Hello all,
Relatively early-career librarian here – hope this is the appropriate forum for this query.
I am trying to learn:
1.
How I might determine if the journals in one subscription package are duplicated in another?
2.
If I find the collections do overlap, how I can ascertain which collection holds more full-text, peer-reviewed / scholarly journals than the other?
The journal publishers I am looking into are SAGE and Springer. I don’t believe that either of the journal collections we get via subscriptions with them comprises a standard, widely-offered package.
The instructor is looking for a way to help students do a systematic review (course in physical therapy). Objective is to filter our many databases down to the ones that will yield unique material (i.e. material that does not overlap with
other collections), but also encompass a broad range of scholarly, full-text journals.
My objective is to avoid printing out title lists, placing them beside each other, comparing them, and crossing off dupes. Short of this, my only other idea is to consult you, or simply contacting the publishers themselves for methods(unlikely
to yield impartial accounting?).
I have searched around to find if others have tackled this question recently, or even if there is a standard method for large-scale duplicate-spotting between journal publishers. I’ve turned up some likely prospects, but nothing definitive
or accessible – mostly in the form of research papers.
If anyone may point me in the direction of either current research out there on this subject, or a tested way to compare, and evaluate the features of, journal collections, I would be grateful.
Thanks in advance,
damien
Damien McCaffery
Electronic Resources Librarian
Jefferson (Philadelphia University + Thomas Jefferson University)
4201 Henry Avenue
Philadelphia PA 19144
T 215-951-2674
mccafferyd@philau.edu
