Professional Reading: Reviews: Jacso Looks at Booklist Online and Revisits Scopus
From the review:
On Booklist: “It took a long time for ALA to get this useful review archive good software capabilities. They finally got it right, with some minor exceptions. It is not free to the public nor at a discount to ALA members. The reasonably priced subscription to the print edition of Booklist does not come with any online access privileges, either. Considering the many high-quality toll-based and open access options that offer multiple reviews from different sources for hundreds of thousands of books in one fell swoop (including many Booklist reviews), Booklist Online will be a very hard sell both for individuals and libraries.”
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On Scopus: “The enhanced software features, especially the swift and generous output functions, keep the rivalry with Web of Science/Web of Knowledge systems alive. But unresolved problems of source coverage undermine the most prominent claim of Scopus about its broad source base.”

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