This richly illustrated book provides guidelines for evaluating a variety of database types, including abstracting and indexing, directory, full-text, and page-image databases available in online and/or CD-ROM formats. Jacso discusses the purpose and techniques of comparing and evaluating the most important characteristics of textual databases, such as their scope, dimensions, source coverage, record content, accuracy, consistency, currency, and completeness. Evaluation models and procedures are given for widely used databases (e.g., Books in Print, Ulrich's Periodicals Directory, Library and Information Science Abstracts and their full-text version), whose subject, content, and terminology are familiar to librarians and information specialists irrespective of their specialization. Beyond traditional online and CD-ROM databases, the book illustrates the evaluation of the new Web-born information resources (including Amazon, Barnes and Noble, The Electric Library, and Northern Light).
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?The book is exceptionally well written....highly recommended for all librarians and information professionals interested in databases. It covers both theoretical and practical aspects of content evaluation and will perhaps cause us to view databases in our own discipline more critically. Moreover, the work helps fill a niche in the literature by emphasizing the importance of database content.?-Technical Services Quarterly
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PeTER JACSo is Chair and Associate Professor, School of Library and Information Studies, University of Hawaii, Honolulu. He received the Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award of the American Society for Information Science (ASIS), the Pratt-Severn Faculty Innovation Award, and the Louis Shores-Oryx Press Award for excellence in reviewing databases.
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The book itself was quite good. Coverage was comprehensive and still highly relevant today.
The author's voice is very unique and fun to read when dealing with such things as databases. The only complaint is that the binding is frankly very poor. If not already released as an E-book, perhaps it should be. It fell apart on me, chapter by chapter. I kept reading, the binding just did not hold. I still treasure the stapled copy and it may have been my overuse of the product but it simply did not hold up more than three months. Buy it for the content and get your stapler ready.
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information science databases, document type field, file producers, journal base, book review records, serials directory, indexing consistency, retrospective coverage, information science journals, date banners, data transfer capabilities, source coverage, subject indexing, database publishers, documentary databases, senior technical editor, core journals, indexing quality, update pattern, structured abstracts, citation errors, journal level, language coverage, misspelled version, science coverage Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Search History, Information Today, Periodical Abstracts, Set Term Searched Items, Mental Health Abstracts, Reed Reference Publishing, World Databases, Sociological Abstracts, Academic Search Elite, Items Term, Bowker's Complete Video Directory, Library of Congress, Microcomputer Abstracts, Content Consistency, Internet Movie Database, Mark Knopfler, Northern Light, United States, Magazine Article Summaries, The Dialog Corporation, Annie Hall, Content Evaluation Criteria, Document Number, Excerpta Medica, Richest People New!
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information science databases, document type field, file producers, journal base, book review records, serials directory, indexing consistency, retrospective coverage, information science journals, date banners, data transfer capabilities, source coverage, subject indexing, database publishers, documentary databases, senior technical editor, core journals, indexing quality, update pattern, structured abstracts, citation errors, journal level, language coverage, misspelled version, science coverage Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Search History, Information Today, Periodical Abstracts, Set Term Searched Items, Mental Health Abstracts, Reed Reference Publishing, World Databases, Sociological Abstracts, Academic Search Elite, Items Term, Bowker's Complete Video Directory, Library of Congress, Microcomputer Abstracts, Content Consistency, Internet Movie Database, Mark Knopfler, Northern Light, United States, Magazine Article Summaries, The Dialog Corporation, Annie Hall, Content Evaluation Criteria, Document Number, Excerpta Medica, Richest People New!
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- Annual Review of Information Science and Technology 2001 by Martha E. Williams in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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