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Books, ebooks, Audiobooks, Images, Film, Email

  • ACLS Humanities E-Book Project - The ACLS Humanities E-Book Project is an online, fully searchable collection of nearly 2,000 high-quality books in history and the humanities, recommended and reviewed by historians.
  • American History in Video - The largest & richest collection of video available online for the study of American history. Allows students & researchers to analyze historical events & the presentation of historical events over time, through commercial & governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage & important documentaries. This release includes over 3146 titles, equaling approximately 765 hours.
  • AP Images - Get images, pictures and sound files from the Associated Press.
  • ARTstor Digital Library - The collection currently contains ~500,000 images. The Charter Collection documents artistic traditions across many times and cultures and embraces architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design and other forms of visual culture.
  • Audiobook: - How to find and listen to an audiobook.
  • Audiobook: Transfer Netlibrary audiobook to your mp3 player or pda.
  • Audio Drama: The L.A. Theatre Works Collection - More than 300 important dramatic works in streaming audio from the curated archive of the nation’s premiere radio theatre company. The plays - which include some of the most significant dramatic literature of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries - are performed by leading actors from around the world and recorded specifically for online listening. Mp3 download also available.
  • A-Z Maps Online - The world's largest subscription-based database of proprietary, royalty-free world, continent, country, and state maps. Included in the 4,000+ maps are: political maps, physical maps, outline maps, population maps, precipitation maps, climate maps, and other thematic maps. Updated monthly.
  • Camio - Digitized images of 115,000 works of art from around the world.
  • Early English Books Online (EEBO) - Page images of 125,000 titles published between 1475-1700, representing nearly every work published in English during that time. EEBO includes publications in all subjects: literature, religion, government, medicine, science, and music. EEBO provides the facsimile of each work, so researchers can study these publications as they appeared.
  • Films on Demand - A state-of-the-art streaming video platform that makes it easy to incorporate educational programs from Films Media Group into your content management systems, online lesson plans, distance learning courseware, or electronic card catalog system.
  • How to Find CDs in the McKay Library - Quick instructions on finding the CD you want.

 

Databases, Journals

 

