Find Articles/Find Databases/Find e-Journals is Cornell University Library’s new system for searching networked electronic resources, both proprietary and non-proprietary.  This research portal began over 10 years ago when Mann Library created a Gateway made up of two principal parts—a home page and the Gateway database, which was a database of metadata about selected networked resources.  Some of the resources were free, but many were licensed from a host of content providers.
	In 1998, we redesigned and reintroduced the Mann Library Gateway as the common entryway to networked resources, services and information for the entire Cornell library system. In 2001, because the scope of the Gateway database had become rather unwieldy, we redefined it as the “e-Reference Collection,” which was a database of metadata about e-resources of significant reference value. By early 2003, it contained descriptions of about 1,000 databases and Web sites, including full text, indexes, catalogs, and numeric data.
	The metadata in the e-Reference Collection permitted searchers to discover and then connect to the resources in its collection.
	The e-Reference metadata was stored in a MySQL database and used the search engine Glimpse.  Networked resources that were selected for e-Reference were cataloged in Voyager and the MARC records were then transferred to the MySQL database and augmented with authentication and authorization information, as appropriate.  Users could either search or browse the database.
	This system was a tremendous success.  In calendar year 2001, the average monthly connections to e-Reference resources was well over 55,000.