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Building Collections

This page is about the using the Basic Collection, Core Collection and Essential Titles List to help identify suitable or in-scope publications for your library's collection. It also covers how to identify and use commercial databases that are provided to the FDLP for free.

# Article Title Hits
1 Basic Collection 54597
2 Essential Titles for Public Use in Paper or Other Tangible Format 30794
3 Linking to Federal Resources Using Persistent Uniform Resource Locators (PURLs) 12041
4 Accessing Federal Information Using MetaLib's Federated Search 6444
5 Passworded Databases 15500
6 Suggested Core Collections 9122