Guides: Alumni Services: E-Resources

E-Resources/Databases Available to Alumni

To access Academic Search Alumni, Business Source Alumni, or JSTOR Alumni, please call Alumni Affairs at 310.506.6190 or alumni@pepperdine.edu and ask a staff member for the database username and password.

Academic Search Alumni
With a broad academic scope, this database offers alumni an invaluable research tool for their post-college pursuits. It provides full text as well as indexing and abstracts for thousands of peer-reviewed journals and general periodicals
Business Source Alumni
Designed for the business research needs of post-college professionals, Business Source Alumni Edition provides the most current information from essential business magazines and journals.

JSTOR Alumni
JSTOR is an extensive archive of interdisciplinary journals, covering subject disciplines in Arts, Business & Economics, History, Humanities, Law, Science & Mathematics, Social Sciences, and Religion. JSTOR Alumni provides access to the journal archives Arts & Sciences I, II, & III.

ERIC - Education Resources Information Center
ERIC provides unlimited access to more than 1.4 million bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials, with hundreds of new records added multiple times per week.
Teacher Reference Center
Teacher Reference Center (TRC) provides indexing and abstracts for 280 peer-reviewed journals.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
LISTA indexes more than 560 core journals, nearly 50 priority journals, and nearly 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.
Green FILE
Green FILE draws on the connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology. Topics covered include global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling and more.

OpenDissertations
OpenDissertations is an open-access database built to assist researchers in locating both historic and contemporary dissertations and theses. Created with the generous support of the H.W. Wilson Foundation and the Congregational Library & Archives in Boston, it incorporates EBSCO’s previously released American Doctoral Dissertations, and features additional dissertation metadata contributed by select colleges and universities from around the world. Providing researchers with citations to graduate research across a span of time, from the early 20th century to the present, this database will continue to grow through regular updates and new partnerships with graduate degree-granting institutions.

Open Content on Project MUSE
Project MUSE offers open access (OA) books and journals from several distinguished university presses and scholarly societies.

Additional E-Resources/Databases

American Memory Project
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Digitized archival materials from the Library of Congress, including legal and historical materials.
Artstor Public Collections
Artstor’s ever-growing Public Collections offer approximately 1.3 million freely accessible images, videos, documents, and audio files from library special collections, faculty research, and institutional history materials, as well as hundreds of thousands of open access images from partner museums.
arXiv.org
The arXiv.org is an archive for electronic preprints of scientific papers in the fields of mathematics, physics, astronomy, computer science, quantitative biology, statistics, and quantitative finance which can be accessed online.
Black Freedom Struggle in the United States: A Selection of Primary Sources (ProQuest)
This website features a selection of 1,600 primary source documents related to critical people and events in African American history.
British Library Online Gallery
The British Library Online Gallery provides access to 30,000 items from its collection, as well as locations of thousands of old maps, virtual books, and online exhibitions.
Cogprints
CogPrints is an electronic archive for self-archive papers in any area of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Linguistics, and many areas of Computer Science.
Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)
The DPLA offers a single point of access to millions of items—photographs, manuscripts, books, sounds, moving images, and more—from libraries, archives, and museums around the United States.

Users can browse and search the DPLA’s collections by timeline, map, format, and topic; save items to customized lists; and share their lists with others. Users can also explore digital exhibitions curated by the DPLA’s content partners and staff.
Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)
The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB), a service provided by the OAPEN Foundation, is a discovery service that points to open access books. The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open Access books. As of Feb. 2014 there were 1806 Academic peer-reviewed books from 57 publishers. DOAB is open to all publishers who publish academic, peer reviewed books in Open Access and should contain as many books as possible, provided that these publications are in Open Access and meet academic standards.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals covering all subjects and languages from 134 countries. There are over 9,950 journals in the directory. As of 2014, 5,835 journals are searchable at article level.
Europeana Collections
Multi-lingual online collection of millions of digitized items from European museums, libraries, archives and multi-media collections.
Getty Publications Virtual Library
The Virtual Library includes titles published by the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Conservation Institute, and the Getty Research Institute.The publications span the Getty’s publishing history, and include collection catalogues that highlight masterpieces from Getty collections, translations of texts on the visual arts, essential works of art historical research, exhibition catalogues, journals, and publications that serve as key resources in the conservation of the world’s cultural heritage.
Internet Archive
Download free books and texts. The Internet Archive Text Archive contains a wide range of fiction, popular books, children's books, historical texts and academic books.

MetPublications
Five decades of Met (Metropolitan Museum of Art) publications on art history, available to read, download, and/or search for free.

Public Library of Science PLoS
Freely available scientific and medical literature.

PubMed
PubMed comprises more than 22 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
PsyArXiv
PsyArXiv (psychology archive) is designed to facilitate rapid dissemination of psychological research. PsyArXiv is a creation of theSociety for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) and the Center for Open Science (COS) and provides free preprints for the psychological sciences.
SocArXiv
SocArXiv, open archive of the social sciences, is a partner of the nonprofit Center for Open Science (COS) and is housed at the University of Maryland.

Open Access Articles

Try using Unpaywall, an open database of 24,188,597 free scholarly articles. The Unpaywall browser extension harvests content directly from over 50,000 journals and open-access repositories from all over the world. It also uses open data from PubMed Central, the DOAJ, Crossref (particularly their license info), and DataCite.
The Open Access Button is another free tool that allows you to find free, legal articles with just a click, and it will email an author to get a copy if one isn't available. It's available as a Chrome and Firefox browser plugin, as well as a website.
Additional information on open access is available at our Open Access InfoGuide!

E-Resources at Public Libraries

Los Angeles Public Library databases are also available to alumni with an LAPL library card.

List of LAPL Databases

Many public libraries offer a variety of databases free of charge for library card holders. Users must apply for library cards in person. Some databases are accessible over the web and some are accessible in libraries.

Some public libraries may impose residential restrictions on the issuance of a library card.

Search Libweb to locate libraries on the web.

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Pepperdine Libraries Digital Initiatives

In 2010, Pepperdine Libraries launched Pepperdine Digital Collections, a project designed to facilitate the discovery of and access to a wide variety of digital materials drawn from Pepperdine's unique archival holdings.

Our most recent initiative is Pepperdine Digital Commons, which offers an e-publication and digital archiving platform for the scholarly output of Pepperdine's vibrant academic community, including journals, faculty webpages, conference proceedings, exemplary student research, and more.

Click here to learn more about Pepperdine Digital Commons.

Pepperdine Digital Collections

Pepperdine Digital Commons