What are e-Resources?

A rose by any other name…

e-Resources, Internet databases, electronic products, virtual libraries, clickable collections, e-Libraries, Internet resources, eMaterials… Call ‘em what you will, because regardless of the name we give them, e-Resources continue to be the sweetest smelling rose in any public library collection.

e-Resources are part of what we refer to as the “Invisible Web”. The Invisible Web is the information accessible to us through the Internet, but not freely available to everyone on the World Wide Web, and not appearing on search engines like Google. The Invisible Web contains password-protected Web content available only to authorized users known as members or subscribers.

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