There can be some overlap between the library's online resources and things that can be found openly on the Web. Here are a few examples:

• Google Scholar, which is 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 (but 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 thousands of books and lists the libraries that own each one. This database is also free and open to the public at http://www.worldcat.org