Hi Karen,
We updgraded and it was probably a good idea. There is more interdisciplinary content and their seems to be more full-text. I’m not sure I’d give it a flying
colors award but I think it is an upgrade. When I decided to get it, comparisons in the library literature were favorable. I am suspicious that all of the Art Index Retrospective content is in the database however. Also, I think it could still be true that
our discovery system is not compatible with databases through EBSCO at least on a total scale. Ebsco of course is a Proquest competitor. We pick up articles through our discovery system from some of our other aggregators that are also covered in ArtSource
so it gives us a wider base so sometimes if not most times it’s not a critical issue. This would be a question to ask..
Probably time for me to do a thorough investigation since I haven’t done so since we decided on Art Source. I hope this helps somewhat.
Mo
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Has anyone upgraded from Art Full Text to Art Source in EBSCO? Or decided not to? I'd appreciate hearing your opinions as to relative merits.
thanks,
Karen Bouchard
Brown University
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