Unit 1

1st Annotated Bibliography

Reviewed by Kevin Singleton

April 30, 2012

Brooks, S. (2006). Evaluating Evaluations. Library Journal, 13128

Sam Brooks, author of this article is describing the evaluating of evaluations, such as the look at the idea of database evaluation. The author believe that there are several different areas of the database that should be looked at such as the color of the site, the way the search screen are made and more. He believes that learning this gives to the true understanding of the database evaluation.

Brooks sees that sellers will describe the databases in the way of the numbers of printed work that is available in complete written material. But Brooks believes that for evaluation and direct comparing of information is not suffice. He thinks that people that evaluate these things should look at subsets of the numbers to get the complete truth and understanding of the treasure of a good developed database.

Brooks shows that two databases created to reach the research needs of an educational group. An example of a question in a database could be “How many of the publications are in complete text?” The database also had a list of the complete texted publications and it tells you how many of the publications that were active and the ones that were peer-reviewed. It also told about the complete text that is continuing being published.

The article did speak about embargoes which is a delay in the time the completed text material is available. The idea with the embargoes is that anyone that is using the system should understand that any other material that is similar to the one material will normally have a delay too. It should be known that several databases have a lot of material that will have embargoes. But it can be known too that those same databases will have the same amount