While visiting the library, CE students can access RISD's online databases. See a full list here.

• Digital Public Library of America
  • Online books, maps, photos, and much more from libraries, archives, and museums, freely available to all.
• Directory of Open Access Journals
  • An index and search engine that provides direct links to journals and journal articles that are open to all.
• ERIC
  • A wide variety of journal and non-journal literature in the field of education, provided by the US Dept. of Education.
• Hathi Trust
  • A collaboration of the large libraries that provided their collections to the Google Books Project, this site is a repository of those books and others produced through local digitization projects. Material that is out of copyright (generally, that published before 1923) is open to all.
• Internet Archive
  • Digitized books, journals, audio, video, and more, all free. In addition to contemporary texts, includes a wealth of digitized historical material.
• Project Gutenberg
  • Over 49,000 free books available in a variety of downloadable formats.

Please check our Open Educational Resources page for more!