JoVE Video Journal & JoVE Science Education

View demonstrations of laboratory procedures in many areas of Engineering, Science, and Health Sciences with JoVE.

JoVE Video Journal publishes peer-reviewed articles consisting of high-quality video demonstrations and detailed text protocols which facilitate scientific reproducibility and productivity.

JoVE Science Education provides educators and students with innovative video collections to better teach and learn key concepts and fundamental techniques at the undergraduate course level.

Statista

UofA Libraries now provides access to Statista, an online portal for up-to-date statistics, industry reports, market studies, surveys, and other resources for over 600 industries, in over 150 countries. This platform uses data visualization techniques to present information in interesting ways, which can then be exported for use by students and researchers. Some areas of focus include:

• Media & Advertising
• Retail & Trade
• Sports & Telecommunications
• Internet, Technology & Telecommunications
• Travel, Tourism & Hospitality

Wiley Digital Archives

UofA Libraries now provides access to three new Wiley Digital Archives collections:

          New York Academy of Sciences
          Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 

          Royal College of Physicians

Wiley Digital Archives is an on-going initiative to partner with the world’s leading societies, libraries and archives to digitize unique and rare primary sources.

This Quick User Guide will provide an overview of how to navigate the platform.

Oxford Handbooks Online

The Oxford Handbooks Online series contains in-depth, high-level articles by scholars at the top of their field. Each Handbook offers thorough introductions to topics and a critical survey of the current state of scholarship, creating an original conception of the field and setting the agenda for new research. Handbook articles review the key issues and cutting-edge debates, as well as providing arguments for how those debates might evolve.

The UofA Libraries now provide access to five of the Handbook collections on this Oxford University Press platform:

               History Collection (47 Handbooks)
               Philosophy Collection (86 Handbooks)
               Psychology Collection (184 Handbooks)
               Political Science Collection (96 Handbooks)
               Sociology Collection (10 Handbooks)

Springer Materials

Springer Materials is the world’s largest database for the identification of physical and chemical properties in Materials Science. It covers data from Materials Science, Chemistry, Physics, Physical and Inorganic Chemistry, Engineering and other related fields. It supports research in the fields of bulk and fine chemical manufacturing, petroleum and petrochemicals, semiconductors and electronic materials, optical metals, ceramics, polymer synthesis and processing, and materials for fuels and energy application.

The latest addition to this platform, SpringerMaterials Interactive, is a set of advanced functionalities for visualizing and analyzing data. Examples of these functionalities include interactive graphs, dynamic data tables, and side-by- side comparisons of materials/properties. See this product overview for more information.

Adam Matthew: Primary Sources for Teaching and Research

Over 50 unique collections from Adam Matthew provide access to a wealth of primary source material from archives around the world:

• African American Communities
• Age of Exploration
• American Consumer Culture
• American History, 1493-1945
• American Indian Histories and Cultures
• American West
• Archives Direct
• China Studies
• China, America and the Pacific
• China: Culture and Society
• China: Trade, Politics and Culture
• Church Missionary Society Periodicals
• Colonial America
• Defining Gender
• East India Company
• Eighteenth Century Drama
• Eighteenth Century Journals
• Empire Online
• Everyday Life and Women in America, 1800-1920
• First World War
• Frontier Life
• Global Commodities
• Grand Tour
• India, Raj & Empire
• J. Walter Thompson: Advertising America
• Jewish Life in America, 1654-1954
• Leisure, Travel and Mass Culture: The History of Tourism
• Literary Manuscripts Berg
• Literary Manuscripts Leeds
• Literary Print Culture
• London Low Life
• Market Research and American Business
• Mass Observation Online
• Medical Services And Warfare
• Medieval Family Life
• Medieval Travel Writing
• Meiji Japan
• Migration to New Worlds
• Perdita Manuscripts
• Popular Culture in Britain and America, 1950-1975
• Popular Medicine in America, 1800-1900
• Race Relations in America
• Romanticism: Life, Literature and Landscape
• Service Newspapers of World War Two
• Shakespeare in Performance
• Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice
• Socialism on Film
• Trade Catalogues and the American Home
• Travel Writing, Spectacle and World History
• Victorian Popular Culture
• Virginia Company Archives
• World's Fairs

BrowZine

BrowZine is an app that allows for the page-by-page browsing of selected Open Access and UofA Libraries subscription-based scholarly journals. You can create your own bookshelf of favourite journals, and save individual articles for later reading.

BrowZine can be used on desktop or laptop computers, and on smartphones and tablets. The BrowZine Library lists the journals available for viewing. Click on the tablet icon in Browzine to download the app and set up your own account.

NFB CAMPUS

NFB CAMPUS is a collection of quality Canadian documentary, animation and fiction films in English and French. Content is organized around three key themes: environment and sustainability, Indigenous voices and reconciliation, and diversity and inclusion. It includes titles that are not free from the National Film Board.

CAMPUS includes a wide selection of study guides, a chaptering tool, and learning bundles for educational use.

