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Access Video on Demand (AVOD) offers library patrons a collection of thousands of high-quality videos that serves the entire community. It includes award-winning documentaries, how-to programs, top-quality performances spanning the arts, biographies of history-makers past and present, a variety of TV shows and movies, and more. The video content available on this platform is rated PG13 and below.
Accessibility features for Access Video on Demand (AVOD) include closed captioning and interactive transcripts, adjustable text size, font, spacing, colour contrast, keyboard shortcuts, zooming, screen reader support, and more. For more information, please click here.
Available at all libraries and from home.
The Just for Kids Collection gives children and their parents a children-friendly media platform they can freely explore and enjoy. Just for Kids has the educational videos plus songs, games, and other interactives that are sure to entertain, educate, and inspire young patrons. The video content available on this platform is rated PG13 and below.
Accessibility features for Access Video on Demand (AVOD) – Just for Kids include alternative text for non-text content, closed captioning and interactive transcripts, adjustable text size, font, spacing, colour contrast, keyboard shortcuts, zooming, and screen reader support. For more information, please click here.
Available at all libraries and from home.
Gale's eBook platform provides top titles from the best nonfiction publishers and complements other eBook platforms. NLB’s Gale eBooks collection feature Malay language titles, and Singapore and South East Asia related topics and titles. Noteworthy eBook collections also include The Papers Of Lee Kuan Yew (19 volumes), National Day Rally Speeches and more.
Accessibility features for Gale include keyboard navigation, skip navigation links, descriptive page titles, adjustable text size and font, text-to-speech, optimised screen width and optimal contrast ratios, and option to display on-screen or download Optical Character Recognition (OCR) plain text of historical archive documents. For more information on Accessibility, click here.
Available at all libraries and from home.
HistorySG is an online resource guide to events that have unfolded in Singapore's history since 1299 to the present. Each event is briefly introduced in a short write-up accompanied by links to related content from the collections of the National Library Board (NLB) as well as that of other agencies and institutions.
This edatabase has been replaced with National Library Online with effect from 4 Oct 2023. Available at all libraries and from home.
JSTOR provides online access to archived contents of important scholarly journals, mainly in the humanities and social sciences. Researchers are able to retrieve high-resolution, scanned images of back issues of journals and pages as they were originally printed. Existing titles are updated and new titles are added on an ongoing basis.
Accessibility features for JSTOR include adjustable text size, font and spacing, colour contrast, keyboard navigation and shortcuts, zooming, screen reader support, navigation heading labels, alternative text for images and link destination labels. For more information on Accessibility, click here.
Limited to 15 concurrent access from home. Available at all libraries and from home.
Kanopy General Collection offers a wide range of full-length movies, documentaries, foreign films, classic cinema, independent films and educational videos. The video content available on this platform is rated PG13 and below.
Available at all libraries and from home.
For first time users:
Step 1) Key in myLibrary username under “LIBRARY CARD NUMBER” and myLibrary password under “LIBRARY CARD PIN/PASSWORD”.
Step 2) Create your Kanopy account using email and password, or sign up with your Google/Apple account.
Step 3) If you are a mobile user, please download the Kanopy app. Refer to the Step-by-Step guide for mobile access here.
For subsequent logins, you may use your Kanopy/Google/Apple account to directly access Kanopy General Collection.
Refer to the Step-by-Step guide for desktop access here.
You will be leaving the National Library Board’s site if you choose to access the content under Kanopy. Please be informed that Kanopy’s site requires you to create an account with them by providing an email address (Note: This need not be the same email address you have provided to NLB for purposes of your NLB membership). You will also need to create a password.
Accessibility features for Kanopy General Collection includes screen readers, keyboard navigation, voice control, and other assistive technologies. For more information on Accessibility, click here.
Please note that Kanopy requires the person setting up the account to be at least 18 years of age. Parents or legal guardians of those below the age of 18 years are to set up the Kanopy account that their child/ward will use to access the Kanopy platform. A parental control pin can be enabled. For more information, refer to the FAQ here.
You have to make your own decision whether you wish to create such an account with Kanopy under their Terms of Service. The National Library Board may receive feedback from you on this eResource but is not legally responsible for any disputes you may have with Kanopy.
