Abstract of COLL
148 Week 1 Journal Guiding Statement
One
of the most important steps in evaluating differing full-text journal resources
for purchase is choosing the proper comparison service. Before selecting a service,
one must first understand the variety of potential sources of online full-text
journals to ensure that the selected comparison service is properly suited to
the task. Such sources include for- fee e-journal subscriptions, open access
journals, archive services, and full-text databases. The significant
shortcomings of most commercially-available and freely-available comparison
services must be made transparent in order for the user to have a proper
understanding of what the services are able to actually provide in the way of
content comparisons. In order to provide librarians with the proper data from
which an educated collection development decision can be made, the chosen
comparison service must take into account a number of important factors including
(but not limited to): the variety of ways in which database providers reflect
full-text content information (title name, ISSN, etc.) in their published title
lists, loaded vs. licensed (i.e., “coming soon”), the importance of “active”
vs. “halted” coverage, and the availability of unique content in each resource
under consideration, rather than just overlap.
Keywords
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children – Play time for children, databases, Individual Assignment
Communications Journal Entry 3, ProQuest, Gale, reflective journal, archives,
content, Journal Guiding Statement, publishers, subscriptions, Serials
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Introduction
Comparing online full-text journal access in the
effort to make an informed purchasing decision is often a daunting task. Adding
to the difficulty of this undertaking is a lack of available guidance on how to
properly make such comparisons. This problem is highlighted by Brier and Lebbin
when they state that “library literature abounds with articles about full-text
databases; however, the evaluation of title coverage has received little
attention.”1
In order to help simplify this process, librarians and
other information specialists faced with this challenge often turn to one of a
growing number of available comparison services. The theory behind such
services is that they will help to shed light on the common vs. unique content
of the compared databases, so that the purchaser will better understand the
differing values/benefits of each database. However, if they take the time to
evaluate the comparison services themselves, they will quickly find that not
all comparison services are created equal. This then begs the question that if
the different services each produce different results (given the same full-text
resources to compare), then how is a librarian to know which service will
ultimately provide them with the most accurate comparative content information
to make the right purchasing decision for their library? Only by first
evaluating the comparison services themselves and gaining a solid understanding
of their advantages and disadvantages can librarians know where to turn for an
accurate and reliable comparison that will assist them in obtaining the
greatest value from their resulting full-text database subscriptions, Journal
Guiding Statement.
Online Journals Guiding
Statement — Varieties of Access
Before
making an in-depth inquiry into the nature of the comparison services
themselves, it is first necessary to understand the various models and means by
which online access to full-text journals (and other content sources) can be
obtained. A solid understanding of the nature of the various full-text content
resources themselves provides a fundamental knowledge as to what criteria a
comparison service must take into account. By ensuring that journal comparisons
take the appropriate criteria into consideration, a librarian can then be
certain that the results of the comparison will allow them to make an accurate
evaluation of the content under consideration.
Libraries
receive online access to journals through many different models. To be clear,
e- journals are not the same as journals available via full-text databases.
E-journals are the extension of the print journal, available directly through
the publisher (or through a subscription agent) at a price somewhat similar to
the print. Most e-journals are purchased (rather than leased), so the library
actually owns the backfiles (just like the print). Full-text databases are a
commonly used method of supplementing e-journal collections. In fact, “much of
the value that full text databases bring to a library lies heavily in not only
the searching capabilities and deep back files of these collections, but also,
importantly, in the many new, high-quality journals that these databases bring
into a
subscriptions,
libraries are only leasing access to the content in most full-text databases.
However, the lack of permanent ownership for these databases is a limitation
that actually helps to maximize the cost-effectiveness of such resources.
For-Fee
E-Journal Cultural Awareness Subscriptions
The most current and most stable form of access to online journals
is via for-fee e-journal subscriptions. However, this model does have
limitations:
1.
It is often the most expensive
model and price increases of some journals are outpacing increases in library budgets.
2.
Many journals do not have an
institution e-journal, but are available to institutions via another model such
as cover-to-cover full-text databases. For example,
3.
Some publishers have an
institutional e-journal, but only with incomplete/revolving archival coverage.
However, these same journals are often available via cover-to-cover full-text
databases with cumulative coverage. For example, Academy of Management, one of the world’s leading business journal
publishers, has a revolving coverage institutional e-journal Cultural Awareness
4.