  • 19th Century British Library Newspapers - Contains full runs of influential national and regional newspapers representing different political and cultural segments of the 19th century British society.
  • Academic Video Online - Search American History, Counseling & Therapy, Dance, Ethnography, Opera, Theatre, and World History in Video.
  • ACM Digital Library - Database of the Association of Computing Machinery consists of full text, citation, and abstract journals, magazine, and conference reports from 1966 to present.
  • A.D.A.M Interactive Anatomy Online - The most comprehensive online interactive anatomy teaching resource for your Anatomy and Physiology courses with over 3,000 illustrations, 3D images, Curriculum Builder and more. (Requires free Unity Pro and Flash Player 10 plug-ins.)
  • Advertising Age - News in the field of advertising. Includes ad reviews.
  • American Civil War Research Database - Online resource for researching the individuals, regiments, and battles of the American Civil War. Contains information on >4 million soldiers and thousands of battles, with 15,000 photographs.
  • American Film Scripts Online - contains 135 scripts by 201 writers together with detailed, fielded information on the scenes, characters and people related to the scripts.
  • Ancestry.com - NOTE: THIS SITE IS NOT AVAILABLE OFF CAMPUS. The leading resource for pursuing family history research online. Access to hundreds of millions of fully searchable individual records, including all available US Census records (1790–1930).
  • Associations Unlimited - Information on associations and professional societies.
  • Art Index - Abstracts and full text from English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as journals published in several foreign languages.
  • Audio Drama: The L.A. Theatre Works Collection - More than 300 important dramatic works in streaming audio from the curated archive of the nation’s premiere radio theatre company. The plays - which include some of the most significant dramatic literature of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries - are performed by leading actors from around the world and recorded specifically for online listening. Mp3 download also available.
  • ARTstor Digital Library - The collection currently contains ~500,000 images. The Charter Collection documents artistic traditions across many times and cultures and embraces architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design and other forms of visual culture.
  • ATLA Religion Database - how to search for articles that have specific biblical passages.
  • Bible in English (990-1970) - Full text of 20 versions of the Bible, including the Geneva, Great, Wesley, Wycliffe, King James, Webster, West Saxon and Tyndale Bibles, including all prefatory matter, notes, running heads and glossaries.
  • Biographical Information - how to find basic biographical information.
  • BioOne - Full-text peer-reviewed online journals in the biosciences.
  • Black Drama 150 - present - Contains approx. 1200 plays by 201 playwrights, with detailed information on related productions, theaters, production companies, & more.
  • Black Women Writers - Fiction, nonfiction and poetry by women from North America, Africa & the Caribbean. It will also present essays by scholars and feminists about the history of feminism and genre studies in these regions.
  • British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries - Largest collection of British and Irish women's diaries and correspondence ever assembled. Spanning more than 300 years, it will bring the personal experiences of more than 1,000 women to researchers, students, and general readers.
  • Business, Economics & Linguistics e-books (Blackwell) - Reference e-books in the fields of: Anthropology, Business & Management, Economics, Geography, History, Linguistics, and Psychology.
  • Bureau of Labor Statistics - The Bureau of Labor Statistics is the principal fact-finding agency for the Federal Government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics.
  • Camio - Digitized images of 115,000 works of art from around the world.
  • Children's Literature Comprehensive Database - More than 900,000 catalog records for child-focused media and 130,000+ critical reviews of thousands of children's books.
  • Computer Source - Computer Source provides researchers with the latest information and current trends in high technology. This database offers full text for more than 300 publications and indexing and abstracts for nearly 450 publications.
  • Conditions and Politics in Occupied Western Europe, 1940-1945 - Original British Foreign Office documents from the National Archives of the UK, representing the majority of Britain's information flow from occupied territories in Europe, and from Germany itself after the cessation of normal peacetime diplomatic channels. Resistance, economic and social conditions and intelligence operations are all reported through telegrams, letters, coded messages and reports.
  • Counseling and Therapy in Video - The largest and richest online collection of video available for the study of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling—400 hours and >330 videos on completion. Transcripts synchronized to video can be searched and video clips can be created.
  • CQ Researcher - 1983-present. CQ Weekly reports on the activities of the United States Congress. Each issue provides announcements of upcoming Congressional events as well as a summary of the previous week's news, including the status of bills, committee and floor activity, debates and roll-call votes.
  • CRC Handbook of Chemistry & Physics - 1983-present. CQ Weekly reports on the activities of the United States Congress. Each issue provides announcements of upcoming Congressional events as well as a summary of the previous week's news, including the status of bills, committee and floor activity, debates and roll-call votes.
  • Digital Dissertations: Music research - Find scholaraly journal articles using the Digital Dissertations database.
  • DSM-IV-TR Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders - The full e-book online.
  • Eighteenth Century Journals Portal - Rare journals printed between c1685 & 1815,illuminating all aspects of eighteenth-century social,political & literary life. Topics include: the writings of Sir Isaac Newton; the French Revolution; reviews of literature and fashion throughout Europe;political debates; and coffee house gossip and discussion.
