Most patrons won't understand the meanings of "digital collections" and 
"electronic resources". We should use terminology that they would use. 
My brain is a fog this morning so I don't have any brilliant suggestions 
at the moment. There is likely to be UX-type research about this in the 
current literature. "Databases" is probably better, for example. 
"Articles" is probably even better than "databases".

For what it's worth...

/Erik

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On 3/18/2015 9:25 AM, Matt Sherman wrote:
> I haven't done any testing on that, but your understanding it the
> conventional on in the field.
>
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 12:22 PM, Derek Merleaux <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
>> I've always been inclined to use "digital collections" to talk about a
>> collection of things that have been digitized or perhaps including born
>> digital things that are part of a "collection" in an archival sort of way.
>> I prefer the term "electronic resources" for the databases and other
>> things...
>> -Derek
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 12:04 PM, Jenn C <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi-
>>>
>>> We're having a discussion about some web site labeling and navigation. We
>>> have a list of "digital collections" which are collections that contain
>>> items we've digitized. There was concern expressed that we have something
>>> labeled "digital collections" patrons might think that includes databases
>>> and other items.
>>>
>>> Has anyone done user testing around this or have any experience/ideas
>> about
>>> how to handle the difference between these?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> jenn
>>>
>>