<div dir="ltr">We're pulling data for the FY15 IPEDS report. I'm getting stuck on the "Databases (Digital/Electronic)" question.<div><br></div><div>I can go into my ERM KB and see how many "databases" are tracked. However, this includes four flavors of ABI/INFORM - one we license, three more that we have access to through the first license. Is that one database or four? I also have collections of multiple years of Springer ebooks in computer science, each tracked separately? Do these count as one database or 8? While they are an annual update (and thus qualify as a single database, according to the data definition), the content is not updated, just new titles are added that need to be purchased.</div><div><br></div><div>The definition reads:</div><div><br></div><div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">"Digital/Electronic Databases -</div><div dir="ltr">Report the total number of licensed digital/electronic databases in your collection if there is bibliographic or discovery access at the database level. Each database is counted individually even if access to several databases is supported through the same vendor interface. A database is collection of electronically stored data or unit records (facts, bibliographic data, and texts) with a common user interface and software for the retrieval and manipulation of the data. The data or records are usually collected with a particular intent and relate to a defined topic. Do not include discovery systems in the count of databases. Do not include "individual releases" such as annual updates of content or the migration of the user interface to the next vendor-release (i.e., interface version 3.0 replaces version 2.0) as separate databases."<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>All of the definitions are at <a href="https://surveys.nces.ed.gov/ipeds/VisInstructions.aspx?survey=15&id=30103&show=part">https://surveys.nces.ed.gov/ipeds/VisInstructions.aspx?survey=15&id=30103&show=part</a></div><div><br></div><div>Does anyone have any insight?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks!</div><div>Mark Winek</div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr"><span><div dir="ltr" style="margin-left:0pt"><table style="border:none;border-collapse:collapse"><colgroup><col width="159"><col width="465"></colgroup><tbody><tr style="height:0px"><td style="border:0px solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:middle;padding:7px"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/b0TJfSShhewASBZG1QH5L-wp5R4OZZVRYbJNMkDe5nIu7li5ZVinpw450yXYhpCfi1ks01Iv14U6tAaFjqzX28wlDXItYHZiPb5qnojyGpVPaM-z2ly2-k7iJ6eisjnvRQ" width="145px;" height="71px;" style="border: none;" alt="Library-logo-ES.png"></span></p></td><td style="border:0px solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:middle;padding:7px"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Mark D. Winek</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:15px;white-space:pre-wrap">Head, Electronic Resources & Serials</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">202-687-0774</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><a href="mailto:mdw65@georgetown.edu" target="_blank">mdw65@georgetown.edu</a></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div></span></div></div></div></div>
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