They expand the offerings in the humanities and social sciences and deepen the coverage of medical, biological and physical sciences, in keeping with our goal of meeting the diverse needs of our member libraries. OCLC FirstSearch Electronic Collections Online enables libraries to subscribe to large collections of academic journals, from many publishers in a discipline, and access them remotely through a single World Wide Web interface that supports cross-journal searching and extensive browsing. With FirstSearch Electronic Collections Online, OCLC is building on its experience in electronic publishing to provide libraries with a cost-effective way to access, archive and manage large collections of electronic journals. Libraries using Electronic Collections Online will subscribe to journals directly with publishers or subscription agents and access them remotely through the World Wide Web at OCLC's headquarters in Dublin, Ohio. End users of Electronic Collections Online will be able to search, browse for and display article citations for all the journals available through the service and display abstracts or complete articles for journals their library subscribes to.
Users can browse lists of journals, selected issues or a selected topic area.
Electronic Collections Online combines the cost benefits associated with remote access to data with the advantages of local collection management. It will reduce information costs for libraries by centralizing storage and access. This will enable libraries to share the cost of loading, archiving and providing access to their electronic journal collections. As part of the Blackwell Group, the world's largest privately held book and journal company, Blackwell Publishing's printed and electronic publishing spans the humanities, social sciences, business and information technology. Munksgaard now has more than 70 scientific journals, primarily in the fields of medicine and dentistry, and is currently in the process of adding new titles to the list.