While some publishers are offering
extensive backfiles with their e-journals, most
are not. Yet, many journals only allow online access to their backfiles via
archive services or cover-to-cover full-text databases.
5.
Large publishers frequently buy and
sell journals. Therefore, a library can buy
access to a journal through a publisher package and then find that ongoing
coverage for that journal disappears when the publisher sells it to another
publisher from whom the library does not purchase a publisher package.
6.
Some publishers put restrictions on
their e-journals. While embargoes are now extremely rare on e-journals,
simultaneous user access and/or download limitations may affect e-journals, but
not other access options.
No
library can have a complete collection relying entirely on e-journal
subscriptions. This is why even those universities with the largest e-journal
collections in the world are supplementing those collections with online
journals from other models.
Open Access ECE 430 Week 4 reflective
journal
Open
access journals have the enormous advantage of being free. However, there is a
debate about the quality and/or level of peer-review of many (but certainly not
all) of these journals — especially in situations where the author is the one
providing the funding. In addition, many of these journals (especially those of
the highest-quality) are embargoed. For example, The New England Journal of Medicine is available at no charge with
a 180-day embargo (via the open access model). However, it is also available
via cover-to-cover full-text databases with only a 90-day embargo. Further, it
is available as an institutional e- journal with no embargo (the best, but most
expensive option). For a journal of this level of importance, any library that
is able will obviously purchase the for-fee e-journal.
Another
disadvantage of open access journals is that they are not always indexed in
online research databases; indexes such as ECE
430 Week 4 reflective journal, etc. are trailblazing in this area, but many
other indexes have not proactively pursued open access journals for indexing
coverage. There are also services like ESE 691 Week 6 Journal Generalizing, ESE
691 Week 1 Journal Putting It All Together A Case Study, EDU 695 Week 4 Journal
Reflection on Learning, EDU 695 Week 2 Journal Personal Reflection , that are,
in effect, very helpful lists of open access journals, but none of which are
high-quality research databases with in-depth article indexing.
Archive Services
and Full-Text Databases
Archive
services are popular institutional supplements to e-journal collections.
Librarians value the ownership gained by their institutions through this model.
Usage from faculty is often heavy, which is also a real benefit to academic
libraries. This model provides the library with full backfiles for hundreds of
journals and is clearly superior to microfilm or microfiche (i.e., documents
often look better, but the main advantage is the fact that the documents are
more widely accessible). However, this model has its drawbacks too. The content
is simply not current. In fact, most journals available via archive services
contain enormous delays due to publisher-imposed embargoes of what is usually
3–10 years (or longer). In the case of some of the best publishers that
participate in some of these services, full-text coverage is permanently
stopped.
EDU 695
Week 6 Journal Reflective Practitioner, Revisited has created PDF archives for
hundreds of journals in the disciplines of business and sociology that surpass
the leading archive services in these subject areas. The two flagship databases
in these areas (ACC 205 Week 4 Journal
Future Obligations Journal) are not the only cover-to-cover full-text
databases with deep full-text backfiles for journals. JRN 415 Methods of
Research & Analysis Journalism has also done similar projects for the
multi-disciplinary Academic Search
Complete, and on a smaller scale, for subject-specific databases such as BSHS 322 Week 3 Individual Assignment
Journal Entries and Text Exercises Life with Full Text, Humanities International Complete, Education Research Complete, Communication & Mass Media Complete,
CGD 218 CGD218 Week 3 Journal Visual
Communication Today Plus with Full Text, Dentistry & ACC 205 WK 2 JOURNAL, and others. Moreover, the
company is in the process of completing a journal backfile digitization project
for the forthcoming Historical Abstracts
with Full Text and America: History
and Life with Full UNV 103 Week 5 Module 5 Journal Entry Form. While its competitors have focused on
digitizing backfiles of newspapers, ACC 205 Week 3 Exercise 3 Perpetual
inventory system journal entries has recognized the opening that exists in
journal archives and is filling the gap. ACC 205 Week 1 Journal Balance Sheet
Journal -text databases are a necessary complement to the leading archive
services for any university that is serious about providing archival full-text
access to important journals. While the model is not one of ownership for the
library, the model is preferable to many publishers, which is why BUS 330 Week
1 Journal Learning Reflection can surpass these services in any discipline in
which it focuses, guaranteeing that these products will be seen as a necessary
complement.
