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• Architecture as Dance: Choreographing the Body in Space by Alva Shkoza
• Celebrating Diverse Urban Ecologies by Gwen Harvey
• The Child City: Developing After Displacement by Trevor Salvini
• Mediating Refugee Urbanism by Kayta Balsamo
• Reactivating Modernism's Cold Storage Typology by Nathan Violette
• Ashes to Architecture by Lane Couture
• (Ex)posing Emotion: Munuments of Surpressed Narratives by Danielle Dinoia
• A Green Transformation of Midtown Manhattan Office Towers by Nebile Gorenoglu
• [Con]temporary Urbanism: Performative Architecture by Nathan Karlsen
• Redefining [Re]Integration; Creating the Dialogue for Healing by Jessica Swenson
• Archicreature: Living Building to Terraform the Earth by Son Nguyen
• Elevating Resilience: Multi-Layered Infrastructures Engaging the Rising Tides by Steven Defuria
• Framing Atmospheres: Reactivating a Forgotten Landscape by Nina Babbitt
• No Stop Making: Building Connections in the Now through Agency and Access by Hannah O’Toole
• Placemaking and Identity in Diaspora by Roy Galang
• Urban Armature: A Multi-Level Superstructure by Matteo Zingales
• Establishing Socially Inclusive Environments: Supporting Mixed Aged Demographics in an Urban Context by Jordan Stickles
• A Model for Food Access in Post-Industrial Detroit by Kaleigh Stirrat
• Occupy the Border: Framing a New Territory Inhabiting the Border Zone by Owen Madden
• M. Arch Design Excellence
• Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize Nomination 2020
• Archiprix International 2021 Nominations
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• Anchor Point: Restructuring Transit Stations into a Neighborhood's Social Fabric by Noemi Jiminian 
• Expanded Identities: Multiplying Personas in Physical and Digital Space of the 21st Century by Nicholas Merluzzo    
• Experiencing Representation, Stimulating Corporeal Sensation through the Drawing Plane by Christian Roidt 
• Gaming Uncertainty: Playing Spatial Agency Within and Against the Contested City by Eric Petro  
• Kinetic Urbanism: Re-imagining Buildings that Move through Kinetics to Adapt to Various Programs to Accomodate Change for a Versatile, Dynamic and Resilient City by Anthony Polutkin 

Thresholds of Identity: Revitalizing Urban Learning Environments for Children by Melissa Allen 

• Defying the Boundary:Inclusion through the Ambiguous Delimitation of Social Space  by Freddy Pendleton
• Gaming Uncertainty: Playing Spatial Agency Within and Against the Contested City
• Free to All: Democratizing Monument of Authority as Critical Socio-Political Crossings by Jeffrey Dike
• A People's Museum: Reframing PUblic Histories through Spaces of Multiple Truths by Esti Shapiro
• Sharing the Dream: Reimagining American Subrubs to Enhance Community by Michelle Morsicato
• Story through Structure: Utilizing Thematic Elements in the Hero's Journey to Give Meaning to Untold Narratives through Spatial Experience by Adonijah Campbell
• Strengthening the In-Between: Establishing Programmatic Definition in Alleyways through Surface Treatment by Ben Lauzier
• Amplifying the Margin: Architecture as Unifying Infrastructure between River and City: Proposals for a Post-industrial City by Joshua Robert Liebla
• Consolidated Neighborhoods: Redefining Neighborhoods through Flexible Longterm Dwelling by:Cory Cook
• Cyclical Resource Recovery by Geoffrey Farrell
• The Imperative City: A Symbiotic Environment through the Reciprocity of the Urban and Natural Landscape by Paul Szczombrowski
• Landscape of Memory by Lamia AlMuhanna.
• Materializing a Memory: Embracing the Passage of Time by:Ashley Marchesseault.
• Taking Cues: Translating Theatrical Performance Design into Architecture of the Public Space by Gizelle Hourani
• Urgent Amalgamations: Optimistic Trajectories for the Contemporary City by William Joseph Toohey, III
• Deconstructive Infrastructure: A Method of Cyclical Olympic Architecture by Stefan Burnett
• In Search of Play: A New Architectural Narrative for Boston by Katya Stassen.
• Warning! Objects in Mirror may be Closer than they Appear by Brian Sandford
• The Ruin, the Occupant, and the Context Looking Beyond Preservative Methodologies in Architecture to Elicit a Relationship between Perceptive Users and the Context in which a Ruin Lays by Paul Arduini.
• Utilizing Water: Charles River Transit Node by Amanda Dexter
• Archicell by Joanna He
• Made In Thin Air: Positioning the sharing economy within architecture to establish a new typology of building by Rachel Blanchard
• P.D.A.D: Production, Construction, Assembly, Delivery by Anne Harris
• Sublimity in Nature: Regenerative Site-Engaged Design by Tom Cracolici
• To Rematerialize: Rinse, Rethink, Reimage by Lindsay Dumont
• WorkShop 1:1 Understanding Contemporary Tectonics by Sam Fernandez
• [Urban]eering by Alex Andrea Roberts
• Elevating the Public Realm : Addressing Manhattan's Inevitable Increasing Density in Pursuit of Contributing Another Layer of Public Experience which Parallels its Vertical Expansion by Dominic Dijamco
• Security Blanket : Developing the Public Realm Post Natural Disaster Cité Soleil, Haiti by Kamille Hampton
• Decommissioned: Revitalizing Military Surplus by Robert Carney
• Expose the Absence : A Spatial Manifestation of Urban Voids by Lauren E. Andrus
• Landscapes: A Dynamic Network: Integration of the Urban Barrier by Jillian Lodor
• A New Light:Transforming Our Urban Environments by Sasha Bachier
• Perceptually Unfamiliar by Kevin Fletcher
• Transcultural Dialogue: Reimagining Refugee Settlements by Kyle Tomisman
• Urban Ritual: Revealing Black Rock City by Matthew Vocatura
• Vertical Territories. Urban Desires by Neal DosSantos

