EBSCOHost & JSTORMohammed VI LibraryFall 2011

What is EBSCOHost?

• EBSCO is an acronym for Elton B Stephens Company

• EBSCOhost is a powerful online reference system accessible via the Internet. It offers a variety of proprietary full text databases and popular databases from leading information providers. The comprehensive databases range from general reference collections to specially designed, subject-specific databases for public, academic, medical, corporate and school libraries.

Mohammed VI Library’s Current Subscriptions

(EBSCOHost)• Multi-disciplinary databases:

Academic Search Complete

• Subject-specific databases

• Business Source Complete • Communication & Mass Media Complete • Regional Business News • Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA)• GreenFILE • MEDLINE • ERIC • Teacher Reference Center

JSTOR

Definitions

JSTOR is a short for Journal Storage

JSTOR is an Online Archive

of Scholarly Journals

• All full-text• Nearly all academic journals• Covers from the first issue of a journal up to approx. 5

years ago

EBSCO/JSTOR

Basic Differences

EBSCOHost JSTOR

Provides content from a wide range of sources (journals (peer-reviewed); magazines, newspapers; monographs, etc.)

Provides content from a unique source (scholarly Journals)

Allows for recent content/current issues

Offers archival content/back issues

Has an indexed, standardized subject heading (subjects terms, thesaurus, MeSH)

Lacks a standardized subject heading

Basic Similarities

• Both offer academic (and peer-reviewed) content

• Both are searchable and browsable

• Both allow cross-disciplinary search

• In essence, both databases should be conceived of as complementary

Thank you!For any questions, please contact:

Reference Desk

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Multimedia Learning Center (MLC)

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