Electronic and Digital Resources in the Humanities

Abstract

The aim of the paper is to present the effect of electronic resources on the Humanities and to discuss the role of the library in the changing environment of resource provision and access. A number of recently published works are reviewed in order to give an insight into the information-seeking habits of humanities researchers, the extent to which they use electronic information resources and their attitudes towards them. The major publishers and distributors are listed, with information summarizing their offerings, followed by a highly-selective listing of humanities resources arranged by subject. In addition, the authors pose some of the problems surrounding decisions about resource selection and call the attention of librarians to the issues they must consider.