SUNYConnectElectronic Resources

Senate Operations CommitteeUniversity Faculty Senate

Alfred April 12, 2002

SUNYConnect E-Resources

• 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 InternetSUNY Connect Database Costs: FY 1999-2000

Database Cost

OCLC FirstSearchExamples : WorldCat, ArticleFirst,MEDLINE, ERIC, GPO

$315,176

InfoTrac OneFile $185,063UnCover Reveal $7,854Gale Literature Resource Center/Associations Unlimited

$246,760

AP Photo Archive $19,823Net Library E-Books $60,000HarpWeek (Harpers Magazine) $59,600Elsevier Science Direct $394,000

Total $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

PresentersBev Crowell Public Services Librarian

Alfred UniversityEllen Ehrig Associate Director for Information Services

SUNY College of Technology at AlfredDiana Hovorka Serials and Circulation Librarian

SUNY College of Technology at AlfredPat LaCourse Engineering and Science Librarian

Alfred UniversityMark A. Smith Electronic Information Services Librarian

Alfred UniversityNina 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 useSUNY Office of Library & Information Serviceslrandall@slscva.sysadm.suny.edu(914) 251-6484