Academic Writer is a service of the American Psychological Association that provides an array of teaching and learning resources to support students who have questions about how to conduct research, structure their papers, and format what they write in proper APA style. Included are interactive quick guides and tutorials and sample social sciences papers.
Users must create their own personal accounts at Academic Writer to use the Reference and Write features of the service and to save Favorites. Take a look at this Academic Writer FAQ to learn to create your account.
Grammarly for Education can help you improve spelling, grammar, punctuation, sentence structure, and style in your writing. Grammarly uses grammar-checking technology to review and improve text at lightning speed, correcting grammar, spelling, word choice, and style mistakes with extreme accuracy.
A collection of journal articles, preprints, conference proceedings, dissertations, ebooks and more related to COVID-19 and other coronaviruses. It also includes comprehensive research background coverage of past pandemics and epidemics, like MERS and SARS, to give researchers and students context around the current global crisis.
Ethnic Diversity Source provides research materials - full-text journals and magazines, ebooks, videos, and primary materials such as speeches, interviews, and letters - that cover the culture, traditions, social treatment and lived experiences of different ethnic groups in America. The service includes materials about, but not limited to, African Americans, Arab Americans, Asian Americans, European Americans, Jewish Americans, Latinx Americans, Native Americans, Multiracial Americans.
Content can help researchers: analyze concepts in ethnic studies; discuss critically the intersection of race and ethnicity as influenced by oppression; describe how struggle, justice and liberation are relevant to current issues; demonstrate active engagement with issues of race and ethnicity beyond the classroom.
HeinOnline Academic is a broad-based research service that include many intersecting disciplines in its numerous components, including history, political science, criminal justice, religious studies, international relations, women's studies, LGBTQ studies, civil rights, gun rights, public policy and administration, and many more. HeinOnline's journal collection features nearly 3,800 periodicals, most coverage dating from the first issue to current issues. Includes the millions of official documents and other work products of the U.S. Federal Government from the beginning of the nation. Includes in-depth access to State and Federal case law and to the HeinOnline Social Justice Suite. More about HeinOnline Academic ...
LearningExpress Library is designed to help people at all levels of learning achieve their educational and career-related goals. The service provides access to online test preparation materials and practice tests for: graduate school admissions tests (DAT, GRE, GMAT, LSAT, MAT, MCAT, PCAT); for entrance exams, licensure and certification exams in nursing and education (TEAS, NCLEX-RN, GACE); resources to help people improve core academic skills; and many resources and tutorials about career preparation and job-seeking. For more detail, see the Learning Express Library guide.
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Science Reference Center provides full-texts of hundreds of science magazines, journals, reference books and high-quality videos. The service can assist science educators develop lesson plans, using over 1,000 science experiments, over 2,000 science videos from top educational publishers, a vast image collection, along with sample curriculum-aligned lessons. Topics include biology, chemistry, earth and space science, environmental science, health and medicine, life sciences, mathematics, physics, science and society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology and wildlife.
EBSCO's Web News service provides near real-time access to thousands of respected and authoritative news feeds from around the globe. These feeds are monitored by EBSCO for trustworthiness and reliability, and this collection includes over 5,000 feeds across a range of general news and business topics.
