ACLS Humanities E-Book includes several thousands of full-text, cross-searchable books in the humanities selected by scholars for their continuing importance for research and teaching. The project includes both in-print and out-of-print books and many prize-winning works. It is an ongoing collaboration of the American Council of Learned Societies, various constituent member learned societies of the ACLS and over 100 publishers.
The database brings together thousands of full-text reports covering 53 countries on a multitude of business, government, economic, and social issues. Subject coverage include finance, trade, environment, human resources development, best practices in government, fisheries, tourism, education and women's studies to name a few. Country coverage includes all of Asia, Australia/New Zealand, the Americas Pacific Rim countries, and Pacific islands.
DOAB (Directory of Open Access Books) is a service of OAPEN Foundation. It aims to increase discoverability of academic, peer reviewed books published under open access license. The directory covers various subjects including arts and architecture, business and economics, history and archaeology, languages and literatures, law and political science, philosophy and religion, social sciences and more.
DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) is hosted and maintained by Lund University Libraries. Click here to access DOAJ.
DOAJ provides free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, covering all subjects including Agriculture and Food Sciences,Arts and Architecture, Biology and Life Sciences, Business and Economics, Chemistry, Earth and Environmental Sciences, General Works, Health Sciences, History and Archaeology, Languages and Literatures, Mathematics and Statistics, Philosophy and Religion, Physics and Astronomy, Science General, Social Sciences, Technology and Engineering, etc. and many languages.
Features:
All journal titles can be searched and browsed. Some journals are searchable at article level.
An e-book database of encyclopedias, almanacs and reference sources for multi-displinary research. It supports full-text search within and across collections, advanced search capabilities, bookmarks and annotations. The titles can also be searched in the Library Catalogue
Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) contains nearly 900,000 records on all subjects (especially in the humanities and the social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide from 1971 to the present. It also includes the full content of the annual printed Bibliography of Asian Studies from the 1971 up to the 1991 volumes (published in 1997).
ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 980 educational and education-related journals.
Features:
email / print / save articles, abstract / full-text / page image available, functions: marked articles, etc.
Primary Search provides full text for nearly 70 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990.
Teacher Reference Center (TRC) - Journal Information for K-12 Teachers & Librarians
This index of over 260 titles from the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals, periodicals, and books is now also offered free via the EBSCOhost platform. This database provides coverage on key education topics such as Assessment, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, Science & Mathematics, and more.
Features:
email / print / save abstract available etc.
Sources:
Periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings
Films On Demand: Asia Video Collection is a curated collection of educational videos focusing on Asian culture, history, and contemporary issues. It offers a diverse range of content, including documentaries, interviews, and cultural performances.
The new Artificial Intelligence (AI) Streaming Video Collection is an educational video library that introduces and provides a deeper understanding of the newest technological advances in AI. The collection includes a variety of videos covering topics from basic prompt engineering to advanced science of neural networks and machine learning, real-world applications, key concepts of AI, generative AI tools, and tools for teachers.
Features:
Exceptional Content from the World’s Top Producers Includes exceptional content from the world’s top producers, such as PBS, BBC, A&E, National Geographic, and HBO®.
Extensive Video Library Films on Demand provides access to a vast library of educational videos covering diverse topics. Users can explore content from various disciplines, including science, history, social sciences, and more.
Search and Browse Capabilities The platform offers robust search and browse features to help users discover relevant videos. Users can search for specific titles, keywords, or subjects, or browsing by subject, producer, or series for efficient exploration.
Customizable Playlists This feature allows users to create and manage custom playlists. Users can create their own playlists to organize videos for study or research purposes.
Closed Captioning and Transcripts Many of the videos feature closed captioning or transcripts. Users can enable captions or access transcripts for better understanding and study.
Easy Integration and Embedding The platform provides embedding capabilities, enabling users to embed videos in presentations, websites, or other digital platforms, such as Blackboard, Canva, Moodle, and more.
