SUNYConnect
Electronic Resources
Senate Operations Committee
University Faculty Senate
Alfred
April 12, 2002
SUNYConnect E-Resources
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InfoTrac OneFile
ScienceDirect
netLibrary E-books
MultiMedia Archive
Literature Resource Center
Associations Unlimited (national)
HarpWeek (1857-1865)
OCLC FirstSearch Base Package
Ingenta
InfoTrac OneFile
A periodical index to more than 6,000
scholarly journals, magazines and
newspapers, nearly 3,000 in full-text.
It covers education, art, business,
humanities, natural and social
sciences, technology, and law from
1980 to the present.
ScienceDirect
This resource provides SUNYConnect
users with the full-text of about 850
scholarly journals (more than a million
articles) in the sciences and social
sciences, with backfiles to 1997. It also
indexes and abstracts many more
journals.
netLibrary E-books
SUNYConnect makes available over
5,000 electronic books on a variety of
subjects, notably medicine and health,
computer science, economics and
business, literature, history, and
technology.
MultiMedia Archive
Formerly known as AP/PhotoArchive.
Includes 750,000 photos and other
images, such as maps and graphs,
back to the 1840’s, half a million audio
files (from the 1930’s on) and 700,000
AP news stories from the last 5 years.
MultiMedia Archive
Formerly known as AP/PhotoArchive.
Includes 750,000 photos and other
images, such as maps and graphs,
back to the 1840’s, half a million audio
files (from the 1930’s on) and 700,000
AP news stories from the last 5 years.
Scholarly Information Is Not Free On The Internet
SUNY Connect Database Costs: FY 1999-2000
Database
OCLC FirstSearch
Examples : WorldCat, ArticleFirst,
MEDLINE, ERIC, GPO
InfoTrac OneFile
UnCover Reveal
Gale Literature Resource Center/
Associations Unlimited
AP Photo Archive
Net Library E-Books
HarpWeek (Harpers Magazine)
Elsevier Science Direct
Total
Cost
$315,176
$185,063
$7,854
$246,760
$19,823
$60,000
$59,600
$394,000
$1,288,276
SUNY Connect Database
Selection Process
• SUNY Libraries Contract Advisory Team
(SLiCAT) is composed of Library
representatives from campus types
• Contact your representative with database
purchase suggestions
• Suggestions are forwarded to the SUNY
Connect Advisory Council
• A new “core database package” will be
implemented in July 2003
Access E-Resources Off-Campus
• All the databases we’ll use today are
available to you at your home computer
from most SUNY campuses
• Your Internet Service Provider (ISP) uses an
Internet address that SUNY Connect doesn’t
recognize
• You will have to “authenticate” or log-in
• Contact your campus librarians for
assistance with your campus log-in
procedure
The Operations Committee thanks the following people
for all their assistance in preparing today’s presentation:
Office of Library and Information Services (OLIS)
Carey Hatch Assistant Provost
Larry Randall SUNY Connect Project Coordinator
Presenters
Bev Crowell Public Services Librarian
Alfred University
Ellen Ehrig Associate Director for Information Services
SUNY College of Technology at Alfred
Diana Hovorka Serials and Circulation Librarian
SUNY College of Technology at Alfred
Pat LaCourse Engineering and Science Librarian
Alfred University
Mark A. Smith Electronic Information Services Librarian
Alfred University
Nina Warren Associate Professor
Genesee Community College and
SUNY Library Contracts Advisory Team (SLiCAT)
Acknowledgments
• This presentation was originally given by Larry
Randall, SUNY Connect Project Coordinator, for
presentation to the SLN Multi-Media Instructional
Designers Summit in February 2002
• The University Faculty Senate presentation has
been modified from the original version
• Please contact Larry Randall for permission to use
SUNY Office of Library & Information Services
lrandall@slscva.sysadm.suny.edu
(914) 251-6484