Research Resources

Helpful research resources

Here are a number of resources that are particularly useful and helpful right now:

The Library’s Ask-Us-Now page: https://library.ucsd.edu/ask-us/index.html
Links to an external site.
(the best place to start if you aren’t sure where to go on the UCSD Library Website to reach the right person or find the right service, try our Ask Us Now page, which has been redesigned in light of the critical need for online information)

The Library’s COVID 19 Response page: https://library.ucsd.edu/ask-us/services-during-covid-19.html
Links to an external site.
(an up-to-date page outlining Library Services available)

Openedition.org
(Links to an external site.)
: https://www.openedition.org/
(Links to an external site.)
(which provides access to nearly 10,000 ebooks and 535 journals mostly in French but also in Spanish, Italian, German and English)

Digitalia: http://www.digitaliapublishing.com/ebooks
(Links to an external site.)
(a major provider of Spanish language ebooks which is currently providing free loans to their entire collection. UCSD owns a number of these, but if you find something particularly useful, please let me know so I can purchase for the permanent collection if we don’t have it already).

Internet Archive National Emergency Library:https://archive.org/details/nationalemergencylibrary
(Links to an external site.)
(Created in order to suspend waitlist for the 1.4 million (and growing) books in their lending library, bringing together all the books from Phillips Academy Andover
(Links to an external site.)
and Marygrove College
(Links to an external site.)
, and much of Trent University’s
(Links to an external site.)
collections, along with over a million other books donated from other libraries to readers worldwide that are locked out of their libraries).

The Film and Video Collections Research Guide created by our Film Librarian (Stefan Elnabli):https://ucsd.libguides.com/fvl
(Links to an external site.)
(lists the various databases we subscribe to where you can find online/streaming films)

Kanopy (Our major (and broadest) resource for online films). The UCSD version (ucsd.kanopy. com – where the link on the Databases A-Z list goes) includes the films that we subscribe to. However, Kanopy has more films – which you can find here: www.kanopy.com
(Links to an external site.)
– and I can order any that you need.

Use WorldCat (worldcat or melvyl) and to use the faceting menu on the left to click on the evideo box put in your terms and click on worldcat (melvyl) under the search box

When you initiate a video request for the Spring, please submit it as a Course Reserve request:https://library.ucsd.edu/borrow-and-request/course-reserves/index.html
Links to an external site.
and send me a follow-up email so I can collaborate with them on finding access.

Unfortunately, we cannot – generally -- buy streaming rights from Amazon and Netflix, but:

o renting a movie is often not very expensive and a website like this can identify streaming services/prices for various titles: https://www.justwatch.com (Links to an external site.). o some Netflix Original educational documentaries are available for one-time educational screenings. As this link explains: https://help.netflix.com/en/node/57695 (Links to an external site.). You can find out which titles are available for educational screenings, go to the "Only On Netflix" section of media.netflix.com (Links to an external site.). From here, navigate to "All Alphabetical" and look for the grant of permission indicated on such films’ details page.

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