LA English
NR 8
SN 1464-9055
PU PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
C1 Coll St Rose, Neil Hellman Lib, 392 Western ave, Albany, NY
   12203 USA.
   Coll St Rose, Neil Hellman Lib, Albany, NY 12203 USA.
DE citation impact factor analysis; cost effectiveness; full-text;
   online journals; social sciences journals
ID CITATION
AB 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. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science Ltd.
CR *EBSCO IND, 1996, LIB HDB
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   CALHOUN JC, 1995, LIBR RESOUR TECH SER, V39, P53
   CHRISTENSON JA, 1985, SOC SCI QUART, V66, P964
   JOSWICK KE, 1997, COLL RES LIBR, V58, P48
   MAJKA DR, 1997, REFERENCE SERVICES R, V25, P23
   RICE RE, 1989, SCIENTOMETRICS, V15, P257
   SCHWARTZ CA, 1997, COLL RES LIBR, V58, P19
TC 0
BP 411
EP 419
PG 9
JI Libr. Collect Acquis. Tech. Serv.
PY 1999
PD WIN
VL 23
IS 4
GA 271JZ
PI OXFORD
RP Black S
   Coll St Rose, Neil Hellman Lib, 392 Western ave, Albany, NY 12203 USA.
J9 LIBR COLLECT ACQUIS TECH SERV
PA THE BOULEVARD, LANGFORD LANE, KIDLINGTON, OXFORD OX5 1GB,
   ENGLAND
UT ISI:000084591600003
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