Small Database Comparison by the CCL-EAR Committee

Members of the CCL-EAR committee reviewed the following small databases:
• Academic Search Elite (EBSCO)
• Expanded Academic ASAP (Gale)
• Proquest Research Library (Legacy Platform)
• Wilson Omnifile

The databases were evaluated by the following criteria:

Comparison of the total number of (continuing) full-text, peer-reviewed titles.

Number of unique titles

Coverage of what we considered to be core titles* for a community college library collection

Interface and usability

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Tags: EBSCO, Gale, HW Wilson, ProQuest

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