While
CGD 218 CGD218 Week 5 Journal Packaging Visual Communication cover-to-cover
full-text journal databases have publisher-imposed embargoes for some included
titles, many titles have no embargo whatsoever. In addition, for those titles
that do have embargoed coverage, the vast majority of the embargo periods are
only 3–12 months as compared to the typical 36–60 month delay of archive
services. This further demonstrates how the full-text coverage provided by most
ELL 240 Week 3 Journal 3 Learning Reflection databases is more comprehensive
and current than the coverage provided by archival services.
Importance of
Access to Current PHI 445 Week 1 Journal Content
More
important than backfiles is the issue of current, ongoing access to journal
literature. There is no library on Earth that can afford to buy access to every
e-journal available, and even if they could, there are still many journals for
which there is no institutional e- journal. Due to this, libraries cannot gain
current access to enough journals simply by relying on e-journal subscriptions,
and traditional archive services are not intended to (or able to) help in this
area. As a result, cover-to-cover full-text databases are needed to provide an
additional way for end users to access full text from important sources. As
mentioned earlier, some cover-to-cover full-text databases, in essence, act as
the institutional e-journal for many leading publications. This is one of the
reasons that these products are a necessary complement to e-journal
subscriptions. Other reasons include the availability of extensive full-text
backfiles and the presence of ongoing full text for journals that a library
does not subscribe to, yet where an e-journal option does exist.
Emergence of Comparison Services ELL 240
Week 1 Journal 1 Learning Reflection
With
the emergence of all of these forms of full-text access to journals, services
have emerged that allow librarians to compare the overlap and uniqueness of
various access options. These include: Serials
Solutions, ACC 205 WK 3 JOURNAL, ACC
205 WK 4 JOURNAL, BSHS 402 Week 5
Individual Assignment Learning Team Meeting Observations Journal, BSHS 322 Week 2 Individual Assignment
Journal Entries and Text Exercises 30, ACC
205 Week 2 Journal Income Statement Journal, and others. All of these
services have advantages and disadvantages. These may be powerful resources for
their initially intended tasks (i.e., not full-text database evaluations), but
in terms of accurate and reliable content comparisons, they typically fall
short, often by a significant margin.
While
full-text databases should never be used to replace journal subscriptions,3 their main value comes
from their ability to bring new, quality, full-text sources into the library.
If they can not achieve this goal, then they are no more useful than
A&I-only databases and are usually more expensive. As a result, librarians
have correctly begun searching for ways to evaluate the overlap between their
databases and the rest of their collections. However, the process is greatly
flawed, and librarians must look for other ways to measure the overlap and
uniqueness of newly proposed resources. The same can
be
said for evaluating databases currently under subscription that may actually be
pure overlap and therefore unnecessary.
Lack of Standards for Content Title Lists of
ACC 205 Week 3 Journal Inventory Journal
The
fundamental problem with most comparison services is that they simply do not
provide results that accurately represent the true journal content of the
resources being compared. This is due, in part, to the fact that the full-text PHI
445 Week 3 Journal content of the various online resources is markedly varied
in how it is represented via each provider’s published journal title lists. In
addition:
Because competing vendors don’t standardize their database coverage
lists, two completely different publications may show the same name and may or
may not include an BUS 330 Week 2 Journal Learning Reflection, making them
difficult to distinguish. The opposite might also be true, where the same
publication is listed with different names by competing vendors.4
For example, most comparison services require an exact match on the
journal name and/or ISSN in order to consider a title common to the resources
being compared. For example, ACC 205 WK 1
JOURNAL, is listed as such via HCA 250 Week 7 Assignment Journal Review,
yet it is listed as Review – Institute of
Public Affairs via ProQuest’s ABI/INFORM
Complete.5 If such a discrepancy is not taken into account by a comparison
service, then the journal in question may be listed as unique to each of the
services being compared, albeit with two slightly different names (or COM 320
(Week 2) Journal). This is a minor but misleading issue to the user of such a
comparison service as it does not provide them with a truly accurate evaluation
COM 320 (Week 2) Journal.
