News from the Australian National University

News from the Australian National University

The Australian National University Library has announced two major new initiatives. It has become:

• 1.

  a charter participant in the JSTOR electronic text retrieval service; and

• 2.

  a member of a new consortium of academic libraries in the Pacific Rim formed to facilitate access to scholarly research materials through various digital networks.

In JSTOR, ANU joins more than 240 North American universities in providing electronic access to major backfiles of core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences and sciences. Its staff and students have 24-hour access to the full text of 52 journal titles covering 12 disciplines, with more than 100 journal titles available by the year 2000. More information is available at http://www.jstor.orgThe Pacific Rim Digital Library Alliance involves academic libraries from Taipei, Mexico, Japan, China, Canada and USA. It will support new and traditional library functions through the sharing of electronic and hardcopy data, co-operative collection development, personnel exchange and other activities, with special attention to multilingual online library catalogue access, document delivery of journal articles via the Internet and remote access to online databases.