Ashworth College Library
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Start with some general Research Resources (below)
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Research Resources
Best General Library Resources
- Primary library resource available for our students
- Contains resources from 13,451 publications, including 7,423 scholarly journals and 2,061 trade journals
- Specific subject search options for resources in the fields of business and criminal justice
- ProQuest is accessible at the Student Library link in your Student Portal
- This will take you to an intermediate page with a link that says “Ashworth College Library”
- Selecting this link will take you to the ProQuest search interface
- We recommend viewing this ProQuest Tutorial series, especially the following videos:
- Find scholarly articles on all topics.
- Full-text links to many
- Check out the Google Scholar Search Tips for help.
Other Online Databases
- The BEPress Digital Commons Network is an open source institutional repository which makes the scholarly output of several universities and institutions freely available
- Contains 613,066 works from 265 institutions
- Covers ten major subject areas including law, social and behavioral sciences, arts and humanities, physical sciences and mathematics, life sciences, education, engineering, medicine and health sciences, and business
- A tutorial on using the Digital Commons Network can be found here
Digital Public Library of America
- Brings together free resources from America’s archives libraries, archives, and museums
- Striving to contain the full breadth of human expression, this portal currently provide access to over 5,000,000 resources
- Use the bookshelf tab or the search bar to navigate to the search interface or find resources on a particular topic
Directory of Open-Access Journals
- “The aim of the DOAJ is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals, thereby promoting their increased usage and impact”
- Aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use a quality control system to guarantee the content”
- “In short, the DOAJ aims to be THE one stop shop for users of open access journals.”
- Thousands of open access journals with full text articles
- Repository of over 10,000 reference articles
Open-Access Textbooks
- Bookboon, is an online book publishing company based in London, United Kingdom
- Offers PDF eBooks which can be downloaded for free on the company’s website
- All available books are exclusively written for Bookboon by professors and experts within their fields of expertise. Subjects range from travel guides and business to university textbooks
- MERLOT has one of the largest collections of open textbooks with thousands of free open textbooks in the collection
- Textbooks are searchable by topic or using Advanced Search tool to find open textbooks by audience, format, license, etc.
- OER Commons is a freely accessible online library that provides a web-based infrastructure for teachers and others to search and discover Open Educational Resources (OER) and other freely available instructional materials
Open Academics from the University of Minnesota
- Open textbooks are complete textbooks released under a Creative Commons, or similar, license
- Instructors can customize open textbooks to fit their course needs by remixing, editing, and adding their own content
- Students can access free digital versions or purchase low-cost print copies of open textbooks.
- OpenStax College offers students free textbooks that meet scope and sequence requirements for most courses
- These are peer-reviewed texts written by professional content developers
- Textbook Revolution is a student-run site dedicated to increasing the use of free educational materials by teachers and professors. We want to get these materials into classrooms
- On this site you’ll find links and reviews of textbooks and select educational resources
- Some books are PDF files, viewable online as e-books, or some are simply web sites containing course or multimedia content.
Dictionaries
- The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language is the premier resource for anyone who wants to know precisely what words mean, where they come from, and how to use them effectively.
- The electronic form of the Merriam Webster Dictionary containing words usually alphabetically arranged along with information about their forms, pronunciations, functions, etymologies, meanings, and syntactic and idiomatic uses.
- The electronic form of the Merriam Webster Dictionary containing words usually alphabetically arranged along with information about their forms, pronunciations, functions, etymologies, meanings, and syntactic and idiomatic uses.
Encyclopedias
- Oldest English-language general encyclopedia
- Search millions of digital records