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Digital Library
Welcome to the RPS Academies digital library. We have a wide range of digital resources available to patrons of all RPS Academies. Access e-books, research databases, multimedia content, and more—anytime, anywhere. Stay tuned as we expand our collection to support your learning and curiosity!
Research and Writing
Academic Videos/ Lessons
Resources for ESOL Students
NYS: Bilingual Glossaries and Cognates: Website serving educators, parents, and families of English Language Learners (ELL) and World Language students with a wide range of information and resources. Glossaries for ELA, Science, Math, and Social Studies in 40 different languages.
English Media Lab--Free English exercises/interactive learning.
Talk English: Learn English speaking.
Digital Workbook for beginning ESOL.
Research Databases
CORE: CORE is a multidisciplinary aggregator of OA research. CORE has the largest collection of OA articles available. It allows users to search more than 219 million OA articles. While most of these link to the full-text article on the original publisher's site, or to a PDF available for download, five million records are hosted directly on CORE.
Directory of Open Access Journal: A multidisciplinary, community-curated directory, the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) gives researchers access to high-quality peer-reviewed journals. It has archived more than two million articles from 17,193 journals, allowing you to either browse by subject or search by keyword.
JURN: A multidisciplinary search engine, JURN provides links to various scholarly websites, articles, and journals that are free to access or OA. Covering the fields of the arts, humanities, business, law, nature, science, and medicine,
EBSCO Open Dissertations : EBSCO Open Dissertations is a collaboration between EBSCO and BiblioLabs to increase traffic and discoverability of ETD research.
Google Scholar: Google Scholar is a search engine for academic work. Not everything listed on Google Scholar will be freely available in full. But it is a good place to start if you’re looking for a specific paper; many papers can be downloaded for free.