Comment Re:But is anyone reading their output? (Score 1) 302
A major part of my job is tracking down research that has been done on various topics and passing it along to a user. Every time I do a search for one of my users I use about 30 different databases (ScienceDirect, Worldcat, Google Scholar, etc.). What can I use for Chinese journals? Yes, there are a few databases (whose names I can't recall off the top of my head), but they are extremely limited. I don't have the sorting and filtering abilities I do with other databases. Oftentimes the title and abstract are translated to English but the abstract is no more than three sentences. For comparison, most of the journals in my field from say Germany are also fully translated (often side-by-side) into English.
In short, if I can't find it I can't pass it along to my users for their evaluation. For those that do make it to my users, most will be dismissed as useless.