Off-Campus Access
American Council of Learned Societies Humanities E-Book Project
The ACLS Humanities E-Book Project is a collaboration of eight learned societies, 60 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office. The result is an online, fully searchable collection of high-quality books in history, recommended and reviewed by historians and featuring unlimited multi-user access and free, downloadable MARC records. The Project is available 24/7 on- and off-campus through standard web browsers.
American National Biography
American National Biography Online is an exploration of American history through the lives of the men and women who shaped the nation.
Britannica Online
Encyclopedia Britannica is the world’s most comprehensive reference product, a distinction it has held since its first publication in 1768. Encyclopedia Britannica Online includes the complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, Britannica Student Encyclopedia and the Britannica Book of the Year. You can also use Encyclopedia Britannica Online to search an Internet directory that includes more than 300,000 links to Web sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors.
Collins Dictionaries
Collins Dictionaries contains a dictionary, thesaurus, word and language studies and word games.
Directory of Open Access Books
Contains over 3000 monographs from university presses from around the world. Many of the titles may be downloaded as PDF files.
Directory of Open Access Journals
The aim of the Directory of Open Access Journals is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals thereby promoting their increased usage and impact. The Directory aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use a quality control system to guarantee the content. In short a one stop shop for users to Open Access Journals.
Ebook Central
Ebook Central offers full-text, searchable databases of books in all academic disciplines. Combined, our aggregated and publisher-branded databases include more than 100,000 books, maps, reports and more from the world’s leading academic, trade and professional publishers.
Ebscohost Ebooks
Ebscohost Ebooks is a 13,000 title collection covering a wide range of topics.
EBSCOhost®
EBSCOhost® offers access to online databases covering a wide range of topics. Most of the databases contain the full text of many journal articles and related materials. Users may access EBSCOhost® Off campus by clicking on the heading above.
Video tutorial for Ebscohost.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines.
Lexis-Nexis
Lexis-Nexis provides access to full text journals, newspapers and other materials covering news, business, legal research, medicine and reference sources.
Video tutorial for LexisNexis
Mergent Intellect
Hoover’s Online provides comprehensive company, industry, and market information, covering twenty four million firms.
National Academic Press
The National Academies Press database provides access to over 5000 electronic books. Many of these ebooks may be downloaded at no charge.
Naxos Music Library
Classical Music plus six other genres including Jazz, Blues, World and Chinese music. Naxos contains over one million tracks of music.
Video tutorial for Naxos Music Library
Contact the WVU Parkersburg Library for user name and password.
New York Times
The New York Times databases covers all articles appearing in the Times from 1851 to the present.
Video tutorial for New York Times.
OAPEN Open Access Library
OAPEN provides access to a wide range of electronic books. These ebooks may be downloaded at no cost.
Open Access Library
Open Access Library provides access to over 2 million academic journal articles.
OverDrive Ebook, Audiobook and Video Collection
OverDrive provides ebooks, audiobooks and videos that may be downloaded to computers, tablets and cell phones.
Oxford Reference Online brings together language and subject reference works from one of the world’s biggest reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource.
ProQuest powers research in academic, corporate, government, public and school libraries around the world with unique content.
Sierra
Catalog for the WVU Parkersburg library collections and the collections of the Mountain Library Network.
Video tutorial for Sierra
Scholastic BookFLIX
BookFLix pairs electronic books and related videos in nine categories.
WestlawNext Campus Research
Westlaw provides access to federal and state legal information.