Ashworth College Library
Welcome to the Library
Start with some general Research Resources (below)
Research Resources
Best General Library Resources
Other Online Databases
Open-Access eBooks
Dictionaries
Encyclopedias
Best General Library Resources
- Watch this Introduction to ProQuest Central video to learn the basics of using this database.
- Additional help can be found in the ProQuest Tutorial series, especially the following videos:
- Watch this Introduction to ProQuest Central video to learn the basics of using this database.
- 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 eBooks
- Bookboon, is an online book publishing company that offers PDF eBooks which can be downloaded for free
- 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
Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)
- Over 66,000 academic peer reviewed books covering a range of subjects
- 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
- Contains over 70,000 free eBooks in multiple formats (e.g. Kindle ePub and HTML)
- Textbook Revolution is a student-run site dedicated to increasing the use of free educational materials by teachers and professors.
- 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