Article incorporates many facets of the integration of electronic reference resources in academic libraries, including full text databases from EBSCO Publishing, electronic journals, OPAC, as well as irrelevant web search results, and how to harness the capability of the World Wide Web through vendors and Library of Congress subject headings. Discusses the power of linking various electronic information sources to function as a cohesive research environment, and the advent of EBSCO Smart Links via EBSCOhost. Provides insight into the topic of embargo periods placed on journals and full text databases, the importance of peer-reviewed journals and scholarly databases, publisher relations with aggregators, statistical measurements of the usage of full text databases for collection development, the dangers of cancelling print subscriptions as a result of access via a full text database and the stability of content in such full text resources.