... for collection development as well as for database selection for a specific query. Originality/value The suggested methodology for identifying core resources in a particular discipline has general applicability across other disciplines. In Table II , for each field separately, the information types used...

...Jane Stephens; Pauline Melgoza; Gang (Gary) Wan Purpose The purpose of this paper is to determine the overall currency of electronic books in the Safari database; to determine currency and release policies of the individual publishers who contribute books to the Safari database; to compare...

...Nestor L. Osorio; Andrew W. Otieno Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine current databases available for manufacturing engineering and summarizes their relevance. Design/methodology/approach To promote research in manufacturing engineering, comprehensive literature should be made...

...Norma J. Dowell Purpose To review the history behind and steps taken to inventory and build search/edit modules for a database containing the Iowa State University Library's extensive collection of American National Standards Institute (ANSI) standards. Design/methodology/approach – Iowa State...

... campus. While the trend is to add to the library’s electronic collection, we wanted to find out format preferences for journals, databases, and books for four distinct levels of users: faculty, graduate students, upper‐division undergraduate students, and lower‐division undergraduate students. We...

... at the right time has become difficult, especially for new users. This paper briefly introduces the Internet and its services; and describes a number of selected freely searchable bibliographic and full‐text databases on the Web, including their URLs. The well‐known databases, such as AGRICOLA, AGRIS, ERIC...

...Aditi Bandyopadhyay Commercial document supply and full‐text online databases play significant roles in the shift from “ownership” to “access”. The escalating costs of science and technology journals, budgetary constraints, and availability of sci‐tech literature via non‐traditional sources...

..., but this sacrifice was deemed necessary to maximize the accessibility of the databases. As librarians we are often asked to provide access to information in an ever‐faster and more convenient manner. At the Pennsylvania State University, where students are located at more than 20 campuses across the state...

... information will be used to guide the budget allocation process. Describes the steps involved in the first phase of the project and summarizes the plan for the next two phases. © MCB UP Limited 1996 Academic libraries Databases Finance Information resources management The university’s...