New Library Electronic Resources FY2021 — Home

In Summer 2021, the UConn Library used salary savings to purchase permanent online access to millions of scholarly journal articles, hundreds of ebooks and streaming videos, and millions of pages of primary sources in all subjects.

We have launched evidence-based and demand-driven collection development programs with JSTOR, Project Muse, Cambridge University Press, ProQuest, and Springer to access hundreds of thousands of ebooks, streams, and digital archives. This programs vastly expand our access pool and enable us to build collections nimbly, responsively, and at scale.

While most of this content is new to UConn, we have also bought out JSTOR Arts & Sciences Collections 1-4, Cambridge Companions, and other subscribed collections, achieving permanent cost savings of $40,655 per year. This is on top of $88,000 permanent savings achieved last year. Total savings amount to 2.5% of the UConn Library's collections budget.

Everything listed in this guide (unless otherwise noted) was purchased in perpetuity with no ongoing fees. In most cases, preservation and access are assured through Portico. Everything is for unlimited concurrent users and is DRM free. Everything is available to all UConn, including Health and Law.

This guide is intended for library staff only. You are welcome to copy titles and descriptions and customize as desired to share directly with your faculty and students. A public blog post will go out in September.