DL Library Resources

Discussion in 'General Distance Learning Discussions' started by BillDayson, Dec 24, 2005.

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  1. BillDayson

    BillDayson New Member

    I saw this list posted on another thread.

    Frankly, apart frm a couple of things like Britannica, I've never even heard of most of this stuff. Probably quite a few Degreeinfo readers are equally clueless.

    So could somebody write a short paragraph about each one, telling us what it is, what fields it specializes in, what kind of materials it contains, some estimate of how complete it is, how useful you find it and so on.

    *eBrary
    *Net Library
    *ProQuest (ABI/INFORM Complete)
    *ProQuest Digital Dissertations
    *EBSCOweb (Professional Development Collection)
    *JSTOR
    *ACM Digital
    *Science Direct
    *ERIC
    *PsycINFO
    *CINAHL
    *Britannica (full)
    *OVID
    *JAMA
    *Graduate Medical Research Collection
    *Medline

    My own impression is that journals have been migrating online pretty quickly. So concerning journals, do you find that all the journals that you need to consult are available? Are old papers from decades ago there?

    What about books? While I gather that in some science-type subjects books aren't that big a deal, in the humanities they certainly are. Books and more books, often obscure hard-to-find out-of-print ones. (To say nothing of manuscript materials for the purists.)

    Google is working on creating a digital academic research library (they are scanning Stanford's collection, among others), but copyright issues have slowed that project to a crawl. I haven't heard of any other full-scale digital academic libraries. Do such things exist? If so, what's in them? What are the details?
     
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