Electronic Resources

魅影直播 College students using the computers in the library computer lab

Electronic Resources

The Swedenborg Library subscribes to a number of electronic resources to support students, faculty and patrons in their research and education.

To access these resources, you will be required to login through OCLC鈥檚 EZProxy using your campus username and password. Please contact the Library circulation desk or the BACNC Helpdesk if you need assistance.

Databases

  • (BOW)鈥 A powerful new resource that brings together scholarly content from four celebrated works of ornithology鈥Birds of North America and Neotropical Birds with Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive and Bird Families of the World into one rich and colorful hub where you can find comprehensive, authoritative information on birds.
  • &苍产蝉辫;鈥 an Infobase collection that provides access to the full text of hundreds of highly regarded and popular reference books. Entries are enhanced with images, sound files, animations and videos.
  • &苍产蝉辫;鈥 a multimedia encyclopedia and dictionary.
  • &苍产蝉辫;鈥 provides access to two collections: Eighteenth Century Collections Online, a full text database of books, sermons, essays, and other works published in the 18th century, and Academic OneFile, which includes citations, abstracts, and full text of English and foreign-language works in the subjects of philosophy, science, medicine, religion, the arts, history, geography, and law.
  • 鈥 collection of academic journals, primarily in the arts and sciences.
  • 鈥 access to books and  journal articles in the biological sciences.

Online Subscriptions

  • All students, faculty, administration, and staff of 魅影直播 College have free access to the digital edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education. On campus full access on any device needs no sign in. Set up your personal account using your BACNC email address to subscribe to newsletters and podcasts and read The Chronicle off campus anywhere with any device.
  • All students, faculty, and staff of 魅影直播 College have free access to the digital edition of The New York Times newspaper. Set up your personal account by going to , type in our school name and follow the instructions based on your location. Once you set up your account, you can read the Times from anywhere with any device! However, you must cancel any paid subscriptions to the NYT in order to take advantage of this. For questions, please contact Andi Sibley at Andi.Sibley@brynathyn.edu

Open Access Resources

  • 鈥 The world鈥檚 largest open access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives.
  • 鈥 The official website of the United States Congress, providing comprehensive information and resources related to the activities of the Legislative branch of government.
  • 鈥  An all-digital library that gathers catalog records from libraries, museums, and institutions around the country so you can easily search millions of records at once.
  • 鈥 A comprehensive, easy-to-use, searchable, Internet-based bibliographic and full-text database of education research and information. ERIC is offered free for public use by the Institute of Education Sciences at the U.S. Department of Education.
  • 鈥 The largest library in the world with millions of books, recordings, photographs, newspapers, maps, and manuscripts, including extensive digital collections.
  • 鈥 As a service of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) Medline Plus provides easily accessible, high-quality health and wellness information to the general public.
  • 鈥 The National Center for Biotechnology Information provides free, online access to books and documents in healthcare and the life sciences.
  • 鈥 The OADTL curates open access, high-quality content in religious studies and related disciplines from publisher websites, institutional repositories, scholarly societies, archives, and stable public domain collections.
  • 鈥 A statewide resource to connect PA residents to social services, sponsored by the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services. Enter your zip code to identify local community-based organizations (CBOs) offering free or low-cost services for a variety of issues. The site can be used anonymously or with a self-created account to save your activity.
  • 鈥 As one of the pioneers of the Open Access movement for scholarly publishing, PLoS is dedicated to accelerating progress in science and medicine through improving access to research.
  • 鈥 A non-biased information source that presents sourced pros and cons of debatable issues and includes thoroughly researched and relevant reference information.
  • 鈥 鈥淧ubChem is an open chemistry database at the . 鈥淥pen鈥 means that you can and that others may use it. Since the launch in 2004, PubChem has become a key chemical information resource for scientists, students, and the general public.鈥
  • 鈥 (PMC) 鈥渋s a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM). PMC serves as a digital counterpart to NLM鈥檚 extensive print journal collection.

Moodle

allows students to access power points, class notes, and other course materials. 

Contact

andi sibley

Andi Sibley
Director of the Swedenborg Library
Andi.Sibley@brynathyn.edu
267-502-2654
Front Desk: 267-502-2524

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