Databases
Databases
Access to some of these e-resources is restricted to the students and staff of American Vision University for licensing and technical reasons. Some clicence agreements may exclude access to databases and their contents from certain countries. It is your responsibility to comply with the terms and conditions of the relevant licence agreements.
ProQuest
A leading provider of data and information for research and academic libraries. It contains a huge archive of texts, articles, essays, periodicals, and other research more than suitable for each course and program offered at AVU. The open courseware instructional packages are appropriately utilized for instruction in the proposed disciplines or subject areas.
Directory of Open Access Journals
DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals. All DOAJ services are free of charge including being indexed in DOAJ. All data is freely available.
CORE
CORE harvests research papers from data providers from all over the world including institutional and subject repositories, open access and hybrid journal publishers. CORE currently contains 135,539,113 open access articles, from thousands and over tens of thousands of journals, collected from 3,763 data providers around the world.
Digital Public Library of America
Discover 33,658,432 images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States.
Europeana
Europeana Collections provides access to over 50 million digitised items – books, music, artworks and more – with sophisticated search and filter tools to help you find what you’re looking for.
Trove
Trove helps you find and use resources relating to Australia. It’s more than a search engine. Trove brings together content from libraries, museums, archives, repositories and other research and collecting organisations big and small.
Open Library
Open Library is an online project intended to create "one web page for every book ever published".
HathiTrust
HathiTrust is a growing, global partnership of major research institutions and libraries working to ensure that the cultural record is preserved and accessible long into the future.
Directory of Open Access Books
DOAB provides open access to over 854 Academic peer-reviewed books from 25 publishers.
Acronym Finder
With more than 1,000,000 human-edited definitions, Acronym Finder is the world's largest and most comprehensive dictionary of acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms. Combined with the Acronym Attic, Acronym Finder contains more than 5 million acronyms and abbreviations. You can also search for more than 850,000 US and Canadian postal codes.
Library of Congress
The American Memory project from the Library of Congress provides at least 261 discrete digital collections in 18 broad topical areas: Advertising; African American History; Architecture, Landscape; Cities, Towns; Culture, Folklife; Environment, Conservation; Government, Law; Immigration, American Expansion; Literature; Maps; Native American History; Performing Arts, Music; Presidents; Religion; Sports, Recreation; Technology, Industry; War, Military; and Women's History.
American Rhetoric
American Rhetoric contains over 5,000 public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, etc. in such categories as speeches by President Obama, movie speeches, and the top 100 American political speeches of the 20th century.
BBC Country Profiles
Full profiles provide an instant guide to history, politics and economic background of countries and territories, and background on key institutions. They also include audio and video clips from BBC archives.
Getty Library Catalog
Getty Library Catalog is the most comprehensive art history bibliography available worldwide, covering European and American art and material culture from late antiquity (4th century A.D.) to the present.
The Biodiversity Heritage Library
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is a produced by a consortium of 12 major natural history museum libraries, botanical libraries, and research institutions organized to digitize, serve, and preserve the legacy literature of biodiversity.
BioMedCentral Open Access
Original peer-reviewed research articles from over 200 science, technology, and medicine titles made freely and permanently accessible online.
Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
Business & Human Rights Resource Centre is one of the fastest ways to find information about the exploitive practices of 4000 businesses worldwide, which would be difficult to locate by other means.
Calisphere Digital Archive
Calisphere is the University of California's free public gateway to a world of primary sources. More than 150,000 digitized items, including photographs, documents, newspaper pages, political cartoons, works of art, diaries, transcribed oral histories, advertising, and other unique cultural artifacts, reveal the diverse history and culture of California and its role in national and world history.
ChemSpider
ChemSpider is a free access service providing a structure centric community for chemists. Providing access to millions of chemical structures and integration to a multitude of other online services, ChemSpider is the richest single source of structure-based chemistry information.
CRL Catalog
The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is a consortium of North American universities, colleges and independent research libraries.
CumInCAD
CumInCAD (Cumulative Index of Computer-Aided Architectural Design) is a cumulative index of publications about computer aided architectural design.
Dartmouth Atlases of Health Care
Several atlases are available at this site that provide descriptions and statistics for the United States health care system. The reports are compiled by the Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences at Dartmouth Medical School.
Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval Civilizations (DARMC)
The DARMC makes freely accessible the best available materials for a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) approach to mapping and spatial analysis of the Roman and medieval worlds. It allows innovative spatial and temporal analyses of all aspects of the civilizations of western Eurasia in the first 1500 years of our era, as well as the generation of original maps illustrating differing aspects of ancient and medieval civilization.
E-Revistas
An open access digital platform that provides access to high quality scholarly journals in the social sciences, humanities and sciences.
Economic Policy Institute
The Economic Policy Institute (EPI), a non-profit, non-partisan think tank, was created in 1986 to broaden discussions about economic policy to include the needs of low- and middle-income workers.
Energy Citations Database
ECD includes scientific and technical research results in disciplines of interest to DOE such as chemistry, physics, materials, environmental science, geology, engineering, mathematics, climatology, oceanography, and computer science.
Ethos - Theses Online Service
Search over 500,000 doctoral theses. Download instantly for your research, or order a scanned copy quickly and easily.
JSTOR
A digital library containing scholarly resources from and about Africa.
Internet Archive
Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.