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Mostly free textbooks searchable by subject and content reviews
Search by subject for various subject areas, including health science, math, engineering, business, management, psychology, and life sciences.
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Psychology textbooks
Free educational and cultural media
Canadian open textbook project covering both academic and trade topics
Open peer-reviewed texts
A growing catalog of free, peer-reviewed, and openly-licensed textbooks
Multidisciplinary database useful for researching a variety of topics.
News and information from the education field. You must create an account using your JWU email address, verify it, and use it to access full text content.
Criminal Justice & Public Safety in Video
Streaming videos featuring interviews about field experiences, controversies in the justice system, and training videos for how to respond to potentially dangerous situations.
Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text
Full text for scholarly articles, magazines, and ebooks covering all areas related to criminology and criminal justice
The library provides access to several ebook collections. To search most comprehensively, visit the library's homepage and perform a search under the tab labeled Books & Videos. Use the refine features on the left hand side of the results page to limit your search to ebooks at JWU.
Full text journal articles, ebooks, and conference papers
Military & Government Collection
Current news articles about law enforcement and all branches of the military
Full text articles from journals published by the APA and allied organizations
Provides access to the DSM V, full text reference books and journals, as well as brochures on mental health topics
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