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Oviatt Library COVID-19 Updates and Resources

This online guide contains all relevant information related to Oviatt Library's current operations and responses to the COVID-19 outbreak, including updates to operations, access to remote services, and other helpful links.

Find Articles

Focus on education topics

Focus on sociology, psychology or multi-subject topics

How Can I Tell If An Article is Scholarly?

Watch a brief video and read more details about identifying scholarly articles

Research Therapy: What is a Scholarly Article

Check this database for individual journal titles to find out if they are scholarly or peer-reviewed

Ulrichsweb
Ulrich's Periodicals Directory provides detailed information on more than 300,000 periodicals of all types published worldwide: academic and scholarly journals, open access publications, peer-reviewed journals, popular magazines, newspapers, and newsletters.

Find Background Information

SAGE Knowledge
Collection of over 350 electronic encyclopedias and handbooks published by SAGE covering the social sciences and education. Former titles: SAGE Reference Online; SAGE eReference.

Find Videos

Education in Video (Alexander Street Press)
Collection of streaming videos developed specifically for training and developing teachers. Includes teaching demonstrations, lectures, documentaries, and primary-source footage of students and teachers in actual classrooms. Access generously provided by Campus Quality Fee.
Films on Demand
Multidisciplinary streaming video service providing access to digital educational films. Current access includes over 700 videos in many subject areas.
Docuseek2
Docuseek2 provides access to hundreds of streaming education videos from a variety of producers and distributors. You can search for a specific title or keyword, or browse videos by theme or title.

Free Electronic Resources for CSUN Students & Faculty

Many publishers are making resources freely available during the COVID-19 crisis.

Here is a link to a detailed list.

Using OneSearch

Our catalog and article search has been combined into a new OneSearch platform. Here you can search for books and e-books, videos, articles, digital media, and more.

You can narrow your search results under the Refine My Results and Resource Type headings by choosing a resource type such as Books or eBooks.

CSU Resource Sharing

Is the book you want already checked out? Or perhaps the library does now already own a copy? Watch this video to learn how to use OneSearch to request an item available through another CSU library.

Interlibrary Loan - Getting Books from Non-CSU Libraries

You can borrow books from non-CSU libraries

Use WorldCat to find materials at other libraries
Then use Interlibrary Loan to request items

Getting An Interlibrary Loan (ILL) Account

Find Theses & Dissertations

Dissertations & Theses (ProQuest)
Collection of scholarly research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, covering more than 1 million dissertations and theses.

ScholarWorks (CSUN theses)