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Searchable E-Book Platforms and Collections
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Access selected online books from this platform, searchable in full-text. After search, check box for "Owned and subscribed to by my library." Titles owned or subscribed on this site are also in the Franklin Catalog.
Development Bookshelf
Development Bookshelf is a specialist peer-reviewed and evidence-based online book and journal collection for International Development policy, practice and research professionals. The collection reflects the learning of multiple agencies and development professionals across a variety of specialist subject areas.
HeinOnlineLegal research database containing fulltext documents (PDF) organized into collections including: Legal Classics, Law Journal Library, U.S. Supreme Court Library, U.S. Federal Legislative History Library, Treaties and Agreements Library, Subject Compilations of State Laws, and the United Nations Law Collection.
Fulltext publications and statistical information from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) covering agriculture and food, education and skills, emerging economies and transition economies, employment, energy, enterprise, industry, and trade, environment and sustainable development, finance and investment, general economics and future studies, governance, international development, nuclear energy, science and information technology, social issues and migration, statistics sources and methods, taxation, territorial economy, and transport. NOTE: Some of the statistical data tools in SourceOECD require Internet Explorer.
OUP - Oxford Scholarship Online
Collection of all titles available on this platform published by OUP. Publication dates include publication dates ranging from 1963-2019, and additions through 2022 covered.
Includes individual books, reference handbook, and instructional videos by academics from across the social sciences. Covers quantitative and qualitative research methods.
UN iLibrary
Comprehensive source for digital content created by the United Nations, including journals, data, and series published by the United Nations Secretariat, and its funds and programs. c.70% are in English. Content is organized by series title, publication year and alphabetically.
