EBSCO Online Research Databases

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EBSCO Online Research Databases kynning
fyrir Landsbókasafn Íslands Háskólabóksafn,
09.03.2009 Ingolf Kaspar, Regional Sales
Manager ikaspar_at_ebscohost.com
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Efnisyfirlit

• 1. EBSCO - Fyrirtækið
• 2.    Gagnasöfnin í áskrift landsaðgangs á
  Íslandi
• Academic Search Premier
• Business Source Premier
• MasterFILE Premier
• Teacher Reference Center
• GreenFILE
• Library, Information Science Technology
  Abstracts  
• 3.     Leitarviðmót EBSCOhost 2.0
• Keyword search
• Advanced search
• Alerts, RSS feeds, shared folders

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EBSCO Information Services
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EBSCO Information Services
32 offices in 21 countries world wide
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EBSCO Publishing Snapshot

• Head Office in Ipswich, outside Boston
• More then 700 Employees
• 90 of all colleges universities in North
  America,plus thousands internationally
• More then 80,000 Customers Globally
• 250 Database Products
• 15 Different Search Interfaces
• Avg. 4m. searches/Day or 1.4bn. searches/Yr
• Process 35,000 Titles
• 99.6 renewal rate on database subscriptions

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More about EBSCO Publishing

• Products
• Dominant leader in full text databases with
  superior products
• Leading secondary database platform
• Owner of many full text databases
• Solution provider as opposed to database search
  provider
• Customers
• Recognized as best online research service for
  libraries
• Move beyond the library within hospitals and
  corporations
• Industry/Markets segments
• Leader in school, public, academic and medical
  library markets
• Major player in corporate and government markets
• Major player in point of care markets in
  hospitals
• Geographic markets
• Leader with strong direct sales force in all
  sizeable markets worldwide

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EP product overview

• 1. EBSCO proprietary core products
• a) Aggregated full text databases as flagship
  products
• Multidisciplinary Academic Search (Elite,
  Premier, Complete, RD)
• Subject specific Business Source (Elite,
  Premier, Complete), Communication Mass Media,
  SocIndex with Fulltext etc etc
• b) Bibliographic reference databases
• Socindex Sport Discuss, Cinahl etc.
• 2. Licensed secondary databases. Integration of
  non-EBSCO services onto EBSCO platform
• e.g. Econlit, Psycinfo, MLA
• Together a portfolio of gt 250 online research
  services
• For a full overview of EP products with browsing
  by market, subject area and/or database name,
  check http//www.ebscohost.com

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Academic Search Premier

• The worlds most used scholarly,
  multidisciplinary full text database designed
  specifically for academic institutions. It offers
  critical information from many sources found in
  no other database.
• The database offers full-text in many areas of
  academic study, including
• ? Agricultural Studies ? Aircraft Aviation ?
  Anthropology
• ? Archaeology ? Architecture Design ? Arts
• ? Astronomy Astrophysics ? Biological
  Sciences ? Biotechnology
• ? Chemistry Chemicals ? Computer Science ?
  Defense Military
• ? Education ? Electronics ? Energy
• ? Engineering ? Environmental Studies ?
  Ethnic Studies
• ? Food Science ? Forestry ? Gender Studies
• ? Geography ? Geology ? Graphic Arts
• ? History ? Information Technology ?
  International Relations
• ? Language Linguistics ? Law Criminology
  ? Literature
• ? Marine Sciences ? Mathematics ? Music
• ? Pharmaceutical Sciences ? Philosophy ?
  Photography
• ? Physics ? Political Science ? Psychology
• ? Religion Theology ? Sociology ?
  Veterinary Science

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Academic Search Continued

• Database is updated daily!
• Database includes 16 Mio 782.274 records!
• Full text records gt 7 Mio.
• Growing by 10 per year.
• International Full Text Coverage gt 65 non-US
  content
• PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available
  for well over one hundred journals
• Searchable cited references are provided for more
  than 1,000 titles.
• Native PDF, Image Quick View

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Business Source Premier

• Business Source Premier is the industry's most
  popular business research database.
• Journal ranking studies reveal that Business
  Source Premier's full text coverage outshines its
  competitors in all business disciplines,
  including marketing, management, MIS, POM,
  accounting, finance and economics.
• Some of the top titles
• Harvard Business Review, full text from 1922 to
  present
• MIS Quarterly, full text from 1977 to present
• The Academy of Management Journal, full text from
  1963 to present
• Journal of Human Resources, full text from 1966
  to present
• Business Source Premier provides full text back
  to 1886

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Management Journals Ranked
Study by Coe Weinstock from Academy of
Management Journal
Data from June 3, 2008
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 June 3, 2008
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 June 3, 2008
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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 Full Text
withReview NO Embargo Full Text NO
Embargo 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
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
Journal of Embargoed NO NOFinance Full
Text Full Text Full Text Journal
of NO NO NOFinancial Economics Full Text Full
Text Full Text
Data (for both of the above) from June 3, 2008
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Business Source Continued

• Database is updated daily!
• Database includes 9 Mio 599.498 records!
• Full text records almost 6.4 Mio.
• Growing by 10 per year.
• Native PDF, Image Quick View
• Author supplied abstracts are provided for more
  than 81 of the peer-reviewed journals indexed.
• Author affiliation and author e-mail adresses are
  provided when available.
• Business Thesaurus with over 17,000 terms a
  specialized set of browseable business terms that
  is used to enhance the indexing within the
  database.

