Information on Islamic Banking and Economics as Represented by Selected Databases

Islamic banking and economics (IBE) information has been searched in 31 selected DIALOG's Online and CD-ROM databases to assess and compare the amount of literature covered by international databases. An analysis of data revealed that the coverage of IBE literature is not available in any one database; rather it is scattered in a number of databases. Each database has unique characteristics in their coverage pattern, therefore researchers in IBE need to search a number of databases for their research purposes. Of the 1215 records retrieved from the multiple database, 89.0 percent of the articles were indexed in separate databases; therefore the degree of overlap between and among the databases is minimal. © Author