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crl-16946	Pearce, Alexa L.	Discovery and the Disciplines: An Inquiry into the Role of Subject Databases through Citation Analysis	2019	20	.pdf	application/pdf	10553	372	44	The literature is at best anecdotal on this topic, tending to convey an assumption that web scale tools are well suited for novice users and uses while subject-specific databases can best serve more advanced discovery needs.3 Moreover, while libraries have produced a wealth of research to understand and evaluate web scale discovery tools in recent years, they have dedicated comparatively little evaluative attention to subject-specific databases, many of which are also known as abstracting and indexing (A&I) services.4 Accordingly, while there is an accumulation of research on topics ranging from the configuration of web scale tools to their usability, there is a comparative lack of evidence with which libraries may discern and * Alexa L. Pearce is Head, Social Sciences & Clark Library, at the University of Michigan Library; email: alexap@ umich.edu. ”50 Stieg also noted that citation studies “can only analyze what is actually cited,” which is unlikely to be everything that was used, and mentions that citation studies “cannot show relative importance among sources.”51	cache/crl-16946.pdf	txt/crl-16946.txt