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Electronic Collections Online at a glance

OCLC's Electronic Collections Online, accessible through FirstSearch, provides bibliographic information for a growing collection of more than 5,000 electronic journals from over 70 publishers in a wide range of subject areas, with article citations and full text available through several options.

Far more than just an aggregator, Electronic Collections Online enables librarians to assemble, manage, and archive large collections of academic and professional journals on the Web.

Features

  • Users obtain full text and abstracts of articles in subscribed journals through the FirstSearch interface, and can even look up citations for articles in journals to which you do not subscribe
  • Multiple search levels and methods, including searches by title, publisher and topic
  • Robust archiving solutions provide stable and convenient access to your journals collection
  • One-stop shopping for journals
  • Tools for collection management include monthly journal-level statistics and matching bibliographic records for your OPAC
  • Electronic versions of more than 3,900 print journals are available at no additional cost to existing subscribers through the print subscriber program
  • Strong international content and breadth of subject areas
  • Citations in other FirstSearch databases link to full-text articles in Electronic Collections Online
  • Your library's subscription profile is linked to a centralized access account

Requirements

  • Netscape 4.0 or Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 (or a higher version of either)
  • Adobe Acrobat Reader, version 4.0 or higher (for viewing full-text articles in PDF format)
  • Ingenta's RealPage software, version 2.10 or higher (to view the full-text RealPage-formatted articles)