Welcome IPAL Annual Conference 2007 Mount Mercy College

WelcomeIPAL Annual Conference 2007

Mount Mercy College

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Enhanced Authority for “Works”Gives users the ability to browse works by Title,

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Enhanced Authority for “Authors”Gives users the ability to browse authors by Name, Country,

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UpdatedLiterary Reference Center

Full Content Totals

Comparison of Literary Resources

* From Gale Literary Resource Center Fact Sheet, accessed 01/02/07** Includes the definitive resource: Masterplots*** Includes the definitive resource: The Bloom Series

Author BiographiesIn-Depth 3,000* 14,300Total 140,000* 145,000

Plot Summaries,Synopses, 7,000* 26,000**Work Overviews

Literary Criticism Essays 70,000*100,000***

Full-Text Journals 280* 350

Citation Tool NO YES

Category Gale LRCEBSCO LRC(Spring 2007)

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Full-Text Book Reviews 250,000 532,000

Full-Text Poems* 25,000 50,000

Full-Text Short Stories* 4,000 13,500

Full-Text Classic Books 0 7,500

Author Interviews 4,000 4,000

Glossary of Literary Terms NO YES

Timeline YES

Category Gale LRC**EBSCO LRC (Spring 2007)

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* Do not exist as a distinct article type in Gale LRC ** Information from Gale Literary Resource Center Fact Sheet, accessed 01/02/07

Business Interface EnhancementPlanned for Summer 2007

• Enabling Regional Business News, EconLit, and Insurance Periodicals Index to be searched within the business interface along with Business Source Premier or Business Source Complete

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EBSCOhost(Main Interface)Enhancements

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ContentEnhancements

Humanities International Complete

1,675

1,178

497

13

627

525

102

122

Active humanities journals indexed in HICnot actively indexed in Wilson Humanities Abstracts

Active humanities journals indexed inboth HIC and Wilson Humanities Abstracts

Active humanities journals indexed in WilsonHumanities Abstracts not actively indexed in HIC

Active full text humanities journals inHumanities International Complete

Active full text humanities journals in HIC not activeas full text in Wilson Humanities Abstracts

Active full text humanities journals inboth HIC and Wilson Humanities Full Text

Active full text humanities journals in WilsonHumanities Full Text not active as full text in HIC

Active humanities journals indexedin Humanities International Complete

Figures from January 2, 2007

• Margaret Atwood

• Saul Bellow

• Paul Bowles

• Truman Capote

• T. S. Eliot

• William Faulkner

• Robert Frost

• Robert Graves

Paris ReviewAuthor Interviews include:

• Joseph Heller

• Lillian Hellman

• Ernest Hemingway

• Jack Kerouac

• Stephen King

• Fran Lebowitz

• Norman Mailer

• Bernard Malamud

Paris ReviewAuthor Interviews include:

• Arthur Miller

• Toni Morrison

• Vladimir Nabokov

• Dorothy Parker

• Boris Pasternak

• Philip Roth

• Salman Rushdie

• Neil Simon

• Susan Sontag

• John Steinbeck

• John Updike

• Kurt Vonnegut

• Robert Penn Warren

• Elie Wiesel

• Billy Wilder

• Tennessee Williams

Humanities International Complete

Figures from December 1, 2006

Full-Text Journals 665 284

Full-Text Books & Monographs 67 67

Total

NOT in Academic

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EconLit with Full Text

AVAILABLE: February 1, 2007


• The American Economic Association’s authoritative index will soon have a comprehensive full text version

• Release date: February 1, 2007

• 400+ full text journals, with many that are unavailable from other full text databases

• Dozens of full text books, includingThe Handbook of World Trade

EconLit with Full TextJournal Breakdown

Total # of Full Text Journals

# of Full Text JournalsNOT in Business Source Complete

# of Full Text Journals NOT in Business Source Premier

# of Full Text Journals NOT in Business Source Elite

LicensedNovember

2006

ProjectedSeptember

2007

401 450+

68 100+

136 170+

239 280+


• Full Text with NO Embargo for:

• PDF backfiles provided back to the beginning of the EconLit index (1969)

Business Source has a 2-year embargo on these journalsFull Text is Ceased (Halted) in ABI/INFORM

• The definitive online resource for education research

• 1,523 journals indexed and abstracted

• All 501 journals actively indexed in Wilson’s Education Abstractsare indexed in ERC

• ERC also contains 866 active journals not indexed on an ongoing basis in Wilson’s Education Abstracts

• ERC has active indexing for any journal that continues to be published

– Wilson’s Education Abstracts has indexing end dates for 28 journals that are still being published

– ERC provides ongoing indexing for all 28 of those journals

Education Research Complete (ERC)

Education Research Complete (ERC)

• Education Research Complete (ERC) offers the world’s largest collection of full-text education journals

– 750 total full-text journals, including 653 active titles(vs. only 248 active full-text education journals in Wilson)

– ERC has more active full-text education journals thanWilson has total active journals (including all A&I-only titles)

• ERC contains substantial full-text content not available in full textvia Academic Search Premier

– 225 full-text journals– 100+ full-text books & monographs– Full-text conference papers from:

• American Political Science Association: Teaching & Learning Conference• CHADD Conference (Children & Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder)• Psychology of Mathematics Education – North American Chapter Meeting

Academic Search Complete

Academic Search Completewill provide full text for

more than 5,500 journals

Release date: April 2007

Academic Search Complete will providefull text to more than 1,000 journals

NOT available in full text inAcademic Search Premieror other EBSCO databases

(and nearly three quarters of theunique journals will have NO embargo)

• Animal Science

• Anthropology

• Archaeology

• Area Studies

• Astronomy

• Biology

• Chemistry

• Civil Engineering

• Electrical Engineering

While Academic Search Premier offerssome full text for each of the following disciplines,

Academic Search Complete will provide even more...

