Databases for the Academic Library

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Databases for the Academic Library
Academic Search Premier Business Source
Premier Full-Text Linking Alumni
Access
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Academic Search Premier Business Source
Premier Comprehensive Indexes of Scholarly
Journals
of Peer-Reviewed Journals Indexed Abstracted
of Serials Indexed Abstracted
Database
Academic Search Premier (ASP) Business Source
Premier (BSP)
8,237 7,138 9,889 1,827

• ASP contains AI for 100 journals back to 1975
  or further
• BSP contains AI for 121 journals back to 1965 or
  the first published issue

Figures as of April 18, 2007
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High Quality Abstracts Bibliographic Records

• Author Supplied Abstracts are now provided for
  the vast majorityof peer-reviewed journals
  indexed in ASP (more than 85)and BSP (more than
  81)
• Other articles contain abstracts written by
  educated professionals
• Author Supplied Keywords are provided for
  hundredsof peer-reviewed journals
• Author affiliations author email addresses are
  provided when available
• Indexing is available by thesaurus terms and
  Company, NAICS,FASB, Ticker Symbol, Geographic
  Location, People, etc.

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Business Source Contains a High Quality Thesaurus
Ability toExplodeSearches(similar to MEDLINE)
17,267
business-specific terms
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Enhanced Bibliographic Record Business Source
Premier
author email addresses
thesaurus terms
author supplied keywords
author supplied abstracts
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Superior Headings and Improved EBSCO-Written
Abstracts
author email addresses
document
indexing by thesaurus terms
indexing by people
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Searchable Cited References (with links to full
text)

• Academic Search Premier
• 991 peer-reviewed journals have searchable cited
  references starting with January 2003 issues (or
  earlier)
• Includes the 500 most used scholarly journalsin
  ASP based on worldwide usage statistics
• Business Source Premier
• 1,189 peer-reviewed journals have searchable
  cited references starting with January 2003
  issues (or earlier)
• Only 235 journals are contained in ISIs Business
  Collection

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Searchable Cited Reference with links to the full
text of the original cited work (when available)
Times Cited in this Database provides a list of
all other papers in the database that cite this
work (with links to the full text when available)
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Full Text
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Embargoes

• Nearly all aggregated databases have embargo
  periods on somefull-text journals
• All journals with embargo periods in EBSCO
  databases are also embargoed in competing
  databases (or not in those databases at all)
• All embargoed journals have current abstracts
  which can link to the current full text via the
  e-journal (if your library subscribes) sometimes
  the EBSCO backfile will be greater than the
  e-journal backfile
• For more information seeAcademic Journal
  Embargoes and Full Text DatabasesBy Brooks,
  SamThe Library Quarterly (University of Chicago
  Press)July 2003, Volume 73, Issue 3, pp.
  243-260Reprints available upon request

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Do Everlasting Embargoes Exist?

• Unfortunately, everlasting embargoes do exist
• Unnaturally Halted is the term used to describe
  journals impaired in this way
• These journals are different than those that have
  ceased naturally (i.e. the publisher stops
  publishing articles)
• This is the most severe form of embargo because
  no new full-text articles are ever added again
• Vendor title lists include an embargo column, but
  unnaturally halted titles are not marked as
  embargoed
• In reality, the embargo column for these titles
  should probably include the infinite symbol

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Active, Full-Text Titles Compared
(D) Total Active Full-Text Titles A - (BC) D
(C) Ceased Naturally or Changed Names (Full-Text
Titles)
(B) Unnaturally Halted Full-Text Titles
(A) Total of Full-Text Titles
Academic Search Elite (ASE) Academic Search
Premier (ASP) Expanded Academic ASAP ProQuest
Research Library
2,017 50 315 1,652 4,493 96 718 3,679 2,522 331
391 1,800 2,617 286 384 1,947
Database
Figures as of April 18, 2007
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Some Competing Databases Contain Full Textfor
many Childrens and Hobby magazinesnot found in
EBSCOs Academic Search
Humpty Dumptys Magazine Model Airplane
News Model Railroader Radio Control Car
Action Trailer Life Turtle Magazine for
Pre-School Kids
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EBSCO provides these non-core
magazines separately through complementary
databases (free with the purchase of Academic
Search)

