Online Resources
Elyon College Library offers its students an abundance of e-resources, both in book and article formats. This page will lead you to the treasure of on-line texts, most of which are available free of charge because they belong to the public domain. If you don’t live in the United States you’ll have to check the laws of the country you live in before downloading and distributing these e-texts.
RESOURCES ON JUDAICA
Books in Hebrew: Ryzman Edition
Compendium of Jewish Thought (new!)
Berman Jewish Policy Archive (new!)
Bibliography of the Hebrew Book 1470-1960 (new!)
Center for Online Judaic Studies (new!)
Historical Jewish Press (new!)
Jewish Publication Society (new!)
Otzar HaHochma – The World’s Largest Digital Library of Judaic Books (new!)
AlHaTorah.org – A one-stop Tanakh study resource (new!)
RESOURCES ON GENERAL SUBJECTS
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of eBooks. It lists more than 42,000 ebooks. Among the subjects relevant to studies at Elyon College: English, History, Political Science, Philosophy and Religion, Science, Technology and Education. Download texts or read them online.
The National Academies Press (NAP)
NAP publishes the reports of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and National Research Council. NAP’s current digital content counts about 5,000 titles. All of these PDF files can be downloaded for free by the chapter or the entire book.
HathiTrust
HathiTrust is a partnership of major research institutions and libraries. Its Digital Library brings together considerable amount of resources on Industry and Commerce.
GoogleBooks
GoogleBooks is one of the fast and vastly expanding book databases. For books in the public domain, free downloadable PDF copies are available.
OpenLibrary
The Internet Archive and participating libraries have selected digitized books from their collections that are available to be borrowed by one patron at a time from anywhere in the world for free. These books are in BookReader, PDF and ePub formats. This resource is great on humanities, but also offers the vast collection of texts on Commerce, including Electronic commerce, History of Accounting and Information technology.
The Internet Archive (new!)
A digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. It provides access to researchers on the broad scope of fields of knowledge. Its resources currently contain 330 billion web pages, 20 million books and texts, 4.5 million audio recordings, 4 million videos, 3 million images, and 200,000 software programs.
NYPL Digital Collections (new!)
Almost a million of items digitized from the New York Public Library collections. This site is a living database with new materials added every day, featuring prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, streaming video, and more.
Digital Public Library of America (new!)
Photographs, books, maps, news footage, oral histories, personal letters, museum objects, artwork, government documents, free and immediately available in digital format. Participating in the DPLA are local history museums and the nation’s largest cultural institutions.
Scilit (new!)
Scilit is a comprehensive, free database for scientists. Total amount of articles on multiple areas of human knowledge exceeds 120 million. Some articles are full-text.
RESOURCES ON EDUCATION
Teacher Reference Center (new!)
Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts (new!)
Lesson Plans for Educators (new!)
Subjects covered include Arts, Computer Science, Foreign Language, Health, Information Literacy, Interdisciplinary, Mathematics, Philosophy, Physical Education, Science, Social Studies, Vocational Education
RESOURCES ON HEALTH & MEDICINE
PubMed.gov (new!)
Over 30 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. The fields covered are: biomedicine, health, life sciences, behavioral & chemical sciences, and bioengineering. Many articles are available full-text.
MedlinePlus (new!)
A service of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), the world’s largest medical library, presents high-quality, relevant health and wellness information in both English and Spanish.
Medknow (new!)
Peer-reviewed, online and print-plus-online journals in medicine with a focus on emerging markets. Medknow has publishing partnerships in China, the Middle East, and other growth markets. Partial access to over 400 medical society journals in over 40 specialties.
Free Medical Journals | by AMEDEO (new!)
Information resources about new scientific publications, personal Web pages, and an overview of the medical literature published in relevant journals over the past 12 to 24 months, all free of charge.
History of Medicine Division (new!)
A rich collection of historical material related to health and disease through The National Library of Medicine. Spanning ten centuries, it includes web sites, blogs, and social media, ancient and contemporary manuscripts, organizational archives from the Medical Library Association and the American College of Nurse-Midwives.
RESOURCES ON SCIENCE
BMC, Research In Progress (new!)
Peer-reviewed journals including titles such as BMC Biology and BMC Medicine, specialist journals such as Malaria Journal and Microbiome, and the BMC Series. Some other subjects covered include the physical sciences, mathematics and engineering disciplines.
Biodiversity Heritage Library (new!)
The world’s largest open access digital library for literature and archives on natural history, botanical, and research. It operates as a worldwide consortium of national libraries, and provides free access to hundreds of thousands of volumes published from the 15th to 21st centuries.
RESOURCES ON
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
SEC.gov | EDGAR (new!)
Wealth of financial information from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on publicly traded corporations, securities markets, etc. SEC’s mission is to protect investors; maintain fair, orderly, and efficient markets; and facilitate capital formation.
Local Business News (new!)
American City Business Journals (ACBJ) is the largest publisher of metropolitan business newsweeklies in the United States, with 43 business publications across the country. The database is searchable by industries, companies, business leaders, and events happening all over the U.S. Most of the articles are full-text.
U.S. Scientific and Technical Information (new!)
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) collects, preserves, and disseminates both unclassified and classified scientific and technical information from the research and development activities at the national laboratories and facilities and at universities and other institutions nationwide.
RESOURCES ON
POLITICS & HISTORY
Google News Archive Search (new!)
A broad array of information and perspectives on various political and social issues. These portal allows to perform searches for articles and news dispatches from the past the newspapers’ archives all over the world.
The Making of America (new!)
A digital library of primary sources in American social history 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. Free access to 267 monograph volumes and over 100,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.
CIA FOIA Electronic Reading Room (new!)
The FOIA Electronic Reading Room is provided under the Freedom of Information Act. Look here for data on Economic Issues, Science and Technology, Strategic and Nuclear Issues, and Transnational Threats.
The National Archives and Records Administration (new!)
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is the nation’s record keeper. Its holdings date back to 1775, from slave ship manifests and the Emancipation Proclamation to captured German records from World War II; journals of polar expeditions, etc. All are available for research.
The Nautical Archaeology Digital Library (new!)
A large team of scholars makes archaeological information available to a wide public in an easy and reliable way.
RESOURCES ON CAREER DEVELOPMENT & CLIENT RELATIONS
American Library Association (ALA) Career Development Resource Guide
Glassdoor, one of the world’s largest job and recruiting sites
U.S. Department of Labor: Students & Recent Grad Opportunities
RESOURCES ON ARTS
Virtual Library (Getty Publications) (new!)
Getty Publications offers a wide variety of books covering the fields of art, photography, archaeology, architecture, conservation, and the humanities. There are more than 250 titles in the Virtual Library. Links to read online, to purchase the print book, or to download the complete PDF for free.
ONLINE REFERENCE SOURCES
Encyclopedia Britannica School (All 3 levels)
Encyclopedia Britannica Academic Edition
Encyclopedia Escolar (Both Levels)
