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Bibliographic Databases in the Sciences and Engineering: Are They Going to Survive?
Nevenka Zdravkovska & Bob KackleyUniversity of Maryland, College Park,
Maryland, USA
Background on the University
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Background on Sciences/Engineering @ UMD
Clark School of EngineeringEngineering 17th
Aerospace engineering 8th
Computer engineering 17th
Electrical engineering 14th
Civil engineering 21st
Mechanical engineering 24th
College of Computer, Mathematical & Physical SciencesComputer Science 13th
Artificial intelligence 9th
Systems 12th
Programming languages 17th
Mathematics 21st
Applied mathematics 12th
Physics 13th Atomic, molecular, optical 5th
Plasma physics 2nd
Quantum physics 9th
Nuclear physics 10th
Condensed matter, solid state 13th
Elementary particles/string theory13th
2008 U.S. News & World Report Graduate Rankings Fountain in front of the Math Building
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Background on the Libraries & EPSL
• UM’s 8 libraries• Engineering &
Physical Sciences Library (EPSL) largest of the branches– 13 permanent staff (6
professional librarians)
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Collections
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Journals Cancellation• Serials inflation in early 2000’s at rate of
10%/year (DBs at 8%/year)
• Cancellations in total UM Libraries Budget: FY02- 2%, FY03-5%, FY04-2.5%
• Began 2nd Review in 8/2005 with creation of 25% target into 3 prioritized segments
• Still, UM Libraries had worse materials’ cuts in FY07-8%, FY08-9%, FY09-5%
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Free Journal Tools• EnginFactor – Ranking and Mapping Scientific
Knowledge http://eigenfactor.org/
• SJR SCImago Journal and Country Rankinghttp://www.scimagojr.com/
• Journal-Ranking.comhttp://www.journal-ranking.com/ranking/web/index.html
• Journal Info (Lund University)http://jinfo.lub.lu.se/
• Eureka – Science Journal Watch http://www.eurekajournalwatch.org/index.php/Main_Page
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Bibliographic Databases
• FY09 Databases and Serials Received Equal Scrutiny budget-wise
• Overlap already on journals in many databases• Report that Google Scholar indexes 90% of
recent engineering research?????????• 2008 Univ. of British Columbia dropped INSPEC
-- we followed suit despite loss of subject area comprehensiveness
• But potentially will save much $ in the future???
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Databases Comparison Tools
• CUFTS: Open Source Serials Management – http://researcher.sfu.ca/cufts
• JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) Academic Database Assessment Tool – http://www.jisc-adat.com/adat/home.pl
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Cancelled Databases
• ABI Inform• Access Science • Ageline • Alternative Press Index • Annotated Bibliography of English Studies, eff. January 1, 2009 • Arts & Humanities Search • Biography Index • Books in Print • Index of Christian Art, eff. May 31, 2008 • INSPEC (we will retain access to INSPEC Archive--Science
Abstracts 1868 - 1968) • Lexis-Nexis Government Periodicals Index • NTIS, eff. October 1, 2008 • Polling the Nations, eff. April 7, 2008
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Cost/Search
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Free Databases
• Scitopia.com - http://www.scitopia.com • NTIS.gov - http://www.ntis.gov • Worldcat.org – www.worldcat.org • USPTO.gov - http://www.uspto.gov• Espacenet.com – http://ep.espacenet.com• Pubmed Central -
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov • Agricola – http://agricola.nal.usda.gov • ERIC – http://www.eric.ed.gov
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On Demand Databases
• 1998 at Georgetown University library, INSPEC via OCLC – was cut ($20K/yr)
• INSPEC via DATASTAR (European Dialog now owned by Proquest) on Pay-Per-View then
• Successful plan for less than original designation of $5K – so, BIOSIS Previews added as well in that fashion
• Future of databases as well as journals ???
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Conclusion
“The research needs of the 21st century revolve around finding new truths …. not confirming that which is already known”
Wallace, Danny P. 2007. Academic Library and Research in the Twenty-First Century: Linking Practice and Research. Journal of
Academic Librarianship 33: 529-531
