18 Online Resources We Added or Expanded in 2024

Posted December 9, 2024 in General Collections News, JMU Libraries News

In 2024, JMU Libraries acquired or expanded 18 major online resources to enhance your research, teaching, and learning. These resources span various subjects and provide business cases, ancient texts, streaming videos, research publications, and more.

Several of these new offerings include helpful publishing agreements that can significantly reduce or eliminate costs for JMU faculty or staff publishing their research in selected open-access journals.  

Explore the newest online resources and publisher agreements available to the JMU community: 

• African Minds – Scholarly e-books in the social sciences authored by African academics or those with a close affinity with the continent. JMU supports this resource through our new membership with the Open Book Collective. 

• American Chemical Society Publisher Agreement – An expansion of our subscription adds 70 new journals from the American Chemical Society (ACS), which publishes peer-reviewed research in chemistry. This agreement also provides JMU employees with a more seamless avenue for open-access publishing with the ACS. JMU’s Read and Publish Agreement with ACS is subsidized by VIVA, Virginia’s academic library consortium. 

• Aristoteles Latinus Database – A collection of medieval texts, with a focus on Latin translations, used for the study of Aristotle. 

• Art & Architecture ePortal – Scholarly e-books, museum catalogs, and more, covering the history of art, architecture, decorative arts, photography, and design. JMU’s access is subsidized by VIVA. 

• Bloomsbury Open – A broadened subscription that now includes selected research publications in the subject areas of African studies and international development within the Bloomsbury Open e-book collection. 

• Consortium for the Advancement of Research Methods and Analysis (CARMA) – Educational videos focused on research methods in management, organization studies, and other social sciences. Our institutional membership allows JMU faculty and doctoral students to access live webcasts, 250+ on-demand videos, and additional resources. 

• IBISWorld Industry Reports Collection – Our subscription now includes “Global Reports” in the IBISWorld Industry Reports Collection, which offers industry research products, data, and analysis on thousands of industries worldwide. 

• JSTOR “Path to Open” Program – This program expands access to peer-reviewed monographs across the humanities and social sciences. These new open access items are integrated with other scholarly content on the JSTOR platform, which features thousands of books, journals, and primary source collections. 

• Library of Latin Texts – Texts from the beginnings of Latin literature to the present day, from the world’s leading database for Latin texts. 

• Mediastudies.press – Books and journals in the media studies fields, supported through our new membership with the Open Book Collective. 

• NAACP Papers (also called ProQuest History Vault) – Documents and records of the civil rights movement, including files from NAACP offices. 

• National Theatre Collection – Digital performance resources from England’s Royal National Theatre. Includes exclusive digitized archival materials, such as prompt scripts and costume designs, to provide a holistic view of the stagecraft behind world-class productions. 

• Oxford Bibliographies Online – Our expanded access now includes the classics subject in Oxford Bibliographies Online, which offers articles with annotated bibliographies on various academic topics. 

• PLOS Publisher Agreement – JMU employees can now publish open-access articles at no cost in selected journals published by PLOS, a nonprofit, open-access publisher in science, technology, and medicine. JMU’s publisher agreement with PLOS is subsidized by VIVA. 

• SAGE Business Cases – Peer-reviewed business cases based on real-world situations, designed to teach researchers and future business professionals about best practices in accounting, ethics, entrepreneurship, leadership, marketing, healthcare management, and other areas. 

• Scopus AI – A research tool driven by artificial intelligence (AI), available on the Scopus platform. It facilitates the analysis of complex content by generating summaries, with references, based on Scopus abstracts. 

• Springer Nature Publisher Agreement – An expansion of our subscription offering over 2,350 new journals from Springer Nature, a prominent publisher of peer-reviewed journals and academic books in science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and the humanities. This program also offers JMU employees a more streamlined pathway for open-access publishing in Springer’s hybrid journals. JMU’s publisher agreement with Springer Nature is subsidized by VIVA.  

• University of London Press – Publications in the humanities, covering history, literature, languages, cultures, classical studies, law, and art history. JMU supports this resource through our new membership with the Open Book Collective. 

Find all of these and more in our Databases list. 

Of course, we also grew our physical and online collections by adding individual journal subscriptions, physical books, videos, and other resources this year (and every year!). Want to know more about the newest resources in your field of study or work? Connect with the liaison librarian for your department. 

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