Orbis

Electronic Resource Licensing Projects


The Orbis Consortium works with its members and other libraries in the region to license electronic resources. Orbis' role may take various forms and can include activities such as resource selection, license & price negotiation, and serving as fiscal agent (billing, paying).

Orbis currently plays a role in licensing the following electronic resources:

* ABC-Clio
America: History & Life
Historical Abstracts

* Bibliography of Asian Studies

* Britannica Online

* Cambridge Scientific Abstracts

* Chadwyck-Healey
International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP)
International Index to the Performing Arts (IIPA)

* CollegeSource

* ComIndex & ComAbstracts

* Galenet
Biography & Geneaology Master Index
Contemporary Authors

* Lexis-Nexis
Academic Universe
Congressional Universe
Statistical Universe

* MathSciNet
* OCLC
FirstSearch

* Ovid
BIOSIS
CINAHL
PsycINFO

* Poemfinder

* Project Muse

* Proquest
ABI-Inform Global
Oregon Newsstand

* Research Libraries Group (RLG)
Anthropological Literature

* Searchbank
Business Index
Computer Database
Expanded Academic Index
General Businessfile
General Reference Center
Health Reference Center

* Softline
Ethnic Newswatch/Genderwatch

* Stat-USA
  The Orbis Committee on Electronic Resources currently reviews databases and electronic resources of interest to Orbis libraries.

Sara Brownmiller;
Systems Librarian
22 June 1999

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