15 Online Resources We Added to Our Collections in 2025
Posted December 5, 2025 in General Collections News, JMU Libraries News
In 2025, JMU Libraries acquired 15 major online resources to our collections to enhance your research, teaching, and learning. These additions span a wide range of subjects and offer financial data, videos, e-books, primary source documents, and much more.
Explore the newest online resources available to the JMU community:
- The Atlantic – Magazine articles on politics, foreign affairs, business, culture, technology, and science—plus fiction, poetry, and essays. This online edition covers issues from 1857 to the present. View other ways to access The Atlantic online and in print, including via Flipster, which provides a digital “flipping book” version of the print edition.
- Bloomsbury Open – E-books on African studies, international development, environment, climate change, gender, and sexuality. Provided through our participation in Bloomsbury’s collective-action approach to funding open-access books.
- CalcBench – Financial data platform with SEC filings, earnings releases, and other corporate documents.
- Drama Online: Physical Actor Training A-Z – Videos and resources for physical actors, covering movement work, vocal exploration, dance-theatre, and physical training.
- Drama Online: Theatre Making and Performance Training Video Collection – Videos on auditioning, vocal training, and stage combat. Includes masterclasses, documentaries, and actor interviews, as well as resources on the design elements of theatre.
- Intersections: Identity and Place – E-books exploring academic issues through lived experiences, focusing on intersectionality. From Lived Places Publishing.
- JoVE Core: Physics – Videos covering classical mechanics, thermodynamics, electromagnetism, optics, and more.
- MLA Handbook Plus – The authoritative academic style guide from the Modern Language Association (MLA).
- MRI-Simmons Catalyst – Consumer intelligence from the National Consumer Study, including data on buying habits, media preferences, and more.
- Multimedia Fluid Mechanics Online – Videos, animations, simulations, and virtual labs on fluid mechanics concepts. From Cambridge University Press.
- Oxford Scholarship Online: Commit to Open – E-books on humanities, law, and social sciences topics. Provided through our participation in Oxford’s Commit to Open pilot.
- Palestine: The British Mandate, 1917-1948 – Primary sources on the history of Mandatory Palestine. From Brill Publishers.
- Palestine: The Legal Background – Source materials on the legal position of the Israeli-Occupied Territories until 1984. From Brill Publishers.
- Sage Business Data Decisions – Scenario-based exercises (called “Data Challenges”) offering students practical experience in applying business fundamentals and data analysis methods to real-world situations. Covers entrepreneurship, international business, marketing, operations management, and strategic management.
Find many of these and more in our Databases list.
We also expand our physical and online collections with new journal subscriptions, books, videos, and other resources every year.
Want to know more about the newest resources in a particular field? Connect with the liaison librarian for your department.
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