Global Studies - Library Resources and Services: eBooks & Streaming

Gale Ebooks is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. Included in this collection are works covering Public Relations, Psychology, Medicine, Literature and more.

Find overviews, news, and opinions on hundreds of today's important social issues.

Points of View Reference Center is a full text database designed to provide students and schools with a series of controversial essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. Essays provide questions and materials for further thought and study and are accompanied by thousands of supporting articles from the world’s top political and societal publications.

This growing subscription package contains a large selection of multidisciplinary eBook titles representing a broad range of academic subject matter, and is a strong complement for any academic collection.

Ebook Central (Formerly ebrary) from ProQuest is an eBook platform that contains over a 10,000 ebook titles available for LIU users.

The R2 Digital Library provides full-text ebooks from from Rittenhouse Book Distributors. It offers fully integrated and searchable medical, nursing and allied health source book content from key health science publishers, on a web based platform.

A comprehensive video subscription that covering a wide range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more. Curated for the educational experience, the depth of content and breadth of content-types, such as documentaries, films, and demonstrations, makes this database a useful resource for faculty and students alike.

Features web-based video platform physical examination techniques for students and faculty in medical, nursing and related programs.

Dance in Video will contain 500 hours of dance productions and documentaries by the most influential performers and companies of the 20th century. Selections cover ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance, as well as forerunners of the forms and the pioneers of modern concert dance. This release includes 278 videos, equaling 230 hours.

Kanopy is an interdisciplinary streaming video platform that offers an ever-growing catalog of more than 25,000 educational and feature films.​ Individual titles from the catalog can be licensed by the library for curricular use. Faculty may submit their requests for particular videos via the online form.

Theatre In Video contains more than 250 definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries, online in streaming video - more than 500 hours in all, representing hundreds of leading playwrights, actors and directors.