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College & Research Libraries News
November 2020
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Most Read Articles
The following are some of the most read articles on C&RL News online in October 2020.
Kanwal Ameen, Clara M. Chu, Spencer Lilley, Ana Ndumu, and Jaya Raju.
(October 2020)
Carissa Tomlinson and Danya Leebaw.
"Reflections: Middle management during the pandemic."
(October 2020)
ACRL Research Planning and Review Committee.
(June 2020)
Sara Sharun and Erika E. Smith
"Educational development partnerships and practices: Helping librarians move beyond the one-shot."
(October 2020)
Dawn Stahura.
"ACT UP for evaluating sources: Pushing against privilege."
(November 2018)
Jamie Wittenberg.
"New dimensions in data management: Understanding sharing and reuse practices for 3-D data."
(October 2020)
Angiah L. Davis.
(April 2013)
Shamika Dalton and Michele Villagran.
"Minimizing and addressing implicit bias in the workplace: Be proactive, part one."
(October 2018)
Quanetta Batts, Kian Flynn, Elliott Stevens, and Anuradha Vedantham.
"Starting early: High school students in paid internships at academic libraries."
(October 2020)
Digital Library
Online subscription: eBooks and eJournals
SCC Digital Library: Password: discovery
A webliography of SCC's subscribed reference sources in specialized subjects. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7.
Gale Ebooks: Password: discovery
A database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7.
Gale Reference Virtual Databases: Password: discovery
Gale offers a variety of resources for education, lifelong learning, and academic research. Whether you are looking for peer-reviewed articles; full-text magazines, newspapers, and eBooks; primary source documents; and videos or podcasts, Gale puts the right vetted content and tools at your fingertips!
eJournals:
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). It
General Reference. WWW Virtual Library. One of the first virtual library sites, started by Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of html and the web itself. Includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, almanacs, geographical sources and others.
Reference and Periodicals. This virtual library provides separate indexes for teachers, kids, teens, parents, librarians and "community."
Reference Resources. Internet Public library. Maintained by the University of Michigan. Reference works are broken into over twenty sub categories from almanacs to trivia.
ZLibrary Articles. Part of Z-Library project. The world's largest scienctific articles store of 70,000,000+ articles for free.
ZLibrary.Asia. Part of Z-Library Project. The world's largest ebooks library that provides 5,173,846 ebooks for free.
PHL CHED Connect. It is an online application that contains
higher education course materials in text, audio, and video format, and other
digital assets that are useful for teaching, learning and research purposes. It
expands opportunities for interdisciplinary teaching and learning by allowing
instructors to integrate and revise multiple educational resources.
COVID-19 Information Portal (EBSCO). A resource portal that spans
a collective knowledge on coronavirus. The site is being updated daily and all
of the content is free to all.
Education Resources Information Center (ERIC).
The Education Resources Information Center(ERIC), of
the Institution of Education Sciences, allows you to search by topic for
material related to the field of education. Links lead to other sites, where
you may have to purchase the information, but you can search for full-text
articles only.
Freelipiniana Online Library. Seeks to
bring Filipiniana literature to every Filipino in a time when information and
education are limited.
HERDIN Plus. Online portal developed by the
PCHRD in response to the requirement of the PNHRS that provides easy management
and access to health research and related information.
National Commission of Culture and The Arts (NCCA).
NCCA’s homepage is the country’s best site for information on Philippine
culture and the arts. Search links for biography of national artists,
publications about Philippine culture, art photos and contest announcements,
both local and international, including employment opportunities are
available.
Science Open. Functioning as a research and publishing network, ScienceOpen offers open access to more than
28 million articles in all areas of science. Although you do need to register
to view the full text of the articles, registration is free.
Socioeconomic Research Portal of the Philippines. The
Socioeconomic Research Portal for the Philippines (SERP-P) is an online
knowledge resource that contains socioeconomic studies and materials produced
by the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) and other academic
and research institutions.
Starbooks Online! STARBOOKS is short for
Science & Technology Academic and Research-Based Openly Operated Kiosk
Station also known as "LIBRARY IN A BOX" intended to serve as
information access portals in key areas in the Philippines.
SCC Digital Library
Electronic Books (ebooks) by Subject Area. Click on the subject to give you the list of ebooks.