Kanopy Kids is Kanopy's curated collection of streaming video content for children. The video content available on this platform is rated PG13 and below.
Available at all libraries and from home.
For first time users:
Step 1) Key in myLibrary username under “LIBRARY CARD NUMBER” and myLibrary password under “LIBRARY CARD PIN/PASSWORD”.
Step 2) Create your Kanopy account using email and password, or sign up with your Google/Apple account.
Step 3) If you are a mobile user, please download the Kanopy app. Refer to the Step-by-Step guide for mobile access here.
For first time login, you may toggle to Kanopy Kids from Kanopy General Collection platform.
For subsequent logins, you may use your Kanopy/Google/Apple account to directly access Kanopy Kids.
Refer to the Step-by-Step guide for desktop access here.
You will be leaving the National Library Board’s site if you choose to access the content under Kanopy. Please be informed that Kanopy’s site requires you to create an account with them by providing an email address (Note: This need not be the same email address you have provided to NLB for purposes of your NLB membership). You will also need to create a password.
Accessibility features for Kanopy Kids includes screen readers, keyboard navigation, voice control, and other assistive technologies. For more information on Accessibility, click here.
Please note that Kanopy requires the person setting up the account to be at least 18 years of age. Parents or legal guardians of those below the age of 18 years are to set up the Kanopy account that their child/ward will use to access the Kanopy platform. A parental control pin can be enabled. For more information, refer to the FAQ here.
You have to make your own decision whether you wish to create such an account with Kanopy under their Terms of Service. The National Library Board may receive feedback from you on this eResource but is not legally responsible for any disputes you may have with Kanopy.
LawNet, a service provided by the Singapore Academy of Law, caters to the research and legal information needs of the global legal community. Since its inception in 1988 as a dial up network access provider, LawNet has grown in leaps and bounds, adding information, applications and databases to suit the evolving needs of legal practitioners, corporate counsel, paralegals, law academics and law students. Legal Research, a module within LawNet, is an integrated environment that allows you to search different types of legal content and multiple sources at a single go.
Limited to 1 user access only. Available at Lee Kong Chian Reference Library only.
The Lightbox Learning Digital Platform offers an interactive learning experience across diverse subjects from Animals to Social Studies. It features curated weblinks, videos, activities, slideshows, and quizzes, enabling in-depth exploration of topics.
Accessibility features for Lightbox Learning Digital Platform include providing detailed help and instructions, text resizing, enhanced text contrast, and offering a range of visual presentation options. For more information on Accessibility, click here.
Available at all libraries and from home.
LinkedIn Learning is a leading online learning platform that helps users learn business, software, technology, creative design and other skills to achieve personal and professional goals. It has a content library of more than 21,000 courses taught by over 2,900 industry experts with real-world experience. Every instructor is vetted based on criteria such as their deep, practical knowledge, credibility and credentials.
Accessibility features for LinkedIn Learning include pre-recorded captions and text resizing. For more information, click here.
Available at all libraries and from home.
Kindly note that, you are now leaving the National Library Board (NLB) web resources and entering the LinkedIn Learning services. The NLB accepts no liability whatsoever for LinkedIn’s services; data collection features; and their online courses that you will be accessing next. You are encouraged to read the LinkedIn’s terms and conditions of use.
PressReader provides access to thousands of the world’s leading newspapers and magazines from more than 100 countries in 60 languages. Publications are presented as full digital replicas and offer advanced digital features such as keyword searching, translation, audio functionality and much more.
Accessibility features for PressReader include keyboard navigation, skip links, screen reader support, PressReader accessibility mode using speech recognition software, zooming, navigation menu labels and article mode reading. For more information on Accessibility, click here.
Available at all libraries and from home. Access to selected titles (e.g. The Edge, and SPH Media’s titles such as The Straits Times) via PressReader is available in libraries only.
PressReader provides access to thousands of the world’s leading newspapers and magazines from more than 100 countries in 60 languages. Publications are presented as full digital replicas and offer advanced digital features such as keyword searching, translation, audio functionality and much more.
Accessibility features for PressReader include keyboard navigation, skip links, screen reader support, PressReader accessibility mode using speech recognition software, zooming, navigation menu labels and article mode reading. For more information on Accessibility, click here.
