LibGuides: Open Educational Resources: Other No Cost Resources

Library Licensed Materials

Kanopy Streaming Video
- Why search here? You want to watch something from the Criterion Collection.
- What's included? On-demand streaming platform that offers more than 26,000 films and documentaries. Mostly indie, classic & international, not recent blockbusters, from creators like PBS, the BBC, the Criterion Collection, and New Day Films.
National Theatre Collection
- Why search here? You are working on a theatre or theatre history assignment.
- What's included? Streaming video of productions and unique archival material from the U.K.’s National Theatre offering insight into theatre and performance studies.
Naxos Music Library
- Why search here? You need a reputable recording to review for musical study.
- What's included? Streaming audio of classical music, plus some world music and jazz. Includes brief discussions of the works and biographical information on composers and artists.
Naxos Music Library Jazz
- Why search here? You need a reputable recording to review for musical study.
- What's included? Online streaming jazz music. Over 250 labels, including Blue Note Records, EMI, Fantasy, and Warner Jazz.
Naxos Music Library World
- Why search here? You need a reputable recording to review for musical study.
- What's included? Online streaming world music. Over 250 labels, including Smithsonian Folkways, 100 Beats, ARC, Celestial Harmonies, and Footprint Records.
Swank Digital Campus
- Why search here? You are searching for content that has been licensed by the library for course reserve.
- What's included? Streaming academic films. Please contact the library to request additional titles: library@depauw.edu

JSTOR
- Why search here? It’s an excellent tool for scholarly articles and books/chapters from university presses, covering most disciplines.
- What's included? The collection's strength lies in its complete back issues of journal titles covering 75 disciplines, while a weakness is a "moving wall" limiting access to the most recent journal issues - the coverage skews older, so it’s not always a great starting point for researching topics that need to have the most current sources.
EBSCO eBook Collection
- Why search here? You’ve tried other sources looking for ebooks, but are still hoping to find more.
- What's included? Ebooks that cover many disciplines.
Ebook Central
- Why search here? You CAN search here for ebooks, but any books in this database will also turn up in WorldCat Discovery.
- What's included? Thousands of ebooks (academic and popular non-fiction) that cover almost any discipline.
Oxford Academic
- Why search here? You need ebooks in the humanities, social sciences, science, medicine, and law.
- What's included? Large collection of ebooks published by Oxford University Press.

Engaging Students in Scholarly Communication

Hypothes.is
Allows anyone to easily add annotations to website content. It can be especially useful for facilitating online discussions of course readings. Public annotations are visible to provide insight of how readers engage with the texts but private groups can be created for a class or breakout groups to facilitate discussion.
Unpaywall
Once installed into an Internet browser, this extension allows users to easily view an open access version of the paywalled article they wish to read at the push of a button. Definitely a good tool to promote to students with limited access to academic content through their library, or who are about to graduate and lose access to subscription content.
Altmetrics Bookmarklet
Can provide insights into how an article has been shared and engaged with online. Articles must have a digital object identifier (DOI). This tool can show students that interactions across platforms, even informal ones, are engagement with research.