How to Belong: The Sybiotics of Place  (Michelle T. Hobbs)

Project CO:LAB - Craft Making Culture: The Making of Architecture through the Lens of Craft   (Benjamin D. Lewis)

Rethinking the Boundaries of Learning: Revealing Moments of Exploration & Discovery in the Early Learning Environments for Children & Adults  (Katherine M. Lux)

Light and Shadow Evoke Reflection Upon the Individual and the Site  (Rachel V. Mulcahy)

Bridging the Gap: Designing for Informal Settlements  (Nereyda Santos)

Customized Modular Incremental Housing  (Jonathan A. Stras)

Seeking Identity : A Manifestation of a Journey that Seeks Identity through a False Simulated Form of Social Reality  (Jessica C. Valadares)

Memory of Place  (Lauren A. Vorwald)

Wandering through Knowledge, Perception, and Existence: NYPL Book-Stacks Extension (Ciro Podany)

I nveractive Surveillance: an Urban Network for Public Play (Richard James Pignataro Jr.)

Constructing Interfaces: North Bennet Street School Extension (Charles Earl-Hansen)

Urban Void: Confronting the Other (Katherine Agustina Mendez).

Simplicity: Capturing the Imperfect   (Emily Ann Curtin Morgan)

Festum Fatorum (Stephen DeMayo)

Persephone: an Infrastructure for the Instincts (Kacy Anne Cunningham)

Old materials | New Methods (Ahmad Marzuq)

Re-Juvenation: Overhauling Juvenile Rehabilitative Architecture (Steven Paul Tedesco II) 

Urban Phoenix: the Inhabitable Bridge as an Urban Revitalization Device (Kevin D. Conant)

Architecture Asleep: Defining Waking Reality through the Realized Dream  ( Sinead M. Gallivan)

Agency: Architecture as the Instrument (Erblin Bucaliu)

Immigrant Hostel: a Theater of Memory  (Samuel Walusimbi)

Voyeurism and Other Deviances  (Quang-Liem Than)

Two Connections  ( James Jarzyniecki)

Spatial Performance (A Place to Dance)   (Mandy Johnson)

Towards an Architecture of Uncertainty (Rebecca L. Leclerc)

Redefining the Heroic (Rebecca L. Medeiros)

Disrupting Urban Social Structures: Interface and Face-to-Face Physically Manifest through Play (Matthew Carl Zbawiony)

Transform!: Critical Housing in China (Shawn Z. Liang)

Soundscape of Enlightenment (Tyler J. Wilcox)

Infrastructural Parkscapes: Restoring the Connection between Nature and City (Alexander Eugene Corbett)

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Association for Computing Machinery Digital Library   A repository of resources supporting computing research and practice. Includes foundational articles by pioneers in the field from as far back as 1951 to the present.

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals An index covering worldwide research in architecture, urban design, historic preservation and urban planning history. Covers both scholarly and popular periodical literature.

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Bates’ Visual Guide   A clinical skills video series for use in medicine, nursing and patient rehabilitation. It illustrates head-to-toe and systems-based physical examination techniques.  

Bentham Organic Chemistry Journals   A small collection of organic chemistry journals published by the STM publishers Bentham Science.

