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Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 09:26:23 -0700
From: Dan Lester <dan@riverofdata.com>
Subject: Re: Comparisons of database titles and full text availability
            (Joan Cohen)

Wednesday, November 01, 2000, 6:48:37 AM, you wrote:

Has any school or consortium compared the title lists of Proquest,
Academic Index, EBSCOHOST and any other general databases to see what
titles are covered by each and full text availability.
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It is easy to do your own comparison of any databases by using jake.
http://jake.med.yale.edu  Also, the comparison would vary, depending
on which products you're comparing from each of the vendors you
mention.  Each of them has several that might be considered general.

To do the comparison, download the list from jake for the ones you
want to compare, then toss into a spreadsheet or database and run
whatever comparisons you wish.  You'll find that each database will
have some things the other doesn't, and that there is no simple
answer, unless you simply count up number of titles in a given format.

dan

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