New Electronic Resource Reviews [1]
The January 2011 issue (V12N3) [3] of The Charleston Advisor (TCA), an online review of electronic resources for libraries, has been released. This edition includes reviews of business news database Factiva [4], the public opinion data archive Gallup Brain [5] and an updated assessment of Google Scholar [6].
Other featured databases and electronic resources analyzed in the current issue of TCA include:
- EBSCO’s Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI) [7]
- Human Rights Documents [8]
- Nursing@Ovid [9]
- Oxford Biblical Studies Online [10]
- Oxford Bibliographies Online [11]
- Patrologia Latina [12]
- Poll Everywhere [13]
As a benefit of CRL membership, librarians and specialists at CRL libraries have free access to all TCA online reviews. CRL also invites your ideas [14] on future databases and electronic resources for review.
To maintain a high level of accuracy and integrity, all reviews are peer-reviewed by librarians. Reviewers come from all fields and all types of libraries, ensuring that products are reviewed by people who actually use them. For more information, visit www.charlestonco.com [15]. To see all Charleston Advisor product reviews over the last ten years, visit their scoreboard at http://charlestonco.com/index.php?do=Scoreboard [16]