• MAS Ultra
• 585 general periodicals
• 366 reference travel books
• 85,639 biographies
• 90,864 primary source documents
• Primary Search
• 88 leading childrens magazines, including Ranger
  Rick
• Childrens encyclopedias and other reference
  books
• Military Government Collection
• Collection of military titles and relevant trade
  publications
• Cover-to-cover full text for nearly 400
  periodicals
• Full-text coverage for 269 pamphlets

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Active, Full-Text (FT), Peer-Reviewed Journals
Compared
(D) Total Active FT, Peer-Reviewed Journals A -
(BC) 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) Expanded Academic ASAP ProQuest
Research Library
1,554 45 165 1,344 3,720 83 464 3,173 1,572 288 1
25 1,159 1,540 242 131 1,167
Database
Figures as of April 18, 2007
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Active Full-Text Journals That Overlap with ISIs
Web of Science
Academic Search Elite (ASE) 733 Academic Search
Premier (ASP) 1,452 ProQuest Research Library
706 Expanded Academic ASAP 503

• As of April 18, 2007

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Active, Full-Text Journals That Overlap with
Leading Social Sciences Humanities
Databases (These statistics illustrate the
extent of Humanities coverage in each full-text
database)
SocialSciences Citation Index (ISI)
MLA International Bibliography
Historical Abstracts
ATLA
ERIC
PsycINFO
Academic SearchPremier (ASP) ProQuestResearch
Library ExpandedAcademic ASAP
266 464 349 651 562 542 182 311 236 510 203 335
147 272 173 398 172 250
Figures as of April 18, 2007
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Active, Full-Text Journals That Overlap with
Leading Science Databases (These statistics
illustrate the extent of STM coverage in each
full-text database)
ISI Science Citation Index
Chemical Abstracts
E.I. Compendex
Biological Abstracts
CAB Abstracts
AGRICOLA
Inspec
GeoRef
Academic SearchPremier (ASP) ProQuestResearch
Library ExpandedAcademic ASAP
715 187 526 685 228 353 280 502 167 89 131 200 23
93 128 186 134 78 105 184 8 74 99 161
Figures as of April 18, 2007
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Academic Search Premier contains 182
journals with PDFs back to the 1970s or further
Back to 1887
Back to 1929
Back to 1975
Back to 1960
Back to 1975
Back to 1975
Back to 1945
Back to 1975
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Academic Search Premieralso provides the
followinggeneral reference advantages
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Heavily Used Science Magazines Available in Full
Text via EBSCOs Packages but Halted or
Completely Unavailable From ProQuest
New Scientist full text will soon have an end
date on all databases except EBSCOs
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Heavily Used Political Magazines Available in
Full Text via EBSCOs Packages but Halted or
Completely Unavailable From ProQuest
Ongoing full text coverage for all of the above
will soon to be unique to EBSCO
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Heavily Used Science Magazines Available in Full
Text viaEBSCO but Halted or Completely
Unavailable From Gale
New Scientist full text will soon have an end
date on all databases except EBSCOs
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Heavily Used Political Magazines Available in
Full Textvia EBSCO but Halted or Completely
Unavailable From Gale
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Academic Search Premier Also Contains DeepPDF
Backfiles for General Periodicals, including
Back to 1975
Back to 1922
Back to 1975
Back to 1975
Back to 1922
Back to 1975
Back to 1975
Back to 1930
Back to 1934
Back to 1975
Science News backfiles are in HTML format (not
in PDF)
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Business Source is the standard in theworlds
top business schools and universities US News
World Report Americas Best Graduate Schools 2007
1. Harvard University 2. Stanford
University 3. University of Pennsylvania
(Wharton) 4. Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (Sloan) 4. Northwestern University
(Kellogg) 6. University of Chicago 7. Columbia
University 7. University of California -
Berkeley (Haas) 9. Dartmouth College
(Tuck) 10. University of California - Los Angeles
(Anderson)
Business Source is certainlyour number
oneresearch toolfor academicbusiness
research. Mike Halperin,Library DirectorThe
Wharton School
All of the above use Business Source. Not all of
the above use ABI/INFORM. http//www.usnews.com/us
news/edu/grad/rankings/mba/brief/mbarankd_brief.ph
p
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Some International Customers of EBSCOs Business
Source
London School of Economics
Cologne
University of Tokyo
Seoul National University
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Business Source Premier
The worlds most complete source of full-text
business information
Full-text publications Full-text peer-reviewed
journals available in full text(soon with 250 of
those dating back to 1965 or the first issue
published) Full-text trade journals and general
business magazines Full-text monographs/books Full
-text country economic reports,reviews, studies
surveys Full-text industry reports Full-text
market research reports Full-text case studies
9,474 1,116 1,190 140 1,172 5,028 426 166
Plus 10,120 company profiles with 2,493 SWOT
analyses
Figures as of April 18, 2007
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Active, Full-Text Serials Compared
(D) Total Active Full-Text Titles A - (BC) D
(C) Ceased Naturally or Changed Names (Full-Text
Titles)
(B) Unnaturally Halted Full-Text Titles
(A) Total of Full-Text Titles
Business Source Elite (BSE) Business Source
Premier (BSP) ABI/INFORM Global ABI/INFORM
Complete Business Company Resource Center
1,316 41 316 959 9,163 91 785 8,287 1,853 149 4
79 1,225 2,914 155 860 1,899 3,568 174 807 2,587
Database
Figures as of April 18, 2007
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Active, Full-Text (FT), Peer-Reviewed Journals
Compared
(D) Total Active FT, Peer-Reviewed Journals A -
(BC) 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
Business Source Elite (BSE) Business Source
Premier (BSP) ABI/INFORM Global ABI/INFORM
Complete Business Company Resource Center
480 34 77 369 1,116 81 206 829 1,024 129 175 72
0 1,047 130 179 738 377 97 46 234
Database
Figures as of April 18, 2007
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The following analysis compares the full-text
coverage of the worlds top ranked business
journals