  • Elsevier Journals Database - Over 620 full-text research journals from Elsevier. The years for which full-text is available will vary for each journal.
  • Heritage Quest - Assembles every extant U.S. federal census, banking and military records, genealogies, local histories, primary source materials, and genealogical and local history serials.
  • Find Full-Text Button - What does it do?
  • Footnote - Explore millions of original documents from the world's archives and from individuals. Annotate important information on the image, easily organize and share your findings or collaborate with people who have similar interests.
  • Foreign Office Files for China 1949-1980 - The complete British Foreign Office Files dealing with China, Hong Kong and Taiwan from 1949 to 1980.
  • Gale Virtual Reference - More than 300 reference e-books in Arts, Biography, Business, Education, Environment, History, Law, Literature, Medicine, Multicultural Studies, Nation & World, Religion, Science, Social Science.
  • Gartner Research - the world’s leading information technology research and advisory company.
  • Global Road Warrior - A country by country guide specifically designed for those engaged in international trade & business travel. It includes points of interest, climate, electrical and Internet information, etc.
  • GospeLink - LDS reference library with full-text searching of scriptures, church books and periodicals.
  • GREENR - Offers authoritative content on green technologies. Primary areas of focus include Agriculture, Law & Politics, Economics & Trade, Pollution, Energy, Resource Management, Environment & Ecology, Science & Technology, and Social Factors.
  • Grzimek's Animal Life - Grzimek's acclaimed 17-volume Animal Life Encyclopedia is now online, with >4,000 species categorized by Amphibians, Birds, Fish, Insects, Invertebrates, Mammals and Reptiles, including information on evolution, habitat, behavior, range and more.
  • Historic Map Works - Over 100,000 land ownership maps detailing the geographic & development history of the United States over several hundred years. There is extensive coverage of rural and suburban areas, as well as cities and towns across America.
  • Hoovers - Includes company overview, history, products/operations on more than 18,500 public and private U.S. companies and international companies. Covers major industry trends, industry links, and IPO information.
  • Illustrated Civil War Newspapers and Magazines - Contains 65,000 pages drawn from 49 periodicals, including 15 campaign newspapers Covers 3,720 issues published from 1860 to 1865 & originally printed in 16 different cities.
  • Images of America: A History of American Life in Images and Texts - A unique resource cultivated from Arcadia Publishing's award-winning series of local history books. It will include over 1 million historical images and texts, celebrating the places and faces that give America its spirit and life. All of the images and texts have been indexed, enabling users to explore the depth of a town's history or to compare the histories of various towns, cultures, ethnic groups, architectural features, and more.
  • Images of the American Civil War - Thousands of dramatic images from the fields of battle, politics, and general society allow students and researchers to experience the events, both monumental and mundane, of the war that tested and defined the core meaning of America. The database holds >1400 images & will contain over 50,000 when complete.
  • Index to Printed Music - IPM is the only online resource for finding individual pieces of music printed in standard scholarly editions, with over 307,000 index records of individual music works.
  • Iraq, 1914-1974: The Middle East Online - An essential contemporary resource for the understanding of modern Iraq, this online archive of primary source documents delivers first-hand government records covering the period from the dismantling of the Ottoman Empire, the creation of the new state, up to the rise of Saddam Hussein in 1974. Major strategic issues and policy-making statements are set out in their full context, revealing the internal workings of the Mandate administration, international relations and treaties, the importance of oil, and all matters of local and regional importance
  • iPoll Databank - The Roper Center iPOLL is a compilation of over 500,000 questions from public opinion polls on a broad range of topics. Questions can be searched by keyword, topic, date or source. Only polls of the United States population at the national level are included.
  • Job and Carear Accelerator - An online resource to help you explore different occupations and to find jobs in your field. It also includes tools to help you with resumes, cover letters and interviews. Use your Learning Express login if you already have one.
  • Journal or Newspaper - Find journals or newspapers the library subscribes to in paper or electronic format.
  • JSTOR: For music reasearch - How to perform music research in the JSTOR database.
  • Leisure and Tourism: Find a Conference Proceeding
  • Lexis Nexis Academic Universe - News, business, legal, medical, and reference information.
  • Library Catalog - How to find books, ebooks, DVDs, CDs and music in the library catalog.
  • Library Website Overview - The basics of using the library website.
  • Mango Languages - Learn a language online! Currently has 9 languages (Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, German, Russian, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Greek) and 3 ESL versions (Spanish, Portuguese, Polish).
  • Medieval Travel Writing - Manuscripts of some of the most important works of European travel writing from the later medieval period. The chief focus is on journeys to central Asia and the Far East, including accounts of travel to Mongolia, Persia, India, China and South-East Asia.
  • Metalib - How to use this tool to search multiple databases simultaneously.
  • Mintel - How to create an account.
  • NetAdvantage - A comprehensive source of business and investment information, offering on-line access to popular Standard & Poor’s research products.
  • New York Times Historical Archive - How to find articles on the day you were born.
  • The Nixon Years 1969-1974 - These files enable researchers to assess, from a British, European and Commonwealth perspective, Nixon's handling of numerous Cold War crises, his administration's notable achievements, as well as his increasingly controversial activities and unorthodox use of executive powers culminating in Watergate and resignation.
