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JSTOR Subject Guides

JSTOR provides guides to its many electronic resources, organized by subject. Some of them are linked below, and you can find the full list on their website: https://guides.jstor.org/?b=g&d=a

Print resources and more

NEW: Public Books Database: From the online magazine Public Books, a list of freely accessible books and journals from academic presses, available electronically right now.

JSTOR
Access to all JSTOR Archive and Primary Source collections.

Remote teaching and learning with JSTOR
Cengage ebooks
For US colleges experiencing unplanned, mid-semester impacts due to COVID-19, Cengage is offering students free access to all our digital platforms and 14,000 ebooks through Cengage Unlimited, for the remainder of this semester.
MusRef
A site devoted to music and dance bibliography and reference.
RedShelf
Collection of ebooks from a wide variety of publishers. Available for free through May.
VitalSource
Another collection of ebooks, available online for free through May. Click the link for more info.
W.W. Norton
One of the many publishers made available through RedShelf and VitalSource.
National Emergency Library
From the Internet Archive, over 1.4 million digitized books available for a limited time.

General Help

Going Online in a Hurry: What To Do and Where to Start
General tips and resources for putting a version of your course online. From Chronicle Vitae.

Infobase

A number of resources from Credo's Infobase have been made available to us until April 30 at http://online.infobaselearning.com/

These include:

Films On Demand: Video clips of documentaries and narrative films covering a wide range of subjects. Does not include entire feature-length films.
Bloom's Literature: Critical essays, discussion questions, author bios, etc., for the study of literature.
Writer's Reference Center: Tips and help with writing and research.
Issues & Controversies: Articles addressing all sides of current debates.

Email library@curtis.edu for access and questions about content.

Online scores

IMSLP (free public domain music)
The International Music Score Library Project contains free public domain music including full scores and parts and recordings.
Babel Scores
Babel Scores is free for the next 30 days per their website. Search for and view a large selection of contemporary music from the late 20th and early 21st centuries.