Life After UWIN

Why are things changing?

• WWW has become the de facto development platform for a range of information services.
• Many new resources, especially fulltext, are only available via the WWW.
• Vendors are putting their resources into developing and improving WWW products.
• By leveraging the common WWW desktop, the University Libraries can deliver more services to campus.
• Market has changed over the 10 years since we began our database program. We can now buy much of what we formerly had to build locally.
• Our locally-developed clients can access an ever-decreasing percentage of the resources we license.
• Local client development and maintenance is expensive, and new features often lag behind what vendors can offer.