Research Guides: Collection Development: Collection Development Resources

Journals

Library Journal
In its 133rd year of publication, Library Journal is the oldest and most respected publication covering the library field. Considered to be the “bible” of the library world, LJ is read by over 100,000 library directors, administrators, and staff in public, academic, and special libraries. LJ is the single-most comprehensive publication for librarians, with groundbreaking features and analytical news reports covering technology, management, policy, and other professional concerns. Its hefty review sections evaluate nearly 7000 books annually, along with hundreds of audiobooks, videos, databases, web sites, and systems that libraries buy.
Choice
Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries is the premier source for reviews of academic books, electronic media, and Internet resources of interest to those in higher education. More than 35,000 librarians, faculty, and key decision makers rely on Choice magazine and Choice Reviews Online for collection development and scholarly research. Choice reaches almost every undergraduate college and university library in the United States. Each year Choice publishes more than 7,000 reviews.

Databases

YBP/Gobi
***Contact your library liaison for login and password information.***

YBP revolutionized bookselling to scholarly libraries in 1996 when in it became the first academic bookseller to offer a web-based acquisition and collection development tool. GOBI (Global Online Bibliographic Information) is YBP's complete online interface for searching, selecting, ordering and reporting and used by thousands of academic libraries worldwide.

GOBI is available to all YBP customers, and supports every step in your library's acquisition and collection development workflow.
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- Easily view titles designated for demand-driven acquisitions as noted in GOBI
- Quickly perform simple or complex searches via YBP's fully integrated database of over 4 million titles worldwide
- New titles and information updates are added to GOBI continuously, every day
- See at a glance your own library's activity on any title, including activity and duplication control on linked alternate editions for paper-cloth, US-UK and digital-print versions
- Benefit from duplication control across all versions of a particular title
- View tables of contents, jacket images and reviews
- Search local holdings through multi-faceted open URL queries
- Search, select and order digital content (500,000 ebook titles) from the widest variety of aggregators and publishers offered by any library services provider
- Place next day, second day or ground delivery rush orders (currently US libraries only)
- Manage potential selections online. Attach notes, sort and re-sort, send to others through email or save in personal or shared folders where the most current bibliographic, status, price and local activity information is always displayed in real-time.
- View and print statements and invoices
- Search, create, claim, edit or cancel standing orders online
- Build profiles for remote selectors. Analyze approval or expenditure activity with the most complete reporting package available.
- Coordinate buying activity with partner libraries through GobiTween views and Consortial Reports

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Collection Development: Collection Development Resources

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Databases