Support Innovative Instruction The AI Video Collection provides guidance on using AI in an educational setting, with both bite-size and longer form content to promote deeper learning and highlight ethical implications.
Functions:
Sharing Video Custom segments and playlists can be shared with others by permalinks, embed codes.
Playlists
Videos and segments can be added to playlists or saved as favorites for later viewing.
Simple Search and Advanced Search
You can search for videos by title, keyword, or use Boolean operators in the advanced search and filter results by subject, format, type, producer, and copyright date.
Browsing You can browse videos by subject areas, popular categories and featured produces.
Closed Captioning and Transcripts
Many videos offer closed captions and interactive transcripts, enhancing accessibility and searchability.
Google Translate With Google Translate in the footer of every page, you can translate all descriptions, transcripts, and navigation into one of more than 100 languages.
Citations All content provide MLA, APA, Chicago, and Harvard citation formats, with EasyBib, NoodleTools, and RefWorks export functionality.
General OneFile (Gale) is a one-stop source for news, magazine, and periodical articles across a wide range of general interest topics and academic disciplines. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text, General OneFile serves a wide audience of readers.
Journal Citation Reports offers a systematic, objective means to critically evaluate the world's leading journals, with quantifiable, statistical information based on citation data. By compiling articles' cited references, JCR helps to measure research influence and impact at the journal and category levels, and shows the relationship between citing and cited journals. Our library subscribes Social Sciences editions.
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Published annually (approximately June) following the year of coverage
Integrated our subscribed The New York Times and The New York Times in Education, the New York Times Learning Network connects classrooms to the world with The New York Times contents and provides opportunities daily for teenagers to both learn the issues that matter to them and raise their voices in response to it.
Features:
Lessons and Teaching Ideas
Lesson Plans Short lesson plans based on Times content.
Teaching Ideas Ideas and inspiration for teaching with The Times.
Writing Prompts
Student Opinion Questions (Daily) Daily questions inspired by Times content from across sections.
Picture Prompts (Tuesday-Friday) Accessible, image-driven prompts that invite a variety of kinds of writing.
Current Events Conversation (Weekly on Thursdays) A weekly round-up of our favorite student comments on recent news and issues.
Quizzes and Vocabulary
Word of the Day (Daily) Learn vocabulary with The New York Times.
Student News Quizzes (Weekly) A current events quiz that tests students about the biggest news stories.
Geography Quizzes (Monthly) Introduce students to over 150 countries via Times maps, photos and journalism.
Photos, Graphs & Videos
What’s Going On in This Picture? (Weekly on Mondays) Times images without their captions and an invitation to students to discuss the live.
What’s Going On in This Graph? (Weekly on Wednesdays) Graphs, maps and charts from The Times and an invitation to students to discuss them live.
Film Club (Weekly on Thursdays) Short documentary films and related discussion questions.
Contests & Challenges
Contests Ten challenges that invite teenagers to engage via writing, photography, audio, video and more.
Accessible Activities A curated selection of student activities for a broad range of readers and writers.
create a free NYTimes.com account using your university email address.
(If you already have a NYTimes.com account associated with your university email address, log in with those credentials. Remember to login out when you leave the platform. You may download NYTimes mobile apps via Google Play.)
Opposing Viewpoints (Gale In Context) is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information and opinions on hundreds of today's hottest social issues. Drawing on the acclaimed Greenhaven Press series, the solution features continuously updated viewpoints, topic overviews, full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, statistics, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.
Oxford Bibliographies provides a variety of academic topics. Every article in the database is an authoritative guide to the current scholarship, with original commentary and annotations. Oxford Bibliographies is reviewed and updated regularly, with 50-75 articles added per year to each subject area. It provides the access to the full text in selected subject areas including: Social Work, Sociology, Anthropology, Chinese studies, Cinema and media studies, Classics, Communication, Criminology, Education, International law, Linguistics, Management, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, American literature, Victorian literature, Childhood studies, British and Irish literature, Literary and critical theory (Start from early July 2017).
