{"id":1098,"date":"2015-03-19T15:28:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T15:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aulibrarynews.wordpress.com\/?p=1098"},"modified":"2015-03-19T15:28:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T15:28:00","slug":"march-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/2015\/03\/19\/march-madness\/","title":{"rendered":"MARCH MADNESS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here at Scholes March Madness<\/strong> is in full swing so in the spirit brackets we\u2019ve decided to provide our own bracket of sorts. We\u2019ll break down the numbers and analyze the data over the course of March Madness, each week matching up a couple of our databases in a resource showdown<\/strong>. Stay tuned for the matchups!!!!
\nOfficial NCLA (National Collegiate Library Association) Sanctioned MADNESS
\n\"NCLA\"<\/a>
\nLet\u2019s introduce the teams and provide some stats\u2026.<\/strong>
\n\"scopus\"<\/a>
\nName: \u201cThe Freshman\u201d \u2013SCOPUS
\nTemporal Coverage: 1995-Present
\nJournal Titles: 21,000
\nPublishers: 5,000
\nBooks: 70,000
\nConference Papers: 6.5 Million
\nPatents: 24 Million
\nCoach: Elsevier
\nClaim to Fame: \u201cThe largest abstract and citation database of peer reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings\u201d
\n\"ScienceDirect\"<\/a>
\nName: \u201cQuarter\u201d \u2013ScienceDirect
\nTemporal Coverage: 1823-Present
\nJournal Titles: 2,500
\nArticles: 13,000
\nFull Text: Yes
\nBooks: 26,000
\nCoach: Elsevier
\nClaim to Fame: \u201cHome to almost one-quarter of the world\u2019s peer reviewed full text scientific, technical and medical content\u201d
\n\"imgres-2\"<\/a>
\nName: \u201cCoverage\u201d \u2013Academic Search Complete
\nTemporal Coverage: 1887-Present
\nIndexed Journal Titles: 13,780
\nFull Text Journals: 9,000
\nFull Text Peer-Reviewed Journals: 7,850
\nCoach: EBSCOhost
\nClaim to Fame: \u201cThe world\u2019s most comprehensive, scholarly full-text database for multidisciplinary research\u201d
\n\"imgres-3\"<\/a>
\nName: \u201cCompendex\u201d \u2013Engineering Village
\nTemporal Coverage: 1884-Present
\nEngineering Disciplines: 190
\nPublishers: 1,998
\nJournals: 3,800+
\nTrade Magazines: 117
\nConference Proceedings: 80,000+
\nDatabases Include: Compendex, NTIS, Chimica, GeoRef (12 in all)
\nCoach: Elsevier
\nClaim to Fame: \u201cEngineering Village is the definitive “go to” resource for engineering information for academia\u201d
\n\"JSTOR\"<\/a>
\nName: \u201cThe Non Profit\u201d \u2013JSTOR
\nPublishers: 900+
\nDisciplines Covered: 500+
\nFull Text Journals: 2,000+
\nPrimary Resources: 2 Million+
\nCoach: Ithaca
\nClaim to Fame: \u201cWe Collaborate with the academic community\u201d
\n\"Lexis<\/a>
\nName: \u201cJr\u201d \u2013LexisNexis Academic
\nTemporal Coverage: 1790-Present
\nNewspapers: 3,000+
\nMagazines: 2,000+
\nFull Text Sources: 15,000+
\nLegal Research Coverage: Federal & State
\nCoach: LexisNexis
\nClaim to Fame: \u201cPowerful, easy, vetted\u201d
\n\"Newspaper<\/a>
\nName: \u201cNewsboy\u201d \u2013Newspaper Source Plus
\nFull Text News Articles: 58 Million+
\nNewspaper Coverage: 1,200+
\nMedia Coverage: TV & Radio broadcast transcripts
\nCoach: EBSCOhost
\nClaim to Fame: \u201cToday\u2019s news today\u201d
\n\"proquest<\/a>
\nName: \u201cThe Quest\u201d \u2013ProQuest Central
\nSubject Areas: 160+
\nFull text Dissertations: 50,000+
\nMarket Reports: 43 Industries
\nCoach: ProQuest
\nClaim to Fame: \u201cThe Ultimate cross-disciplinary research tool\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here at Scholes March Madness is in full swing so in the spirit brackets we\u2019ve decided to provide our own bracket of sorts. We\u2019ll break down the numbers and analyze the data over the course of March Madness, each week matching up a couple of our databases in a resource showdown. Stay tuned for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}