LibGuides: Game Studies: Core Resources

Resources for Books/eBooks

KOHA Library Catalog
Start here to find Books and Media available through the Library. You must have a library account in order to check out materials, place holds, or renew materials.
O'Reilly Online Learning
O'Reilly Online Learning is a resource for hundreds of e-books and videos. This is a primary source for Full Sail University textbooks.

eBook Collection This link opens in a new window
Search, view, and download full-text eBooks. Includes fiction and non-fiction.
How To Download eBooks:

- Create an Adobe account on the Adobe website by clicking here to create an account.
- Download Adobe Digital Editions by clicking here.
- Create a EBSCOhost account (login into EBSCOhost through your library and create and account by clicking the top right hand corner, Sign In).
- iPad Users ONLY: Download the free BlueFire app by clicking here from the app store.

Note to students and faculty who are Off-Campus: If you are experiencing any issue accessing the library resources below, please use the following site: https://oclc.fullsail.edu

Journal Articles

Academic Search Complete
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Academic Search Complete is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,400 journals.
Communication and Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window
Communication & Mass Media Complete provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media. CMMC incorporates the content of CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study to create a research and reference resource of unprecedented scope and depth encompassing the breadth of the communication discipline. CMMC offers cover-to-cover (“core”) indexing and abstracts for more than 570 journals, and selected (“priority”) coverage of nearly 200 more, for a combined coverage of more than 770 titles. Furthermore, this database includes full text for over 450 journals.
Education Research Complete This link opens in a new window
Education Research Complete is the definitive online resource for education research, from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing.
ERIC (Ebsco) This link opens in a new window
ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center, contains more than 1.3 million records and links to more than 323,000 full-text documents dating back to 1966. Database provided by the U.S. Department of Education.
See also https://eric.ed.gov.
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection This link opens in a new window
The Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection is a comprehensive database covering information on emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry, psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.
WilsonWeb Science Full Text Select This link opens in a new window
WilsonWeb Science Full Text Select includes full-text content from Wilson’s Applied Science & Technology Full Text, Biological & Agricultural Index Plus, and General Science Full Text, plus titles from Readers’ Guide Full Text and Wilson OmniFile Full Text.