LibGuides: Introduction to Research Tools: Welcome!

List of Library Resources

Schoology
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Study guide with Research tips and quiz to prepare students for research
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JS Flipper Library Schoology code is:
8KXPR-WC2VJ
ARTCYCLOPEDIA
Great Resource for information on any thing dealing with classical and contemporary art.
iSeek Education
iSEEK Education is a targeted search engine for students, teachers, administrators, and caregivers.
Microsoft Academic Search (Beta)
Microsoft's Academic Search Engine
HathiTrust Digital Library
HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.
African Journals Online
African Journals OnLine (AJOL) is the world's largest and pre-eminent collection of peer-reviewed, African-published scholarly journals.
HighWire Free Online Full text articles
HighWire Press is the largest archive of free full-text science on Earth! As of 3/25/15, they are assisting in the online publication of 2,434,604 free full-text articles and 7,659,003 total articles.
UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)
The primary source for cross-nationally comparable statistics on education, science and technology, culture, and communication for more than 200 countries and territories.

Open YALE Courses
A virtual front row seat into the class rooms of the prestigious Yale University. Open Yale Courses provides free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Open Courseware
MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity.
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“The idea is simple: to publish all of our course materials online and make them widely available to everyone.”
Dick K.P. Yue, Professor, MIT School of Engineering
The Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University houses writing resources and instructional material, and we provide these as a free service of the Writing Lab at Purdue.
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Offers APA, MLA, Chicago, and many other writing style format guides
New York Public Library Digital Collections
This site is a living database with new materials added every day, featuring prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, streaming video, and more.
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"No permission required, no hoops to jump through: just go forth and reuse!" writes Shana Kimball, manager of the library's public programs and outreach.

Allen University 1902
Photo of Allen University listed in the New York Public Libraries Digital Collections, a free research resource!

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