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In this difficult time, many publishers and vendors are making portions of their resources available temporarily for use in distance learning. Below is a list of currently know offerings you may be able to use in your classes.
Note: with so many more people using streaming services for distance learning, there may be connection issues.
CUNY is providing free access to the online subscription Wall Street Journal. Create an individual account using your Queens College email address. Professors and staff retain WSJ access for one year after activating. You will be asked to re-activate in one year. Students creating accounts are required to input graduation date and year. This becomes the account expiration date. Students who graduate later than expected and lose access, can always re-activate accounts. If you already have an account, call 1-800-568-7625) to switch from paid account to a Queens College account and receive a balance refund. https://partner.wsj.com/enter-redemption-code/CUNYnd5wtb6z
Description: City University of New York (CUNY) has partnered with The Wall Street Journal to provide sponsored memberships to all students, faculty, and staff.
Activate Membership
To take advantage of WSJ’s election resources, students must activate their membership at wsj.com/CUNY. It’s more important than ever that your students know they have sponsored access to reliable and trustworthy election insights.
Talk 2020
Our new tool searches years of public statements, so you can track the candidates’ positions over time, hone in on the issues and get your questions answered. Share this great resource with your students so they can stay informed on the issues as the election enters the home stretch.
Election+Business Newsletter
Another valuable resource for students is our weekly 2020 Election+Business Newsletter. This dives into business, finance and the election, looking at how companies are tackling the challenges and opportunities of politics and policy. It’s a perfect way for students to see the election through a business lens.
We will continually seek to support City University of New York (CUNY) and its students with new resources and membership benefits. Look out for our virtual events on WSJ+ and an array of student resources at education.wsj.com. As always, please feel free to reach out with any questions or feedback on how we can support this partnership further.
We at Psychotherapy.net believe that great therapists never stop learning. And one of the most effective ways to learn is to watch master therapists actually conducting psychotherapy. In 1995 psychologist Victor Yalom videotaped one of his mentors, James Bugental, PhD conducting psychotherapy sessions with the goal of preserving his work to allow others to observe his mastery. One thing led to another, and Psychotherapy.net was born. Queens College is providing access to this database until May 31st.
Type:Videos
American Psychiatric Association Publishing is the world’s premier publisher of books, journals, and multimedia on psychiatry, mental health and behavioral science. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM–5) is the product of more than 10 years of effort by hundreds of international experts in all aspects of mental health. Their dedication and hard work have yielded an authoritative volume that defines and classifies mental disorders in order to improve diagnoses, treatment, and research.
Types: E-Books, Full-Text
Note: Most PubMed records are MEDLINE citations.
Freely accessible database developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). PubMed provides access to: MEDLINE, a bibliographic database with citations and author abstracts from over 5,600 biomedical journals; PubMed Central (PMC), a digital archive of biomedical journals/manuscripts from participating publishers; and includes links to the integrated molecular biology databases, as well as to chemical information.
Dates: 1950-present
Sources: Journals - Abstracts/Citations, full-text with Find it!
Digital Theatre+ provides access to; 500+ HD-quality films of star-studded, classical, contemporary, and international productions. (RSC, BroadwayHD, Shakespeare's Globe, West End, Gecko Theatre) 13,000+ written study guides, essays, research materials, performance studies, and workshop programmes, all designed by industry experts and leading academics.
Catalogue Link: OneSearch.
JoVE Core series brings biology to life through over 300 concise and easy-to-understand animated video lessons that explain key concepts in biology, plus more than 150 scientist-in-action videos that show actual research experiments conducted in today’s laboratories.
Catalogue Link: OneSearch.
JoVE Core Molecular Biology showcases the molecular processes of the cell through clear and concise animated video lessons. Additionally, in scientist-in-action videos, these concepts' application is demonstrated through real experiments in modern laboratories.
Catalogue Link: OneSearch.
Comprehensive, curriculum-focused videos for both instructors and students in introductory biology lab courses.
Catalogue Link: OneSearch.
JoVE Science Education: Advanced Biology contains videos for the teaching of a variety of topics in advanced biology, including neuroscience, developmental biology, genetics, cell biology, immunology, and microbiology.
JoVE Science Education- Basic Biology is a streaming video database that focuses on basic biology topics specifically related to laboratory techniques and methods.
Catalogue Link: OneSearch.
JSTOR is a multi-disciplinary collection of scholarly journals and e-books that include primary sources, images, and more.
Catalogue Link: OneSearch.
JSTOR provided expanded access during the pandemic (June 2020-June 2023). Expanded access expires on June 30, 2023. CUNY will reinstate that access beginning in January 2024.You may review the Electronic Resources Status Dashboard for updates. Questions? Email: access-support@qc-cuny.libanswers.com or Open a Ticket!
Access encyclopedias and reference sources within the Gale eBooks platform.
Oxford English Dictionary includes comprehensive definitions, quotations documenting historical uses of words, and etymological notes.