PLEASE NOTE: To access the subscribed content on NFB Campus, you must register for an account and login to your account each time you use the database. To view the subscribed content after you login, you must click on EDUCATION with the CAMPUS logo:

WGSN Fashion

WGSN Fashion is a leading online trend forecasting, analysis and research service. It’s a key resource for students and researchers in Clothing, Textiles & Material Culture, and in Fashion Business Management. It provides creative content, tools and business intelligence to the apparel, style, beauty, design and retail industries.

This database covers 14 fashion-related product categories, and contains over 22 million images with a range of filters for searching. 

PLEASE NOTE: The publisher's license for this database is quite restrictive. UofA users must register for a personal account that is active for 90 days, and then requires reactivation from on campus to ensure that the user is still affiliated with the university.

Knovel

Knovel contains over 7,000 full text reference works and textbooks in 35 Engineering-related subject areas, and is an indispensable problem-solving tool for undergraduate and graduate students in Engineering and the Sciences.

It includes more than 120,000 interactive tables, equation plotters, charts and graphs that can be manipulated and exported into other tools such as Excel. New features in Knovel include Data Analytics and Material Properties Search.

Drama Online

Drama Online is an award-winning digital library of over 1,700 play texts, 350 audio plays and 150 hours of video from leading theatre publishers and companies offering a complete multimedia experience of theatre. It is designed to meet the full range of teaching and research needs for theatre studies, literature courses and drama schools.

Featured collections include: the theatre lists from Bloomsbury’s Methuen Drama and Arden Shakespeare imprints; Faber & Faber and Nick Hern Books; production photos from the Victoria and Albert Museum and the American Shakespeare Center; audio plays from L.A. Theatre Works; filmed live performances from leading theatres such as Shakespeare’s Globe; BBC film adaptations and The Hollow Crown. New collections include: Playwrights Canada Press; Aurora Metro Books; and the Bloomsbury Scholarly Collection Critical Studies and Performance Practice.

Border and Migration Studies

Border and Migration Studies Online collection includes text, videos, and maps that can help you in your teaching, research, and learning about border and migration issues. You can learn why people migrate, issues they encounter, and how the governments of various countries deal with related matters.

Studying borders and migration gives insight into histories of countries and cultural groups, economies, human rights, gender, activism, racism, human trafficking, identities, nationhood, undocumented and unauthorized migration and border enforcement and control.

Annual Reviews

Annual Reviews is a collection of over 50 review journals covering the Biomedical, Life, Physical, and Social Sciences. Published annually, many of these titles are among the highest ranking journals in impact factor within their disciplines. These authoritative, comprehensive reviews are written by leading experts and are important for both current awareness and as an introduction to a new subject.

Anatomy.TV

Anatomy.TV provides comprehensive, accurate and detailed interactive 3D models covering anatomy for every region of the body, plus specialized titles that focus on muscle function, injuries and more. 

It also includes detailed and many-layered cross-section models and over 6,000 multi-media animations.  These are labelled and linked to detailed text containing links to supporting content such as high resolution dissection slides, annotated illustrations, clinical slides, video clips and animations.  

Engineering Case Studies Online

This database includes documentaries, accident reports, experiments, visualizations, case studies, and lectures and interviews from leading engineering institutions around the world. Highlights include coverage of events such as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the Challenger space shuttle disaster, and the September 11 attacks.

Reference Module in Food Science

This continuously updated database from Elsevier integrates the contents of eight multi-volume encyclopedias covering: food chemistry and analysis; food process engineering; food packaging; food safety, defense and microbiology; food quality, storage and transport; food management, policy and regulations; nutrition and health; food products and ingredients; food biosciences; food sustainability, security and effects of global change; food science education, research and professional development; and consumer behavior and food marketing.

Digital Theatre +

Digital Theatre + is a leading educational platform for English and the Performing Arts, providing access to theatre productions and educational resources. Producers collaborate with renowned theatre companies, actors and creatives to capture live performances in high quality streaming video, produce video interviews with insights from behind the scenes, and create supporting resources such as essays, documentaries, lectures, and study guides.

Springer Protocols

An invaluable resource for the modern research laboratory, this database provides access over 40K comprehensive, step-by-step protocols in the biomedical and life sciences that permit reproducibility of lab procedures. Print a PDF copy of the instructions, or use the new mobile site to access them on your phone right from the lab!

FamilySource

FamilySource provides access to Canadian primary law as it relates to the family, including case law and legislation. It also contains comprehensive secondary legal materials, such as the case comments from law reports and case summaries from the Canadian Abridgment. Some highlights include Child Protection Law in Canada by Bernstein, Canadian Divorce Law and Practice by MacDonald and Ferrier, and Child Custody Law and Practice by McLeod.

Geofacets

This innovative database allows for georeferenced searching of over 1.5 million maps, figures and tables sourced from authoritative scientific publications. Geofacets covers a wide spectrum of geoscience disciplines from general geology to specialized subject areas like organic geochemistry and sequence stratigraphy. Content types include maps, stratigraphic columns, seismic sections, cross-sections, well data and more.