PQDT Open provides the full text of open access dissertations and theses free of charge. Click here to access PQDT Open. You can quickly and easily locate dissertations and theses relevant to your discipline, and view the complete text in PDF format. The authors of these dissertations and theses have opted to publish as open access. Open Access Publishing is a new service offered by ProQuest's UMI Dissertation Publishing, and it is expected to have many more open access dissertations and theses over time.
ProQuest Central is the largest aggregated full-text database in the market today. This database provides nearly 12,000 journals with over 9,000 available in full text. It also provides access to over 800 full text U.S., Canadian and international newspapers; Nearly 30,000 full text dissertations in the areas of business, psychology, physical sciences, health, education and more; Concise business information from nearly 9,000 market reports across 43 industries in 40 countries.
It boasts over 160 subjects including core subject areas such as:
Business and economics
Health and medical
News and world affairs
Science
Education
Technology
Humanities
Social Sciences
Psychology
Literature
Law
Women's studies, and more
Features:
email / print / save articles, abstract / full-text available / page image available, functions: marked articles, etc.
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses - Full text is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses. The official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress and the database of record for graduate research. PQDT - Full Text includes millions of searchable citations to dissertation and theses from around the world from 1861 to the present day together with over a million full text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works. Each dissertation published since July 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Simple bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1637. Where available, PQDT - Full Text provides 24-page previews of dissertations and theses.
Features:
Searchable citations
Functions:
Basic Search
Advanced Search
Publication Search
Cite / Email/ Print/ Save
Cloud Saving
Citation Export
PDF Downloading
Generative AI Research Assistant
Sources:
Dissertations and Theses from 700 leading academic institutions worldwide
Once logged in, your borrowed eBook loans will sync across ALL your registered devices.
Users can register the app on up to 6 devices.
Research Assistant is available only on the eBook Central web platform. This feature is not available on the mobile reader app.
Any ebooks already on loan in Adobe Digital Editions will sync automatically - no re-download needed.
Descriptions:
Ebook Central is an all-in-one ebook platform for research, teaching, and learning. It brings together content from nearly every publisher into a unified experience, allowing students and teachers to easily discover and use the ebook content they need.
In addition, Ebook Central Research Assistant is an AI tool that is now enabled on eligible books and can be found on the left side of the screen for PDFs, or on the right side of the screen for EPUBs. This AI tool helps you assess literature relevance and easily review, analyze, and explore new ideas.
Now, Ebook Central platform has been upgraded and launched the new Ebook Central Reader App, replacing Adobe Digital Editions as the main full-book download service. The new Reader app allows you to read eBooks downloaded from the Ebook Central platform on your desktop and mobile devices with a streamlined, secure and accessible experience.
Features:
Instant access the largest collection of scholarly ebooks across all academic disciplines.
Discover, evaluate, and access titles easily with intuitive search and user-centred design.
Users can read the loaned eBooks via the mobile app Ebook Central in anywhere.
Integrated with Ebook Central Research Assistant, it helps you complete research assignments more efficiently, gain a better understanding of complex topics and expand research by literature relevance.
New Ebook Central Reader App offers you secure and seamless access across all desktop and mobile devices with an intuitive reading experience.
Scientific Research Publishing (SCIRP) is one of the largest open access journal publishers. It is currently publishing more than 200 open access, online, peer-reviewed journals covering a wide range of academic disciplines including medical & life sciences, business & economics, chemistry & materials science, computer science & communications, earth & environmental sciences, engineering, medicine & healthcare, physics & mathematics, social sciences & humanities.
Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Delivering a comprehensive overview of the world's research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities, Scopus features smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research.
Taylor & Francis Group collaborate with researchers, scholarly societies, universities and libraries worldwide to bring knowledge to life. The Social Sciences & Humanities Library covers over 1,000 scholarly journals content spans various areas of Humanities and Social Sciences:
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