• EBSCOs Business Source Premier (EBSCO)
• Gales Business Company Resource Center (Gale)
• ProQuests ABI INFORM Complete (ProQuest)

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Management Journals Ranked
Study by Coe Weinstock from Academy of
Management Journal
Data from April 18, 2007
Rank
Journal
EBSCO
Gale
ProQuest
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Administrative Full Text with Halted HaltedScienc
e Quarterly NO Embargo Full Text Full
Text Academy of Full Text with NO HaltedManagemen
t Journal NO Embargo Full Text Full
Text Harvard Full Text with Halted NOBusiness
Review NO Embargo Full Text Full
Text Management Embargoed Embargoed EmbargoedScie
nce Full Text Full Text Full Text Operations Embar
goed Embargoed EmbargoedResearch Full Text Full
Text Full Text Academy of Full Text
with NO HaltedManagement Review NO Embargo Full
Text Full Text Industrial Labor Full Text
with Halted HaltedRelations Review NO
Embargo Full Text Full Text California Full Text
with NO HaltedManagement Review NO Embargo Full
Text Full Text
Marketing Journals Ranked
Study by Gordon and Heischmidt from Journal of
Marketing Education
Data from April 18, 2007
Rank
Journal
EBSCO
Gale
ProQuest
1 2
Journal of Full Text with NO HaltedMarketing NO
Embargo Full Text Full Text Journal of Full Text
with NO HaltedMarketing Research (JMR) NO
Embargo Full Text Full Text
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MIS Journals Ranked
Mylonopoulos Theoharakis http//www.bus.ucf.edu
/csaunders/newjournal.htm
Rank
Journal
EBSCO
Gale
ProQuest
1 2 3 4
MIS Full Text with Halted HaltedQuarterly NO
Embargo Full Text Full Text Communications Full
Text with Halted NOof the ACM NO Embargo Full
Text Full Text Information Embargoed Embargoed Emb
argoedSystems Research Full Text Full Text Full
Text Journal of Management Full Text
with NO HaltedInformation Systems NO
Embargo Full Text Full Text
POM Journals Ranked
Ranking from Barman et al (Relevance)
http//www.bus.ucf.edu/csaunders/newjournal.htm
Rank
Journal
EBSCO
Gale
ProQuest
1 2
Journal of NO NO NOOperations Management Full
Text Full Text Full Text International
Journal Embargoed NO NOof Production
Research Full Text Full Text Full Text
Data (for both of the above) from April 18,
2007
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Accounting Journals Ranked
Hasselback et al, appeared in Accounting Forum,
March 2002, Volume 26, Issue 1, Pg 45
Rank
Journal
EBSCO
Gale
ProQuest
1 2 3 4 4 4
Journal of Embargoed NO NOAccounting
Research Full Text Full Text Full
Text Accounting Full Text with Halted EmbargoedRe
view NO Embargo Full Text Full Text Journal of
Accounting NO NO NO Economics Full Text Full
Text Full Text Accounting Organizations NO NO NO
Society Full Text Full Text Full
Text Contemporary Embargoed NO HaltedAccounting
Research Full Text Full Text Full Text Journal of
Accounting, Full Text with NO NOAuditing
Finance NO Embargo Full Text Full Text
Data from April 18, 2007
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Finance Journals Ranked
Study by Mabry Sharplin, Conclusions, a Final
Ranking of Finance Journals, published in The
Journal of Financial Research
Rank
Journal
EBSCO
Gale
ProQuest
1 2 3 4
Journal of Embargoed NO NOFinance Full
Text Full Text Full Text Journal
of NO NO NOFinancial Economics Full Text Full
Text Full Text Journal of Financial Full Text
