An assessment of social sciences coverage by four prominent full-text online aggregated journal packages

Library Collections, Acquisition and Technical Services

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 411-419

  Black, Steve ^a  

^a Serials   (United States)

Author keywords

Citation impact factor analysis; Cost effectiveness; Full text; Online journals; Social sciences journals

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012095463     PISSN: 14649055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1464-9055(99)00086-X     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. Vendor information about the most current versions of the full-text packages studied here may be found on the web at: EBSCO - www.ebsco.com; UMI - www.umi.com; Information Access Company (IAC) - www.iacnet.com; H.W. Wilson - www.hwwilson.com.
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