Impact factor studies to evaluate full-text databases, esp. Proquest

[Stephen J Bensman]

I have done analyses of Proquest and Ebsco databases for possible
subscription by the Louisiana academic library network.  In particular, I
analyzed the following databases: EBSCO Academic Search Elite, InfoTrac
OneFile, and ProQuest Academic Research Library Core.  In general, I found
these databases to contain journals of the more popular type that would not
be very amenable to citation analysis.  A far better measure would be
numbers of libraries holding these journals.  If you want to look at what I
did, I can send you my reports.  Please contact me directly at
notsjb at lsu.edu, so we won't have to bother the rest of the list about these
analyses.

SB




Carlos Vílchez Román <adm1 at VIABCP.COM>@listserv.utk.edu> on 03/09/2005
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       databases, esp. Proquest

Dear colleagues,

Sorry if this has been posted before.

Right now we are evaluating the subscription to
two full-text databases (Proquest and Ebsco) and
the criteria are focused on support for HTML, PDF,
help screen and similar stuff.

Certainly they are important, but I think it would
be better if we can estimate the proportion of the
journal (of these databases) included in ISI indexes
or which of these has the high impact factor. For that
reason I ask you if know any study focused on the im-
pact factor (total & average) of the Proquest journals.

Any information will be appreciated.

Thanks for your time.

Best regards,

Carlos Vilchez-Román
Library university UNMSM