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Get It! Cornell: Recent Improvements in CUL’s “Find” Services

Marty Kurth

Over the past year, CUL staff from a wide cross-section of functional groups have collaborated to improve two of CUL’s banner services, Find Databases and Find Articles. These services, prominently featured on the CUL Gateway, make available resources on the Web that are licensed or selected by the Library to support the instructional and research endeavors of the Cornell community.

Find Databases enables Cornell users to discover and connect to hundreds of databases of academic interest. The improved Find Databases is now considerably faster, provides detailed information about how the titles may be used according to the terms of license agreements, and contains Web resources that are more closely tuned to current disciplinary and interdisciplinary interests of Cornell users.

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FIND DATABASES: http://resolver.library.cornell.edu/net/fd

Find Articles allows Cornell students, faculty, and staff to search for article references in up to 100 key databases simultaneously and in many cases to connect directly to the electronic text of the articles retrieved. The new Find Articles has dramatically expanded coverage that is of greater relevance to all disciplines studied at Cornell. It also offers faster response time, greater control over search results, and more-reliable linking to article content.

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FIND ARTICLES: http://resolver.library.cornell.edu/net/fa

Staff throughout the library continue to work together to implement more developments that will extend CUL’s “Find” services. Over the next several months, library users can expect even more remarkable increases in multidatabase searching, as well as greater integration of the library’s search tools with the Library Gateway and other information services at Cornell.

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