Further, title discrepancies sometimes occur when a journal’s name
is spelled out in the title list of one provider while only its acronym is used
by another. For example, ACC 205 Week 4 Exercise 1 Partner investments journal
entries provides full text for the
journal ATQ while the same title is
offered via ProQuest’s ASHFORD ECE 353
Week 5 Journal Course Reflection (all modules) under the name American Transcendental Quarterly.6 This
particular discrepancy is due in part to the fact that the title in question
was formerly called American
Transcendental Quarterly before the publisher shortened the official name
to the acronym ATQ. As customers are
typically concerned with active, unique content when comparing databases, it is
vital that
comparisons
be based on the currently-published name of journals. If database providers do
not offer truly accurate information in their journal title lists (as in the
above example), such comparisons of active journal content may be flawed. This
can be quite confusing for evaluators who are interested in coverage of
particular titles when they are only familiar with the current name of the
publication(s). If comparison services continue to base their studies on an
exact ISSN and/or publication name match, issues such as those noted above will
be extensive. However, these are relatively minor when compared to the more
serious flaws in these services.
The cash disbursements journal also is called the
HUM 100 Week 1 DQ 2
While the lack of title list standards described above
certainly poses a significant hurdle
to the comparison process, the comparison services themselves tend to suffer
from four main areas of weakness:
1.
These services do not differentiate
between active full text and unnaturally halted
full text
2.
These services do not differentiate
between severely embargoed journals and journals with no embargo or brief embargoes
3.
These services do not allow for the
filtering of non-academic (general interest) content, thereby artificially
inflating the perceived quantity of unique scholarly content in some products
4.
These services only count
publications already loaded in each database (newly licensed content is not included)
By
not taking these content differences into account, comparison services are
failing to provide users with a truly comprehensive picture of the content
similarities/differences between relevant databases and actually do them a
disservice by providing them with misleading information.
UNV 103 Week 1 Module 1 Journal Entry Form —
“Active” vs. “Halted” Coverage
In
addition to the problem of varying journal names on published title lists, a
much more serious (yet more subtle) problem occurs when two or more resources
offer differing coverage of the same journal. As the majority of research
conducted via electronic full-text journals tends to focus primarily on the
most recent information (i.e., the last 2-3 years of coverage for any given
title), comparison services must take into account whether full-text coverage
for each title is “active” or “halted” in nature. A database is said to provide
“active” full-text coverage of a particular journal title when such full-text
coverage is ongoing and continues to include each new issue as it is made
available (taking into account any publisher-imposed embargoes). “Naturally
ceased” coverage occurs when a database provides full-text coverage of a
particular title up until the date of
last publication (i.e., the publication is no longer published, so there is no
way for the
full-text
database to add any new full text for the journal). However, databases often
provide “unnaturally halted” full-text coverage of many journals. This occurs
when full- text coverage of a particular title ends on a specific date, yet the
title remains actively published. The overwhelmingly most common cause for
unnaturally halted coverage of a ELL 240 Week 2 Journal 2 Learning Reflection
is the loss of full-text rights by the full-text database provider. While
backfile/archival coverage of full-text journals can play an important role and
should be considered in any comparison, active (ongoing) coverage of specific
titles is of most importance to today’s online journal researchers. Therefore,
comparison services must take this distinction between active and unnaturally
halted coverage into consideration in order to paint the most accurate picture
of a database’s full-text ACC205 Week 4 & Week 5 Discussions,
Assignments, Journal and Final.
For
example, BSHS 322 Week 5 Individual Assignment Text Exercises and Journal Entry
Publishing’s Business Source Complete includes full-text coverage of Harvard Business Review from 1922 to
present, while ASHFORD ACC 380 Week 4 Assignment Government-Wide Statements,
Net Assets, & Journals only includes full-text coverage of Harvard Business Review from 1997 to
2000. Most ACC 205 Week 5 Journal Most Important Ratio Journal would not
consider these two resources to be equal in their coverage
of Harvard Business Review as one
provider offers ongoing (active) full-text coverage of the journal with a deep PHI
445 Week 4 Journal (more than 80 years), while the other (Gale) only offers
unnaturally halted full-text coverage of the same title with an extremely
shallow backfile (less than four years). However, virtually all available
comparison services do not take such differences of coverage into account‡. In the above
example, most comparison services would list ACC 205 Week 1 Exercise 7 Basic journal
entries as being available in full text via both services. That can hardly be construed as a useful
comparison of content. While the potential discrepancy noted above regarding CGD 218 CGD218 Week 1 Journal The Evolution
of Media may be more readily caught
due to the high profile of the title, literally hundreds of other such
discrepancies are more likely to go unnoticed, thereby providing the library
with an inaccurate depiction of the full-text coverage of the databases in
question.
