There is some overlap between the library's online resources and things found openly on the internet. Here are a few examples:

• Google Scholar, an electronic database similar to ones that the library pays for, is free and open to the public at http://scholar.google.com
• A search engine may retrieve fulltext articles that the library subscribes to. If a search engines retrieves an article that requires a fee you should first check to see if you can obtain it through the library for free.
• WorldCat is a library database that contains information about millions of books in hundreds of thousands of libraries and lists the libraries that own each one. This database is also free and open to the public at http://www.worldcat.org