jess.eustace@man.ac.uk

In the last five years the exponential growth and use of electronic resources has surpassed all former predictions. The rise in use of e-journals, bibliographic databases and research support facilities has resulted in the researcher relying far more heavily on web based resources than ever before. One of the acknowledged problems that now faces the researcher is how to filter, access and apply the information, using the wide variety of resource discovery tools now available to them. At MIMAS (Manchester Information and Associated Services, one of the three UK national data centres) we attempt to provide a one-stop-shop for our users' needs, be they undergraduate, postgraduate or post-doctorate. This paper seeks to show how MIMAS services can be used at every stage of the research development process, from the inception of an idea, through its development, to the final presentation of results. Facilities like ISI's Web of Science, COPAC (which merges online catalogues of 21 of the largest university research libraries in the UK and Ireland), JSTOR (a retrospective digital archive of scholarly journals) together with many of the other services hosted at MIMAS now provide support for researchers at every level of the creative process.