1. 公丕俭 EBSCO Publishing Nov, 2007
EBSCOhost Workshop
公丕俭
EBSCO Publishing
Nov, 2007

2. Change and Growth … EBSCOhost is an evolving organism

3. Something, somewhere went terribly wrong … half joking!

4. 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.

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

6. 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

7. 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

8. * Data (for both of the above) from April 18, 2007
MIS Journals Ranked
Mylonopoulos & Theoharakis:
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):
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

9. 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

10. * 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

11. * Data (for both of the above) from April 18, 2007
Economics Journals Ranked
ISI Impact Factor:
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:
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

12. JSTOR business journals vs. EBSCO’s Business Source Premier
EBSCO’s BSP
Earliest PDF Coverage
Journals with Full Text Beginning Between 1886 and
Journals with Full Text Beginning Between 1966 and
Journals with Full Text Beginning Between 1976 and
Journals with Full Text Beginning Between 1990 and
Journals with Full Text Beginning Between 1995 and
Compared on April 18, 2007

13. 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, * NOTE: ABI also contains EIU Viewswire

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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 addresses are provided when available
Indexing is available by thesaurus terms and: Company, NAICS, FASB, Ticker Symbol, Geographic Location, People, etc.

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

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

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

20. 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

21. 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)

22. Full Text

23. 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

24. 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
* Figures as of April 18, 2007

25. 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
* Figures as of April 18, 2007

26. 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

27. Academic Search Premier also provides the following general reference advantages…

28. 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

29. 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

30. 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

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

32. * 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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