Accessing Quality Content Easily
Every student and faculty has access to high quality and affordable academic content to support their success.
Accessing quality content easily and more affordably can be achieved through the following ATS projects and services. These services provide greater choice at a reduced cost while working to ensure accessibility to learning resources.
Here's a snapshot:
- Over 25,000 Full Text Electronic Library Materials and 40 Databases
- Over 20,000 MERLOT Online Instructional Materials
- 10,000 Accessible Textbooks
- Commitment to Build Digital Marketplace as Recommended by US Congressional Advisory Committee and California Bureau State Auditor
| ATS Resource | Description | Download Brochure |
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| Offers CSU Systemwide library strategy for purchasing electronic resources that are shared across all 23 campuses. |  |
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| MERLOT - Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching | Offers free access to over 20,000 online teaching and learning materials across a wide range of disciplines. | |
| WorldImages Database | Offers over 70,000 FREE copyright controlled digital images in the humanities, arts, social sciences and architecture for use in teaching and research. | |
| Center for Alternate Media (CAM) | Provides over 10,000 commercial textbooks available in alternative accessible format. | |
| Accessibility Resource Finder | Access to FREE digital library of resources concerning assistive technologies, accessibility products, accessibility evaluation methods and training materials. | |
| Offers fee-based virtual simulated labs covering major topics in biology. | |
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| XERXES | Provides a customizable technology development tool for libraries to dynamically search for library resources across a variety of collections and display the results in a user-friendly manner. | |
| Provides full text access to CSU electronic library resources. | |
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| CSU Special Collections | Provides a directory of over 600 special collections managed by our CSU libraries. | |
| Digital Marketplace (DM) | Provides one-stop-shopping for FREE and Fee-based academic content. | |
| Virtual Library (VL) | Provides every student on every CSU campus online access to a CSU systemwide library collection and suite of library services. | |