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A broad collection of STEM-related resources ranging from reports on current news topics to full-length textbooks and articles spanning 18 major STEM disciplines. The platform also features a curated multimedia collection, including hundreds of videos from the American Chemical Society, engaging video biographies of award-winning scientists, and 19,000+ downloadable images.
This platform includes full access to the following modules:
This resource allows users to search across more than 4,300 digital collections of archival materials related to African history and culture. More than 575,000 primary sources are included in the resource, and each record provides a link to view the material within the platform or on an external digital repository. In addition to search, these sources can be browsed by organization or collection, or across prepared lists and topics.
East African Magazines, Newspapers, and Films: The Hilary Ng’weno Archive
A collection of full-run magazines, newspapers, and films from the Kenyan journalist Hilary Ng'weno. Coverage includes nearly 1,800 magazine issues, 120 newspapers, and more than 70 documentary videos.
This archive includes over 3,100 issues covering art, fashion, entertainment, culture and news related to the African American community. Jet was originally published as a sister publication to Ebony Magazine [Ebony Magazine Archive (EBSCOhost)] beginning in 1951 and continued weekly through its final print issue in 2014. Articles and cover pages are fully indexed and advertisements are individually identified.
This archive provides 450 issues of Southern Living Magazine from 1966-2010, with coverage of the culture, trends, food, homes, gardens and travel destinations of the Southern United States. Articles and cover pages are fully indexed and advertisements are individually identified.
This archive of the weekly magazine covers the very first issue in August 1954 through December 2000. The magazine, published by Time Inc., provides insight into sports, current events, politics, and culture. The historical nature of this collection also delivers a broad history of business, advertising, and popular culture across the 46-year span.
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This scholarly, multi-disciplinary, full-text database includes more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals with coverage across nearly all areas of academic study. In addition to its 8,500 full-text periodicals, the database features more than 75,000 videos from the Associated Press from 1930 to the present.
APA PsycArticles includes full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology with articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association (APA), its imprint - the Educational Publishing Foundation (EPF), and from allied organizations including the Canadian Psychological Association and the Hogrefe Publishing Group. It includes all journal articles, book reviews, letters to the editor, and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1894 to the present and nearly all APA journals go back to Volume 1, Issue 1.
APA PsycInfo includes abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations from the fields of behavioral and social sciences. Journal coverage, which spans from the 1800s to the present, includes international material selected from periodicals in dozens of languages.
BMHO provides a comprehensive, rich, and diverse collection of video and text for anyone studying or teaching in the area of mental health such as counseling, social work, nursing, psychology and behavioral health. This collection includes clinical mental health demonstrations, actual therapy sessions, compelling documentaries on the human condition, psychotherapy transcripts, as well client narratives and reference works.
Featuring select primary source documents related to critical people and events in African American history. Black Freedom Struggle in the United States contains over 3,000 documents focused on six different phases: Slavery and Abolitionist Movement (1790-1860), Civil War and Reconstruction Era (1861-1877), Jim Crow Era from 1878 to the Great Depression (1878-1932), New Deal and World War II (1933-1945), Civil Rights and Black Power Movements (1946-1975), Contemporary Era (1976-2000s).
This database provides bibliographic and full-text coverage of scholarly business journals, general magazines and trade periodicals.
A comprehensive source of nursing and allied health resources that offers access to 717 full-text journals, evidence-based care sheets, quick lessons, and more.
Index, abstracts, and full-text for journals covering advertising, marketing, film/video, game studies, journalism, communication, mass media, linguistics, rhetoric, language, logic, and other closely related fields.
This collection contains over 246,000 eBooks on a wide variety of academic subject matter.
eBook Central is a collection of nearly 250,000 academic e-books on a wide variety of subjects.
Infobase Feature films for Education Collection has almost 800 full-length titles. This collection focuses on both current and hard-to-find titles, including dramas, literary adaptations, blockbusters, classics, science fiction, environmental titles, foreign films, social issues, animation studies, Academy Award® winners, and more.
Films Media Group (FMG) Archival Films & Newsreels has over 4,514 titles and over 578 hours of programming it is a treasure trove of archival and historical films from multiple sources.
This comprehensive collection includes 26 core academic collections with over 280,100+ video clips, 26,900+ full-length videos, and 14,500+ hours programming in various subject areas.
A multidisciplinary research database of encyclopedias and reference sources within the Gale eBooks platform.
Opposing Viewpoints includes viewpoints, reference articles, infographics, news, images, video, audio, and more on contemporary topics. Periodical content covers current events, news and commentary, economics, environmental issues, political science, and more. Opposing Viewpoints is cross-searchable with Gale In Context: Global Issues.
This database offers access to 3,200 scholarly journals that examine more than a thousand topics, all dating back to the first issue published. There is a comprehensive U.S. government publications collection and an archive of case law consisting of federal, state, and overseas cases. The international resources address many countries, regions, and international organizations.
IEEE is the world's largest technical professional organization. IEEE Xplore provides FULL-TEXT access to IEEE transactions, journals, magazines, and conference proceedings published since 1988 plus select content back to 1950, and all current IEEE standards.
From the Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE), JoVE Education is a library of continually updated videos that explain scientific concepts, demonstrate theory and practice of scientific experiments, and introduce lab techniques. Videos can be searched/browsed across the entire platform or by collection:
A multidisciplinary digital library that includes all 2,800+ academic journals on JSTOR; spanning more than 60 disciplines across the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Access also includes more than two million primary source documents.
And, with the incorporation of Artstor's collections, JSTOR is now home to more than two million images.
Kanopy is a video streaming collection with over 26,000 films ranging from documentaries, indie, foreign, classic and blockbuster movies in several subjects and sub-subject areas. PBS, New Day Films, Kino Lorber, and California NewsReel are just a few of the content providers.
The O'Reilly for Higher Education digital platform includes more than 38,000 book titles and more than 30,000 hours of video. Topics range from programming to IT networking to project management to graphic design to business strategy. The content includes code snippets, certification preparation materials, practice exercises, training videos, and much more. Users can search thousands of books simultaneously online, saving time and quickly finding the information they need.
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This reference database includes access to almost 400 dictionaries and encyclopedias of fully-indexed, cross-searchable works published by Oxford University Press with detailed information across a broad subject range of topics.
This resource includes millions of peer-reviewed journal articles published under the Taylor & Francis, Routledge and Dove Medical Press imprints across many academic disciplines.
Wiley Online Library provides access to multidisciplinary content across more than 1,600 journals and 22,000 ebooks.