1. Database collection evaluation An application of evaluative methods S519

2. Today’s topics Types of (academic) databases What and why to evaluate Evaluate collections through bibliometric methods S519

3. Types of (academic) databases Full-text – Elsevier, Springer, Sage, JSTOR, arxiv, IEEE, ACM DL, etc. Citation-based – Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar, CiteSeerX, etc. Bibliographic – DBLP, PubMed, etc. Special – Book: WorldCat – Journal: Eigenfactor, SCImago, Journal Citation Report – Country: SCImago S519 A comprehensive list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_academic_databases_and_search_engines

4. What to evaluate Interface (see slides in week) Query/results (see slides in week) Collection S519

5. Why do we need to evaluate research collections Researchers/librarians need to effectively and efficiently obtain information Information institutes (i.e. libraries and research facilities) need to allocate research fund wisely Science policy making S519

6. Collection evaluation Dimensions – Size: number of publications – Impact: number of citations – Price Entities – Topic dynamics – Paper – Author – Journal – Subject category – Country S519

7. Demo – Google Scholar Features – Comprehensive – No quality control Things to cover – Search article/author/journal – Search result (PageRank + citation counts) – Stability – Classification – Export options S519

8. Demo – CiteSeerX Features – Over 700,000 documents – Primarily in the fields of computer and information science and engineering Things to cover – Most cited articles/citations/authors – Venue impact ratings – Years of citing articles – Co-citation – Author: h-index S519

9. Demon – ACM DL Features – Computer science publications Things to cover – Browse – Search – Tag cloud – Bibliometrics – Share function – Facet search – Sort S519

10. Demo – Web of Science Features – Provided by Thomson Reuters – 11,261 journals selected on the basis of impact evaluations – One of the most frequently used citation databases (science, social science, arts & humanities) Things to cover – Basic search – Advanced search – Cited reference search – Facet – Sort and rank – Analyze results – Journal Citation Report S519

11. Demo – Special academic databases WorldCat – Book popularity Eigenfactor – Visualizations – EF/AI – Cost effectiveness SCImago – Journal/country ranking – Map generator S519