[Eril-l] database comparison tools

[Sandra Wong]

Hi all, 

Just jumping in to say thanks for the shout out from people recommending the CUFTS resource comparison tool. 

Just a quick FYI. The CUFTS knowledge base makes no effort to include all possible packages and offerings from all publishers and providers, but we do have the majority of popular full text aggregator databases from Gale, EBSCO and Proquest - and they tend to be r esources used (mostly) by Canadian academic institutions as well as those being used by our own library clients. 

The knowledge base is primarily for full text link resolving and for the A-Z journal listings - so it is primarily full text - but for full text aggregators, we accommodate lists that contain index only titles as well. 

Gale has recently adopted KBART listings, so indexing data has disappeared in CUFTS for the gale database lists as we migrated those ones so that we could use their KBART lists to populate the knowledge base rather than their former lists which required quite a bit of editing to be made suitable for addition to the knowledge base. 

Good luck with the comparison. 

Let me know if you have any specific questions about the CUFTS tool - it does tend to cut off some results if you try to compare really, really big lists (eg, Lexis Nexis vs Factiva... for example). 

Sandra. 

----- Original Message -----

From: "Dianne Taylor-Harding" <dtaylor at mun.ca> 
To: "Karen Jensen" <kljensen at alaska.edu>, "eril-l" <eril-l at lists.eril-l.org> 
Sent: Wednesday, 2 December, 2015 04:54:17 
Subject: Re: [Eril-l] database comparison tools 



CUFTS is useful for comparing full-text coverage + indexing only when covered by a full-text database. There is a limit on the number of database titles that can be compared at one time. 



· CUFTS does not cover sources that do not provide full-text, e.g. Web of Science or Scopus or dozens of other indexes/abstracts. 



The old JISC ADAT tool did cover selected indexes/abstracts that did not include full-text. 



The only source that I know for comparing sources that provide indexing/abstracting without full-text is Ulrich’s Serials Analysis System . 

· It is quite expensive, and it does not cover every database. 



The Serials Solutions overlap analysis tool is a great source for finding full-text overlap among the full-text journal collections that your library accesses. 





Dianne Taylor-Harding, 

Collections Librarian for Reference, 

Queen Elizabeth II Library, 

Memorial University of Newfoundland, 

St. John's, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada 

dtaylor at mun.ca 




From: Eril-l [mailto:eril-l-bounces at lists.eril-l.org] On Behalf Of Karen Jensen 
Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2015 4:11 PM 
To: eril-l 
Subject: [Eril-l] database comparison tools 





Our library is under-going massive budget cuts and downsizing. Right now, I'm focusing on eliminating any and all duplication of indexing, and was hoping to use the old JISC, later known as ADAT tool, but it appears to have been completely dismantled. Does anyone know of a good substitute? Or a method that doesn't involve comparing long title lists? 


Thanks, 





Karen Jensen 
Collection Development Officer 
Rasmuson Library 
University of Alaska Fairbanks 


907-474-6695 


kljensen at alaska.edu 







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