The LILRC Group Purchasing Program offers substantial discounts to electronic databases from Britannica, EBSCO, Elsevier, OCLC, WALDO (Westchester Academic Library Directors Organization, a statewide database aggregator), etc.  Please visit LILRC Web site at http://www.lilrc.org/progsvce/electronic_resources.php for further information.

The Group Purchasing Program is available to all academic, public, special and schools libraries either as a member or non-member of LILRC.  While LILRC is offering these subscription services at a significant discount, a small administrative eligibility fee is added to partially offset our costs.  Non-member libraries pay an additional surcharge for all services. 

 Currently, LILRC offers access to the following electronic databases or database packages:

 OCLC FirstSearch (Base Package and Wilson Select Plus Full-text Database)

 Since 1996, LILRC has offered Long Island libraries a low cost group subscription to OCLC FirstSearch package.  The current LILRC FirstSearch package includes 11 OCLC base package databases and the Wilson Select Plus Full-text database.  Our FirstSearch subscribing libraries also receives the newly created regional group catalog, LILCat (Long Island Library Catalog) without additional charge.  LILCat is the replacement of the old Long Island Union List of Serials and it is an OCLC WorldCat-based real time product.

 WALDO

Members of LILRC are eligible to take advantage of WALDO's consortial contracts with over 50 database vendors.  Academic libraries are eligible for all WALDO databases.  Many databases are also available to public, hospital, special and K-12 school libraries.  Please visit WALDO Web site at http://www.waldolib.org/databases.asp for database availability information.

 LILRC Direct Contracts

• Britannica (Encyclopedia Britannica Online and Encyclopedia Britannic Online School Edition)
• EBSCO (Alt-HealthWatch)
• Elsevier (MDConsult)
• Sports Business Research Network (SBRnet)
• World Book (World Book Online)

NOVEL Databases (New York Online Virtual Electronic Library)

LILRC encourages and assists members in getting free access to NOVEL Databases, which is supported by Federal Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) funds, awarded to the New York State Library by the Federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).  Please visit NOVEL Web site at http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/library/novel/ for further information.

Currently NOVEL provides online access to the following databases.

• Business & Company Resources Center
• Gale Virtual Reference Library
  • Health
    • Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
    • Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer
    • Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders
    • Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
    • Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
  • History
    • American Revolution Reference Library, 4 volumes plus index
    • American Civil War Reference Library, 4 volumes plus index
    • Major Acts of Congress, 1st Ed., 3 volumes
    • History Behind the Headlines, vol. 1-6 set
  • Business
    • Encyclopedia of Small Business
    • Gale Encyclopedia of E-Commerce
    • Business Plans Handbook, volumes 5-10
• General Science Collection
• Health and Wellness Resource Center
• InfoTrac Custom Newspapers
• InfoTrac Junior
• ¡Informe! Revistas en Español
• MasterFILE Select
• National Newspaper Index
• Primary Search via Searchasaurus
• Topic Search
• Twayne's Author Series

For further information about the various electronic resources LILRC offers, you may contact LILRC Regional Automation Coordinator Min Liu at (631) 632-6659.