Embargoes and Other
Full-Text ASHFORD ECE 353 Week 3 Journal Connecting to Classroom Practices
Taking into account the aforementioned drawbacks
(lack of currency and limited publisher participation) of an archival service,
such services clearly should not be included in comparisons against far more
current full-text databases due to the vastly different coverage that each
resource offers. For example, a title such as Academy of Management Journal may be available through a particular
database/resource with an embargo of 3-5 years (or even more), yet the same
title is available in full text via ACC205 DISCUSSIONS, ASSIGNMENTS &
JOURNALS with no delay (embargo) in coverage.7 Even though both
services provide coverage of UNV 103 Week
7 Module 7 Journal Entry Form, there is clearly an
enormous difference in overall coverage of this publication. For a comparison
service to simply indicate that both resources feature full-text coverage of
this title is misleading at best.
On
a related note, when comparing full-text databases, it is also essential to
know if the databases in question include cover-to-cover or “selective”
full-text content. Selective coverage of full-text content is when a database
publisher elects to selectively mine the content of relevant publications for full-text
content that is most applicable to the subject(s) covered by the database in
question. This can lead to a serious problem when evaluating databases as most
comparison services do not properly distinguish between cover-to-cover and
selective coverage. For example, two different databases may both provide
“full-text” coverage of a general publication such as Fortune, but if one database offers cover-to-cover treatment of the
title while the other database only offers selective coverage, then a comparison
of the two databases is likely to be flawed unless the exact differences in
coverage are brought to light as part of the comparison in an obvious way. As
most comparison services make no distinction between cover-to-cover and
selective journal coverage, librarians need to exercise caution when
considering such a comparison. Just because the results of a database
comparison indicate that each resource provides full text of “BSHS 322 Week 4
Individual Assignment Journal Entries and Text Exercises”, this does not mean
that they both offer the same type of coverage (or the same backfiles or the
same currency).
Filtering Out UNV 103 Week 2 Module 2
Journal Entry Form
Database
comparison services also lack the ability to properly distinguish between
scholarly (PHI 445 Week 2 Journal) journals and more general publications. Many
users of comparison services would find it quite valuable to know the
difference in coverage of scholarly content between two or more databases.
However, as most comparison services do not provide this information in one
form or another, they are unable to supply a valuable piece of information to
their users.
In
general, librarians need to fully-educate themselves regarding the potential
differences in how databases provide full-text coverage of specific journal
titles (active vs. halted, current vs. embargoed, academic vs. non-academic,
etc.). With a thorough understanding of such differences in coverage,
librarians may begin to accurately interpret the results of most database
comparisons.
PHL215 Week 1 What Is Your Philosophy? Performance Aid and Journal Entry Content
Typically,
newly-licensed content found in full-text databases can take some time to be
fully incorporated into the product. Therefore, it is beneficial for such
information HCS 438 Week 5 Learning Team Analysis of Data Reports in Published
Journal Articles) to be accurately reflected on the database provider’s
published title list. UNV 103 Weeek 4 Module 4 Journal Entry Form and Gale list
these titles as ACC 205 Week 1 Exercise 10 Journal entry preparation. If details regarding newly- licensed content
are made readily available in this manner, potential customers can more easily
take this information into account when evaluating the database for possible
future purchase.
Many
services, especially e-journal portals (UNV 103 Week 6 Module 6 Journal Entry
Form) base their comparisons on journal titles that are already available on
the product at the time of the comparison UNV 103 Week 3 Module 3 Journal Entry
Form. As most full-text databases experience an ongoing stream of content
changes (due to a variety of reasons), such a fundamental basis for comparisons
is faulty. For example, if an academic library is considering the addition of ASHFORD ECE 315 Week 1 Journal to their collection for the start of their
next semester, they will likely request some sort of title comparison anywhere
from 6–12 months earlier, so that they have ample time to complete their
evaluation. If the comparison they utilize does not take into account intended
content changes for ACC 205 WK 5 JOURNAL that will take place between the time of
the comparison and the beginning of the next semester when they begin using the
product, then they will not be able to make a proper evaluation of the content
that will be available to them during their subscription period. The
information provided by only comparing “Actual” content will likely prove to be
quite outdated (and therefore unreliable) by the time they actually begin to
use the product. Content that will be inevitably included in the database will
not be made known to the library, nor will the reviewer be made aware of any
important titles currently available in the database that will be removed or
halted in coverage over the next few months. By not providing such
highly-pertinent information during the evaluation process, comparison services
fall far short of meeting the needs of their clients.
