Analysis and discussion on electronic resource construction and information service of libraries in Mainland China

Abstract

After ten year’s development, the electronic resources now become the kernel part of the library resource, and they also are the important foundation of information service of university libraries of Chinese Mainland. Consortium purchase is the main mechanism to introduce electronic resource in this development process. In this paper, the statistical data of these four main kinds of introduced databases, such as E-journal, E-book, A/I-database, Fact-database, are detailed analyzed. Some researches on the new tendency in the process of introducing electronic resource are embodied. The new problems in the resource construction of libraries and the far-reaching effect on information service are also discussed.