Magazines

[Eric Sandelands]

I'd urge that ANBAR be added to the list of databases for evaluation.

ANBAR have a management database containing:

- 15,000 fulltext article PDFs (from MCB journals)

-- 70,000 article abstracts (from 100+ publishers with guaranteed access 
to them all via The British Library with royalties paid through the 
Copyright Licencing Agency)

- 5,000 book reviews (online ordering via Internet bookshops)

See:
http://www.anbar.co.uk/management/

Free trials at:
http://www.anbar.com

Eric Sandelands
VUP




Katherine Kendall wrote:
> 
> Dear Friends,
> 
>         We are in the process of evaluating magazine databases.
> I have seen comparisons of academic databases but not public library
> databases.  We need general magazines and business magazines.
> We have Ebsco through the State (Ohio), but would like to compare
> IAC and UMI.  We can go either CD-ROMs or Internet.
> Now to the questions:
> 
> 1.  Who has the most full-text?  How about relevancy?
> 2.  Do the web-based interfaces search as well as the old
>         CD-ROM interfaces?
> 3.  Who has rights (either of these guys or a different vendor)
>         to the Time Inc. magazines now?
> 4.  Is printing more precise off the web?
> 5.  Do patrons prefer web to CD-ROM because it's easier to use?
>         Is it easier to teach?
> 6.  Has anyone "gone bare" by using only the OPLIN-provided
>         databases and how has that worked out?
> 
> Any input appreciated - not just from other Ohio libraries.
> We're all in the same squeeze with journal subscriptions.
> Thanks!
> 
> Katherine Kendall, Head of Technology Services
> Mentor Public Library
> Mentor, Ohio
> mailto:kk at harborcom.net