Abstract
The study aims to discover the information sources most suitable for exploratory searching in terms of effectiveness and content coverage in searching for library and information science (LIS) scholarly publications on a specific topic. It is intended to support LIS researchers in the choice of a search system in situations when they start exploring a topic and try to find the necessary literature. Four information sources were selected after a preliminary survey: Google, Google Scholar (GS), Ebsco Discovery Service (EDS), and Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA). They were compared based on query results in terms of precision, relative recall, coverage, and full-text access. In all these aspects Google turned out to be the best. GS was close behind, followed by LISA and EDS.
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