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• 1. OECD iLibrary

  OECD iLibrary is a platform containing over 17 ebook collections organized by theme from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. In addition to these ebooks, the platform also includes 24 periodicals, the OECD statistical databases, and the OECD Guidelines for the testing of chemicals. Individual ebook titles on the OECD iLibrary platform are also listed in the library catalog. (Updated monthly)

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• 2. Open Textbook Library

  Open textbooks are textbooks that have been funded, published, and licensed to be freely used, adapted, and distributed. These books have been reviewed by faculty from a variety of colleges and universities to assess their quality. These books can be downloaded for no cost, or printed at low cost. All textbooks are either used at multiple higher education institutions; or affiliated with an institution, scholarly society, or professional organization.

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• 3. Periodicals Archive Online

  An online archive of digitized, full-image journal articles, Periodicals Archive Online provides access to hundreds of scholarly journals. Coverage is international and includes a wide range of scholarly journal literature in the humanities and social sciences disciplines with date coverage ranging from 1802 to 2000. NOTE: Current journal issues are not included in PAO but may be covered in other journal collections (use Find It).

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• 4. LexisNexis Academic

  NOTE: In early 2018, LexisNexis Academic will be replaced with a new platform, renamed Nexis Uni. Access to both platforms will available until March 31, 2018. LexisNexis Academic Universe is an online service composed of approximately 5,000 legal, news, reference, and business sources, most full text. It includes international and U.S. newspapers, ethnic and regional news sources, magazines, wire services, newsletters, trade journals, company and industry analyst reports, polls, almanacs, biographical tools, and broadcast transcripts. Advertisements, obituaries, graphics, and non-local (syndicated) features are typically not included. Of particular interest are the New York Times, June 1980 -to date;The Wisconsin State Journal, 1992-to date; and The Capital Times, 1992-to date. Years of coverage vary, but many sources begin with the late 1980's or early 1990's. (Updated daily)

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• 5. JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive

  JSTOR is a full-text journal database which provides access to more than 1,200 titles in the fields of African-American studies, anthropology, architecture, Asian studies, biological sciences, botany, ecology, economics, education, film, finance, folklore, history, language, literature, mathematics, middle east studies, music, philosophy, political science, population/demography, religion, sociology, and statistics. Coverage begins with volume one of each title and continues to within 3 to 5 years of the most current issue, depending on the title. The "moving wall" represents the time period between the last issue available in JSTOR and the most recently published issue of a journal; it is specified by publishers in their license agreements with JSTOR. Graphs, photographs, and other images are included. UW-Madison Libraries have acquired the following JSTOR collections: Arts & Sciences I-XIV; Biological Sciences; Business; Ecology & Botany I-II; Health & General Sciences; Ireland; Language & Literature; Music. (Updated irregularly)

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• 6. Credo Reference

  This "Premium" edition of Credo Reference is a collection of more than 600 reference tools that may be searched collectively or individually. It includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, statistical sources, biographical tools, thesauri, books of quotations, image collections, and subject-specific titles. Subject coverage features Medicine & Health, American History, Language & Linguistics, General Literature, Psychology, Religion, Economics, Art & Art History. The sources are enhanced with illustrations, tables, audio files, and interactive maps. Also included are Topic Pages and "Concept Maps," a visual representation of the connections between search results and topics in an interactive format. Some sources (such as The CIA World Factbook and US Census) feature customizable and interactive tables that allow you to add columns to compare data, sort by column, and export and chart tables. Publishers contributing titles to this collection include Routledge, SAGE, Cambridge University Press, Wiley, Elsevier and many others. (Updates vary)

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• 7. Kanopy (Films)

  Kanopy is a video streaming platform which offers a broad collection that includes over 26,000 films and videos from 800 top producers such as BBC Active, California Newsreel, Criterion Collection/Janus films, Documentary Educational Resources, First Run Features, The Great Courses, Green Planet Films, Kino Lorber Edu, Media Education Foundation, National Film Board of Canada, New Day Films, PBS, Psychotheraphy.net, the DEFA Film Library’s (East) German Film Collection, and many more. Kanopy launches over 300 new releases per month. Films range from documentaries, independent and foreign films, must-see classics, and blockbuster movies. With regard to topic coverage, humanities and the arts represent the largest category, followed by education and media/communication. Other strong categories are the sciences, social sciences, and history. Search for films by title, subject, keywords, or browse by subject. Register with Kanopy to utilize features such as playlists, clips, sharing, embedding, and creating a watch list for future viewing. Can’t find what you are looking for? Contact Kanopy and they will try to obtain the film for the database within several weeks. See also Docuseek2 and Films on Demand databases for more streaming video options.

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• 8. Academic Search

  Academic Search Premier is a multidisciplinary database that provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including approximately 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. A total of 8,500 journals are indexed and abstracted. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for over 100 journals and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. This resource is licensed by BadgerLink/Department of Public Instruction for use by all Wisconsin residents. (Updated daily)

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• 9. OAIster (A union catalog of digital resources)

  OAIster is a union catalog of digital resources that provides "one-stop shopping" for academically-oriented digitized materials. OAIster provides access to the resources in nearly 900 collections world-wide by harvesting their descriptive metadata using OAI-PMH (the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting). The digital resources include digitized (scanned) books and articles, born-digital texts, audio files, images, movies, and datasets. (Updated approximately twice a month)

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• 10. Online Books Page, The

  The Online Books Page is a website that facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet. It also aims to encourage the development of such online books. Major parts of the site include: An index of thousands of online books freely readable on the Internet. Pointers to significant directories and archives of online texts. Special exhibits of particularly interesting classes of online books. Information on how readers can help support the growth of online books. (Updated daily)

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