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| Vol. 17, No. 22 | March 5, 1998 |
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| Vol. 17, No. 22 | March 5, 1998 |
Full text databases include online journal databases like Expanded Academic ASAP with thousands of entire articles from more than 500 journals online via the web. Full text databases also include the entire encyclopedia Britannica Online, with thousands of added links to the web from many articles.
University of Delaware faculty, students and staff, using a computer connected to the University of Delaware network, can search full text databases not only by title or keyword, but also by any word in the article. Currently more than 12 of the 70 Library Networked Databases are full text databases. There is no charge to the user for such searching, and access to these databases is limited to University of Delaware users. The growing number of full text databases includes, but is not limited to, LEXIS-NEXIS UNIVerse, Britannica Online, Business Index ASAP, Expanded Academic ASAP, Health Reference Center and JSTOR.
To find what databases are available from the University of Delaware Library, a user may first go to UD's World Wide Web page (http://www.udel.edu/) and select "Libraries" to go to the Library web (http://www.lib.udel.edu/). Then select the "Databases" button or "Library Networked Databases" from the Library web page. Select the "Full Text Databases" button on the left side of the "Library Networked Databases" page to search full text databases.
Britannica Online provides fast electronic access to text and illustrations from the Encyclopedia Britannica's vast 44-million-word database and also features thousands of direct web links from Britannica articles to related sources of information on the web, aimed at making it easier for researchers to find more information on their topics.
As a starting point for a library user who is not sure which database is best, try Expanded Academic ASAP. Expanded Academic ASAP indexes and includes abstracts for 1,500 journals from 1993 on in all disciplines and also includes the complete online text of the article from over 500 of the 1,500 journal titles covered. This means that faculty, students and staff may read and print entire articles online from any location which is connected to the campus computing network via the web.
Articles can be read online, downloaded to disc or printed by users at their workstations. For fast printing or for those without a printer, electronic orders from Expanded Academic ASAP and other IAC SearchBank databases can be sent from a user at any location to print from either of two special print stations in the Morris Library Reference Room.
