The Library would like to showcase some electronic resources in our collection that you may find useful for your studies. They span multiple disciplines and are available to the entire UC San Diego community, either on campus or remotely via the VPN. For questions about these resources, contact us.
O’Reilly for Higher Education
O’Reilly for Higher Education includes more than 45,000 books from O’Reilly and 200+ publishers covering programming languages, cloud computing, software architecture, security, artificial intelligence and machine learning and other IT topics, as well as business, data science and management, mathematics, science and engineering and professional development/soft skills. OHE also offers more than 10,000 videos and audiobooks, plus courses and curated playlists prepared by experts in their fields, and you can create your own shareable playlists.
O’Reilly for Higher Education does not use VPN. Select UC San Diego from the list of institutions and log in using Single Sign On.
Note: Access is limited to current students, staff and faculty at the University of California campuses. No community use.
VoxGov
Includes a broad range of official and ephemeral information resources issued by federal agencies, individual officials and candidates, and other organizations from all branches of the U.S. Federal Government and links that content to publicly accessible government documentation. Includes social media, official media releases, legislation, regulations and a variety of government documents from Congress and the Executive branches. Textual data can be visualized in word clouds, tree maps, bubble graphs and terms view graphs.
Gale Primary Sources
Content is organized into modules defined by format and theme. Examples include Archives of Sexuality and Gender, Latin American & Caribbean History, 18th- and 19th-century collections online, and various collections of historical newspapers, all listed under Gale Primary Resources on the Databases A-Z list. One of these modules, Archives Unbound, is also organized into thematic groups, but the collections within these groups can be browsed together by clicking the grid Box/Collections link in the upper right corner of the screen.
PolicyMap
PolicyMap is a U.S. national data and mapping tool that combines a curated, comprehensive geographic data library with simple, robust mapping and analytics tools. University faculty, researchers, and students use it to create maps with up to five layers, export trend charts with key benchmarks, download data for use in other tools, generate on-the-fly reports, and upload their own data to view alongside PolicyMap data.
For information on PolicyMap data no longer available on some government sites, visit policymap.com/blog/purged-federal-agency-data-available.
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