Hi Rachel

 

I looked at Art and Architecture earlier in the year, when Ebsco was trying to push it in favour of our existing Art Full Text service through Wilson. I must admit that I wasn’t too impressed with A&A’s content or journal spread – at least for contemporary Art; the search engine ranking also seemed to bring up some incredibly random results (when I did a search for Tracy Emin, it placed an article in a general magazine covering auction prices above a multi-page interview in Art Monthly...). I gave them my comments, but we decided to stay with AFT.

 

I might be concerned that Ebsco might favour their own product – but I’m also sure that they would not do so if AFT continues to be more popular (and therefore more lucrative)

 

Regards

David

 

 

 

Hi

 

Has anybody else heard about the merger between H W Wilson and Ebsco?  A colleague of mine forwarded me a press release from earlier today.  In among the rest of the release it states that “Wilson databases will be loaded onto EBSCOhost over the coming months.   EBSCO will continue to maintain WilsonWeb until such time that all Wilson databases are available on EBSCOhost and customers have been transitioned to EBSCOhost”.

 

I’m quite interested to find out what’s happening with Art Full Text, and Ebsco’s Art & Architecture product that they’ve been trying to sell us for the past year, as they’ll have been in direct competition with each other.  Another colleague here has just finished talking on the phone to at Ebsco about this and “they are starting by looking at hosting issues and will come onto the content that each of them offer later rather than sooner”.

Does anybody have any thoughts about this?

 

Kind regards

Rachel

 

Rachel Campbell
Liaison Librarian
Libraries & Learning Resources
Nottingham Trent University
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Nottingham
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