In the past two years, the number of networked electronic resources available to the Cornell community has more than tripled, from a total of 1,102 discrete titles in 1997-98 to 3,460 titles in 1998-99. As of Jan. 1, Cornell University Library provides access to a total of more than 4,000 digital resources, including audio-visual collections; online catalogs; full-text electronic journals, encyclopedias, and other publications; indexing and abstract services; and numeric and spatial databases.
Many of these are full-text, searchable databases, which allow researchers to search the equivalent of thousands of printed pages for specific keywords or phrases -- research that would be impossible to do by hand. Here's a small sampling of important online resources added in the past year to the CUL Gateway www.library.cornell.edu -- many of which were requested by faculty and students:
And, coming later this year are:
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