EBSCOHost & JSTOR Mohammed VI Library Fall 2012

What is EBSCOHost? EBSCO is an acronym for Elton B Stephens Company EBSCOhost is a powerful online reference system accessible via the Internet. It offers a variety of proprietary full text databases and popular databases from leading information providers. The comprehensive databases range from general reference collections to specially designed, subject-specific databases for public, academic, medical, corporate and school libraries.

Mohammed VI Library’s Current Subscriptions (EBSCOHost) Multi-disciplinary databases: Academic Search Complete Subject-specific databases Business Source Complete Communication & Mass Media Complete Regional Business News Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) GreenFILE MEDLINE ERIC Teacher Reference Center

EBSCO Academic Search Complete Database description from our website: Academic Search Complete is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications All major disciplines—most research topics are covered here Updated daily—good for current research 1886—today

JSTOR

JSTOR is short for Journal Storage Description from our Website: JSTOR includes over 1,000 leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. Journals are always included from volume 1, issue 1. Beginning in 2011, current issues for more than 150 journals will be available on JSTOR as part of the Current Scholarship Program.  All major disciplines—most research topics are covered here

JSTOR is short for Journal Storage All full-text Nearly all academic journals Always starts with the first issue of a journal 90% of journals have an embargo, which means some of the recent content isn’t available. This could be the last 5 years, or just the last year or two. 150 journals now have the most recent issues and are updated continuously. Coverage of some journals goes back to the 1600s-- Good source for historical research especially

EBSCO/JSTOR

Basic Differences EBSCOHost JSTOR Provides content from a wide range of sources (journals (peer-reviewed); magazines, newspapers; monographs, etc.) Provides content from a unique source (scholarly journals, mostly peer-reviewed) Allows for recent content/current issues. 90% of full-text articles are from the last 10 years. Offers archival content/back issues, including a lot of older scholarship (often still relevant) Has an indexed, standardized subject heading (subject terms, thesaurus), better advanced search Lacks a standardized subject heading, weaker advanced search options

Basic Similarities Both offer academic (and peer-reviewed) content Both are searchable and browsable Both allow cross-disciplinary search In essence, both databases should be conceived of as complementary. It is often best to search in both

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