with NO Halted Quantitative Analysis NO
Embargo Full Text Full Text Journal of
Money, Full Text with Full Text
with HaltedCredit Banking NO Embargo NO
Embargo Full Text
Construction Management Journals Ranked
The Ranking of Construction Management Journals
by Chau Kwong Wing (University of Reading)
Rank
Journal
EBSCO
Gale
ProQuest
1
Construction Management Embargoed NO NO
Economics Full Text Full Text Full Text
Data (for both of the above) from April 18,
2007
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Economics Journals Ranked
ISI Impact Factor http//www.in-cites.com/researc
h/2001/november_12_2001-2.html
Rank
Journal
EBSCO
Gale
ProQuest
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Journal of Embargoed NO HaltedEconomic
Literature Full Text Full Text Full
Text Quarterly Journal Embargoed Halted NOof
Economics Full Text Full Text Full Text Brookings
Papers Full Text with Full Text with Full Text
withon Economic Activity NO Embargo NO
Embargo NO Embargo Journal of Embargoed NO Halted
Economic Perspectives Full Text Full Text Full
Text Journal of Embargoed Halted HaltedPolitical
Economy Full Text Full Text Full
Text Economic Embargoed NO NOPolicy Full
Text Full Text Full Text NBER Full Text
with NO NOMacroeconomics Annual NO Embargo Full
Text Full Text
Top Specialty Economics Journal
Social Science Citation Index http//www.jrefe.or
g/rankingjrefe.html
Rank
Journal
EBSCO
Gale
ProQuest
1
Land Embargoed Halted HaltedEconomics Full
Text Full Text Full Text
Data (for both of the above) from April 18,
2007
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JSTOR business journals vs. EBSCOs Business
Source Premier
JSTOR Business
EBSCOs BSP
Earliest PDF Coverage 1886 1886 Journals with
Full Text Beginning Between 1886 and 1965 56 92
Journals with Full Text Beginning Between 1966
and 1975 17 69 Journals with Full Text
Beginning Between 1976 and 1989 25 100 Journals
with Full Text Beginning Between 1990 and
1994 2 316 Journals with Full Text Beginning
Between 1995 and 1999 0 832
Compared on April 18, 2007
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Superior Country Economic Data in BSP
Publisher
ABI/INFORM Complete FT Coverage
Business Source Premier FT Coverage
70 Country Forecast Reports Monitors - NO
Embargo 192 Country ReviewsNO Embargo 54 Country
ProfilesNO Embargo 30 Reference GuidesEmbargoed
(6 months) 70 Country ProfilesNO Embargo 80
Country ReportsEmbargoed (6 months) 113 Country
MonitorsNO Embargo 39 Country Career GuidesNO
Embargo 191 Country Economic Studies NO
Embargo 232 Country Competitiveness Studies - NO
Embargo 71 Country Economic Surveys Embargoed (6
months) 100 Country Risk ReportsNO Embargo 197
Background NotesNO Embargo 1,441
Business Monitor International CountryWatch
Inc. Datamonitor EIU Country Commerce EIU
Profiles EIU Reports Global Insight Inc.
(formerly WEFA) Going Global ICON Group
International ICON Group International OECD Politi
cal Risk Yearbook SOD Total Full-TextCountry
Economic Publications
None None None None 4 Country ProfilesNo
Embargo 14 Country ReportsNo Embargo None 23
Country Career GuidesNO Embargo None None 16
Country Economic Surveys Embargoed (6
months) None None 57
Figures as of April 18, 2007
NOTE ABI also
contains EIU Viewswire
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Other Non-Journal Content in BSP

