This fall, the Mark O. Hatfield Library is providing access to Britannica Online , a Web version of the familiar Encyclopaedia Britannica . By connecting to the library's WebStation, students, faculty and staff can access Britannica Online 24 hours a day from most computers connected to the campus network. Britannica Online features natural language searching.
Users simply type in a word, phrase, or question.
A list of articles, ranked by relevance, is returned. Many of the articles provide hypertext links to related Internet resources. More sophisticated search options are also available. Another important electronic database, the Presidential Papers , is also newly available in the Hatfield library. It contains digitized keyword-searchable versions of the public papers of all U. S. Presidents from Washington to Taft.