Course or Subject Guides
Librarians create Research Guides for SUNY Oneonta disciplines and subjects to provide selected best resources and tips for doing effective research and discovering articles, books, and more. We can work with faculty to develop customized Course Guides.
Library Resources as Course Materials
Library resources are another option for course materials that are freely available to students and faculty. These can include eBooks, streaming video and journal articles. Explore the links in this guide and contact your librarian for more information.
Database Content for Course Materials
These research databases can be used for alternative/ affordable course content — free or low-cost alternatives to high-cost educational resources. This includes course modules, textbooks, videos, tests, journal articles, assessment tools, and any other materials used to support learning.
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- Academic Video Online This link opens in a new window
A multidisciplinary collection of streaming video, covering history, anthropology, education, art, diversity studies, business, music, literature, performing arts, psychology, counseling, science, world languages and more.
- Archives of Sexuality & Gender This link opens in a new window
Search a collection of primary sources for the historical study of sex, sexuality, and gender.
- Berg Fashion Library This link opens in a new windowNow as a part of Bloomsbury Fashion Central, this resource provides access to interdisciplinary and integrated text, image, and journal content on world dress and fashion. It covers all regions of the world, with in-depth content from pre-history to the present day.
Can be used for course content: Interdisciplinary and integrated text, image, and journal content on world dress and fashion. - Ebook Central Academic Complete This link opens in a new window
Provides approximately 150,000 multidisciplinary ebooks.
Can be used for course content: eBooks from academic publishers in all subject disciplines. - Academic Ebook Collection This link opens in a new window
Over 100,000 full-text ebooks in categories including adult fiction and non-fiction, art, biography, business, economics, computer science, education, medicine, history, literature, philosophy, political science, psychology, and reference. Downloadable to portable devices.
Can be used for course content: eBooks from academic publishers in all subject disciplines. - Everyday Life & Women in America, c.1800-1920 This link opens in a new windowThis database showcases unique primary source material for the study of American social, cultural, and popular history in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Explore documents from the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture, Duke University and The New York Public Library.
Can be used for course content: Authenticated primary source materials. - Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
Contains about 8000 full-length programs and 90,000 streaming video segments in the humanities, social sciences, business, economics, medicine, mathematics, and sciences from producers including Cambridge Educational, BBC, CNBC, National Geographic, TEDTalks, and PBS. For additional videos, see VAST (Academic Videos Online).
Can be used for course content: Streaming video collections. - GreenFILE This link opens in a new window
Addresses human impacts on the environment. Offers indexing and abstracts for about 300,000 records. Some full-text. Coverage is from about 1915 to the present.
Can be used for course content: Extensive full-text content. - HeinOnline This link opens in a new windowHeinOnline is a premier online database containing more than 150 million pages and 160,000 titles of legal history and government documents in a fully searchable, image-based format. HeinOnline bridges the gap in historical research by providing comprehensive coverage from inception of more than 2,400 law-related periodicals. In addition to its vast collection of law journals, HeinOnline contains the entire Congressional Record, Federal Register, and Code of Federal Regulations, complete coverage of the U.S. Reports back to 1754, and entire databases dedicated to treaties, constitutions, case law, world trials, classic treatises, international trade, foreign relations, U.S. Presidents, and much more.
Can be used for course content: Law review articles and much more; permanent links. - History Commons This link opens in a new window
Searchable collection of historical American newspapers, books, and journals, covering American History, African American Studies, Women’s History, the Civil War, and Genealogy. Formerly known as Accessible Archives, this database provides vast quantities of primary source materials reflecting broad views across 18th and 19th-century America.
- Homeland Security Digital Library This link opens in a new windowProvides quick access to over 50,000 important U.S. policy documents, presidential directives, and national strategy documents as well as specialized resources from universities, organizations and local and state agencies.
- Making of America Journals (Cornell)Digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. Covers education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. This site provides access to about 250 monograph volumes and over 100,000 journal articles with 19th-century imprints. Open access.
Can be used for course content: Extensive collections of eBooks and primary source materials. - Nutrition Care Manual (NCM) This link opens in a new windowManual of evidence and knowledge-based nutrition information for dietitians from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
Can be used for course content. - Race Relations in America This link opens in a new windowDocumenting three pivotal decades in the fight for civil rights, this resource showcases the speeches, reports, surveys and analyses produced by the Department’s staff and Institute participants, including Charles S. Johnson, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Thurgood Marshall. Based at Fisk University from 1943-1970, the Race Relations Department and its annual Institute were set up by the American Missionary Association to investigate problem areas in race relations and develop methods for educating communities and preventing conflict.
