Content Evaluation of Textural CD-ROM and Web Databases [Paperback]

Peter Jacso (Author), P?ter Jacs? (Author), Carol Tenopir (Editor)

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Paperback: 275 pages
Publisher: Libraries Unlimited (October 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1563087375
ISBN-13: 978-1563087370
Product Dimensions: 26.7 x 22.9 x 1.9 cm
Shipping Weight: 835 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #541,715 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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?The book is exceptionally well written....highly recommended for all librarians and information professionals interested in databases. It covers both theoretical and practical aspects of content evaluation and will perhaps cause us to view databases in our own discipline more critically. Moreover, the work helps fill a niche in the literature by emphasizing the importance of database content.?-Technical Services Quarterly

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This richly illustrated book provides guidelines for evaluating a variety of database types, including abstracting and indexing, directory, full-text, and page-image databases available in online and/or CD-ROM formats. Jacso discusses the purpose and techniques of comparing and evaluating the most important characteristics of textual databases, such as their scope, dimensions, source coverage, record content, accuracy, consistency, currency, and completeness. Evaluation models and procedures are given for widely used databases (e.g., Books in Print, Ulrich's Periodicals Directory, Library and Information Science Abstracts and their full-text version), whose subject, content, and terminology are familiar to librarians and information specialists irrespective of their specialization. Beyond traditional online and CD-ROM databases, the book illustrates the evaluation of the new Web-born information resources (including Amazon, Barnes and Noble, The Electric Library, and Northern Light).

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4.0 out of 5 stars The content quality was very good. The binding was very bad., Aug 4 2010

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This review is from: Content Evaluation of Textural CD-ROM and Web Databases (Paperback)

The book itself was quite good. Coverage was comprehensive and still highly relevant today.
The author's voice is very unique and fun to read when dealing with such things as databases.
The only complaint is that the binding is frankly very poor. If not already released as an E-book, perhaps it should be. It fell apart on me, chapter by chapter.
I kept reading, the binding just did not hold. I still treasure the stapled copy and it may have been my overuse of the product but it simply did not hold up more than three months.
Buy it for the content and get your stapler ready.

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