Available at all libraries.
This database contains the leading agricultural journals published in North America. ProQuest Agriculture Journals offers the complete text as well as complete images from such journals as Agricultural Research, Forest Products Journal, Journal of Animal Science, Journal of Soil and Water Conservation and Plant Physiology.
Accessibility features include ReadSpeaker text-to-speech functionality, various forms of simultaneous text highlighting, including the ability to display the current sentence in a larger font. ProQuest platform interface is available in 18 languages with real-time translation of articles offered in 13 languages. For more information, click here.
Available at all libraries and from home.
This interdisciplinary database provides full-text articles from scholarly peer-reviewed journals and selected trade and consumer publications in arts, humanities, cultural studies, philosophy, modern languages and literatures, religion, history, geography, music, theatre, film and more.
Accessibility features include ReadSpeaker text-to-speech functionality, various forms of simultaneous text highlighting, including the ability to display the current sentence in a larger font. ProQuest platform interface is available in 18 languages with real-time translation of articles offered in 13 languages. For more information, click here.
Available at all libraries and from home.
The Australia & New Zealand database is a multidisciplinary database of on-going full-text academic and scholarly journals covering subjects such as business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, arts and humanities.
Accessibility features include ReadSpeaker text-to-speech functionality, various forms of simultaneous text highlighting, including the ability to display the current sentence in a larger font. ProQuest platform interface is available in 18 languages with real-time translation of articles offered in 13 languages. For more information, click here.
Available at all libraries and from home.
This interdisciplinary database offers abstracts and citations to a wide range of research in biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology and ecology and some aspects of agriculture and veterinary science. Supporting over two dozen areas of expertise, this database provides access to literature from over 6000 serials, as well as conference proceedings, technical reports, monographs and selected books and patents.
Accessibility features include ReadSpeaker text-to-speech functionality, various forms of simultaneous text highlighting, including the ability to display the current sentence in a larger font. ProQuest platform interface is available in 18 languages with real-time translation of articles offered in 13 languages. For more information, click here.
Available at all libraries and from home.
This database is a longstanding, comprehensive Canadian periodical collection covering multiple subjects and topics, with millions of full-text records. Accessible to readers and researchers at every level, the Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database features a diversified mix of publications, including scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, reports, radio and television transcripts, news, dissertations, and more.
Accessibility features include ReadSpeaker text-to-speech functionality, various forms of simultaneous text highlighting, including the ability to display the current sentence in a larger font. ProQuest platform interface is available in 18 languages with real-time translation of articles offered in 13 languages. For more information, click here.
Available at all libraries and from home.
ProQuest Career & Technical Education is the definitive source for vocational information. The database includes nearly 600 titles, with more than 500 available in full text for quick access to research on virtually any technical topic.
Accessibility features include ReadSpeaker text-to-speech functionality, various forms of simultaneous text highlighting, including the ability to display the current sentence in a larger font. ProQuest platform interface is available in 18 languages with real-time translation of articles offered in 13 languages. For more information, click here.
Available at all libraries and from home.
ProQuest Central consists of varied subject databases to create a comprehensive, diverse, and relevant multidisciplinary research database. It provides access to content across major subject areas, including business, health and medical, social sciences, arts and humanities, education, science and technology, and religion. The collection includes thousands of full-text scholarly journals, trade and professional titles, newspapers, magazines, dissertations, working papers, case studies, and market reports which are accessible via the ProQuest Central Platform.
Accessibility features include ReadSpeaker text-to-speech functionality, various forms of simultaneous text highlighting, including the ability to display the current sentence in a larger font. ProQuest platform interface is available in 18 languages with real-time translation of articles offered in 13 languages. For more information, click here.
Available at all libraries and from home.
This database includes journals and magazines covering an enormous range of health subjects, from sports injuries to women's health, from food and nutrition to midwifery, from eye care to dentistry.
Accessibility features include ReadSpeaker text-to-speech functionality, various forms of simultaneous text highlighting, including the ability to display the current sentence in a larger font. ProQuest platform interface is available in 18 languages with real-time translation of articles offered in 13 languages. For more information, click here.
Available at all libraries and from home.