The library is cancelling its subscription to Central Search at the end of this semester. Here are the reasons why.
- The Library will save $15,466.00 per year by cancelling Central Search. We will be evaluating all subscriptions in the coming year and making decisions on how to manage our budget in these difficult times. We prefer to cancel Central Search, an expensive service that has no content of its own, and retain or add content databases that better support student and faculty research.
- Federated Searching (searching across many databases) was the new and exciting technology in libraries when we subscribed to this service in 2005. It never lived up to its potential and did not improve as we hoped it would. We do not think it is a good research service for our campus community.
- Many of the database publishers allow searching across several or all of their databases at the same time. For example, ProQuest, GALE and CSA databases allow you to select as many of their databases as you wish to search together. We still discourage this because subject headings and descriptors vary so widely among disciplines.
- Cancelling Central Search will have no impact on database availability or cross-database article linking. We will continue subscribing to Article Linker, Citation Linker, and E-Journal Locator.
For general searching, here is the page with recommended databases.
http://www.unf.edu/library/guides/basesgeneral.html
For specific subject databases, please select from this page.
http://www.unf.edu/library/guides/bases.html
If you are partial to a specific database, we now have a small search box at the top of the “Databases by Subject” page where you can quickly find the database you want and link to it immediately.
http://www.unf.edu/library/guides/bases.html
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