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[edit] Historicographs

Hi - in the phrase "Garfield and Sher demonstrated the potential for generating historiographs", the word "historiographs" is a link but it goes to a generic page about historiography, not to more information about historiographs. Can anyone help fix that? --dan 193.60.248.178 13:50, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Removed cleanup tag

I believe that my adding of the referencing section, the use of newer modes of reference and the addition of the History section has addressed the cleanup issue for this page. If someone else has another opinion, I request that it be expressed on this Talk page rather than by adding another obscure clean-up tag. --Ben Best 18:45, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] update

I've tried to update and clarify some product names, referencess and desscriptions. It will undoubtedly be necessary to repeat this every half-year or so. Please also look at the pages for impact factor, which has considerable duplication. DGG 05:56, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "very expensive"

Yes, "very expensive" was not a good phrase, because it is imprecise, I know approximately what they cost different size libraries , and can state a numerical range, but it's a wide range --$20,000-$200,000/yr depending on size of library.(that's why I used such a general term) There's 1 usable exact datapoint at [www.library.unr.edu/subjects/scopus.html] . (I dont want to quote this partic one even tho its PD, because the author shouldn't have used exact figures in a publicly-accessible place.)
I am going put in something a little more informative until I can figure out something better. I dont think its POV, btw, becaus I do not think anyone including their producers would say that they were not extremely expensive. They simply say that it's worth it. If anyone is still unhappy let me know. DGG 07:37, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

My current attempt at wording is

"WOK and Scopus are among the highest-cost subscription databases;" That gives some context. But possibly I need to give some kind of range-finding for people who may think very expensive equals$1,000. Can you think of any pithy wording for here? The real message is, that in comparison with the past, there's a free alternative.

This is neither the article on the individual databases, nor the general one on online databases. I will try to say something more helpful in the database article, where I will try to explain the general options for pricing, and gve a range, perhaps in a table format. And then I'll put in a link from this page to that section.

DGG 02:00, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] new indexes

There are a few new indexes around. As it is not clear yet whether they'll have any staying power, I have not added them to the article, but just wanted to draw the communitie's attention to them: http://www.scimagojr.com/index.php SCImago] and eigenfactor.org. There is also getCITED, which has already a Wikipedia article. --Crusio (talk) 08:11, 8 June 2008 (UTC)