  • OCLC Worldcat - Access to 1.3 billion items in more than 10,000 libraries worldwide
  • Omnifile (Wilson) - 1994-Present Topics: business, education, science, humanities, social sciences, general.
  • Opposing Viewpoints - Complete one-stop source for information on social issues.
  • Original Sources - A compilation of thousands of historical sources, including original documents, eyewitness accounts, and classical historical accounts. Materials are arranged in 8 major categories: World History; U.S. History; Science and Mathematics; Social Science; Literature; Political Science and Law; Language; Philosophy & Religion.
  • Oxford Biblical - A comprehensive resource for the study of the Bible and biblical history. Includes a large number of Bible translations and commentaries. Also includes the Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Oxford Companion to the Bible, and a wealth of other Oxford references. Research is enhanced by timelines, tables and charts, Internet resources and a Bible Verse Look-up feature.
  • Oxford Music Online - Formerly Grove Music Online.
  • Oxford Scholarship Online - Scholarly e-books from Oxford Press. NOTE: We currently have access to selected titles only in these areas: Economics, Philosophy, Political Science, Religion.
  • Philosopher's Index - A bibliographic database with abstracts covering scholarly research in all areas of philosophy going back to 1940.
  • Physical Education Index: Find a Conference Proceeding
  • Post War Europe: Refugees, Exile and Resettlement, 1945-1950 - Essential primary sources for the study and understanding of the challenges facing the European peoples in the aftermath of World War II. This online archive covers the politics and administration of the refugee crisis in Europe after World War II as well as the day-to-day survival of the refugees themselves. From The National Archives of the UK, and The Wiener Library, London.
  • PrivCo) - PrivCo is the premiere source for business and financial data on major, non-publicly traded corporations, including family owned, private equity owned, venture backed, and international unlisted companies.
  • Proquest Direct (UMI) - Index to 4,000+ periodicals, many full-text. This link searches multiple databases, including Research Library, ABI/Inform, Dissertations & Theses, & ProQuest Newspapers.
  • Proquest: Find a Conference Proceeding
  • Renewing a library Book - How to renew a McKay Library book that you have already checked out.
  • Rilm Database - How to search the RILM music research database
  • Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy - This encyclopedia includes articles on major philosophers of all periods. This electronic version includes updated articles from modern scholars and updates on the most current philosophical thinking. Content is updated with changes in the field.
  • Science Online (AAAS)- Contains thousands of topic overviews, experiments, biographies, and pictures from >200 scientific journals..
  • Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960 - 1974 - Contains diaries, letters, autobiographies and other memoirs, written and oral histories, manifestos, government documents, memorabilia, and scholarly commentary. Currently has 35,000 pages; will expand to 150,000 pages of material at completion. NOTE: Some content might be offensive.
  • Slavery and Anti-Slavery - A four-part collection devoted to the transatlantic history of slavery. It includes books, manuscripts, court records, and serials. The first part documents the debates surrounding slavery and its abolition in the U.S. but also in the UK and other European countries, the Caribbean, Latin America, and Africa.
  • Social Theory - Documents that explore the complexities and interpret the nature of social behavior and organization. Currently features >122,000 pages of content by major theorists.
  • SpringerLink - Online access to thousands of high-quality STM journals, e-books, & the entire Springer Protocols collection.
  • Testaments to the Holocaust -. The collection includes Nazi propaganda materials; Hitler Youth materials; pamphlets, books; and a rare encyclopedia of anti-Semitism. The core of the collection is 1,200 eyewitness accounts dealing with the pogrom of 1938 through the scope of the Holocaust.
  • Thomas Register -The most comprehensive online resource for finding companies and products manufactured in North America where you can place orders online, view and download millions of computer Aided Design (CAD) drawings, view thousands of online company catalogs and websites.
  • UpToDate - UpToDate is an evidence-based clinical information resource. It covers over 9,000 topics across 19 medical specialties and includes more than 23,000 graphics, 125 medical calculators, links to Medline abstracts, over 328,000 references and a drug database.
  • Victorian Popular Culture - An essential resource for the study of popular entertainment in the 19th & early 20th centuries. Includes spiritualism, sensation, magic, circuses, sideshows, freaks, music hall, theatre, and popular entertainment.
  • Web of Science - The ISI Web of Science is a very selective index to literature in Science, Social Science and Art & Humanities. It also shows the number of times articles have been cited by other researchers.
  • Wiley Interscience Journals - Access: Current titles only; no backfiles. Content from >2,500 journals, books, reference works, databases, lab manuals & The Cochrane Library of Medicine. Topics include: Business, Finance, Chemistry, Computer Science, Earth Science, Education, Engineering, Law, Life & Medical Sciences, Mathematics & Statistics, Physics, Psychology
  • Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000 - 52 document projects, 30 lesson plans & questions, 18,500 full text documents on women and social movements in the US
  • World Book Online - Contains >25,000 articles, >10,000 pictures & maps, 10,000 video & sound clips, linked articles to periodicals, & 140,000 editor-approved web sites.
  • World Development Indicators - Includes more than 800 indicators for 152 countries and regional income groups, with basic indicators for an additional 62 countries. Includes data from the current social indicators of development, world debt tables, and trends in developing economies.
  • World Wide Political Science Abstracts - Provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration/policy.

