Library needs your help to evaluate academic databases

By Joseph Vaughan
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This message came over from the Library.

From: Farb,Sharon

Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2007, 12:13pm

The UCLA library is interested in gathering input from UCLA faculty and graduate students working with undergraduates regarding two databases aimed at interdisciplinary undergraduate uses. Please share this announcement with any faculty or graduate students you think may be interested. All comments welcome. Deadline is October 31, 2007.

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The databases are:

Academic Search Premier
Indexes and abstracts articles in more than eight thousand arts and humanities, social sciences, and life and physical sciences journals; offers access to full-text articles in more than 4,400 journals

Academic Search Complete

Indexes and abstracts articles in more than 10,900 journals and other publications in English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, and Portuguese; full-text available for more than 5,300 journals; coverage spans all disciplines and area studies

Academic OneFile
Indexes and abstracts articles in more than eight thousand journals in the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, arts, theology, and literature; includes NPR, CNN, and CBC transcripts and podcasts and the full text of The New York Times from 1995 to the present

Learn more at http://www2.library.ucla.edu/electronicresources.html

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