Serials Solutions just added a Journal Overlap Analysis service with its
basic package that allows you to compare title lists in databases
(www.serialssolutions.com).  Another service is Gold Rush
(http://grweb.coalliance.org/).  Both have subscription fees.

Buddy Pennington
Serials Acquisitions Librarian
Miller Nichols Library
University of Missouri - Kansas City
800 E. 51st Street
Kansas City, MO  64110
816-235-1548
816-333-5584 (fax)
penningtonb@umkc.edu

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From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum
[mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Marshall, Susan
Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 12:46 PM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: [SERIALST] A & I Database title overlap program?

Colleagues,

    I am trying to find out if there is a program available that will
run a comparison of titles indexed between two index and abstract
databases.
This can be used as a collection development tool. For example, we would
like to know what percentage of overlap occurs between the
Anthropological Index Online and InfoTrac's OneFile.

I realize that other factors need to be considered when camparing
databases of this nature such as how a database is indexed, but for a
rough estimate of overlap it would be nice to have...

Anyone know of a tool that can do this?

Sue Marshall
Electronic Resources Librarian
Renne Library
Montana State University
P.O. Box 173320
Bozeman, MT 59717-3320
smarshall@montana.edu
(406) 994-4313
Fax (406) 994-2851