digital resources

Electronic reference content

Digital resources are materials stored and accessed electronically—documents, images, videos, databases, websites, software, and other content available through computers or the internet.

Libraries and schools distinguish digital resources from physical ones: The university's digital resources include thousands of online journals.

The term often appears in educational and institutional contexts where access to information is managed or catalogued.

Opposites
format/medium

digital resourcesprinted matter

Published text materials

physical media · hard copies · bound volumes · printed materials · print media

technological era

digital resourcesoral traditions

Culture transmitted through speech

card catalogs · legacy systems · stone tablets

Family

digit, resource

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G