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Current & Completed Research An index of South African research projects covering the social sciences, humanities, economic and management sciences. It includes master s and doctoral theses of South African universities, as well as information on research projects from non-governmental organisations, private sector and government departments.

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EquityRT   A global financial markets, company and economic research data platform. Provides detailed information for over 122 000 listed companies from 130 stock exchanges, plus over 21 000 economic data series from 70 sources for over 250 countries. Company information includes market data (price data and estimates), shareholding and ownership, company news, currencies, commodities, indices, fundamental analysis, peer analysis and stock screening. The wide range of economic data includes economic time series data, economic news and publications, and an economic calendar tracking release dates of key economic data events.  Note:  No passwords required. Click on the "Sign in" button to begin.

Essential Evidence Plus A medical, evidence-based, point-of-care, clinical decision support system that provides access to over 13,000 topics, guidelines, abstracts, and summaries.

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Filmakers Library Online A multidisciplinary database of nearly 1000 internationally sourced documentary films produced from 1978 - present by national film bodies and notable independent film makers. Covers areas such as race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature and more.

Forestry A collection of publications from forestry, wood science and nature conservation research institutes in SA and worldwide; includes proceedings of major international and national forestry conferences.

Forward to Freedom: The history of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement 1959- 1994   An archive documenting the history of the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa. It describes the campaigns it organised, such as the consumer and sports boycotts, arms embargo and support for political prisoners, and the groups involved, ranging from students and trade unions to local authorities and professional groups. Includes videos, documents, posters, photographs, badges and other items.

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ICE Virtual Library   Provides full text access to the journals, conference proceedings and magazines published by the Institution of Civil Engineers from 1836 – present.

Inorganic Crystal Structure Database  The ICSD is an exhaustive list of known inorganic crystal structures published since 1913, including their atomic co-ordinates. The ICSD data is curated, comprehensive, and provides the basis for finding answers to questions in materials research. 

IEEE Xplore     A collection of technical literature in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics from the IEEE. Provides citations and abstracts for periodicals and conference proceedings of the IEEE and IEE, and full text access to 120 online IEEE society-sponsored journals and magazines from 1998 - present

IET Digital Archive Online access to all of the journals produced by the IET from 1871 to 1993. Includes the entire back-file of Electronic Letters from 1965 onwards

IMF Online Statistical Data The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an organization of 189 countries, working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world. Datasets include direction of trade statistics; global, regional and country financial, investment and balance of payment data,

InCites A customized, citation-based research evaluation tool  that enables you to analyze institutional productivity and benchmark your output against peers worldwide. There are three modules: Research Performance Profiles, Institution Profiles and Global Comparisons. ** Access to the website is by username and password. First-time users can create an account on the database home page.

Institute for Security Studies Full text access to the publications of the ISS from 2001 - present; includes African security review , ISS monograph series, ISS papers, Nedbank ISS crime index .

Institute of Physics Journals Full text access to the journals published by the Institute of Physics, 1874 - present.

International Country Risk Guide The  International Country Risk Guide is a commercial source of country risk analyses and ratings. Updated monthly, it monitors 141 countries. Each issue provides financial, political and economic risk information and forecasts. Statistical tables assign values to the over 30 indicators underlying   the ICRG's business-oriented model for quantifying risk, examining country-specific elements such as currency risk, political leadership, the military and religion in politics, and corruption. 

International Encyclopaedia for Criminal Law Online This online reference manual is part of the International Encyclopedia of Laws Series. It provides access to legal expertise, practical legal information, and insight into criminal law procedure in both national and global contexts.

International Index to Music Periodicals with Full Text IIMP Full Text is a music information resource with indexing, abstracts and selected full text from many sources, covering the scholarly to the popular. Offering the widest span of scholarship available, IIMP Full Text ranges from 1874 to the most recent issues.

IRESS Expert     A South African financial reporting database; provides historical and fundamental information on South African and international listed and unlisted companies. Covers published financials from 1988, standardized financials from 1971, and preliminary and interim financials .  ** Access is limited to ten concurrent users. Kindly log out at the end of your session .

ISAP (Index to South African Periodicals) An index of articles from more than 900 South African periodicals.

JAMAevidence JAMAevidence is a resource with innovative interactive and pedagogical features designed to help students and clinicians learn the best practice of evidence-based medicine. This electronic tool provides full-text access to the content in the second edition of The Users' Guides to the Medical Literature and The Rational Clinical Examination. Users will find everything from classic references that demystify basic principles to customizable worksheets that allow them to systematically apply evidence-based medicine to their cases and build a library of their own critically appraised topics

Journal Citation Reports The Journal Citation Reports is an essential, comprehensive, and unique resource for journal evaluation, using citation data drawn from over 11655 scholarly and technical journals worldwide. Coverage is both multidisciplinary and international, and incorporates journals from over 3,300 publishers in 80 nations.