• 140 full-text books/monographs
• 5,028 full-text industry profiles/reports
• 426 full-text market research reports
• 10,120 company profiles with2,493 SWOT analyses

Bombardier.pdf
Figures as of April 18, 2007
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Native PDF Program EBSCO databases offer by far
the most native PDFs

• Native PDFs are now provided for the clear
  majority of full-textpeer-reviewed journals in
  ASP (85) and BSP (more than 80)
• Native PDFs offer
• Sharper Images, Enlargeable/Sharper Text, ADA
  Compliance
• MarketingNews.pdf
• Nature_072502.pdf
• Clearer Charts, Graphs, Formulas,
  EquationsIJProductionResearch.pdf
• The Ability to Search, Manipulate, Copy
  PasteCAManagementReview.pdf
• Smaller file size for quicker downloadingand
  increased convenience for emailing

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How much value do the major aggregated
databasesbring to the collection of a large
research library? (Stanford Universitys
collection is analyzed in this case)
Active, full-text, peer-reviewed journals in
EBSCO Databases that are NOTavailable as active
FT in ProQuest Databases or in the Stanford
e-journal collection Active, full-text,
peer-reviewed journals in ProQuest Databases that
are NOT available as active FT in EBSCO Databases
or in the Stanford e-journal collection
2,244 459
Active, full-text, peer-reviewed journals in
EBSCO Databases that are NOTavailable as active
FT in Gale Databases or in the Stanford e-journal
collection Active, full-text, peer-reviewed
journals in Gale Databases that are NOTavailable
as active FT in EBSCO Databases or in the
Stanford e-journal collection
2,323 236
EBSCO Databases Academic Search Premier,
Business Source Premier CMMC ProQuest
Databases ProQuest 5000, ProQuest Research
Library ABI/INFORM Complete Gale Databases
InfoTrac OneFile, Expanded Academic ASAP
Business Company Resource Center All of the
above packages were merged and de-duped for this
comparison Comparisons were conducted on June 16,
2004
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International Full-Text Coverage in the Premier
Package (ASP BSP)
Full-Text Serials
Full-TextPeer-Reviewed Journals
Region
Australia New Zealand Canada Eastern Europe
the CIS Far East United States Western
Europe Other TOTAL
96 29 129 76 83 71 98 93 5,817 1,425 10,956
2,735 54 45 17,179 4,429
Figures as of April 26, 2007
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Linking
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Revolutionary New Linking Allows End
UsersImmediate Access to PDFs in Full-Text
Databases(from PsycINFO and other non-full-text
databases)
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Linking to full text in ASP BSP without a link
resolver
of journalsthat link to full textin ASP BSP
Database Platform
AGRICOLA via EBSCOhost 243 Biological Abstracts
(BIOSIS) via EBSCOhost 776 Chemical Abstracts via
STN 736 ERIC via EBSCOhost 807 GeoRef via
EBSCOhost 349 Inspec via EBSCOhost 724 MLA
International Bibliography via EBSCOhost 720 PsycI
NFO via EBSCOhost 639 RILM via EBSCOhost 443
EBSCO has a linking agreement in place Chemical
Abstracts Service Figures as of January 2,
2007
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Business Source Alumni Edition
May 2005
October 2005
October 2006
May2007
Full-Text Periodicals 784 1,221 1,355 1,533 Full-T
ext SWOT Analyses 1,824 2,094 2,492 2,492 Full-Te
xt Company Profiles 10,120 10,120 10,120
10,120 Full-Text Country Reports 1,362 1,362 1,400
1,400 Full-Text Industry Reports 3,307 4,299 5,02
8 5,028 Full-Text Books 93 94 94 94
Figures as of May 3, 2007
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Academic Search Alumni Edition
May 2005
October 2005
May 2006
May2007
Full-Text Journals 824 1,927 2,311 3,173 Full-Text
Reports 150 155 156 156
Figures as of May 3, 2007
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