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Abstract The database analysis strategies used to decide whether the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Library should maintain a subscription to the electronic database Wilson Social Sciences Abstracts(Wilson SSA) are described. A variety of analyses were conducted: comparison of journal title coverage with four other multi-subject databases available at UIUC (Social Sciences Citation Index, EBSCO Academic Search Elite, Current Contents, and Infotrac); usage statistics; comparison of actual journal year coverage between SSA and the database that offered the highest percentage of title coverage (Infotrac); search retrieval analysis for a small number of subjects; and comparison of journal coverage between Wilson SSA and a multi-social science database search across nine Cambridge Scientific Abstracts social sciences databases. Results showed a high degree of overlap in title, as well as year coverage between SSA and the targeted comparison databases, and low usage/high costs for the SSA pro...
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