Jove Journal - BioEngineering .JoVE Bioengineering includes methods and tools that apply engineering to life science research for the study of biological processes and development of new therapies and diagnostics.

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JoVE Video Journal - Chemistry A peer reviewed video collection demonstrating experimental techniques with detailed protocols for fundamental and applied research in organic, inorganic, analytical, and physical chemistry.

JoVE Science Education - Basic Biology A video library covering general laboratory techniques and safety; laboratory animal research; methods in cellular and molecular biology; model organisms and vertebrate species commonly used in life sciences research.

JoVE Science Education - Chemistry A video library aimed at teaching the fundamentals of chemistry through simple easy-to-understand video demonstrations. Covers general chemistry, organic- and inorganic chemistry, analytical chemistry and biochemistry.

Jove Science Education - Engineering Jove Science Education Engineering provides key concepts and fundamental techniques in Engineering - Bioengineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Structural Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Materials Engineering

Jove Unlimited  Jove Unlimited is a video library dedicated to teaching scientific fundamentals through easy-to-understand video demonstrations. It is aimed at science students and researchers at all levels. The videos illustrate basic and advanced concepts and methods as well as novel experimental research.

JSTOR JSTOR's archival journal collections include more than two thousand journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Coverage begins at the first volume and issue of the journal ever published, and extends up to a publication date usually set in the past three to five years.

JSTOR Open Access Books A collection of 6,000 Open Access e-books from over 75 publishers , including Brill, Cornell University Press, De Gruyter, and University of California Press, and others

Juta Online publications South African law reports, statutes, journals and other commentary publications to meet the requirements of a range of legal information users. Subject coverage ranges from administrative, civil procedure, commercial, constitutional, criminal, intellectual property, international, labour, mining, revenue and shipping law.

Kanopy     A video streaming service providing access to more than 30,000 independent and documentary films ─  titles of unique social and cultural value from The Criterion Collection, The Great Courses, Media Education Foundation, and thousands of independent filmmakers. Enjoy critically-acclaimed movies, inspiring documentaries, award-winning foreign films and more.

Kluwer Arbitration Law Covers material in the field of international commercial arbitration. Created by Kluwer Law International in association with the Institute for Transnational Arbitration and the International Council of Commercial Arbitration.

Kluwer Competition Law A collection of primary source material,commentary and analysis of EU Competition Law. The database has been organized into the specific competition law topics of antitrust, mergers and state aid.

Kluwer Law Online   A collection of 25 journals on law and arbitration, taxation, environmental law, competition law, global trade, foreign affairs, and related subjects. 

Knovel e-book collections An engineering platform integrating technical information with analytical and search tools. It can be used to conduct technical research, select materials, test and create designs, improve processes, document project plans and more. The Library’s subscription also allows full text access to the followining e-book collections 

• Chemistry & Chemical Engineering
• Mechanics & Mechanical Engineering
• Mining Engineering & Extractive Metallurgy

Kovsidex Kovsidex Articles are selected according to the needs of the primary clients of the University of the Orange Free State. Also includes Research Institute for Education Planning (Riep) which covers a wide range of reference works on the theory and practice of education dating back to 1975-1997.

LearnTechLib A collection of peer-reviewed and published international journal articles and conference papers on the latest research, developments, and applications related to all aspects of Educational Technology and e-Learning.

LexisNexis Academic  (This data base has had a change of name. Go to  Nexis-Uni  under the letter "N") 

Lyell Collection Database established by Geological Society of London in 2007. The collection holds earth sciences literature, including key journals, special publications and the Society’s book series.

MathSciNet A bibliographic database consisting of reviews and citations to global research literature in mathematics and related areas from 1940 - present

Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law A comprehensive online resource containing peer-reviewed articles on every aspect of public international law. Written and edited by over 800 scholars and practitioners, published in partnership with the Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and the Rule of Law.

MEDLINE Ultimate MEDLINE Ultimate offers medical professionals and researchers access to unmatched evidence-based and peer-reviewed full-text content from biomedical journals. It also offers more international journal coverage than any other MEDLINE databases. 

Mental Measurements Yearbook  A comprehensive guide to over 3000 contemporary psychological tests and test reviews produced by the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements at the University of Nebraska. It is designed for both novice test consumers and experienced professionals and contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products in diverse areas.

Merck Index   An encyclopedia of chemicals, drugs and biologicals with over 10 000 monographs on single substances or groups of related compounds published online by the Royal Society of Chemistry.         

