The National Library of Belarus (NLB) collections contain about 10 million documents, of which over 500 thousand are digital copies. Every year the library acquires access to electronic information resources of leading domestic and foreign publishing houses and aggregators.
Currently, users have the opportunity to work with 130 databases of 32 publishers and aggregators of information resources. The main search engine for these resources is the NLB e-Catalogue.
In order to improve the efficiency of working with remote electronic information resources and organizing a single access point to work with various information resources, an integrated search service (service-discovery) was connected to the library catalog.
Any user, regardless of their location, has the opportunity to search for documents stored in the NLB's collections, licensed databases and open access information resources and to get access to full texts of documents from information resources of open access without authorization.
Inside the library you can access its electronic library, as well as the full texts of documents from licensed databases: EBSCOhost, Oxford Journals Online, eLIBRARY.RU, “Lan”, “University Library”, etc.
The article is provided by the NLB Information Center.
