ProQuest One Sustainability successfully orients users in the subject of sustainability and connects them with content at all levels of complexity. But the quality of the historical material varies, and some of the content is freely available elsewhere.
AlliedCareer, from EBSCOlearning, is a useful tool for jobseekers considering the field of allied health or allied health professionals planning their next career step.
In today’s information-saturated, privacy-challenged, AI-transforming online search landscape, DuckDuckGo has new relevance.
Paulist Press: Ancient Christian Writers makes seminal works by major Christian theologians from the late-biblical and patristic periods searchable and accessible online.
As Katina covers the integration of AI into academic search tools and other library products, this guide offers useful background information on the technology.
AI add-ons incorporating retrieval-augmented generation are everywhere in academic search. But how—and how well—do they work? Our reviewer put Primo Research Assistant, Web of Science Research Assistant, and Scopus AI to the test.
The Open Access Tracking Project offers a real-time alert system for open access news and information. With its founder contemplating retirement, now is the time to strengthen its infrastructure, improve its user experience, and secure its long-term future.
Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical, a narrow but useful index of references to science, technology, and medicine in popular British periodicals published between 1800 and 1900, was shaped by expert scholarly insight.
Cite Them Right has excellent interactive tutorials. But in a world of style manuals and free citation generators, it’s a tough sell.
EBSCO’s Sociology Source Ultimate is an easy-to-navigate resource suitable for researchers at the undergraduate, graduate, and faculty level.
Projectr offers a wide variety of films from critically acclaimed directors about globally relevant issues. It is valuable as a standalone collection or as a complement to other video platforms.
Digital Theatre+, a platform featuring recorded productions and educational material on theater-related topics, offers good value, an admirable commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, and a thoughtful approach to accessibility.
Open Syllabus Analytics is a one-of-a-kind resource that offers promising analysis of millions of syllabi. But the execution disappoints.
LGBTQ+ Social Justice and Culture, a growing database of primary documents, aims to preserve artifacts of LGBTQ+ history and culture from around the world—particularly those that are at risk of disappearing
In the past few years, AI has gone from a futuristic idea to a practical tool that is used daily by millions around the world, including in libraries. But not without raising questions.
FinancialFit provides robust, vetted content in an interface that is engaging and easy to navigate. But its focus on topics relevant to early to middle adulthood narrows its audience.
In Direct to Open, MIT Press has developed a creative model for funding ebook publishing that promotes open scholarship and helps preserve the specialized scholarly monograph as a medium. Librarians wishing to support these goals should give it serious consideration.
While its results are fewer in number and slower to load than Google Scholar, Internet Archive Scholar provides a free, open, transparent, and nonprofit alternative to the popular commercial tool. Most critically, it ensures continued discoverability of and access to sources that have vanished from the open web.
This singular resource provides in-depth, high-quality information on pharmacological data and drug targets