 

Instructional Resources

  • Adding Proxy URL to Library Resource in iLearn - setup library restricted resources to work from off campus when pasting links in iLearn.
  • Book call numbers - how they work.
  • Evaluate a Research Article - gives an example of how to evaluate a research article..
  • Find Full Text for an Article from a Citation - demonstrates how to find the full-text for an article citation using library resources.
  • Learning Express - Includes a broad range of practice tests for Education and Nursing students, plus official exams like the ACT, SAT, GED, ASVAB, Paramedic, EMT Basic, U.S. Citizenship and more. Offers comprehensive courses in math, reading, and writing; essay writing practice with instant scoring; resume writing and workplace skills enrichment; and more than 300 online practice tests.
  • Mango Languages - Learn a language online! Currently has 9 languages (Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, German, Russian, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Greek) and 3 ESL versions (Spanish, Portuguese, Polish).
  • Scholarly Articles - how you can you tell the difference between them and non-scholarly materials.
  • TERC (Testing & Education Reference Center) - Database of colleges, scholarships, and test preparation materials, including GED, SAT, ACT, GRE, MCAT, TOEFL, etc.

 

 

Music, Video, Search Engines

  • Counseling and Therapy in Video - The largest and richest online collection of video available for the study of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling—400 hours and >330 videos on completion. Transcripts synchronized to video can be searched and video clips can be created.
  • Films on Demand - A state-of-the-art streaming video platform that makes it easy to incorporate educational programs from Films Media Group into your content management systems, online lesson plans, distance learning courseware, or electronic card catalog system.
  • Find Digital Sheet Music - Access sheet music in digital format and midi files from a variety of sources.
  • International Index to Music Periodicals - How to use.
  • JSTOR: For music reasearch - How to perform music research in the JSTOR database.
  • Medici.tv - Medici.tv offers over 700 programs available on streaming VOD with an unlimited access to the films as long and as often as you wish.
  • Music Research: Digital Dissertations - Find scholaraly journal articles using the Digital Dissertations database.
  • Opera in Video - 250 of the most important opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries.
  • Oxford Music Online - Formerly Grove Music Online.
  • Primo- how to use.
  • Rilm Database - How to search the RILM music research database.
  • Theater in Video - Contains more than 250 definitive performances of the world's leading plays, plus more than 100 film documentaries, online in streaming video.

 

Newspapers, Maps, Cultural Information

  • 19th Century British Library Newspapers - Contains full runs of influential national and regional newspapers representing different political and cultural segments of the 19th century British society.
  • CultureGrams - Extensive cultural reports for 190+ countries, states and provinces.
  • Eighteenth Century Journals Portal - Rare journals printed between c1685 & 1815,illuminating all aspects of eighteenth-century social,political & literary life. Topics include: the writings of Sir Isaac Newton; the French Revolution; reviews of literature and fashion throughout Europe;political debates; and coffee house gossip and discussion.
  • Newspaper Archive - Historic newspapers from 1759 to 1977 from the U.S. and 8 other countries. Over 12 million searchable pages from 400+ cities and towns (except in Idaho).
  • NewspaperDirect Press Display - Full-page digital images of 900+ newspapers and magazines from 80 countries, in 40 languages. Shows issues from the last 60 days.
  • Nineteenth Century Newspapers Online - Digital facsimile images of both full pages and clipped articles for hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers. For each issue, the newspaper is captured from cover-to-cover, providing access to every article, advertisement and illustration.

 

Tools, Laptop Configuration