Library & Information Science Source - Coming in 2012, EBSCO Publishing

Library & Information Science Source - Coming in 2012

Developed by librarians, this exceptional resource offers full text and high-quality indexing for English and foreign-language periodicals, journals, conference proceedings, pamphlets, library school theses, books and more, helping librarians and researchers to keep pace with the latest trends in a rapidly evolving field of library and information science.

Library & Information Science Source was developed from a merger of high-quality databases from EBSCO Publishing and H.W. Wilson, and includes many unique sources that were never previously available. Subject coverage encompasses librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. In addition, Library & Information Science Source provides comprehensive coverage of the history of library studies.

This database also provides access to author profiles, including information on 5,000 of the most-frequently indexed authors, such as which subject terms are most commonly applied to their articles, and in which publications the author has been published.

Content includes:

Full text for more than 460 journals
Nearly 30 full-text monographs, including Handbook of Electronic & Digital Acquisitions, Library/Vendor Relationships, Journals of the Century, etc.
Indexing for hundreds of high-quality journals, as well as books, research reports and proceedings
Thesauri including 6,800 terms, 2,700 of which are preferred terms

Other related services include:

Subject coverage includes:

Automation
Care & Restoration of Books
Cataloging
Censorship
Circulation Procedures
Classification
Copyright
Education for Librarianship
Electronic Searching
Government Aid
Indexing
Information Brokers
Internet Software
Library Associations & Conferences
Library Equipment & Supplies
Literature for Children & Young Adults
Personnel Administration
Preservation of Materials
Public Relations
Publishing
Rare Books
Reference Services
Web Sites
And many others…

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