A Comparison of the Iter Bibliography and the International Medieval Bibliography

Newton, Daniel; Tellman, Jennalyn

doi:10.5860/rusq.49n3.265

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“…Running topic searches across databases to calculate the overlap, uniqueness, recall, and/or precision of results in each database are frequently used to test performance. Over the past few decades, studies have tested database performance for comparing discovery services (Ciccone and Vickery, 2015;Hanneke and O'Brien, 2016) and retrieval of the literature in a variety of fields, such as agricultural sciences (Brooks, 1980), education (Finch, 2010), geography (Ştirbu et al, 2015), health sciences (Roberts, 1999;Snow and Ifshin, 1984;Shultz, 2007;Stokes et al, 2009;Tober, 2011), history (Newton and Tellman, 2010), sociology (Todd, 2006), and toxicology (Bawden and Brock, 1985).…”

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Identifying “best bets” for searching in chemical engineering

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2018

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Purpose Performing efficient literature searches and subscribing to the most comprehensive databases for interdisciplinary fields can be challenging since the literature is typically indexed in numerous databases to different extents. Comparing databases will help information professionals make appropriate choices when teaching, literature searching, creating online subject guides, and deciding which databases to renew when faced with fiscal challenges. The purpose of this paper is to compare databases for searching the chemical engineering literature. Design/methodology/approach This paper compares journal indexing and search recall across seven databases that cover the chemical engineering literature in order to determine which database and database pair provide the most comprehensive coverage in this area. It also summarizes published, database comparison methods to aid information professionals in undertaking their own comparative assessments. Findings SciFinder, Scopus, and Web of Science, listed alphabetically, were the leading databases for searching the chemical engineering literature. SciFinder-Scopus and SciFinder-Web of Science were the top two database pairs. No single database or pair provided 100 percent complete coverage of the literature examined. Searching a second database increased the recall of results by an average of 17.6 percent. Practical implications The findings are useful since they identify “best bets” for performing an efficient search of the chemical engineering literature. Information professionals can also use the methods discussed to compare databases for any discipline or search topic. Originality/value This paper builds on the previous literature by using a dual approach to compare the coverage of the chemical engineering literature across multiple databases. To the author’s knowledge, comparing databases in the field of chemical engineering has not been reported in the literature thus far.

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Identifying “best bets” for searching in chemical engineering

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2018

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“…Given the importance of non-journal essays for this field, the researchers felt a list of journals covered is not a sufficient assessment of database coverage. They generate an item based checklist using Web of Science and book citations from references in dissertations identified through ProQuest Dissertation Abstracts [4].…”

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Faculty Publication Checklists: A Quantitative Method to Compare Traditional Databases to Web Search Engines

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference &Amp; Exposition Proceedings

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A Comparison of the Iter Bibliography and the International Medieval Bibliography

Cited by 2 publications

References 16 publications

Identifying “best bets” for searching in chemical engineering

Identifying “best bets” for searching in chemical engineering

Faculty Publication Checklists: A Quantitative Method to Compare Traditional Databases to Web Search Engines

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