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Gale

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*premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources

*covers physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects

*covers items published from 1980-present

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EBSCO

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*contains indexing for 8,200 publications 

*contains full text for more than 4,650 titles 

*PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for over 100 journals

Alternate Name(s):formerly Video Collections Online (VAST), AVON
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Alexander Street Press
Streaming video for all subjects
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Academic Video Online (AVON) delivers more than 66,000 video titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, history, business, counseling, dance, ethnic studies, gay and lesbian studies, film, opera, religion, theatre, and more. AVON includes every kind of video material available with curricular relevance: documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, field recordings, commercials, and raw footage. Users will find thousands of award-winning films, including Academy®, Emmy®, and Peabody® winners as well as the most frequently used films for classroom instruction, plus newly released films and previously unavailable archival material. Publishers include A&E, Bullfrog Films, HISTORY®, Sony Pictures Classics, BroadwayHD™, 60 Minutes, PBS, BBC, Milestone Films and many more.


*Complete details for Academic Video Online: Premium including a full bibliography can be found at www.alexanderstreet.com/avon . A guide is available at http://proquest.libguides.com/AVON
Alternate Name(s):formerly known as ebrary (Academic Complete), ProQuest ebooks
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ProQuest
Electronic Book Collection containing over 134,000 titles as of October 2016. All titles can be viewed online and most downloaded to PC, iOS, or Android.
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*Formerly known as ebrary, eBook Central (Academic Complete) is a collection of around 134,000 electronic books provided by Felix G. Woodward Library. The content for this collection covers a wide variety of subject areas and all the titles within this collection can be searched simultaneously. Access is provided to these titles through the link above as well as through the Austin Library Catalog.

Most eBook Central titles include unlimited access and can be downloaded by chapter in PDF format or in full through Adobe Digital Editions or apps for iOS and Android. See http://libguides.apsu.edu/ebrary for more info.

Around 300 titles may have limited access and only allow 1 user to open the the book at a time (download option not available). Follow the guidelines at the bottom of this text for these titles*.

*There is no time limit for reading a limited ebrary book. However, if another user wants to use the book and places it in their queue, it will be passed on to the next user in the queue after 15 minutes of inactivity. (Being active means turning pages, doing full-text searches, making notes, etc).
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EBSCO

*All subjects: Over 161,000 eBooks
*Books formerly from NetLibrary can only be viewed by one person at a time and can be actively viewed (turning pages, searching within the full-text, etc.) in 15-minute increments. (If you are not actively viewing the item, it returns to the list for someone else to view).

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*This growing subscription package (EBSCO Academic collection) contains a large selection of multidisciplinary eBook titles representing a broad range of academic subject matter. More than 161,000 titles are included in this package, and additional titles are added to the package each month. Also included in this collection are thousands of previously purchased NetLibrary eBooks from the SoliNet shared collections. NetLibrary was purchased by EBSCO in 2010.

*Books in the Academic Collection have unlimited access and many can be downloaded for offline viewing. See http://libguides.apsu.edu/ebsco_ebooks

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JSTOR

Multiple Subjects including history, literature, biology, political science, communication, business, and African-American studies

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JSTOR contains the full text of articles from scholarly journals published from early 1900s to 2 or 3 years ago.

Austin Peay State University currently participates in the following JSTOR Journal Archive Collections:

  • Arts & Sciences I Collection
  • Arts & Sciences II Collection
  • Arts & Sciences III Collection
  • Arts & Sciences IV Collection
  • Arts & Sciences V Collection
  • Arts & Sciences VI Collection
  • Arts & Sciences VII Collection
  • Arts & Sciences VIII Collection
  • Arts & Sciences IX Collection
  • Arts & Sciences X Collection
  • Arts & Sciences XI Collection
  • Arts & Sciences XII Collection
  • Arts & Sciences XIII Collection
  • Arts & Sciences XIV Collection
  • Arts & Sciences XV Collection
     
  • Business IV
  • Hebrew Journals
  • Ireland
  • Life Sciences
  • Lives of Literature
  • Public Health Journals
  • Security Studies

    Austin Peay State University also subscribes to current issues of the following individual journals on the JSTOR platform:
     
  • American Mathematical Monthly
  • College Mathematics Journal
  • Ethnomusicology
  • Journal for Research in Mathematics Education
  • Mathematics Magazine
  • Mathematics Teacher
  • Nineteenth-Century Literature
  • Social Problems
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