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Steve Riggins,
Software Deveoper
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Electronic databases are accessible from the Library's homepage at Although it is often possible to find articles that can be accessed online, most databases do not cover journals published prior to 1990.
LAN: The library's local area network makes a large number of electronic databases available to library users.
Electronic databases and networks such as the Internet are supplementing and sometimes taking the place of the printed resources which libraries have traditionally made available to their users.
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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant
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The Libraries will provide monies from its materials budget for the purchase of electronic materials meeting the criteria specified below in sections V.
Libraries with unique collections out of copyright may profit from arrangements with access providers or may benefit by permitting access in exchange for conversion to electronic formats.
It is intended to reflect the Library's commitment to top quality public service and to developing and making available to the community the most useful forms of high tech electronic information resources and services.
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Dave Simons,
Internet Entrepeneur
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The libraries all have electronic catalog access and circulation with networked catalogs available in every networked classroom.
It is designed to offer students both an electronic gateway into the Library's resources and a series of electronic tutorials to teach them skills of planning a bibliographic search, locating and evaluating material.
The Library's Internet access is intended primarily as an information resource which allows users to connect to electronic resources outside the library.
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Dan Toomey,
Computer Salesman
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Some electronic products are linked on the library's database menu and the CD-ROMs are filed in a cabinet in the reference area.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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ESPERE is an Electronic Libraries Programme project which aims to look at the cultural and technical problems of electronic submission and peer review of biomedical papers.
The Library's pages are currently being reviewed, and will include links to all electronic resources used in the University that we believe to be relevant to the Social and Political Sciences.
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