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Taking Care of Business

2006; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 11; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1300/j109v11n04_03

1547-0644

James Cory Tucker,

Accounting and Organizational Management

Abstract Abstract This study compares ABI/INFORM and Business Source Premier, the two major periodical databases in the business field, to determine which database is covering the major scholarly journals most thoroughly. The comparison was made by compiling a list of major journals based on scholars' choice in the fields of accounting, finance, MIS, and marketing. In the field of management, the journals studied are based on ISI's Journal of Citation Reports. The list was compared with the title lists of journals indexed in each database. The results indicate that the two databases are very similar. ABI/INFORM is more comprehensive in the number of journals and in the number of unique titles. However, Business Source Premier has better coverage of full-text holdings and more unique titles held in full-text format. Key Words: Collection developmentperiodical databasesbusinessscholarly research