Mintek A bibliographic database containing the results of Mintek's original research in the fields of metals and industrial minerals. The database consists of reports, patents, special publications, and papers  from 1931-2005.

Municipal By-Laws An index of all existing bylaws in South African metropolitan, district, and local municipalities, with links to the full-text. Includes a list of disestablished municipalities, bylaws from previous municipalities not yet repealed, and bylaws published but not promulgated. 

Music Industry Data ( previously known as Academic Charts Online) A repository of statistical chart data from the US, UK, Europe, South America and Asia, which measures the impact of music across countries and cultures; covers all genres from pop to classical, jazz and world music.

My LexisNexis A full-text database covering South African business and law; includes both legislation and commentary. **  First time users will need to register first, using a Wits email address.

Navtek   Information on current and completed research undertaken in what used to be South Africa's technikons..

NDLTD (Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations) Provides access to a combined collection of electronic theses and dissertations from over a hundred universities around the world

NetLaw All principal consolidated acts with their rules and regulations (1984- ) as well as all the significant principal acts before 1984.

Nexis-Uni   (formerly known as LexisNexis Academic) An economic, industry and legal database. Provides an overview of the latest economic events through global press reports; detailed company and industry information; and legal data from primary and secondary sources.

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Nineteenth Century Collections: Europe and Africa    This archival collection of primary sources on colonialism and culture presents a dramatic, gripping chronicle of exploration and missions from the early nineteenth century through the Conference of Berlin in 1884 and the subsequent scramble for Africa. Unique sources provide a wealth of research topics on explorers, politicians, evangelists, journalists, and tycoons blinded by romantic nationalism or caught up in the competition for markets and converts. These monographs, manuscripts, and newspapers cover key issues of economics, world politics, and international strategy

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OneMine Aggregation of documents associated with mining and minerals sources from multiple societies. Includes technical  and old AIME documents. Coverage dates back to the late 1800s.

OpenGeoSci   A map-based research tool that enables users to locate information drawn from over 300,000 maps, cross sections, charts, figures and tables  in articles published in 45 key geoscience journals. Complements the Library's  GeoScienceWorld   database.

Osiris Financial information on 65,000 listed and major unlisted/delisted companies worldwide (51,000 are non-US companies). Includes: standardised and "as reported" financials, SEC filings, detailed earnings estimates as well as recommendations, ownership, stock data, news and ratings. * Note: access to this database is limited to 2 simultaneous users.

Oxford Art Online A collection of online art reference works produced by Oxford University Press, including Grove Art Online, the Benezit Dictionary of Artists, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, as well as many specially commissioned articles and bibliographies.

Oxford Bibliographies    A collection of authoritative research guides that point out the best available scholarship and  research resources across a wide variety of subjects. The Library has access to the African Studies, International Affairs, and Political Science modules. 

Oxford English Dictionary (OED) A guide to the meaning, history and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books

Oxford Handbooks Online    A full-text database that provides critical surveys of original research across 14 different subjects in the humanities and social sciences: Archaeology, Business and Management, Classical Studies, Criminology and Criminal Justice, Economics and Finance, History, Law, Linguistics, Literature, Music, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, and Religion.Critically examines the progress and direction of debates in these fields and provides a foundation for future research. The Wits subscription does not include access to the handbooks on Neuroscience and Physics.

Oxford Journals Online Full text access to the complete Oxford University Press journal collection from 1849 - present. Covers the fields of Humanities, Medicine, Life Sciences, Social Sciences, Law, and Physical science

Oxford Music Online A collection of Oxford music reference resources; includes Grove Music Online, The Oxford Companion to Music , and The Oxford Dictionary of Music .

Oxford Reference Online A multidisciplinary reference and research collection; covers 25 subject areas from architecture to zoology. Provides quick reference information together with authoritative, in-depth articles by world-famous authors. It also offers excellent functionality, and a wide range of additional material such as maps, illustrations and timelines.

Oxford Research Encyclopedias: African History A comprehensive online research encyclopedia covering a careful selection of the most influential and useful primary and secondary materials on African history, from the earliest stone tool–using hominids to the most recent religious movements, or from new interpretations of the Mau Mau movement in Kenya to recent reconsideration of the Rwanda genocide and its aftermath. Incorporates audio, visual, and video materials, as well as links to digitized archives and other primary sources.

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PressReader    A digital newsstand of over 7250 international newspapers and magazines, including approximately 200 South African publications such as the  Mail & Guardian, Business Day, Financial Times  and the  Citizen Online. Keeps a rolling backfile of up to 90-days. Staff and students can access the collection directly online   or download articles  and entire publications onto a mobile device for reading offline using  the PressReader mobile app . A more detailed access guide can be found  here                                              

ProceedingsFirst An index of worldwide conference proceedings. Provides citations of every congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received at The British Library. Contains in each record a list of the papers presented at each conference.

