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US News & World Report: America’s Best Graduate Schools 2007 Business Source is the standard in the world’s top business schools and universities US News & World Report: America’s 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 certainly our number one research tool for academic business research.” – Mike Halperin, Library Director The Wharton School All of the above use Business Source. Not all of the above use ABI/INFORM. http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/grad/rankings/mba/brief/mbarankd_brief.php

Some International Customers of EBSCO’s Business Source… London School of Economics University of Tokyo Cologne Seoul National University

Business Source Premier The world’s 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

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 Halted Science Quarterly NO Embargo Full Text Full Text Academy of Full Text with NO Halted Management Journal NO Embargo Full Text Full Text Harvard Full Text with Halted NO Business Review NO Embargo Full Text Full Text Management Embargoed Embargoed Embargoed Science Full Text Full Text Full Text Operations Embargoed Embargoed Embargoed Research Full Text Full Text Full Text Academy of Full Text with NO Halted Management Review NO Embargo Full Text Full Text Industrial & Labor Full Text with Halted Halted Relations Review NO Embargo Full Text Full Text California Full Text with NO Halted Management 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 Halted Marketing NO Embargo Full Text Full Text Journal of Full Text with NO Halted Marketing Research (JMR) NO Embargo Full Text Full Text

* Data (for both of the above) from April 18, 2007 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 Halted Quarterly NO Embargo Full Text Full Text Communications Full Text with Halted NO of the ACM NO Embargo Full Text Full Text Information Embargoed Embargoed Embargoed Systems Research Full Text Full Text Full Text Journal of Management Full Text with NO Halted Information 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 NO Operations Management Full Text Full Text Full Text International Journal Embargoed NO NO of Production Research Full Text Full Text Full Text * Data (for both of the above) from April 18, 2007

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 Journal of Embargoed NO NO Accounting Research Full Text Full Text Full Text Accounting Full Text with Halted Embargoed Review 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 Halted Accounting Research Full Text Full Text Full Text Journal of Accounting, Full Text with NO NO Auditing & Finance NO Embargo Full Text Full Text * Data from April 18, 2007

* Data (for both of the above) from April 18, 2007 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 NO Finance Full Text Full Text Full Text Journal of NO NO NO Financial 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 Halted Credit & 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

* Data (for both of the above) from April 18, 2007 Economics Journals Ranked ISI Impact Factor: http://www.in-cites.com/research/2001/november_12_2001-2.html Rank Journal EBSCO Gale ProQuest 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Journal of Embargoed NO Halted Economic Literature Full Text Full Text Full Text Quarterly Journal Embargoed Halted NO of Economics Full Text Full Text Full Text Brookings Papers Full Text with Full Text with Full Text with on 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 Halted Political Economy Full Text Full Text Full Text Economic Embargoed NO NO Policy Full Text Full Text Full Text NBER Full Text with NO NO Macroeconomics Annual NO Embargo Full Text Full Text Top Specialty Economics Journal Social Science Citation Index: http://www.jrefe.org/rankingjrefe.html Rank Journal EBSCO Gale ProQuest 1 Land Embargoed Halted Halted Economics Full Text Full Text Full Text * Data (for both of the above) from April 18, 2007

JSTOR business journals vs. EBSCO’s Business Source Premier EBSCO’s 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

Superior Country Economic Data in BSP Publisher Business Source Premier FT Coverage ABI/INFORM Complete FT Coverage Business Monitor International CountryWatch Inc. Datamonitor EIU Country Commerce EIU Profiles EIU Reports Global Insight Inc. (formerly WEFA) Going Global ICON Group International OECD Political Risk Yearbook SOD Total Full-Text Country Economic Publications 70 Country Forecast Reports & Monitors - NO Embargo 192 Country Reviews NO Embargo 54 Country Profiles NO Embargo 30 Reference Guides Embargoed (6 months) 70 Country Profiles NO Embargo 80 Country Reports Embargoed (6 months) 113 Country Monitors NO Embargo 39 Country Career Guides NO Embargo 191 Country Economic Studies NO Embargo 232 Country Competitiveness Studies - NO Embargo 71 Country Economic Surveys Embargoed (6 months) 100 Country Risk Reports NO Embargo 197 Background Notes NO Embargo 1,441 None 4 Country Profiles No Embargo 14 Country Reports No Embargo 23 Country Career Guides NO Embargo 16 Country Economic Surveys Embargoed (6 months) 57 * Figures as of April 18, 2007 * NOTE: ABI also contains EIU Viewswire

Linking to full text in ASP & BSP without a link resolver # of journals that link to full text in 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 PsycINFO via EBSCOhost 639 RILM via EBSCOhost 443 * EBSCO has a linking agreement in place Chemical Abstracts Service * * Figures as of January 2, 2007

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 A&I for 100+ journals back to 1975 or further BSP contains A&I for 121 journals back to 1965 or the first published issue * Figures as of April 18, 2007

High Quality Abstracts & Bibliographic Records Author Supplied Abstracts are now provided for the vast majority of 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 hundreds of 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.

17,267 Business Source Contains a High Quality Thesaurus Ability to Explode Searches (similar to MEDLINE) 17,267 business-specific terms

Enhanced Bibliographic Record – Business Source Premier author email addresses thesaurus terms author supplied keywords author supplied abstracts

Superior Headings and Improved EBSCO-Written Abstracts author email addresses document indexing by thesaurus terms indexing by people

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 journals in 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 ISI’s Business Collection

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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Active Full-Text Journals That Overlap with ISI’s 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

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) MLA International Bibliography Social Sciences Citation Index (ISI) Historical Abstracts ATLA ERIC PsycINFO Academic Search Premier (ASP) ProQuest Research Library Expanded Academic 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

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 Biological Abstracts CAB Abstracts Chemical Abstracts E.I. Compendex AGRICOLA GeoRef Inspec Academic Search Premier (ASP) ProQuest Research Library Expanded Academic 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

Academic Search Premier contains 182 journals with PDFs back to the 1970s or further Back to 1887 Back to 1929 Back to 1960 Back to 1975 Back to 1945 Back to 1975 Back to 1975 Back to 1975

Academic Search Premier also provides the following general reference advantages…

Heavily Used Science Magazines Available in Full Text via EBSCO’s Packages but Halted or Completely Unavailable From ProQuest New Scientist full text will soon have an end date on all databases except EBSCO’s

Heavily Used Political Magazines Available in Full Text via EBSCO’s Packages but Halted or Completely Unavailable From ProQuest * Ongoing full text coverage for all of the above will soon to be unique to EBSCO

Heavily Used Science Magazines Available in Full Text via EBSCO but Halted or Completely Unavailable From Gale New Scientist full text will soon have an end date on all databases except EBSCO’s

Heavily Used Political Magazines Available in Full Text via EBSCO but Halted or Completely Unavailable From Gale:

* Science News backfiles are in HTML format (not in PDF) Academic Search Premier Also Contains Deep PDF Backfiles for General Periodicals, including… Back to 1975 Back to 1922 Back to 1922 Back to 1975 Back to 1975 Back to 1975 Back to 1975 Back to 1930 Back to 1975 Back to 1934 * Science News backfiles are in HTML format (not in PDF)

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