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Faculty Association |
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June 1, 2006 |
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Agenda Item # 8 - FA 06-21: Submitted by the Support Services Committee
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Recommendation on Library Resources |
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Recommendation : Resources permitting, the University shall allocate appropriate resources to improve the collection of research databases at the UNF Library in a variety of subject areas. |
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Rationale : Acquisition of additional research databases will provide the academic community with resources to support current and future research. The Library lacks appropriate resources to support scholarship in several disciplines.
$100,000 of one-time funding for retrospective material and $150,000 of ongoing funding for electronic resources would help the library increase its selection of research databases across the curriculum.
The Library has identified a number of electronic databases which would enhance research. This list below represents a few of the "types of resources" which could be offered to UNF researchers if funding were provided. |
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| ARTstor (image collection of art works, museum collections, and culturally-related images) |
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| Biological Abstracts (premiere literature index of life sciences including botany, microbiology, pharmacology, etc.) |
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| IEEE Explore (full-text access to technical literature in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics) |
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| JSTOR Arts and Sciences II (continuation of JSTOR I--contains full-text journals from archaeology, classics, and African, Latin American, Middle Eastern, and Slavic studies) |
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Science Citation Index (Multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of physical sciences. It indexes 5,900 major journals across 150 scientific disciplines).
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