UCI Libraries collects materials in all formats to support the university's research, teaching, and public service mission, demonstrating diversity across the collection to the extent possible. Primary emphasis is on acquiring current materials and providing access to online resources, although materials in all formats are considered.
JSTOR is an online database of fully-searchable, printable, and downloadable digitized back issues of journals in a wide range of disciplines. In order to provide a secure backup for the database, JSTOR has reached agreements with Harvard and the University of California Libraries to create secure archives of print copies of the journals that are available online.
JSTOR is an online database of fully-searchable, printable, and downloadable digitized back issues of journals in a wide range of disciplines. JSTOR is heavily used by UCI students and faculty, and studies show that they prefer to use these journals in electronic format.
The UC Irvine Libraries’ Reference Collections include a wide variety of dictionaries, encyclopedias, handbooks, directories, indexes, abstracts and other tools that support research in all fields of study at UC Irvine. Many of these essential reference sources have migrated to digital format and are accessible via the Web. This shift has led the Libraries to increase reader space and move many print reference works to the general stacks for check out.
The UC Irvine Libraries' collections support the teaching and research mission of the campus. We recognize that the diverse community the library serves needs inclusive collections which are a foundation for learning and a basis for the creation of new knowledge.
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