Click the red star above for a brief tutorial on using advance search for Academic Search Premier, Our largest and most comprehensive database. A multidisciplinary research database providing access to acclaimed full-text journals, magazines and other valuable resources.
Click the red star above for a brief tutorial. The most comprehensive video database covering more than 67,000 titles on anthropology, business, counseling, film health, history, music, and more curated for the educational experience of all types of library patrons.
Click the red star for a tutorial of how to get started with ArtStor. With approximately 300 collections composed of over 2.5 million images (and growing), students and faculty can examine wide-ranging material such as Native American art from the Smithsonian, treasures from the Louvre, and panoramic, 360-degree views of the Hagia Sophia in a single, easy-to-use resource.
Artstor also supports study across disciplines, including anthropology from Harvard’s Peabody Museum, archaeology from Erich Lessing Culture and Fine Art Archives, and modern history from Magnum Photos, making it a resource for all disciples.
Register for an Individual Account in order to:
*save, organize and share images using Groups
*download individual images or export entire Groups through the download to zip file or PowerPoint feature
*add your own content to a Personal Collection
Have an individual account that has expired? If you on campus you will be able to renew the account. If you are off campus please email reference@desales.edu and we will renew the account for you.
Click the red star to watch a short video that will demonstrate how to search for eBooks in in eBook Central Academic Complete. Search for and read full-text e-books online. For Fall 2020 we now offer over 208,000 titles.
A database of licensed streaming videos. Contains over 15,000 titles from producers such as Films for the Humanities, PBS, and more. The films can be linked to Blackboard course resources, shown directly in class, or accessed any time from home or office. Most films offer Closed Captioning.
HathiTrust makes the digitized collections of some of the nation's great research libraries available for all. HathiTrust was initially conceived as a collaboration of the thirteen universities of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation of California system, and the University of Virginia to establish a repository for those universities to archive and share their digitized collections.
Click the red star to search and find articles in JSTOR. Expanded Collection for a Limited Time: In addition to our currently subscribed full text collection of over 900 journals (from the start of each journal within one to five years of the present time), JSTOR is providing full access to all JSTOR Archive and Primary Source collections along with more than 35,000 books.
Additional Collections now available for limited time:
Business IV
Ecology & Botany II
Hebrew Journals
Ireland
Jewish Studies
Life Sciences
Thematic Collections
Lives of Literature
Security Studies
Sustainability
Primary Source Collections
19th Century British Pamphlets
World Heritage Sites: Africa
Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa
Global Plants
Naxos Music Library is the worlds largest classical music library. Currently, it offers streaming access to more than 137,800 CDs with more than 2,133,000 tracks of both standard and rare repertoire. Over 800 new CDs are added to the library every month. The collection is benchmarked against the development suggestions outlined in the Music Library Association's A Basic Music Library. Naxos Music Library has simple and advanced searching, common (non-proprietary) software requirements and extensive background information such as complete liner notes.
Contains more than 250 definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries, online streaming video - more than 500 hours in all. For the first time, students, instructors and researchers can bookmark specific scenes, monologues and staging, and these landmark performances can become a permanent part of the curriculum.