This month's newsletter will feature what online resources,
both academic and recreational,
are available to you via the USC Libraries.

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Online Collections

Here are a few popular online collections via the USC Libraries:

Kanopy
Streaming Video Service

Kanopy is a video streaming service that hosts a variety of movies and documentaries. Of special note are the Great Courses Series and the Criterion Collection.
 

Kanopy has put together a collection of (15 films, to start) that your campus can watch at no cost for the next 30 days (through April 12).

Swank Digital Campus
Streaming Video Service

Swank Digital Campus, an academic streaming collection, offers film titles drawn mostly from popular production companies and includes films, documentaries and TV shows. USC Libraries will maintain a collection of at least 200 titles however the availability of titles may vary.

Online Tutorials

USC now has access to LinkedIn Learning through our subscription to Lynda Online Tutorials. LinkedIn Learning offers over 14000 online classes including computing topics such as Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Office, web development, audio/video production, computer programming, mobile devices, and more. Log in through Lynda.com with your USC credentials to access them.

These courses are broken into 5-15 minute tutorials that are taught by subject-matter experts. These courses can be accessed from on- or off-campus for convenient, self-paced learning.

Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE)

JoVE is the world's leading resource for science research & education videos, featuring more than 11,000+ pieces of high-quality original science content.

To aid remote teaching and learning as COVID-19 shuts down classrooms, we've made our Education series of science videos free until June 15th. This includes...

EBSCO Faculty Select

Faculty Select is a single interface where faculty can easily discover and access Open Educational Resources (OER), as well as find and request access to unrestricted, DRM-free e-books from top academic publishers.

With this option, EBSCO is offering a simplified version of Faculty Select that includes access to OER material as well as the option to discover more than 225,000 DRM-free EBSCO eBooks™ in one place, available at no charge for faculty to use through June 30, 2020. 

Faculty can use this link to access now.

Other Online Content

• Cengage offers access to digital platforms & 14,000 ebooks
• JSTOR releases 26 journal archives in Public Health
• Browse the JAMA Network COVID-19 Collection
• National Emergency Library, a collection of books that supports emergency remote teaching, research activities, independent scholarship, and intellectual stimulation while universities, schools, training centers, and libraries are closed 
• Elsevier Virus Information Center, Elsevier’s free health and medical research on the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) and COVID-19