ProQuest Central A multidisciplinary cross-searchable collection of full text databases including

• ABI/INFORM Complete  
• Accounting & Tax
• Banking Information Source
• Canadian Newsstand Complete
• Canadian Business & Current Affairs Complete
• Ebook Central
• Hoover's Company Profiles
• OxResearch: political, social & economic research
• Pharmaceutical News Index
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PsychiatryOnline A collection of psychiatric references, including books, journals, and self-assessment tools. Provides resources to assist with *diagnosis * treatment* latest research and news in the field * professional development * certification and CME support.

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PsycINFO   A bibliographic index of international literature in psychology and related behavioural and social sciences, including psychiatry, sociology, anthropology, education, pharmacology, and linguistics.

PsycTESTS A full text repository of psychological tests and measures, as well as a rich source of structured information about the tests.  Holds a wide variety of tests, including achievement and aptitude tests, intelligence tests, tests of cognitive functioning, occupational tests, personality tests.

PsycTHERAPY A collection of video-recorded psychotherapy demonstrations by leading therapists in North America working with participants on a host of therapeutic topics. Useful tool for teaching and training in psychotherapy practice, and for education about psychology.  Includes transcripts and a searchable index.

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Quantec EasyData        ** First-time users will need to register on the site to gain access An online collection of analytical databases of South African socio-economic indicators. EasyData is divided into the following 4 data collections:

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• Patent Chemistry Database - a new file of organic chemistry information drawn from selected English-language chemical patents (US, WO, EP, 1976- ). Additional historical (1869-1980) patent coverage comes from the Beilstein and Gmelin files.

Research Channel Africa     Detailed reports on key industrial sectors such as steel, electricity, defence and telecommunications, as well as on important African minerals including gold, platinum, diamonds and copper. An important business resource providing intelligence on industry and mining in Africa.   * Access currently available on-campus only

Retrospective Government Gazette Archive:  1910 - 1993 The Sabinet Retrospective Government Gazette Archive contains more than 22 000 Government Gazettes covering the period 1910 to 1993. * For later copies of the Gazettes, from 1994 onwards, consult the  Government Gazettes  under "G"  

Risk.net An in-depth news and analysis platform covering financial risk management, derivatives and regulation. 

Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online resource for researching, teaching and studying in the philosophy arena and related disciplines.

Royal Society of Chemistry Journals      The Royal Society for Chemistry is a major publisher and provider of chemical information, supports the teaching of chemistry at all levels, organises hundreds of chemical meetings a year and is a leader in communicating science to the public.

SABINET African Journals   ( formerly known as SA ePublications ) A full-text collection of  more than 430 African and Southern African journals focusing on information originating from or pertaining to Africa. 

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SAGeoLit A bibliographic database of journal articles, symposia, reports and maps held by the South African Council for Geoscience. Strong emphasis on Africa 

SAGE Journals Online A multi-disciplinary database providing full-text access to over 400 of the journals published by SAGE from 1999 - present

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SA Media A full-text collection of South African publications - chiefly newspapers and periodicals - from 1978 onwards

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SciDev.Net The overall aim of the Science and Development Network (SciDev.Net) is to enhance the provision of reliable and authoritative information on science- and technology-related issues that impact on the economic and social development of developing countries.

ScienceDirect   A multidisciplinary database providing full-text access to journals published by Elsevier, including the archival back issues. Strong in scientific, technical and medical (STM) literature, but also covers Arts, Humanities and Social sciences. Excludes association titles.

SciFinder-n    ** First-time users will need to register and create an account in order to access the database A core research tool for chemistry, biochemistry, chemical engineering, materials science, nanotechnology, physics, environmental science and other science and engineering fields. The database has five components:

Chemical Abstracts (CAplus) A bibliographic database that indexes journal articles and patent records, as well as conference proceedings, technical reports, books, dissertations and meeting abstracts CAS registry A comprehensive list of organic and inorganic substances and sequences dating from 1957 - present CASREACT A database of single and multi-step reactions indexed from journal articles and patents dating from 1840- present CHEMCATS A catalogue of commercially available chemicals from more than 900 commercial chemical suppliers CHEMLIST A database of substances regulated national and international agencies. Includes the EINECS and Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Inventory

Scitable   Scitable is a free, online educational resource for undergraduate biology students and educators. Currently focused on genetics, Scitable combines authoritative scientific information with social media functionality. Scitable provides students with free online access to more than 180 overviews of key genetics concepts. The overviews are evidence-based and have been vetted by Nature Publishing staff. By connecting with other Scitable users via groups, chat functionality, and other social media features, students can collaborate online with classmates or with a wider community of experts, researchers, and fellow students.

