<html><body><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>Hi all, </div><div><br></div><div>Just jumping in to say thanks for the shout out from people recommending the CUFTS resource comparison tool. </div><div><br></div><div></div><div><span lang="EN-US">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</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">esources used (mostly) by Canadian academic institutions as well as those being used by our own library clients. </span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></div><div>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. </div><div><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US">Good luck with the comparison. </span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US">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). </span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US">Sandra. </span></span></span></span></div></span></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Dianne Taylor-Harding" <dtaylor@mun.ca><br><b>To: </b>"Karen Jensen" <kljensen@alaska.edu>, "eril-l" <eril-l@lists.eril-l.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Wednesday, 2 December, 2015 04:54:17<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [Eril-l] database comparison tools<br><div><br></div><style><!--
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--></style><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Microsoft PhagsPa","sans-serif";color:#1F497D" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Microsoft PhagsPa','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d;">CUFTS</span></i></b><span style="font-family:"Microsoft PhagsPa","sans-serif";color:#1F497D" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Microsoft PhagsPa','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d;"> is useful for comparing full-text coverage + indexing only when covered by a <b>full-text</b> database. There is a limit on the number of database titles that can be compared at one time.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Microsoft PhagsPa","sans-serif";color:#1F497D" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Microsoft PhagsPa','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d;"> </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2" data-mce-style="text-indent: -.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2;"><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:#1F497D" data-mce-style="font-family: Symbol; color: #1f497d;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore" data-mce-style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"" data-mce-style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><b><i><span style="font-family:"Microsoft PhagsPa","sans-serif";color:#1F497D" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Microsoft PhagsPa','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d;">CUFTS</span></i></b><span style="font-family:"Microsoft PhagsPa","sans-serif";color:#1F497D" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Microsoft PhagsPa','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d;"> does not cover sources that do not provide full-text, e.g. <i>Web of Science</i> or <i>Scopus</i> or dozens of other indexes/abstracts.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Microsoft PhagsPa","sans-serif";color:#1F497D" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Microsoft PhagsPa','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Microsoft PhagsPa","sans-serif";color:#1F497D" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Microsoft PhagsPa','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d;">The old JISC ADAT tool did cover selected indexes/abstracts that did not include full-text.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Microsoft PhagsPa","sans-serif";color:#1F497D" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Microsoft PhagsPa','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Microsoft PhagsPa","sans-serif";color:#1F497D" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Microsoft PhagsPa','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d;">The only source that I know for comparing sources that provide indexing/abstracting without full-text is <b><i>Ulrich’s Serials Analysis System</i></b>. </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1" data-mce-style="text-indent: -.25in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:#1F497D" data-mce-style="font-family: Symbol; color: #1f497d;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore" data-mce-style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"" data-mce-style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Microsoft PhagsPa","sans-serif";color:#1F497D" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Microsoft PhagsPa','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d;">It is quite expensive, and it does not cover every database.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Microsoft PhagsPa","sans-serif";color:#1F497D" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Microsoft PhagsPa','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Microsoft PhagsPa","sans-serif";color:#1F497D" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Microsoft PhagsPa','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d;">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.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D" data-mce-style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Consolas; color: #1f497d;">Dianne Taylor-Harding,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D" data-mce-style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Consolas; color: #1f497d;">Collections Librarian for Reference,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D" data-mce-style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Consolas; color: #1f497d;">Queen Elizabeth II Library,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D" data-mce-style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Consolas; color: #1f497d;">Memorial University of Newfoundland,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D" data-mce-style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Consolas; color: #1f497d;">St. John's, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft PhagsPa","sans-serif";color:#1F497D" data-mce-style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Microsoft PhagsPa','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d;">dtaylor@mun.ca </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d;"> </span></p><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in" data-mce-style="border: none; border-top: solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt; padding: 3.0pt 0in 0in 0in;"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"" data-mce-style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"" data-mce-style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> Eril-l [mailto:eril-l-bounces@lists.eril-l.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Karen Jensen<br> <b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, December 01, 2015 4:11 PM<br> <b>To:</b> eril-l<br> <b>Subject:</b> [Eril-l] database comparison tools</span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">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?</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,</p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><br clear="all"></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Karen Jensen<br> Collection Development Officer<br> Rasmuson Library<br> University of Alaska Fairbanks</p></div><p class="MsoNormal">907-474-6695</p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:kljensen@alaska.edu" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:kljensen@alaska.edu">kljensen@alaska.edu</a></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>Eril-l mailing list<br>Eril-l@lists.eril-l.org<br>http://lists.eril-l.org/listinfo.cgi/eril-l-eril-l.org<br></div><div><br><br></div><div><br></div><div>-- <br></div><div><span name="x"></span><div><div><div><div><div>_________________________________________________________________________________<br>Sandra Wong, Electronic Resources Librarian</div><div>Collections Management Office<br>Simon Fraser University Library <br>8888 University Drive<br>Burnaby, BC Canada V5A 1S6<br><div><br></div>Email: swongj@sfu.ca or lib-licensing@sfu.ca <br>Phone: 778.782.4930 <br>Fax: 778.782.3023<br><div><br></div><br><div><br></div><br></div></div></div></div></div><span name="x"></span><br></div></div></body></html>