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Multi-Sector Bundle: Content Analysis

The Multi-Sector Bundle offers new content to every BC ELN partner library. The products target many programs delivered by BC post-secondary institutions including business, health, education, library sciences, trades and tourism, to name a few. The products are listed below, with links to the vendor's descriptions.

Encyclopedia of British Columbia

• product website: Encyclopedia of British Columbia
• an exceptional provincial resource touching every facet of British Columbia including geology, First Nations, local histories, origins of place names, famous persons and organizations, and with hundreds of images, photos, maps, and tables
• inclusion in the Multi-Sector Bundle supports the 150th anniversary of British Columbia

• product website: World Book
• World Book Advanced is a version of the encyclopedia tailored for the needs of lower undergraduate students, and is an excellent starting place for research
• the bundle also includes World Book Kids and L'Encyclopedie Decouvertes which will benefit trainee teachers
• partner libraries are eligible for a discount (approx. 16%) on all print World Book products

Title lists are available by following the links to EBSCO's website.

Academic Search Premier

• 8,250 indexed interdisciplinary journals

Business Source Premier

• 2,300 full text business journals

Canadian Reference Centre (CRC)

• a large collection of Canadian content including the full text to the Gage Canadian Dictionary and the Gage Canadian Thesaurus
• comparison data identifies 240 unique full text titles (see spreadsheet) in CRC that are not contained in any other collection within the bundle

Consumer Health Complete (CHC)

• full text for more than 200 health reference books in addition to drug information, medical diagrams, videos and pamphlets
• CHC is similar to, but not identical with, the Health Science Databases which a number of partner libraries already license through BC ELN. For more information on the differences please see http://www.eln.bc.ca/view.php?id=1602

Professional Development Collection

• over 500 full text Education titles including 343 peer reviewed titles; also includes the Chronicle of Higher Education dating back to 1999
• comparison data identifies 94 unique full text titles (see spreadsheet) that are not contained within any other products within this bundle

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) with Full Text

• full text of over 220 library journals as well as abstracts for an additional 690 titles

Masterfile Premier

• 1,750 general periodicals of which 500 are not found in any other databases within the Bundle (see spreadsheet)
• almost 300,000 photos, maps and flags and 86,000 full text biographies

Education Focus

The EBSCO database package includes a concentration of resources suitable for institutions with Education, Early Childhood Education, and Special Education Teacher Assistant programs. These products include:

• Primary Search
• Middle Search
• NoveList and NoveList K8

As well, there are over 400 titles indexed in ERIC which are now available full text through MasterFile Premier and the Professional Development Collection (see spreadsheet). Across the Ebsco products, there are 229 full text educational reports. This concentration of material for teacher-trainees complements the World Book content such as World Book Kids and L'Encyclopedie Decouvertes.

The Multi-Sector Bundle includes a large array of material formats. In addition to the thousands of fulltext journals, images, and maps, it also includes over 1,000 e-books (see spreadsheet) and the full text to:

• 1051 biographies,
• 165 case studies
• 1,424 country reports
• 185 health reports
• 5,173 industry reports
• 444 market research reports
• 3,371 SWOT analysis which involves detailed information about a company’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.
• 1,182 primary source documents
• and 178 newspapers, newswires, TV/Radio/News transcripts

These non-periodical, non-e-book titles are listed on a spreadsheet with ISBNs and publisher info. (Note: the file size is large and the download may take a little while).