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The Maryland Digital Library
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Databases
available through the Maryland Digital Library
The Health Sciences and Human Services
Library is participating in the Maryland Digital Library (MDL). Faculty, staff,
and students at 56 participating Maryland public and independent two- and four-year
colleges and universities now have access to 400 electronic books, and 2,945
electronic journals, through a Web-based gateway called MdUSA (Maryland University
and College Statewide Access to Electronic Databases).
The state-funded MDL initially received $900,000 to provide Web-based access
to 10 core electronic resources selected by a committee of librarians from each
segment of higher education. The MDL electronic resources are funded through
June 30, 2001. College and university librarians are currently seeking ongoing
state support beginning in FY2002 at $3 million to continue the program beyond
the initial start-up year, and to expand the program both in terms of the number
of databases and types of services offered. Initially, state support for MDL
has come from a combination of funds from the Information Technology Board and
from funds proposed by the Governor in his budget for FY2001.
Through MDL, the state is also putting in place essential information and library
services that support E-Education any time, anywhere, and by anyone. This support
will be extremely important to colleges and universities engaged in distance
education, to employers whose employees seek additional education, and to employees
seeking to pursue academic programs via distance learning at work or at home.
Depending upon state funding, future developments in the MDL beyond access to
licensed electronic resources will include: better user access to materials
from any of the library collections of MDL participants via the Maryland Premier
Academic Catalog (MdPAC), a Web- based union catalog spanning the collections
of academic libraries in the state; and access to high quality Web-based content
and information resources.
The MDL databases are available on computers in the Research and Information
Commons of the Health Sciences and Human Services Library. Access is provided
through the MdUSA gateway or by direct connection to the database vendor. The
databases are also available outside the library through the HS/HSL web site.
A UMnet account is required.
Databases available through the Maryland Digital Library
- Business Source
Premier
Indexes over 2,100 journals and provides full text for nearly 1,400 scholarly
business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, and
international business.
Instructions
for use
- CINAHL w/ Headings
Provides indexing for over, 1200 nursing, allied health, and health sciences
journals.
Instructions
for use
- ERIC
Indexes over 750 educational journals and related documents from the Educational
Resource Information Center and educational symposium report literature dating
back to 1967.
Instructions
for use
- Health Source
Plus
Indexes 430 journals and provides full text for nearly 270 health periodicals,
over 1,000 health pamphlets, and 23 health reference books.
Instructions
for use
- History
Universe: Access to African American Studies
Full text of every major law passed by the U.S. congress impacting the lives
of African Americans since 1792, as well as the full text of core African
American biographies and autobiographies.
- NetLibrary
A collection of approximately 200 electronic books, including both monographs
and reference books.
- Oxford English Dictionary
Contains the complete text of the 20-volume Second Edition, first published
in 1989, together with its 3-volume Additions Series, published in 1993 (volumes
1 and 2) and 1997 (volume 3).
- Project Muse
Full text of 45 electronic journals from the Johns Hopkins University Press.
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