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Library Databases: More Full-text Options

tl;dr: online library resource access options have expanded. We added a very large amount of full-text content, lost access to some full-text content, and discontinued a few indexes. Our JSTOR backfiles remain the same.

The net result is a loss of a few indexing/abstracting databases (Philosopher’s Index, Econlit, Social Work Abstracts), a change to indexing and abstracting from full-text for a few databases (America: History and Life, Historical Abstracts), a change to reduced full-text access (Computers and Applied Sciences Complete, Art & Architecture Complete), and a large influx of full-text (ProQuest Central) to fill in “lost” full-text and provide alternate full-text as available.

As always, our interlibrary loan staff will gladly ask other libraries for full text content, if the Lehman Library doesn’t have it immediately available.

Specific changes include:

• Spring 2024: we subscribed to ProQuest Central, which includes content across the curriculum and duplicated some content already available. This change expands online journal coverage with 10-25% more full-text, adds 300,000+ full-text dissertations, and expands our business coverage with the full content of ABI Inform 
• Summer 2024: we discontinued
  • EconLit
  • Library & Information Science Source
  • Philosopher’s Index
  • Social Work Abstracts
• Summer 2024: we changed from full text to abstracting/indexing for these databases
  • America: History and Life
  • Art and Architecture Complete
  • Computers and Applied Sciences Complete
  • Historical Abstracts
• Fall 2024: SciFinderN is replaced by Reaxsys

These changes have resulted in 10-25% more full-text content for a similar cost. 
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