Comparisons Done by the NR 305 Week 2
Assignment Journal Article Review Taking Patient History the role of the nurse
As
libraries are looking to maximize the value of their full-text collections by
reducing overlap between electronic resources, while simultaneously expanding
access to new
content,
NR 305 Week 2 Assignment Journal Article Review Priming Effects of Television
Food Advertising on Eating Behavior has
made a commitment to helping their customers achieve this goal. Some of the
ways in which the organization has been able to assist customers in this manner
include evaluating potential cost savings of replacing existing full-text
databases with newer/larger ones via COMM 400 Week 5 Individual Assignment
Communications Journal Entry 4, while maintaining access to existing content
and introducing valuable new content at the same time.
It
is the policy of COMM 400 Week 2 Individual Assignment Communications Journal
Entry 1 to provide customers and
prospects with the cleanest, most accurate full-text journal title comparisons
possible. To this end, the company strives to avoid all of the potential
shortcomings of other comparison services mentioned above. This has been achieved,
in part, through EBSCO Publishing’s development of its own sophisticated
content comparison system and by employing a team of dedicated staff that focus
all of their efforts on the creation of customized comparisons for customers.
Despite
the fact that A-to-Z is an COMM 400
Week 4 Individual Assignment Communications Journal Entry 3, it does not yet
offer the same sophistication as outlined here, although recent improvements
have eliminated some of its shortcomings, and as a result, it is superior to
equivalent products from other vendors. The COLL 148 Week 5 Journal comparisons mentioned here are those requested
through EBSCO Publishing, involving SPE 576 Week 2 Team Assignment Journal
Article Review 1 Autism.
These
ESE 691 Week 4 Journal Where to Educate title comparisons focus on “active”
full-text content, so that the requestor receives a true representation of how
the ongoing, active content of each resource compares. If one full-text
database has “unnaturally halted” full-text coverage for a journal, while
another has “active” full-text coverage, the comparison counts the file with
active full text as having unique full text and disregards the unnaturally
halted coverage. These comparisons can also limit to peer-reviewed journals
and/or journals indexed in Web of Science.
Conclusion
The importance of making a careful evaluation of
available full-text resources is stressed once again by Brier and Lebbin: “In
many cases, librarians no longer have a dialogue with patrons or the
opportunity to guide them to high-quality sources. The convenience of remote
access, coupled with the tendency to select the first full-text article
available, regardless of quality, are compelling reasons why careful
examination of the quality of each title in a full-text database is necessary.”8 Only
through a comprehensive evaluation
of
selected resources can libraries ensure that their patrons are relying on
quality full-text resources for their research.
Electing
to compare information resources in order to make educated purchasing decisions
that will make the best use of a library’s collection budget and maximize the
value of the library’s collection of full-text resources is the first step
towards choosing the proper comparison service. A service must then be selected
that will ultimately provide a clear picture of the value provided by each of
the compared databases. Such a service must first be able to take into account
the differing ways in which database providers reflect full-text content
information in their published title lists. Intended content and not
just
actual content should be considered by comparison services in order to give a
true representation of the ongoing value of the databases under consideration.
While all content arguably provides some measure of value, unnaturally halted
full text is clearly of less value than ongoing active full-text coverage, and
comparison services should weigh their results accordingly. Knowing the overlap
between two or more full-text databases can be useful information, especially
if the intent is to replace one database with another. However, to truly
provide a comprehensive comparison, the content that is unique to each database
must be clearly shown in addition to that which is common (overlapping
content). All of these points must be taken into consideration when selecting a
content comparison service in order to maximize the value of the resulting
database purchasing decision(s). Librarians should pressure comparison services
to amend their products to address the limitations outlined here. Until then, ECE
430 Week 2 Journal Publishing is
producing comparisons on a case-by-case basis for its customers. By spending a
small amount of additional time in choosing an appropriate comparison service,
librarians will be better able to ensure that they are spending their budget in
the most efficient manner by eliminating as much duplicate content as possible
while maximizing their collection of unique content.