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Masterfile Premier

• Designed specifically for public libraries,
  MasterFILE Premier contains full text for nearly
  1,750 periodicals covering general reference,
  business, health, education, general science,
  multicultural issues and much more.
• Some of the top titles
• World Almanac
• The Columbia Encyclopedia
• National Geographic, full text from 1995 to
  present
• History Today, full text from 1975 to present
• Newsweek, full text from 1990 to present
• Sports Illustrated, full text from 1992 to
  present
• Rolling Stone, full text from 1990 to present
• Database is updated daily!
• Database includes 14 Mio 502.652 records!
• Full text records almost 7,3 Mio.

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Teacher Reference Center

• Teacher Reference Center provides coverage on
  topics such as assessment, best practices,
  continuing education, current pedagogical
  research, curriculum development, elementary
  education, higher education, instructional media,
  language arts, literacy standards, school
  administration, science mathematics, teacher
  education, and much more.
• TRC provides indexing and abstracts for more than
  270 periodicals, 96 of which are peer-reviewed
  (academic).
• Records 830.325
• Coverage starts in the 1980s
• Update frequency monthly

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Library, Information Science Technology
Abstracts (Lista)

• LISTA indexes more than 500 core journals, more
  than 50 priority journals, and 125 selective
  journals plus books, research reports and
  proceedings.
• Subject specific thesaurus with 6,800 terms
• Records 1,187.962
• Coverage in the database extends back as far as
  the mid-1960s.
• Update frequency weekly

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Greenfile

• GreenFILE focuses on societys impact to the
  environment and is made for the concerned person
  looking for information on individual response
  such as personal solar or wind power options,
  corporate response such as alternative energies
  used in the business sector and local or
  government impact such as environmental laws and
  studies.
• Resource for researchers looking for
• information on public opinion, top
• environmental topics and hot items
• Collection of scholarly, government and
• general-interest titles. Journals, magazines,
• Books etc.
• 450.806 records, 5330 records in full text
• Update twice monthly
• Coverage starts in the 1960s

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Keyword search
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Result list functionality
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searching subject terms
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Searching publications creating journal alerts
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Searching cited references
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Cited references
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Combining searches
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Smart text searching for similar results
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Image Quick View
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RSS/Alerts for refined searches
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Folders
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FAQs, staying informed about EP products

• For our customers and for our own sales and
  support force, EP provides a comprehensive
  product support site.
• Under http//support.ebscohost.com/support_news/in
  dex.php you find a news archive. You can set an
  RSS feed to stay updated.
• Under http//support.ebscohost.com/knowledge_base/
  search.php you can search in the FAQ archive,
  particularly for technical/set up information.
• Under http//support.ebscohost.com/training/tutori
  als.php you can access tutorials for the
  EBSCOhost interface and database specific
  user-guides, many of them both as Powerpoint and
  flash videos.
• Under http//support.ebscohost.com/training/resour
  ces.php we list often requested basic user guides
  translated into different languages.

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EBSCOhost Integrated Search (EHIS) Planned
Release May/June 2009
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Taking federated searching to a new level

• Like federated search engines, any database from
  any vendor(and any OPAC) can be searched
  simultaneously
• However, unlike federated search products, true
  integration is possible

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Superior Breadth of Sources

• EBSCOhost Integrated Search  was developed using
  a services oriented architecture that allows an
  unlimited number of sources to be included
• EBSCO is working with the leaders in federated
  search technology to be able to deliver the
  largest number of sources in the industry

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Superior Performance Support

• EBSCOhost has
• Fully redundant and load balanced service
  delivery
• Qualified and diligent support staff
• EBSCOhost Integrated Search will have
• A sophisticated AJAX display that allows
  resultsto trickle in without delaying the user
• The slowest connectors will no longer frustrate
  end users

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Superior Ease of Use

• EBSCOhost is the worlds most widely used
  database research platform
• Integrating databases from other providers into
  EBSCOhost means
• Usability studies were done to improve EBSCOhost
  and those enhancements will now benefit users of
  other services
• More familiarity for staff and end users
• Less training for staff and end users

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The features of EBSCOhostsBasic Search are now
available forsearching any database from any
vendor
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The features of EBSCOhostsAdvanced Search are
now available forsearching any database from any
vendor
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EBSCOhostsSubject Clustering is nowavailable
for non-EBSCOhost databases, too
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EBSCOhostsPublication (a.k.a.,
Source)Clustering is now availablefor any
database from anyvendor that identifies sources
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Sort by Relevance or Date
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Use EBSCOhostFolders for anydatabase fromany
vendor
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The EBSCOhost Date Sliderallows the user to
refine bydate published for any contentwith
dates identified
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The library can nowprovide end users
withlabels of databases
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Custom links may beautomatically includedif
desired
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EBSCOhost Full Recordfunctionality is now
available forany database from any vendor
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• EBSCOadmin can now be used to
• setup any databases from any vendor
• customize the user experience for external
  databases
• generate statistical reports from external
  databases
• control subject area groupings of databases
• add labels of databases for unfamiliar end users

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EHIS can look like this...
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...Or, EHIScan be accesseddirectly via
linksfrom thelibrarys website
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Attractive Pricing for EBSCOhost Customers

• EBSCO doesnt charge an extra fee to
  includeEBSCOhost databases in EBSCOhost
  Integrated Search, naturally reducing
  connector counts

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Interaction between ESS and EP

• Database Journal subscriptions completing each
  other
• Databases as researching tool. Indexing,
  thesaurus, clustering, alerts
• Journal subscriptions add full text, go around
  embargos
• Customers perceive EBSCO as one supplier
• It is EBSCOs competitive solution that we can
  offer integrated solutions of journal and
  database subscriptions.
• Interactions in content, interface, linking,
  support

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Questions