EBSCO has been generous to offer two open-access indexing and abstracting databases, Teacher Reference Center (TRC), and Library Reference Center (LRC). TRC has been enhanced and, as of mid-September, offers more than 1 million indexing/abstracting records. LRC also was much enhanced then replaced last November by LISTA, which includes also at least 5,000 records from the Information Science and Technology Abstracts (ISTA) database acquired by EBSCO a few years ago....There are tens of thousands of indexing/abstracting records related to library and information science and technology in ERIC, PubMed, NTIS, and some of the other government databases, but LISTA dwarfs all of these together in size and many other regards discussed below....
In spite of some deficiencies, this is an exceptionally useful database for librarians and information professionals who have now open access to the largest and most current indexing/abstracting database on library/information science and technology, as well as to half a million full text articles (if they subscribe to the most commonly licensed EBSCO databases)....
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/19/2006 01:19:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