Catalogue Link: OneSearch.
Oxford Reference is the premier online reference product, spanning 25 different subject areas, bringing together 2 million digitized entries across Oxford University Press’s Dictionaries, Companions, and Encyclopedias.
Catalogue Link: OneSearch.
Access is limited to five (5) simultaneous users.
Online collection of over 5,400 books in the humanities and related social sciences.
Catalogue Link: OneSearch.
Collection of over 45,000 electronic e-books in all disciplines.
Catalogue Link: OneSearch.
Collection of electronic books (e-books); users can create a MyEBSCOhost account to save notes and create personal folders. ebook Collection
Catalogue Link: OneSearch.
JSTOR is a multi-disciplinary collection of scholarly journals and e-books that include primary sources, images, and more.
Catalogue Link: OneSearch.
JSTOR provided expanded access during the pandemic (June 2020-June 2023). Expanded access expires on June 30, 2023. CUNY will reinstate that access beginning in January 2024.You may review the Electronic Resources Status Dashboard for updates. Questions? Email: access-support@qc-cuny.libanswers.com or Open a Ticket!
Digital collection of more than 520 volumes of Greek and Latin texts alongside English translations.
Catalogue Link: OneSearch.
Collection of journals and e-books, with a strong emphasis on STEM (science, technology, engineering, medicine) content.
Catalogue Link: OneSearch.
Wiley Online Library is a collection of scholarly journals and e-books published by Wiley-Blackwell in science, medicine, social sciences, and humanities.
Catalogue Link: OneSearch
The Chronicle of Higher Education has the nation’s largest newsroom dedicated to covering colleges and universities.
Catalogue Link: OneSearch.
Users are advised to sign-in or sign-up for an account using their Queens College email address.
Gale OneFile: News provides access to more than 2,300 major U.S. regional, national, and local newspapers, as well as leading titles from around the world. It also includes thousands of images, radio and TV broadcasts and transcripts.
New York State Newspapers database no longer exists. Content can be found in Gale OneFile News
Comprehensive digital coverage back to 1980. The complete text of recent articles is provided in ASCII format. The New York Times Book Review and Sunday Magazine are provided in PDF format.
Catalogue Link: OneSearch.
NYTimes.com Passes grant digital access to The New York Times.
Catalogue Link: OneSearch.
First-time users must register for an Academic Pass with an active Queens College e-mail address.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers is the definitive newspaper digital archive offering full-text and full-image articles for significant newspapers dating back to the 19th Century (1851-2018).
Catalogue Link: OneSearch.
Provides full-text regional business publications for the United States and Canadian provinces. Content for Regional Business News is provided by leading publishers in business news including The Washington Post, PR Newswire US, and more.
Catalogue Link: OneSearch.
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Academic Video Online delivers more than 66,000 titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including counseling, film, history, music, and more.
Catalogue Link: OneSearch.
All AVON titles include Public Performance Rights and may be used for events that do not charge a fee.
A repository of full-text literary and linguistic resources.Thousands of texts in more than 25 languages.
Types: E-books
With university classrooms and libraries shuttered because of the COVID-19 crisis, scholars are facing disruptions not only in their teaching lives but also in their ability to access research materials. In response, many academic presses have made hundreds of their titles freely accessible online. The Public Books Database aims to catalog such resources in a single location and to highlight titles of particular interest. We’ll be updating the list regularly as additional materials are made available.
Types: E-books
Collection of peer-reviewed, open-access scientific and medical journals; includes original research as well as timely feature articles.
Dates: 2003-present
Sources: Journals - Full-text
A service of OAPEN Foundation based at the National Library in The Hague. Database contains more than 5,000 academic, peer-reviewed books from 163 publishers.
Types: E-books
Beginning on Friday, March 20, access restrictions will be removed for all 1,150+ titles in the UMP EBC until the end of April 2020. The UMP EBC contains the Press’s scholarly output published since 2012 as well as new books and older titles as they are digitized.
Types: Ebooks
HathiTrust is a partnership of academic and research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.
Note: Queens College is not a member library. Our access is limited to the general collections.
Types: E-books
Making of America (MOA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history primarily from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The book collection currently contains approximately 10,000 books with 19th century imprints.
Types: E-books
The Universal Library Project, sometimes called the Million Books Project, was pioneered by Jaime Carbonell, Raj Reddy, Michael Shamos, Gloriana St Clair, and Robert Thibadeau of Carnegie Mellon University. The Governments of India, China, and Egypt are helping fund this effort through scanning facilities and personnel. The Internet Archive has contributed 100k books from the Kansas City Public Library along with servers to India. The Indian government scanned the appropriate books. The Internet Archive has performed automated conversion of these scans into this collection.
Types: E-books
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, 22% of which comes from sponsors and 78% from members and publisher members. All DOAJ services are free of charge including being indexed in DOAJ. All data is freely available.
Types: E-Journals