Is your library evaluating the databases you subscribe to? Do you wonder how similar some databases are? I recently found just the site you need while reading posts on LibRef-L. It’s at http://lib-bladea2.lib.sfu.ca:8088/CUFTS/compare.cgi and it’s amazing what a couple clicks will do for you.

All you have to do is pick the two databases to compare from their extensive lists of databases and they’ll run a journal-title comparison for you. First in the results is a list of journals that are in both databases, along with the start and end dates of citations and full-text articles. That in itself is great, bu then they do the same thing for journals that are only in one, and then only in the other. And at the very bottom is the summary with the numbers of titles in each category.

VERY helpful for assessing whether you’re spending your money to your best advantage.