Resources

Princeton University’s Writing Program forges bond with PUL through first-year seminar

What are the most important skills students learn in college? For the directors of Princeton University’s Writing Program, it’s the ability to frame compelling questions, follow their curiosity through the research process, and craft persuasive analytical arguments.

MLA Handbook Plus Now Available

PUL is pleased to offer the new MLA Handbook Plus, the only official, authorized electronic resource on MLA style.

Princeton University Library’s geosciences expertise and collection supports Library patrons researching worldwide natural hazards

It has been an unprecedented year of natural hazards and disasters - notable even for the scientists who investigate and track the activity. Beginning Wednesday afternoon, September 1, and the days that followed, the internal message board at Princeton University Library (PUL) lit up with queries and messages from Library staff concerned about Tropical Storm Ida’s impact on the local area and each other’s safety.

Featured E-Resource: Black Lives Matter research guide for systemic racism and activism

To support research related to the Black Lives Matter movement, this Princeton University Library research guide features information about systemic racism and activism.

Featured E-Resource: Black Lives Matter research guide for policing and incarceration

Princeton University Library draws your attention to its Black Lives Matter research guide about policing and incarceration.

Princeton Open Access Fund expands for 2020-21 fiscal year

Following a successful first run at supporting open access to scholarship, Princeton University Library's Princeton Open Access Publication Fund expanded its budget to $50,000 for the 2020-21 fiscal year.

Featured E-Resource: JoVE publishes video demonstrations of scientific experiments

Princeton University Library provides access to JoVE, a peer-reviewed video journal that publishes videos demonstrating experiments from laboratories around the world.

Featured E-Resource: Leisure reading online

Get Library books on your Kindle, iPad, and other electronic reading devices. The Dixon eBooks Collectionhas hundreds of titles available for downloading or streaming on your own device or reading online. 

New York Times Digital Edition available at Princeton

Princeton faculty, students, and staff have full access to The New York Times (NYT) Digital Edition, including to NYTimes.com and NYT's Apple and Android apps.

Featured E-Resource: Rosetta Stone

Rosetta Stone is available to Princeton students, faculty, and staff. 

New browser extension gives access to Library-subscribed content from any search engine, any location

Princeton University Library now offers Anywhere Access, a new browser extension that gives access to Library-subscribed and Open Access content from any physcial location, through any scholarly search engine or publisher site.

Featured E-Resource: Stream music, concerts, opera & more

Princeton University Library offers many audio and visual streaming resources in the performing arts. 

Now available: Premium accounts to protocols.io, an open access repository of research protocols

Princeton University students, faculty, and staff now have access to free premium accounts of an open access repository of step-by-step, detailed protocols and methods for researchers across multiple disciplines, particularly those in the sciences and engineering.

Featured E-Resource: Digital maps, geospatial data, & virtual consultations

Princeton University Library’s Maps and Geospatial Information Center provides access to digital maps and geographic data from all over the world. 

Access Engineering Trial through March 8

Princeton University has a trial for Access Engineering from McGraw-Hill through March 8. Access the resource at https://www.accessengineeringlibrary.com/ 

Now available: Overleaf, an online, collaborative writing tool

All Princeton University students, faculty, and staff can now sign up for a free Overleaf Professional account through Princeton University Library.

Washington Post digital edition now available

Princeton University students, faculty, and staff can now access the digital edition of the Washington Post. 

Two historical Princeton area publications now freely available online

The Princeton Herald and the Princeton Recollector will now be available online via the Princeton University Library website.

Now available: an online database of bindings on 15th-century books in North American libraries

On "Bookbindings on Incunables, the Scott Husby Database at PUL," researchers will be able to study the original distribution of the early printed book market, later patterns of collecting incunables, the varied fortunes of libraries, and the fates of editions or individual books over time.

Timely tip: tap into PUL's access to NK News for up-to-date info on North Korea

Princeton students, faculty, and staff can subscribe to NK News, an independent database focused on North Korea with news, opinion, analysis, research tools, data, and subject specialists. 

Trial Access to Duxiu Qikan

Wall Street Journal Digital Edition now available

Wall Street Journal Digital Edition is now available to Princeton students, faculty, staff

"AddPinyin" Plugin for MarcEdit

Chinese Film and Newsreel Scripts from the Cultural Revolution Online

Art and Architecture in Video trial

Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Technology

Trial to Japanese Art Journal

New China Statistical Yearbook Database

Apabi newspaper database

Apabi Tupianku (image) database

BrowZine now available at Princeton

Build your own virtual newstand with BrowZine, a service that delivers thousands of academic journals to your mobile device.

The New ArticleExpress

What is HathiTrust?

Demo iPad at Reference Desk

Engineering Case Studies Online and Environmental Studies in Video

Borrow Direct--be careful!!

Need help with a data management plan? Try DMPTool

Highlighted Database: Smithsonian Global Sound

Discover world music through Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries.

Data Citation Index Trial

Check out a Library iPad

iPads are now available to lend to Princeton University students, faculty and staff. The tablets are available in the Engineering, Firestone, and Lewis libraries.

Resources in History at PUL

Auction catalogs at Princeton

EDD from ReCAP