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   RE: PsycINFO - preference for platform?
 From: Zahra Premji
 To: Evidence Synthesis Methods Interest Group
 Posted: Feb 03, 2023 02:51 AM
 Message: I agree with the other responses. Overall, both EBSCO and OVID are easy to use and have reasonable exporting options. EBSCO actually has the largest export limit and I haven't had any issues with exporting from it recently.
  • Personally, I find the OVID interface the best to use and the most flexible in terms of functions and operators (frequency and limited truncation operators, not requiring quotation marks to prevent auto-lemmatization, etc.) and is the interface I learned search on and am most familiar with as well.
  • The EBSCO interface has its advantages (larger export limit, ability to search multiple databases and access multiple thesauri when doing so) and most of us use the EBSCO platform for other databases so there is familiarity there too.
  • The ProQuest interface seems to be the most finicky. I haven't used PsycInfo on ProQuest but I do search other databases on it, so I assume it isn't any different. The new bulk export feature from the My research page (which is only available for some databases on PQ) is better than the previous options, but there are other issues (length searches time out - or they used to, etc.).
I wouldn't switch from EBSCO to Proquest anytime soon.

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Zahra Premji
Health Research Librarian
University of Victoria Libraries
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Original Message:
Sent: Jan 30, 2023 09:39 PM
From: Anita Kuiken
Subject: PsycINFO - preference for platform?

Hi, folks.

We currently have PsycINFO on the EBSCO platform. When conducting Evidence Synthesis-related research projects, we had heard that it was easier to download results on the Proquest platform. When it comes to Ev Synth work, do you all have a platform preference? If so, why do you like one over the other?

 

Best,

Anita

 

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