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De Gruyter & Brill eJournals and eBooks free Trial - ends December 31, 2024
De Gruyter and Brill have merged, creating the most comprehensive and cutting-edge academic resources available today, particularly in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
New Resources for Fall 2024
The library recently acquired some new materials for the library, these can be accessed from the Library A-Z Database list.
Publishing Opportunities for APU Authors via Open Access!
Publishers report that articles published open access consistently receive a larger readership, a higher number of citations, and a higher Altimetric score than those articles that are not open access.
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Alumni Library Resources
While Sage was the sole provider previously, John Hopkins, American Medical Association, Annual Reviews, ACLS, Naxos, and Mango Language now joined in providing Alumni access through our license agreements.

The most frequently-used databases

Academic Search Premier

Provides full text for nearly 4,000 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,100 peer-reviewed journals in a wide variety of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975.
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APU Search Everything

Search Everything in WorldCat Discovery an all-inclusive search solution that makes in-depth research easy.

APU Special Collections & Archives on JSTOR

The Azusa Pacific University Libraries support the research pursuits of APU students, faculty, and staff, as well as those of the community. Maintained by expert library faculty and staff, the libraries offer patrons access to varied collections, rare archives, and an extensive catalog of print and electronic resources, bringing the information you need within reach. The university library’s mission is to provide access to resources and services to support the research and information needs of faculty, staff, students, and the surrounding community; offer instruction on the use of those resources and services; and strive to honor God and fulfill the university’s mission.
Special Collections of Azusa Pacific University are housed in the Thomas F. Andrews Room of the Hugh and Hazel Darling Library, located on APU’s West Campus. Access to the items in Special Collections is provided through the Library Catalog and through finding aids. Images from the library’s Special Collections, consisting of more than 6,500 holdings ranging from presidential signatures to historical citrus crate labels, are available online. This includes APU’s Historical Institutional Archives Collection - Highlights of this collection include the original 1900 catalog of the Training School for Christian Workers, and a comprehensive collection of sound recordings issued by the School of Music dating from the 1940s to the present.

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Fitne Nursing Theorists

Fitne Nursing Theorists is a series of videos about major female nursing theorists, their lives, and their work. Each video is between 25-45 minutes in length, and many contain interviews with the theorists themselves including 28 prominent education nurse theorists and 3 education nursing theories.

Los Angeles Times on ProQuest

The Los Angeles Times is one of the largest metropolitan newspapers in the U.S. It has won numerous journalism awards including 37 Pulitzer prizes, five of which are gold medals for public service.

Mango Languages

We are now pleased to offer Alumni access to this database!
Creates lovable language-learning experiences for language fanatics worldwide. You will have access to over 60 foreign-language courses and 17 English courses taught in the native language of the user. Each Mango lesson incorporates the four key conversational components crucial for successful communication: vocabulary, pronunciation, grammar, and culture.

Open Science Framework (OSF)

Open Science Framework (OSF) is a free and open-source tool that allows you to manage all of the components of your research project (files, data, code, protocols, citations, etc.) from a simple web interface. More than 150 public materials have been posted by APU-affiliated users in the areas of theology, biblical studies, church history, religion, psychology, leadership, nursing, public health, and higher education. Researchers use OSF to collaborate, document, archive, share, and register research projects, materials, and data. OSF integrates easily with the tools you already use in your everyday workflows (Google Drive, Dropbox, GitHub, Zotero, etc.), provides fine-grained access controls, and enables open and reproducible research practices. With just one click, you can make any part of your project publicly available or completely private.
APU currently does not have an institutional membership; however, if you would like APU to get a membership to facilitate institutional linking and easy authentication, please complete the trial database feedback form.

ProQuest Central (1970 - current)

Largest single periodical resource available, bringing together complete databases across all major subject areas, including Business, Health and Medical, Language and Literature, Social Sciences, Education, Science and Technology, as well as core titles in the Performing and Visual Arts, History, Religion, Philosophy, and includes thousands of full-text newspapers from around the world.

U.S. Major Dailies

U.S. Major Dailies provides access to the five most respected U.S. national and regional newspapers, including The New York Times and Washington Post, co-exclusive access to The Wall Street Journal, and exclusive access to Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune. The titles offer researchers thorough and timely coverage of local, regional, and world events with journalistic balance and perspective. The content is available by 8am each day and provides archives stretching as far back as 1985. This database is available on the ProQuest platform.

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

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Features approximately 1,600 primary source documents related to critical people and events in Black or African American history, particularly regarding the struggle against racial injustice in the United States.
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