As you may know, a number of our journal databases are provided to all of the public universities in the state of Washington through the Cooperative Library Project. This summer we will be migrating from ProQuest and their collection of databases to EBSCO and their offerings. EBSCO gave us access via a free trial during the past year, so many of you will already have become familiar with their products. The transition process will begin June 15 and end by July 1.
EBSCO full-text databases, including Academic Search Complete, will replace ProQuest 5000 as the interdisciplinary, “first-stop” source for magazines and journals. EBSCO offers 1,500 more current peer reviewed full text titles than ProQuest 5000.
As part of this package, business sources are getting a huge boost with our switch from ProQuest’s ABI-Inform to EBSCO’s Business Source Complete. Business Source Complete covers more than 1,200 journals, with coverage back to 1886 in some cases. The database also features sources such as financial data, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, and SWOT analyses.
Coverage of newspapers will be split between some of our current ProQuest products and the well-respected Newsbank product. We will continue to have access to Washington newspapers and selected national papers through ProQuest’s National Newspapers and Washington Newstand, but we will be gaining about 1,000 current full text newspapers through Newsbank’s US and international news collection called Access World News. In addition to the typical search options, the search interface in Access World News offers a geographic search feature, allowing you to click on a map to narrow down your search. This set also includes 17 newspapers from Washington State.
Several products that we license through ProQuest will remain unchanged. These include: Ethnic Newswatch, a collection of English and Spanish language US magazines and newspapers; the Dissertations and Theses database; and the historical New York Times database, which provides complete full-text coverage of the newspaper from 1851 to 2003.
We are working hard to make these changes as seamless as possible for you, and we hope you are pleased with the expanded range of resources that are now available. If you have questions about the new databases, please contact your subject specialist.
| You used to use .... ABI Inform ProQuest Direct ProQuest Newspapers |
Now use .... Business Source Complete Academic Search Complete Newsbank Access World News |
There are 4775 titles unique to the EBSCOhost package (as compared to the current ProQuest package) and the 1531 titles unique to ProQuest (not part of the EBSCOhost package). This spreadsheet includes only titles that have ISSN and are current or have an embargo no greater than 12 months.
As WSU changes to use of EBSCO offerings, the interface of their products are changing as well. See http://www.ebscohost.com/2.0 to read about individual changes or view a Flash demo.