Almost Exactly What I Needed
I’ve been working on doing analysis of our library’s database subcriptions and have been looking for a tool that would tell me where our database coverage overlaps. Not fulltext coverage, I use Serials Solutions for that and it works great. What I really want to know is if one database indexes the same journals as another and how much overlap there is between the two databases. I thought I had found exactly what I needed this afternoon when I noticed a link on the Distant Librarian to a tool called CUFTS Resources Comparison Tool. Unfortunately, it doesn’t have the databases I want to compare. Drats! Does anyone know of another tool out there that I can use to compare the coverage of Sociological Abstracts with the coverage of Social Science Abstracts? I know I can do this myself by just getting the list of titles these index, but I have several sets I want to compare and hoping for something quicker.
CUFTS Resources Comparison Tool is worth checking out though. It may have what you want to compare and it is particularly helpful for fulltext comparisions if you can’t afford a tool like Serials Solutions.
If you can get the lists of titles and format them in a tab-delimited form, you could install CUFTS locally and load your lists into it, then use the comparison tool.