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ABI Inform 

The ABI/INFORM Collection is composed of ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry, and ABI/INFORM Dateline. The collection features thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, and key business and economics periodicals such as The Economist and Sloan Management Review. It also contains company/country/industry-focused reports, and major news sources like the Wall Street Journal. Its international coverage gives researchers a complete picture of companies and business trends around the world.

Advocate Newspaper

The New Orleans Advocate is an American newspaper published in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Advocate is Louisiana’s leading news source, providing award-winning local and regional news coverage.

Chronicile of Higher Education

The Chronicle of Higher Education is the No. 1 source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators.

CINAHL Ultimate

CINAHL Ultimate is the new definitive resource for nursing and allied health research, providing full text for more of the most used journals in the CINAHL index than any other database. It covers more than 50 nursing specialties and includes quick lessons, evidence-based care sheets, CEU modules and research instruments.

Clinical Collection-E-books

Designed for use in clinical settings, biomedical libraries and academic-medical institutions, this subscription collection features more than 3,600 hand-selected e-books that focus on medical specialties, nursing, allied health and general practice areas. Through the eBook Clinical Collection, users have access to the most current content. Newer e-books replace older titles as updates are available so that users always have access to the latest information. All titles are available with unlimited user access, and titles are regularly added to the collection at no additional cost.

CQ Researcher

CQ Researcher provides award winning in-depth coverage of the most important issues of the day. Our reports are written by experienced journalists, footnoted and professionally fact-checked. Full-length articles include an overview, historical background, chronology, pro/con feature, plus resources for additional research. Graphics, photos and short “sidebar” features round out the reports. Shorter “Hot Topics” articles provide a solid introduction to subjects most in demand by students.

Credo Reference

Searching 3,456,110 full text articles in 835 reference books from 108 publishers. Brought to you by the Louisiana Library Network LOUIS.

DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals

DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals. DOAJ is independent. All funding is via donations, 50% of which comes from sponsors and 50% from members and publisher members. All DOAJ services are free of charge including being indexed in DOAJ. All data is freely available.

EBSCO

EBSCO has 375 full-text databases, a collection of 600,000-plus ebooks, subject indexes, point-of-care medical references, and an array of historical digital archives. Brought to you by the Louisiana Library Network LOUIS.

EBSCO Newspaper Source Plus –  News & Events

Newspaper Source Plus provides a full-text digital collection of the world’s major news content. It includes millions of articles from newspapers, newswires and news magazines. In addition, it offers television and radio transcripts and ongoing daily updates from popular news sources.

Database Coverage List

Content Includes

  • Full text for more than 1,200 newspapers
  • More than 40 news magazines
  • News from more than 130 newswires
  • More than 77 million full-text articles
  • More than 1.8 million television and radio news transcripts

Daily Updates with News View

Newspaper Source Plus brings critical news content with ongoing updates throughout the day with its News View feature. Popular sources include:

  • AP (Associated Press)
  • CNN Wire
  • PR Wire
  • UPI (United Press International)
  • Xinhua (China)

News View also includes television and radio news transcripts from top sources:

  • ABC News (American)
  • ABC (Australian)
  • CBC (Canadian)
  • CBS News
  • CNBC
  • CNN
  • CNN International
  • FOX News
  • MSNBC
  • National Public Radio
  • PBS

Newspaper Source Plus can be accessed via EBSCOhost or Explora, EBSCO’s dedicated interface for schools and public libraries.

Education Collection E-books

This collection features more than 4,000 quality e-books supporting students and faculty in the education discipline. Titles range from introductory texts for undergraduate coursework to more complex and detailed works for advanced students and scholars. Also included are support materials for teachers and professionals working in K-12 and higher education classrooms, covering topics from curriculum building to student behavior and dynamics. 

GALE Databases

Supports researchers with up-to-date, full-text magazines, newspapers, journals, periodicals, videos, and podcasts. Brought to you by the Louisiana Library Network LOUIS.

HathiTrust Digital Library

HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of open access titles digitized from libraries around the world.

International Identifier for Serials

provides a free access to those ISSN bibliographic records which describe scholarly resources in Open Access: journals, monographic series, conference proceedings, academic repositories and scholarly blogs. These records, created by the ISSN Network (89 National Centres worldwide + the International Centre), are enriched by information extracted from indexing and abstracting databases, directories (DOAJ, Latindex, The Keepers registry) and journals indicators (Scopus).

Learning Express Library

Strengthen your academic skills and prepare for placement tests and graduate school entrance exams. Brought to you by the Louisiana Library Network LOUIS.

Louisiana Public Document Depository Program

Louisiana law requires that state agencies submit copies of their publications to the Recorder of Documents, located within the State Library, for distribution to depository libraries throughout the state via the Louisiana Public Document Depository Program (PDDP).  Libraries participating in the depository program include Louisiana academic, public, and special libraries and the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. More information concerning Louisiana public documents and the depoisitory program.

MATHSCINET

This is an electronic publication offering access to a carefully maintained and easily searchable database of reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for much of the mathematical sciences literature.

