We'll begin a subscription to this after the fiscal year. Here is the trial if you would like to get used to it.
User name: buttecolllib
PW: science
Note: only works on-campus
This is the collection aimed at community college and technical certificate programs. Lisa Rabin of EBSCO said much of the content is trade magazines not currently available online elsewhere. they have assigned 2 different names to the same database, "Associate Programs Source" and "Vocational Studies"
FROM EBSCO: ...
"....offers content geared to academic institutions offering associates degrees and vocational programs."
"This full-text online resource was made to meet the needs of two-year colleges. The database covers subjects as wide-ranging as: alcohol & drug abuse counseling; audiology; biotechnology; computer & data processing; CAD; cosmetology; electrical technology; fashion design; forensics; graphic arts; health information technology; interior design; law enforcement & criminal justice; paralegal studies; robotics; travel & tourism; veterinary assisting and dozens more equally varied areas of study."
"Associates Programs Source/Vocational Studies includes:
Note: (Title lists will be available shortly. They are also releasing the Vocational Studies Complete in about a month, which is the larger version of the two databases. Let me know if you would like our EBSCO rep to add this to our trial when it is released.)
Link works on campus only.
User ID: buttecc
Password: trial
The title list for Vocational Studies Premier is now available on the EBSCO website at http://www.ebscohost.com/thisTopic.php?marketID=1&topicID=994
This would be an upgrade to our current CINAHL Plus database, which has about 80 titles vs. this trial which has over 600 journals in full text.
Link works on campus only.
User ID: buttecc
Password: trial
If anyone is interested, I ran an overlap report on our current Health databases from other vendors with CINAHL Plus with Full text. I can't analyze embargoes, rolling windows, etc, just titles. Here are the results if we went with the CINAHL Plus with Full text
| Database Name | Title Unique | Holding Unique | Total Unique | Full Holding Overlap | Partial Holding Overlap | Total Holding Overlap | Title Overlap | Total | Percent Full Overlap | Percent Unique | |
| Alt-HealthWatch | 122 | 0 | 122 | 46 | 15 | 61 | 0 | 183 | 25.1 | 66.7 | |
| CINAHL Plus with Full Text | 267 | 0 | 267 | 244 | 91 | 335 | 0 | 602 | 40.5 | 44.4 | |
| Health & Wellness Resource Center (with Alternative Health Module) | 112 | 0 | 112 | 425 | 319 | 744 | 0 | 856 | 49.6 | 13.1 | |
| Health Reference Center Academic | 142 | 1 | 143 | 720 | 49 | 769 | 0 | 912 | 78.9 | 15.7 | |
| Health Source: Consumer Edition | 131 | 0 | 131 | 59 | 4 | 63 | 0 | 194 | 30.4 | 67.5 | |
| Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition | 234 | 4 | 238 | 267 | 46 | 313 | 0 | 551 | 48.5 | 43.2 | |
| Pharmaceutical News Index | 4 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 20 | 80 |
Here is the trial we are considering an upgrade to at a higher cost from Newsbank. Please send questions on the differences, etc. to Morgan, who will compile them and pass them on to the Newsbank rep, or arrange another Webinar if you like.
http://infoweb.newsbank.com/?user=ncdbutte
Enter ncdbutte for both the user name and password.
Notes:
EBSCO also offers Newspaper Source which provides selected full text for 25 national (U.S.) and international newspapers plus full text television & radio news transcripts, and selected full text for more than 260 regional (U.S.) newspapers. (Similar to NewsBank)
We have newspapers in other databases, including SIRS, Facts.com, Proquest. Proquest has very low newspaper usage stats (sometimes 0.) You can compare title lists for EBSCO, Proquest and newsbank on the database pages.
Here is a look at the stats for Global Newsbank and Newsbank Newsfile by year. We get about the same number of searches in each database, 4451 & 4478 respectively (last year).
