Community College Library Consortium: CCLEAR Committee Reviews

CCLEAR Committee Reviews
	Consortium Providers
	AccuNet & AP Alexander Street Press Baker & Taylor/YBP Bowker CQ Press CRC Press EBSCO Encyclopedia Britannica FACTS.com Facts on File	Gale Greenwood Publishing H.W. Wilson John Wiley & Sons John Hopkins University Press Lexis-Nexis McGraw-Hill National Library Alliance netLibrary	NewsBank Oxford University Press Ovid Plerian Press ProQuest RAND Corporation Salem Press Scholastic (Grolier) Serials Solutions SIRS Useful Utilities World Book

Other Providers
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Cambridge Soft Columbia-Granger	Infonautics InfoUSA OCLC Psychiatry Online	Roth Publishing U.S. Department of Commerce Virtual Reference Westlaw

Resources
Database Count (full text electronic titles in databases)	Master List of EAR reviews Review Bibliography	Committee Review Form (Word) Committee Review Form (PDF)

CCL-EAR Review Nomenclature
Below is a listing of the types of reviews conducted by the CCL-EAR committee which were adopted at the October 5/6/06 meeting in Burbank.

Preview [a.k.a. Look/See] (1-2 committee members)
Initial look at products, within CCL-EAR purview, to determine whether to proceed with review or comprehensive review.
Product Statements (1-2 committee members)
Statements regarding products not reviewed and/or offered by the consortium (i.e., ArtSTOR & JSTOR)
Review (1-2 committee members)
1-2 pages in length for products not needing a comprehensive review
Comprehensive Review (3+ committee members)
A comprehensive review of the product using the CCL-EAR review template including a defined list of questions submitted to the vendor for response.
Updates (1-2 committee members)
For products that have been previously reviewed by the CCL-EAR committee and have not substantially changed since that review. An update is typically a few paragraphs explaining any minor changes/updates to the product.
Content Comparison Review (3+ committee members)
A comparison of the content included in several databases within a subject area, i.e. newspapers, literature, health. This is not a comprehensive review of the databases being compared; only an initial analysis of the content provided.

Alexander Street Press
	Classical Music Library - January 2004

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

JSTOR- September 2005

Art Databases Comparison Review - Feb. 2008

Artstor - December 2004

Baker & Taylor/YBP
	Title Source 3 - April 2006
Bowker
	RCL Web - February 2007

Cambridge Soft
	The Merck Index - December 2004

Columbia-Granger
	Columbia Granger's World of Poetry - update October 2006 Columbia Granger's World of Poetry - May 2003

CQ Press

CQ Researcher - April 2005

CQ Library (CQ Weekly + CQ Researcher) - February 2000

CRC Press
	CRC Handbook of Chemistry & Physics (85th Edition) - December 2004

EBSCO

Health Databases Comparison- October 2007; Vendor's Response - November 2007

Literature Database Comparison - December 2006

Columbia Granger's World of Poetry - October 2006

Newspaper Comparison - Spring 2006

Premier Database Package - January 2004

Auto Repair Reference Center - September 2003

MasterFILE Premier - September 2002

Academic Search Elite - March 2002; Alternate version of this review - March 2002

Encyclopedia Britannica
	Encyclopedia Britannica Online - January 2005

Facts on File
	Facts on File: First Look - December 2006 Facts on File Online Resources - September 2000

FACTS.com
	FACTS.com - October 2006 FACTS Reference Collection - September 2000

Gale

Literature Criticism Online - March 2008

Heath Databases Comparison - October 2007

Literature Database Comparison - December 2006

Newspaper Comparison - Spring 2006

OneFile Online Database Upgrade Package - January 2006

Opposing Viewpoints - July 2005

Science Resource Center - December 2004

Expanded Academic ASAP - Spring 2002

Greenwood Press
	Greenwood Daily Life Through History - May 2005

H. W. Wilson
	Art Comparison Review - Feb. 2008 Art Museum Image Gallery - Sept. 2007 Science Full Text Select, Education Full Text, Biography Reference Bank - September 2005

Infonautics
	Electric Library - October 1999

InfoUSA
	Reference USA

John Wiley & Sons

Encyclopedia of Life Sciences - September 2006

Wiley InterScience - October 2001

Johns Hopkins Univ. Press

Project Muse Update - May 2006

Project MUSE Standard - February 2000

Lexis Nexis Academic
	LexisNexis Academic - November 2007 LexisNexis Academic - September 2006 Newspaper Comparison - Spring 2006
McGraw-Hill
	Access Science - April 2006 AccessScience - May 2001

National Library Alliance
	National Library Alliance - June 2006

netLibrary
	Netlibrary - April 2008

NewsBank

Newspaper Comparison - Spring 2006

America's Newspapers - June 2005; With Vendor's Response - August 2005

Newsfile Collection - June 2005; With Vendor's Response - August 2005

InfoWeb - April 1999; Vendor's Response - April 1999; Vendor's Response - July 2000

OCLC
	OCLC FirstSearch - October 2000; Vendor's Response - February 2001

Ovid
	Health Database Comparison - October 2007
Oxford University Press
	Oxford Reference Online Premium - April 2008 Grove Dictionary of Art Online - May 2006 Grove Dictionary of Art Online - June 1999

Pierian Press

A Matter of Fact - August 2000; Vendor Response - September 2000;

Vendor Response Addendum 1 - September 2000; Vendor Response Addendum 2 - September 2000

ProQuest

Health Database Comparison - October 2007

SIRS Knowledge Source - January 2007

Literature Database Comparison - December 2006

Culture Grams - October 2006

Newspaper Comparison - Spring 2006

ProQuest Bundle - December 2004

History Study Center - October 2003

Historical Newspapers - January 2002

Psychology Journals - January 2002

ABI/Inform Trade & Industry (PQT&I) Collection - January 2002

Alt-PressWatch, Ethnic NewsWatch, GenderWatch - Spring 2002

Research Library Complete - Spring 2002

Criminal Justice Periodicals Index - November 2001

CINAHL Plus Text - May 2000; Vendor Response - August 2000

Ethnic NewsWatch - Committee Comment - January 1999

Alt Press Watch, Ethnic NewsWatch Complete, Gender Watch - November 1998

Psychiatry Online
	Psychiatry Online - May 2007
RAND Corporation
	RAND California - March 2006 RAND California - April 1999; Vendor Response - August 1999

Roth Publishing
	Poem Finder - May 2003

Salem Press
	Salem Health Review - April 2008

Scholastic (Grolier)
	Encyclopedia Americana - December 2004

Serials Solutions
	E-Journal Access & Management Suite (360 Core) - October 2004

U.S. Department of Commerce
	STAT-USA - December 1999

Virtual Reference

Docutek VRLplus - January 2004

24/7 Virtual Reference - January 2004

QuestionPoint (OCLC) - October 2003

Westlaw
	Campus Research - September 2006

World Book
	World Book - December 2006


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