The Growth of Electronic Resources
The transition from networked CD-ROMs to electronic resources through the Libraries' Web site continued at a significant pace. In addition, online access to many full-text journals and articles increased significantly. This year also represented the first in which the University of Maryland participated with other system campus libraries in Maryland University System Access (MdUSA), the shared front end (WEB-based access) to databases for all the cooperating University System of Maryland Libraries. Through the collective buying power of the University System of Maryland, core databases supporting a cross-section of undergraduate and general information needs were acquired, including EBSCO's Academic Search, full-text newspapers, and the popular Gale reference publications. MdUSA provides a common search interface for the databases and allows the user to search multiple databases simultaneously. Other subscriptions were moved to Web access including high-profile business, computer science, linguistics and engineering databases. A major development in the acquisition of new electronic databases was the addition of Web of Science, including the heavily-used science and social science citation components. These multi-disciplinary databases provide indexing and citation tracking for over 7,000 journals and will soon provide the capability for linking to the full text of articles in electronic journals. Other new Web-accessible resources were acquired for a variety of disciplines, including women's studies, law, criminal justice, family studies, art history, classics and literature.
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