Google Scholar

• Find scholarly articles on all topics.
• Full-text links to many
• Check out the Google Scholar Search Tips for help.

ProQuest

• Primary library resource available for our students
• Contains resources from 5993 publications, including 2024 scholarly journals and 1752 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:
  • Basic Search
  • Advanced Search
  • Search Results
  • Publications Search
  • ProQuest Thesaurus

Digital Commons Network

• 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

Internet Public Library

• “ipl2 is a public service organization and a learning/teaching environment”
• “Merged collections of resources from the Internet Public Library (IPL) and the Librarians’ Internet Index (LII) websites”
• “Hosted by Drexel University’s College of Information Science & Technology, and a consortium of colleges and universities with programs in information science are involved in developing and maintaining the ipl2.”
• Provides a variety of online resources including some access to full-text articles

BookBoon

• 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

College Open Textbooks

• Index of open textbooks on a variety of subjects ranging from chemistry to U.S. History
• The COT Collaborative is collection of colleges, governmental agencies, education non-profits, and other education-related organizations that are focused on the mission of driving awareness, adoptions, and affordability of open textbooks

Global Text Book Project

• Global Text aims to provide a free textbook library encompassing all topics commonly encountered in the first years of university undergraduate education
• Global Text or the Global Text Project (GTP) is an emerging organization dedicated to the assembly of free information material and its dissemination to the developing world under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license

MERLOT 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

• 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.

Open Stax College

• 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

• 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.