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Birds of the World

  • Coverage: Current
  • Access: University of Utah
  • Purchased By: Marriott Library
  • Maximum Users: Unlimited
Birds of the World is a powerful research database that brings together deep, scholarly content from four celebrated works of ornithology: Birds of North America, Handbook of the Birds of the World, Neotropical Birds, and Bird Families of the World, with millions of bird observations from eBird and multimedia from the Macaulay Library into a single platform where biologists and birders can explore comprehensive life history information on birds. Also available on this database is the Internet Bird Collection program, which was closed in 2019 and the donated media was imported into the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Macaulay Library in 2019. Total imported assets included: Total videos: 127,808 Total photos: 241,601 Total sounds: 16,201 A taxonomy explorer function brings regional filters and visual family index to Birds of the World.

British Newsreels, 1911-1930: Culture and Society on Film

  • Coverage: 1911-1930
  • Access: University of Utah
  • Purchased By: Marriott Library
  • Maximum Users: unlimited
Supplied by the British Film Institute and Imperial War Museums, British Newsreels, 1911-1930: Culture and Society on Film showcases a large collection of newsreels produced by the Topical Film Company and provides a glimpse into the early twentieth century - from everyday interests, such as sport and fashion, to coverage of key events, such as the First World War, the Suffragette Movement, and the establishment of the Irish Free State.

ccMixter

  • Coverage: Varies
  • Access: Freely Available
  • Purchased By: Free
  • Maximum Users: Unlimited
ccMixter is an international community of 40,000 musicians. The database provides access to a collection of original samples licensed under Creative Commons which can be used to create tracks collaboratively. Users can listen to, sample, and interact with music within the database.

Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints

  • Coverage: current
  • Access: UALC
  • Purchased By: UALC
  • Maximum Users: unlimited
Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints is the premier online resource covering today's hottest social issues, from capital punishment to immigration to marijuana. This cross-curricular resource supports science, social studies, current events, and language arts classes. Informed, differing views help learners develop critical-thinking skills and draw their own conclusions. Opposing Viewpoints is a resource for debaters and includes viewpoints, reference articles, infographics, news, images, video, audio, and more. A category on the National Debate Topic provides quick and easy access to content on frequently studied and discussed issues. Periodical content covers current events, news and commentary, economics, environmental issues, political science, and more. Opposing Viewpoints is cross-searchable with Gale In Context: Global Issues for users with access to both resources.

GDC Vault

  • Coverage: Varies
  • Access: University of Utah
  • Purchased By: Marriott Library
  • Maximum Users: 25

NOTE: To access this database, click the title link above and enter your uNID and password. Once you are on the database site, you will need to click Login in the upper-right corner, then Click Here to Login. The database password will be entered automatically for you.

GDC Vault provides access to an archive of presentation videos, and audio synced with presenter slides, from worldwide Game Developers Conferences going back 20+ years. Browse by event and year, media type, and 20 broad-ranging categories of presentation themes. Or, search the presenter abstracts for specific keywords and phrases.

Internet Archive

  • Coverage: 1 to present
  • Access: Freely Available
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  • Maximum Users: unlimited
The Internet Archive is a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. The Internet Archive has webpages back to 1996 in the Wayback Machine. The Archive also contains nearly 38 million books and texts, 14 million audio recordings, 7 million videos, and 4 million images and other materials.
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Naxos Music Library

  • Coverage: Varies
  • Access: University of Utah
  • Purchased By: Marriott Library
  • Maximum Users: unlimited
This database provides access to a collection of over 1,000,000 music tracks drawn from over 75,000 CD recordings, with more than 1,000 new CDs added monthly. Records also include liner notes, opera synopses, libretti, and composer and artist biographies. Genres in the collection include classical music, contemporary jazz, world music, pop, folk, contemporary instrumental, rock, and more.
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- See: Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints

Philosophy Talk

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  • Access: University of Utah
  • Purchased By: Marriott Library
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Philosophy Talk celebrates the value of the examined life. Each week, our philosophers invite you to join them in conversation on a wide variety of issues ranging from popular culture to our most deeply-held beliefs about science, morality, and the human condition. Philosophy Talk challenges listeners to identify and question their assumptions and to think about things in new ways. We are dedicated to reasoned conversation driven by human curiosity. Philosophy Talk is accessible, intellectually stimulating, and most of all, fun! Philosophy Talk is produced by KALW on behalf of Stanford University, as part of its Humanities Outreach Initiative.
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Pro Sound Effects

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  • Access: University of Utah
  • Purchased By: University of Utah
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Pro Sound Effects® (PSE - CORE6 Complete Bundle) is a database of curated sound effects. The database contains over 1 million sounds and more than 357,000 files. The database draws on the feature films and TV shows across 30 years and from a global network of recordists. Sound files are organized in more than 500 categories and include ambiences, urban and natural soundscapes, animals, vehicles, foley effects, sound design elements and much more. All sounds are royalty free. Access is via a web-based Pro Sound Effects Library Access Portal. The interface permits searching, browsing, and previewing. Users can create playlists or projects, and can download files and sounds.

Victorian Popular Culture

  • Coverage: 1800-1929
  • Access: University of Utah
  • Purchased By: Marriott Library
  • Maximum Users: unlimited
Victorian Popular Culture is a portal comprised of four modules, inviting users into the darkened halls, small backrooms, big tops and travelling venues that hosted everything from spectacular shows and bawdy burlesque, to the world of magic, spiritualist séances, optical entertainments and the first moving pictures.