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RLB Library Resources & Services

Information about the RLB Llibrary resources and services available to UB students, faculty and staff

Free and Low Cost Options for Internet Access

Free Books and Journals [Limited Time]

Artstor Digital Library

  • The Artstor Digital Library provides more than one million images with tools for teaching and research. Its collections comprise contributions from outstanding museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates from all over the world. Free access through June 30, 2021.

Emerald Publishing

  • Free content related to COVID-19 and the management of epidemics.

Internet Archive

  • Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library offering free universal access to books, movies & music, as well as 439 billion archived web pages.

JSTOR

Project Muse

  • A growing list of publishers (6 at time of writing) are temporarily making their books and some journals available for free through Project Muse. You can restrict your search results to "Only content I have access to" in order to find them more easily.

Vendor Covid-19 Related Donations and Pro Bono Access

Free Videos [Some for Limited Time]

Internet Archive

  • Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library offering free universal access to books, movies & music, as well as 439 billion archived web pages.

National Film Board of Canada

  • This collection has over 4,000 films, documentaries, and short pieces available to stream for free. This includes Indigenous Cinema, a library of over 200 films by indigenous directors. Learn more.

Streaming Resources for Remote Teaching and Learning

  • This is a guide of freely available media resources compiled by MCM (Modern Culture and Media) archivist Regina Longo at Brown University.

Teaching and Learning in the Time of Covid-19

Gale's COVID-19 Support Center

  • For a limited time, GALE has made a set of resources about teaching and learning online and credible health information available for free. If prompted for a password, enter "open".

PolicyMap