1. EBSCO and ProQuest in eIFL Countries Paper prepared by Biljana Kosanovic and KoBSON Full-text at: www.eifl.net www.eifl.net Members only area information sharing Reports, Studies & Articles

2. Method  analysis at the individual journal title level  citation analysis as the objective method of judging the quality of journals (JCR)  journal title lists provided by aggregators on April, 2003  only full-text journals with ISSN o aggregators abbreviated journal titles in their own way o eg. ISSN 0896-7385 we found three titles: (1) Cancer Biotechnology Weekly (1) Cancer Biotechnology Weekly (2) Cancer Weekly (2) Cancer Weekly (3) Cancer Weekly Plus (3) Cancer Weekly Plus

3. Contents: sub-databases EBSCOProQuest Academic Search Premier ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry Business Source Premier Agriculture Journals MasterFILE Premier Applied Science and Technology Health Sou: Nursing/Academic Career and Technical Education Health Sou: Consumer Edition Computing Regional Business News Education Journals Clinical Pharmacology General Science MEDLINE abs Nursing Journals com ERIC abs Social Sciences Telecommunications

4. Facts about contents… EBSCOProQuest Unique journal titles 69352205 Unique full-text journals 57681645 Full-text journals with impact factor 1405491 Average impact factor 1.391.25

5. Common contents 940 EBSCOProQuest 705 unique titles titles 4828 unique titles titles

6. Facts about contents EBSCOProQuest Current Contents Disciplines %IF%IF Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sci. 16.371.806.242.34 Life Sciences 18.964.204.875.28 Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences 14.971.842.432.75 Clinical Medicine 21.402.135.763.10 Engineering, Computing & Technology 16.550.617.960.56 Electronics & Telecommunications Colle. 19.230.9314.421.06 Social & Behavioral Sciences 44.300.8021.620.81 Business Collection 51.071.1011.591.05 Arts & Humanities 24.950.361.180.51

7. Conclusion  EBSCO's package: o expanded their offer o move to STM content  ProQuest package: o less number of titles but more significant content o high number of Social Science journals

8. Compare vendors  Selection of e-resources  Selection of content  Evaluation of content  Providing coordinators with an interface to all information resources (journals)  Database being considered