...Daniel Torres-Salinas; Nicolas Robinson-Garcia; Juan Miguel Campanario; Emilio Delgado López-Cózar Purpose – The aim of this study is to analyse the disciplinary coverage of Thomson Reuters' Book Citation Index database focusing on publisher presence, impact and specialisation. Design...

...Peter Jacso Purpose The purpose of this paper is to highlight the main features of the components of Proquest's giga database package for LIS faculty and students of databases and software services. These allow complimentary access to hundreds of indexing/abstracting, directory and full‐text...

...Kun Chang Lee; Péter Jacsó Purpose The purpose of this research is to analyze the volume of full‐text coverage for 50 marketing‐focused and marketing‐related serial sources in the Ebsco Business Source Premier (BSP) and ProQuest ABI/INFORM Global (ABI) databases, focusing on the significant...

...Péter Jacsó Purpose The increasing availability of digital editions of journals, and/or the incorporation of the full‐text versions of their papers in the largest aggregator databases, have been the highlights in the coming of age of digital libraries from many perspectives, ranging from...

... and business databases. Findings In light of the apparently everlasting library budget crises, the incessant increases in the subscription costs of journals and database licensing, and – on the positive side – the impressive growth of full text digital availability of journals through various sources...

... in mid‐2011 eliminated the 100,000‐record limit in the search results. This, in turn, makes it possible to study the bibliometric profile of the entire WoS database (which consists of 50 million unique records), and/or any subset licensed by a library. In addition the maximum record set for the automatic...

... of interpolation (2009). It is available on page 43 of the open access report. Inaccurate country assignment is another problem that only the database provider can help with, and the scale of it cannot be determined by the user. In some cases the user may be alerted to such problems when browsing the result...

..., with the aim of identifying the typology, the advantages and disadvantages, and the real use and trend of each of the linguistic resources and tools used in this new kind of system. Findings Five of the resources most used in the cross‐languages QA systems were identified and studied: databases...

... large result sets for test queries is that often they include a huge proportion of bad results. GS undoubtedly has the broadest source base, but it is still the most enigmatic database. It does not provide any details about the sources it uses, the number of records collected, the number of journals...

... cover) © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 --> Data handling Databases Government data processing Management information systems Data mining might seem an esoteric subject only of interest to computer scientists, but in fact most corporate decisions are based on some form...

... librarians in comparing and selecting digital information resources for licensing. The JISC Academic Database Assessment Tool (JISC ADAT) – created for JISC by DataSalon – is offered free of charge under a Creative Commons license agreement so it is available to any type of library (and any user) anywhere...

... yearly editions they wish to license (back to 1994). The Eigenfactor (EF) database combines the two subsets into a single database for each year (going back to the 1995 edition). This database service is open access, and does not even require registration or login. Its 2007 segment (EF‐2007) reports...

...) © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 --> Information retrieval Data handling Databases Scale is really a great concern for many information and data processing technologies. In the research area of data warehousing, knowledge discovery, and data mining, how to deal with large...

... would have needed removal. After I presented this example, Google Scholar fixed the problem, but these types of double whammy duplicates are still present in the database. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Publishing Databases Systems software Internet The Publish or Perish...

... in three citation databases. Findings Web of Science has long been the only tool for citation analysis. Scopus and Google Scholar, while still new to the market, are complementary to Web of Science and in some cases can provide a more nuanced view of the importance of scholarly articles in the social...

...Péter Jacsó Purpose The purpose of this paper is to show that the extent of journal coverage, size and retrospectivity are three of the most commonly advertised features of database content. However, these data by themselves rarely provide a good enough sense of the real breadth of database...

... Science Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index) of the Web of Science system of Thomson‐Reuters and the Scopus database of Elsevier are used to gauge the comparability of the h‐indexes reported by the two systems. Findings The results show that in spite of the significant differences...

... of publications, the number of citations and the impact factor (the ratio of citations received to papers published), and the effect these may have on the h‐index of countries – in two of the most widely used citation‐enhanced databases. Design/methodology/approach The author uses the Scopus database...

... --> Databases Data handling Digital storage This work is an updated version of the previous edition of 2005. This four‐volume set is primarily aimed at institutional libraries. Buying the hard cover version gives rights to online access institution‐wide for as long as the edition is current...

... – 457 patent documents; 3. patent document processing – 586 patent documents; and 4. patent analysis – 139 patent documents. All searches were performed in a Delphion patent database (www.delphion.com/) at the Thomson Delphion host, using a full‐text search option. The analysis...