• Mechanical Engineering

• Music

• Pharmaceutical Sciences

• Physics

• Psychology

• Religion & Theology

• Veterinary Science

• Women’s Studies

• Zoology

NOTE: ASC will contain full text for many journals published inEnglish and Spanish, as well as some in French, German, Italian and Portuguese

• Ethnic & Multicultural Studies

• Food Science & Technology

• General Science

• Geography

• Geology

• History

• Law

• Materials Science

• Mathematics

• Acta Toxicologica• Advances in Algebra• Advances in Applied

Mathematical Analysis• Advances in Dynamical

Systems & Applications• Advances in

Fuzzy Mathematics• Advances in Radio Science• Advances in Theoretical

& Applied Mathematics• African Studies Quarterly• Afro-Hispanic Review• American Journal of

Agricultural & Biological Science• American Journal of

Animal & Veterinary Sciences

Examples of full text journals that willbe unique to Academic Search Complete

• American Journal ofBiochemistry & Biotechnology

• American Journal of Food Technology• American Journal of Plant Physiology• Archives of Civil &

Mechanical Engineering• Astrophysics &

Space Sciences Transactions • Behaviour Change• Bulletin of Hispanic Studies• Bulletin of Materials Science• Communications in

Mathematical Analysis• Conference Papers of the

American Historical Association• Earth Sciences Research Journal• French Colonial History

• Global Journal of Mathematics& Mathematical Sciences

• Global Journal ofPure & Applied Mathematics

• Harvard Asia Pacific Review• Harvard Asia Quarterly• Harvard Journal of Law & Technology• Harvard Latino Law Review• Harvard Negotiation Law Review• IEE Proceedings –

Systems Biology• Insect Science• Integrative Zoology• Interdisciplinary Journal

of Research on Religion


• International Journal ofApplied Chemistry

• International Journal ofApplied Engineering Research

• International Journal ofApplied Mathematical Sciences

• International Journal ofApplied Mathematics & Mechanics

• International Journal of Aviation• International Journal

of Chemical Kinetics• International Journal of

Dynamics of Fluids• International Journal of Energy

Research• International Journal

of Food Engineering

• International Journalof Materials Science

• International Journalof Mechanics & Solids

• International Journalof Petroleum Science & Technology

• International Journal ofPsychology & Psychological Therapy

• International Journal ofPure & Applied Mathematical Sciences

• International Journal ofPure & Applied Physics

• International Journalof Quantum Chemistry

• International Journalof Statistics & Systems


• International Journalof Theoretical & Applied Mechanics

• Interpretation Journal• Journal of Astrophysics

& Astronomy• Journal of Biosciences• Journal of Cell Biology• Journal of Cellular Physiology• Journal of Chemical Sciences• Journal of Civil Engineering

& Management• Journal of Computational Chemistry• Journal of Early Intervention• Journal of Earth System Science• Journal of Experimental Nanoscience

• Journal of General Physiology• Journal of Genetics• Journal of Global Ethics• Journal of Mathematics & Statistics• Journal of Medical Physics• Journal of Middle East Women's Studies• Journal of Multicultural Discourses• Journal of Petroleum Geology• Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry• Journal of Popular Music Studies• Journal of Public Deliberation• Journal of the Acoustical

Society of America• Journal of Zoology


• Legal Studies• Mathematical Modelling

of Natural Phenomena• Molecular Systems Biology• New Oxford Review• NPQ: New Perspectives Quarterly• Philosophical Review• Religious Studies Review• South Asian Studies• Stanford Law Review• Systems Science• UCLA Law Review• Women's History Review• World Journal of Agricultural Sciences

Active, Full-Text (FT), Peer-Reviewed Journals Compared

(D) Total Active FT, Peer-Reviewed Journals [A - (B+C) = D]

(C) Ceased Naturally or Changed Names (FT, Peer-Reviewed Journals)

(B) Unnaturally Halted FT, Peer-Reviewed Journals

(A) Total # of FT, Peer-Reviewed Journals

Academic Search Elite (ASE)

Academic Search Premier (ASP)

Academic Search Complete (ASC)

Expanded Academic ASAP

ProQuest Research Library

1,512 25 154 1,333

3,652 38 430 3,184

4,423 39 453 3,931

1,552 279 109 1,164

1,544 231 115 1,198

* Figures as of January 2, 2007, except ASC (which are projections for May 2007)

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