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South African Freedom Struggles (DISA)   A Guide to South Africa s Struggle for Democracy: anti- apartheid periodicals 1960-1994. 

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Springer Materials Archive (1961-2017)    A comprehensive materials science database providing information on materials, their properties, and uses, drawn from the Landolt-Börnstein series from 1961-2017.

SpringerLink  A full-text, multi-disciplinary database providing electronic access to all the journals published by Springer

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Subsidie The Database of Approved Research Periodicals (NASOP 02-014) is compiled by the personnel of the Library and Information Service at the University of the Orange Free State. It lists all periodicals approved as research platforms. This database is also known as Subsidie.

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Coffee or tea: Coffee — do you even have to ask?  A must-read book for students: Moby Dick. Or something by Thomas Pynchon. I don’t know, that’s an extremely hard question.  Favorite song right now: I’ve been playing R.E.M.’s “Cuyahoga” a lot recently. For whatever reason, I’m going back to my late high school playlist. 

In May, the ground is thawed, and Casey Shoop plants a bag of sweet pea seeds in the front yard of the Portland home he shares with his partner, Gabrielle.

The seeds are his mother’s, who passed away in the spring of 2023, and Shoop – a Clark Honors College senior instructor of literature – hopes to continue the tradition of planting them every year. “My mother’s great abiding passion was gardening,” he says, reminiscing about his childhood memories growing up in Long Beach, Calif. “Every year in the front of the house, she would plant these beds of sweet peas, and they would just explode in these riots of color.”

The vines would spread down the block, he recalls, in the sandy soil. Shoop visited his childhood home last spring and gathered seeds right before his father had to sell the house.

At the CHC, Shoop’s love of books began with his mother, who was a first-grade teacher. “My mom taught people to read, so that was a deep love transfer,” he says, wistfully. Whenever they visited a bookstore together, she always bought him a book, another tradition he carries on today.

Shoop has been a core faculty member since he arrived at the Honors College in 2014, making him one of the “old guard,” as he describes his role. Students love him for his wit and endless questions, readily signing up for his courses on literature, film, and philosophy.

Outside the steady rhythm of teaching, Shoop’s personal life has changed profoundly within the past year. When his mother died, he moved his father temporarily to Oregon, and his partner developed serious health issues. He’s been working with her during her recovery process, and through his own grieving process. “I don’t think I’ll ever get out of the denial stage of grieving,” he says. “People say there are phases, but, you know…” he trails off. “My mother was a teacher, and that helps me carry on.” 

A childhood for the books 

Shoop remembers Long Beach fondly. His father ran an auto parts distribution business, while his mother taught. Shoop always looked up to his older brother, Joseph, especially when it came to reading. “I read all the beatniks because of Joe,” he said. “I got a rucksack and wrote poetry because of him.”

He remembers hungering for the wider world and reaching for Jack Kerouac’s “The Dharma Bums” at just the right time, or nabbing contraband books from his brother’s room.

Joe Shoop remembers the first time he read Kerouac. “I was reading all these terrible, kind of John Wick, serialized killing books,” Joe Shoop says, “and one day when we were at a bookstore, and my mom said: ‘You should try ‘On the Road.’’ I never went back to the ultraviolence after that.”

Grieving has strengthened the brothers' bond. “We talk about a lot more stuff now that we’re older,” Joe Shoop says. “We’re kind of working through grief together. It’s difficult not to be closer after something like that.”

The brothers recently promised each other to visit a new city together every year. This year, they decided on Minneapolis. Joe Shoop says it was a perfect weekend with his brother, watching basketball, popping into bookstores, attempting to have a séance with the spirit of Prince, and enjoying the Midwestern sun.

Joe Shoop also planted sweet peas in the spring. He walks a long commute to work in Berkeley and has been dropping seed pods along the way. “He’s going to Johnny Appleseed the joint,” Casey says. 

Casey Shoop attended college at the University of California - Berkeley. He remembers traveling up the coast to San Francisco with his family as his father belted out lines from the pop song, “San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair).”

Even at a young age, Shoop thought the Berkeley campus was special. “I had some inkling of the radical history of the place that was important to me,” he says. “It mattered to me in some precognizant way. It was all there, percolating in the air.”

Highlights from his undergraduate degree include a year-long course where Shoop read the complete works of Shakespeare; taking Thom Gunn’s poetry class; and playing frisbee golf on campus late into the night.