MERLOT (Multimedia Education Resource for Learning and Online Teaching)

MERLOT (Multimedia Education Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) is an online repository and International consortium of institutions (and systems) of higher education, industry partners, professional organizations and individuals. MERLOT partners and members are devoted to identifying, peer reviewing, organizing and making available existing online learning resources in a range of academic disciplines for use by higher education faculty and students.

MERLOT is a community of staff, volunteers, and members who work together in various ways to provide users of OER (Open Educational Resource) teaching and learning materials with a wealth of services and functions that can enhance their instructional experience.

NCLEX

Gain access to more than 3300 NCLEX-RN® board review practice questions with detailed explanations for both correct and incorrect responses. With a Computer Adaptive Testing (CAT) platform and board-style questions written by nurses and nursing educators in both standard and alternate item formats, users of this question bank can simulate conditions similar to the actual NCLEX® exam. The NCLEX-RN® question bank follows the exam content outline for the National Council State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) NCLEX-RN® Exam. The emphasis for the NCLEX-RN® question bank is difficult questions. 

New York Times

An American daily newspaper based in New York City. The New York Times covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews.

Nursing Reference Center

The premier evidence-based information resource designed specifically for nurses. Nurses can get answers to questions quickly, strengthen their nursing skills, and read full-text journal articles.

Open Access Journals

Open Access Initiative is committed to make genuine and reliable contributions to the scientific community without restricting the access of published content. This publisher hosts over 700+ leading-edge peer reviewed Open Access Journals and organizes over 3000International Conferences all over the world. Obtained enormous global visibility and tremendous response from the authors and readers from all over the world inspired the publisher to maintain reputed Open Access Journals in various scientific disciplines. The journals have over 15 million readers and the reputation and success earned can be attributed to the strong Editorial Board which contains over 50,000 eminent personalities that ensure a rapid, qualitative and quick review process. More than 1000 International Societies are supporting in making scientific information Open Access. International Conferences are rendering perfect platform for global networking for the renowned speakers and scientists across the globe through a most exciting and memorable scientific event filled with much enlightening interactive sessions, world class exhibitions and poster presentations.

Open Education Research Hub (OER Hub)

The Open Education Research Hub (OER Hub) are leaders in researching the impact of open educational resources (OER) on teaching and learning practices. OER Hub has three key objectives:

  • Building capacity in the OER research domain
  • Conducting research into open education and OER
  • Producing resources for the open education research community

OpenStax College

OpenStax (formerly OpenStax College) is a nonprofit ed-tech initiative based at Rice University. Since 2012, OpenStax has created peer-reviewed, openly licensed textbooks, which are available in free digital formats and for a low cost in print. Most books are also available in the iBooks Store. OpenStax’s first textbook was College Physics, which was published online, in print, and in iBooks in 2012. OpenStax has also launched OpenStax Tutor, an adaptive courseware based on cognitive science principles, machine learning, and OpenStax content.

Oxford Academic

Librarian Resource Center
Access an online library of over 15,000 outstanding academic books from Oxford University Press.

Oxford Scholarship Online (OSO) is a vast and rapidly-expanding online library, providing easy access to thousands of books across the world-renowned scholarly list of Oxford University Press (OUP). Spanning subjects across the humanities, social sciences, sciences, medicine, and law, OSO is an essential research resource for student, scholar, and academic alike, no matter what their subject specialty.

Oxford English Dictionary Online 

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words—past and present—from across the English-speaking world, tracing how they have changed over time.

ProQuest

Provides resources and tools which support research and learning, publishing and dissemination, and the acquisition, management and discovery of library collections.   It provides tools for discovery and citation management and platforms that allow library users to discover, manage, use and share research. Additional resources include dissertations and thesesebooks, newspapers, periodicals, historical collections, governmental and cultural archives.

ProQuest Open Access Dissertations and Theses 

The authors of these dissertations and theses have opted to publish as open access. Open Access Publishing is a new service offered by ProQuest’s UMI Dissertation Publishing, and we expect to have many more open access dissertations and theses over time.

Proquest Databases

R2 Digital Library

The R2 Digital Library is a web based database available from Rittenhouse Book Distributors. It offers fully integrated and searchable medical, nursing and allied health source book content from key health science publishers, on a web based platform.

The R2 Digital Library enables you to:

  • Connect your users with essential health sciences content from the leading publishers – on a platform designed to enhance it
  • Select resources at the title level and pay once for life of edition access
  • Incorporate workflow, integration and collaboration tools designed for the contemporary library
  • Explore consortia, patron driven Acquisition and turnkey collection development solutions

SAGE Knowledge

Browse SAGE Books
Thousands of carefully selected titles by world-class authors on hot topics across the social sciences including academic and supplementary titles, foundational books in core areas of research and debate, accessible student reference, and numerous practical professional titles in education.

Browse SAGE Reference
Hundreds of must-have SAGE Reference titles providing students with the perfect place to start their research on key topics in the social and behavioral sciences.

Spring Nature

Nature is a weekly international journal publishing the finest peer-reviewed research in all fields of science and technology on the basis of its originality, importance, interdisciplinary interest, timeliness, accessibility, elegance and surprising conclusions. Nature also provides rapid, authoritative, insightful and arresting news and interpretation of topical and coming trends affecting science, scientists and the wider public.

Wall St. Journal

An American newspaper based in New York City, with a focus on business and finance.