Content Overlap and Replacement Cost Analyses: Tools to Evaluate Abstracting/Indexing (A&I) and Full-Text Databases in Science and Engineering

Shrinking serials acquisition budgets and increasing subscription costs for access to bibliographic and full-text databases are forcing academic librarians to reevaluate the content needs of their faculty and students. This article showcases two methods to attain a firmer grasp of the content and value of databases: comparison of journal title overlap among various abstracting/indexing databases using the JISC Academic Database Assessment Tool (ADAT), and cost analysis of unbundling a full-text journal package.

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