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There is nothing more fundamental to the Library's mission than supporting and advancing academic work. Our web site addresses this mission in a wide variety of ways, and with an eye to the varying interests of students, scholars, and the general public. We offer two types of online services: some available to any interested person, and some available only to members of the Drew community.
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The web site's offerings for Drew University's own students, staff, and faculty members reflect the fact that our electronic services in general are undergoing rapid expansion. More and more specialized indices, full-text periodicals, and reference resources are migrating to CD-ROM or web format, and our librarians carefully monitor these developments so we can select the tools most helpful to our users. The role of the web site is to provide direct access to the web-based tools, to explain how one obtains the CD-based tools, and to help users identify which tools might support research in a given subject.
On a more prosaic level, most research eventually involves the use of forms such as Interlibrary Loan requests, Closed Reserve faculty requests, and Book Acquisition requests. These are provided from our site's Library Forms section on the Research Resources page and can be submitted electronically if you are using a Drew Network computer, or through the University's proxy server.
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Another valuable starting point is the Electronic Resources page. Our electronic resources consist of web subscriptions, networked CD-ROMs, and the CD-ROMs available at our Reserves Counter. All of them are included in an alphabetical list available from this page, with information on their contents and how one would access them.
But most people would not want to browse a list of resources for which the only common denominator is electronic format. Perhaps they have become familiar with a particular full-text source such as http://www.umi.com/pqdauto and wish to access it directly. Accordingly, both our home page and Electronic Resources offer direct access to all our web subscriptions.unmigrated-wiki-markup
Another common approach is starting with the electronic tools best suited for a particular area of research. To address this strategy, the [Electronic Resources|http://depts.drew.edu/lib/eresources/textlist.php] page offers links to three pages which organize our web subscriptions and CD-ROMs by academic discipline. \[Note: these pages are now available from [Research Resources|http://depts.drew.edu/lib/research.php#er].\area of research. To address this strategy, the Electronic Resources page offers links to three pages which organize our web subscriptions and CD-ROMs by academic discipline. [Note: these pages are now available from Research Resources.]
Whether your area of interest is English, Political Science, or Religion, we have selected from our electronic tools those most likely to support your research. For each discipline, a table lists the appropriate resources in their general order of relevance. Included for each item is its name, what it covers, its specific format, how to access it, and if its use requires additional steps. If the resource is web-based, it's linked from this page. If we've put a user guide for the resource online, that too is available, both from these pages and from our home page. In addition, below each resource table is a list of discipline-specific web sites recommended by our reference staff.
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