On behalf of Purdue University, Libraries negotiates with vendors and publishers to provide access to research databases and journals to advance Purdue’s world-changing research and transformative ...

As the cost of subscribing to scholarly publications such as journals and databases rises, the University of Iowa Libraries is forced to cut subscriptions to research that students and faculty need.

When databases became available for the personal computer in the mid-1980s, they quickly gained a mystique as the ultimate productivity applications. Despite their widespread use, in some ways they ...