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Indexes and abstracts over 11,000 magazines and scholarly journals in all subject areas with over 7,000 in full text. Coverage dates vary.

Digital Commons@RIC

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DigitalCommons@RIC collects, preserves, and provides access to scholarship by students, staff, and faculty at Rhode Island College. This digital repository contains archives, departmental and research documents and showcases the Adams Library's Special Collections. DigitalCommons@RIC invites and encourages the Rhode Island College community to submit scholarly and other documents for long-term preservation and electronic access.

Directory of Open Access Books

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DOAB is a discovery service for peer reviewed open access books and book publishers that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed books.
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JSTOR

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RIC currently participates in all 15 JSTOR Arts & Sciences archive collections and the Life Sciences archive collection. Journals in archive collections are always included from volume 1 number 1, and related prior titles, but stop short of current issues. RIC also subscribes to 34 current journals in JSTOR. The entire corpus is full-text searchable, offers search term highlighting, includes high-quality images, and is interlinked by millions of citations and references.

Providence Journal: Historical and Current (NewsBank)

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Full-text of locally-written articles from 1829-present can be searched, emailed, or downloaded from the Providence Journal on Newsbank. For today's news, use the print issue or ProJo.com. Selected pre-1984 articles have been indexed by the Providence Public Library for their Rhode Island Index file which may be consulted at the main library, 225 Washington St., Providence (455-8000).

New / Trial Databases

The following databases are newly acquired or being evaluated for a future subscription.

Chronicle of Higher Education

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We encourage you to create a Chronicle of Higher Education account with your RIC email to receive full access.

If you do not wish to create a Chronicle Account, you can use this library proxied link to get basic access to articles.

ACCOUNT CREATION
If you already have an account with your RIC email:
1. Please go to the Chronicle Website and click on the “Sign In” link at the top, right-hand side of the page.
2. Then sign Into your Chronicle account with your RIC email. You may be prompted to reset your password.

If you do not have an account with your RIC email:
1. Please go to the Chronicle Website and click on the “Sign In” link at the top, right-hand side of the page.
2. Then click on the “Sign Up” link in the top center of the webpage to create a free account using your RIC email address.
3. Activate your account by confirming your email address in the “The Chronicle: Confirm your email address” email.

For access issues, please email kayton@ric.edu

SAGE Research Methods Video

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SAGE Research Methods Teaching helps you find materials, sample assignments, and get inspiration from other lecturers who teach quantitative methods courses at undergraduate and graduate level.