Can be used for course content: Excellent primary source collections. - Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & LawThis HeinOnline collection brings together a multitude of essential legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world. This includes every statute passed by every colony and state on slavery, every federal statute dealing with slavery, and all reported state and federal cases on slavery. Our cases go into the 20th century, because long after slavery was ended, there were still court cases based on issues emanating from slavery.
Can be used for course content: Excellent primary source collections. - Springer Nature Ebook Collection This link opens in a new window
Scholarly e-books across science, medicine, technology, humanities, and social science disciplines, including over 20,000 full-text titles.
Can be used for course content: eBooks from academic publishers in STEM disciplines. - Theatre in Video This link opens in a new windowSearch over 250 definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries representing leading playwrights, actors and directors.
Can be used for course content: Excellent drama and theatre streaming video. - Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 (scholar's edition)Contains books, images, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies documenting women's reform activities and social movements from 1600-2000.
Can be used for course content: Excellent primary source collections.
E-Books for Course Content
Begin discovering eBooks using eBooks Search Everything. eBook collections can be browsed through various subscription databases, linked below.
- Ebook Central Academic Complete This link opens in a new window
Provides approximately 150,000 multidisciplinary ebooks.
Can be used for course content: eBooks from academic publishers in all subject disciplines. - Academic Ebook Collection This link opens in a new window
Over 100,000 full-text ebooks in categories including adult fiction and non-fiction, art, biography, business, economics, computer science, education, medicine, history, literature, philosophy, political science, psychology, and reference. Downloadable to portable devices.
Can be used for course content: eBooks from academic publishers in all subject disciplines.
- Springer Ebook CollectionsEbook collection covering many subjects but primarily science. Over 20,000 titles. Fully integrated in the Oneonta "Search Everything" interface. Chapters are downloadable to computers, tablets, and other portable devices.
- Ebooks at MilneHow to access and download ebooks from Milne ebook collections.
- Internet Archive Ebook and Texts Archive"Download free books and texts. The Internet Archive Text Archive contains a wide range of fiction, popular books, children's books, historical texts and academic books. The collection is open to the community for the contribution of any type of text, many licensed using Creative Commons licenses."
Streaming Video for Course Content
- Academic Video Online This link opens in a new window
A multidisciplinary collection of streaming video, covering history, anthropology, education, art, diversity studies, business, music, literature, performing arts, psychology, counseling, science, world languages and more.
- Dance Online: Dance in Video This link opens in a new windowA subset of VAST Academic Video Online. Provides about five hundred hours of dance productions and documentaries by the most influential performers and companies of the 20th century. Selections cover ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance.
- Digital Theatre+ This link opens in a new windowDigital Theatre+ is a digital streaming platform that provides access to over 400 productions, including dramatic texts, poetry, and performance.
- Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
Contains about 8000 full-length programs and 90,000 streaming video segments in the humanities, social sciences, business, economics, medicine, mathematics, and sciences from producers including Cambridge Educational, BBC, CNBC, National Geographic, TEDTalks, and PBS. For additional videos, see VAST (Academic Videos Online).
Can be used for course content: Streaming video collections. - Kanopy This link opens in a new window
Kanopy is an on-demand streaming video platform for public and academic libraries that offers films, TV shows and documentaries.
- Theatre in Video This link opens in a new windowSearch over 250 definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries representing leading playwrights, actors and directors.
Can be used for course content: Excellent drama and theatre streaming video.
Use library-licensed resources
Information about using Library-licensed Resources in Courses
The Milne Library purchases and subscribes to electronic resources including online journals, eBooks, and research databases. These resources are governed by license agreements, most of which allow the licensed material to be used for educational purposes by "authorized users." Authorized users are typically defined as Oneonta students, faculty, staff, and and walk-in users of the library.
Most license agreements allow authorized users to:
- Download, print, and save single copies of items for their personal use
- Incorporate links to items in electronic course packs, reserves and course management systems, and instructor websites
- Provide single print or electronic copies of individual items to other authorized users for noncommercial educational purposes (including to each student in a class at Oneonta).
- Provide single print or electronic copies of individual items to third-party colleagues for scholarly, educational, or research use
Using library-licensed resources for online courses avoids the need to perform fair use analysis or to seek permission from rightsholders.
When using library-licensed resources, be sure to:
- Use the link to the resource provided in Milne Library Search, located below. This will ensure that students who are off-campus can access the material.
- Alternatively, consider submitting your materials to the library's electronic Course Reserves and we'll double check your links and make all your digital course materials available in one place!
- Use the materials for courses offered through SUNY Oneonta only.
- Milne Library SearchDiscover books, videos, online resources and more available through Milne Library.