Emerson College Library: Distance Learning: Students: Expanded Access

Online Multimedia Resources @ BPL

*When registering for BPL eCard, use this address: Emerson College, 120 Boylston Street, Boston 02116

eBooks
- eCard users accessing Hoopla can simultaneously checkout the same ebook!
- Registration for Hoopla free with BPL eCard. Free ebooks! Free streaming video!
Streaming films and tv shows
- eCard users temporarily receive 8 film credits for Kanopy per month!
Digital magazines in full color
Database access, including full subscription to JSTOR

Find help in their FAQs, and video tutorials at BPL.org / Online Resources / A-Z Resource List.

Paris Musees - Digital Collections
"Paris Musées is a public entity that oversees the 14 municipal museums of Paris, including the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Petit Palais, and the Catacombs. Users can download a file that contains a high definition (300 DPI) image, a document with details about the selected work, and a guide of best practices for using and citing the sources of the image."

Multisearch
Scholarly peer-reviewed articles, news, magazine and trade articles, ebooks, print books, streaming video, and dissertations. Limit results by keyword, type of source, subject, author, date of publication, etc. Covers most subjects. *Excludes some professional marketing databases, i.e. Mediamark Reporter, Statista.

COVID-19 Research - Wiley Online Library
Wiley has made its collection of research articles on COVID-19 available to the public. Search by date or topic.

Audible Literary Classics
Listen to Alex Haley's Roots, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, etc. About 30 classic works of literature available for free.

Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)
"Discover 36,868,852 images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States"
Project Gutenberg
Digital library of over 60,000 free eBooks. Choose from HTML text, epub, and Kindle-compatible ebooks. Download or read them online. Content focus is older works of literature for which U.S. copyright has expired. Digitized by thousands of volunteers. "Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today."
Proquest eBooks
All current Iwasaki Library Proquest ebooks switch to unlimited simultaneous user online access. If session times out, refresh page or login again.

New York Times COVID-19 Coverage: FREE
Temporary free access to the NYT's news and guidance on the coronavirus outbreak. Log in or create an NYT account to read all of the COVID-19 articles from New York Times. For Iwasaki Library access, see our Newspapers guide.
Washington Post COVID-19 Coverage: FREE
Temporary free access to WashPo with daily live updates, comprehensive guide to the pandemic, and sign-up for Coronavirus Updates newsletter. For Iwasaki Library access, see our Newspapers guide.

Sage Video: Research Methods in Social Sciences
Over 480 tutorials, interviews, video case studies, and mini-documentaries covering the entire research process. Covers qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods. Data analytics, data science, market research, etc.

Streaming Video
by Emerson Reference Last Updated Jul 7, 2021 1191 views this year

TimeOut: Best Live Theatre Streaming Online
Amazon Prime - 6 month free trial for students
Amazon Prime includes access to streaming movies and tv shows, as well as free shipping on items, etc.
Kanopy - Boston Public Library (see content box at top of page)
Boston campus Emersonians are eligible for Boston Public Library eCards. Currently eCard users receive 8 Kanopy streaming film credits per month! That's double the usual amount of BPL Kanopy credits in non-pandemic times.