The Shakespeare course, which was taught through a feminist psychoanalytic lens, changed how Shoop saw literature. “In college, I was so desperate to know things,” he says. “You want something to stand on, and what I wanted to stand on was all of Shakespeare. That felt really good to me. It was very important to have my eyes on every word.”

He finished with a degree in English and comparative literature. After a brief stint working for the U.S. Census Bureau to save up money, he moved to the East Coast, taking up residence in New York City as a graduate student at Columbia University.

Shoop says he struggled in graduate school—his brain wasn’t wired for endless hours at the library researching one topic. But he loved the city. “The city got in my blood immediately,” he says, and he stayed for nearly 10 years.

His days at Columbia were filled with long academic discussions and noir movie marathons. The hyperfixation and pre-professional performances of graduate school rubbed Shoop the wrong way. He grew restless. “I eventually decided I would move to South America and figure out what I wanted to do instead,” he recalls. 

He set off for Argentina, books in tow, and wandered around reading until his money ran out. “Then I was like, ‘Oh my God, I’m getting paid to read books at Columbia University, what am I doing?’” he remembers. “I went down to Patagonia and looked off the end of the world, looked at huge ice, and I thought ‘maybe I should go back and finish this thing.’”

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He finished his studies at Columbia and moved back West after being accepted into a post-doctorate program at the University of Southern California. “I think I’d probably still be in New York, reading and stringing TA jobs together if I hadn’t gotten that,” he says now.

Shoop was happy to be back near his family. “When you get to the West Coast, you’ve arrived at something of the narrative fulfillment of the United States,” he says. “Joan Didion says this, famously, and I was interested in what that was about.”

He focused on that idea in his post-doctorate work, but when he finished at USC, he was ready to leave California. “I knew a few friends from graduate school who ended up living” in Eugene, he says. “I’ve always loved the big, whispering trees.”

Shoop arrived at the Honors College in the fall of 2014 at the same time as Professor of Practice Barbara Mossberg.

Mossberg recalls that at the time, the Honors College was a loose federation of different academics. She and Shoop would meet up regularly for long, literary discussions. “We would talk about our teaching, and really got to be very close colleagues,” she says. “Casey is an incredible colleague. He grows with the knowledge he consumes.”

Shoop’s days are long. He gets up at 6 a.m. and makes a pot of coffee, and then settles into work. “My brain is best in the morning, so I try to do my most important work then,” he says.

Grading, planning classes, and searching for course material are the focus – he makes sure to keep quiet, not wanting to wake Gabrielle and her 10-year-old child. His dog, Winnie, nudges him around 9 a.m., reminding him that it’s time for her walk.

They take a few laps at a nearby park and Shoop calls his dad, then his brother. He’s been talking to his family every day after losing his mother, trying to figure out how to keep them together without the woman who served as their glue.

“I’m just gonna be in denial forever about it,” he says. “At least I have good people to talk to about that denial.”

A day in the life

On the days that Shoop is teaching, he commutes down to Eugene. He fills the nearly two-hour drive by listening to music that his students recommend, like Phoebe Bridgers or Taylor Swift. “I like to think it helps me understand them more,” he says with a laugh.

This spring, Shoop is teaching a 6 p.m. course called “How the West Was Spun: Myth and History in the American West.” The campus is nearly empty by class time, with some stragglers shuffling out of the library toward the dining hall. Despite the late hour, students sit up straight in their seats in Ansett 192, ready to discuss the most recent film they watched: “Shane.”

The late class start isn’t a problem for Robert Hawes, a CHC senior. He finds himself energized by Shoop’s classroom persona. “I don’t know many professors like this, but he’s very animated,” Hawes says. “He is very good at making the material easy to engage with, he breaks it down really well.”

“How the West Was Spun” is structured so students lead in-class discussions on the films they watch at home. Hawes enjoys hearing how his fellow classmates interpret the material. As a history major, he says he often has different takeaways than his STEM or philosophy-focused classmates.

After Shoop shows a scene to the class, they break into small discussion groups. Shoop squats down next to a table of four students, bobbing his head to their conversation. The class reconvenes, and every point that a student makes, Shoop adds to it. The lid of his Stanley thermos, filled to the brim with black coffee, rests precariously in one hand. Shoop gestures wildly with the other, trying to convey his endless passion for the movie.

“Little Joey reminds me of my father when he was young, so this film really does something for me,” he explains.

Each question that a student raises he sends right back to the class, asking what they think about it. When a student in the first row asks Shoop a pointed question, he rocks back and forth on his heels, a smile creeping onto his face. “What do you think?” he asks.

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