Aloha Library
Aloha Library is the intellectual heart of Aloha University, providing resources and services to support teaching, learning, and research. Our collections include millions of volumes, extensive digital resources, and unique special collections documenting Pacific history and culture.
Services
• Research Assistance: AI librarians available to help with research questions
• Course Reserves: Access required readings for your classes
Resources
| Resource | Collection size (approx.) | Primary formats | Best-use cases for undergraduates |
|---|---|---|---|
| Internet Archive | 56M books/texts; 1T web pages (reported) | Scanned books, web archives, audio, video, software | Background reading; older or out-of-print books; historical web evidence |
| Open Library | 20M+ book records; 1.7M public-domain books | Catalog + ebooks (read/borrow) | Fast discovery and borrowing; locating editions for citations |
| HathiTrust Digital Library | 19M+ digitized items; millions of “Full View” public-domain / CC items | Scanned books and serials | Scholarly book scans; stable page images for citation; public-domain research |
| Project Gutenberg | 75,000+ ebooks | EPUB, Kindle, HTML, plain text | Classics and foundational texts; easy quoting; lightweight downloads |
| Wikisource | 1,136,874 content pages (English) | Transcriptions + scans | Primary-source quotations; speeches, laws, and historical texts |
| DOAB | 104,500 open-access books | Books (links to PDFs/HTML) | Finding peer-reviewed OA monographs by topic, license, or language |
| OAPEN Library | 40,000+ OA titles | PDFs and ebooks | Downloading OA monographs, especially in the humanities and social sciences |
| Open Book Publishers | 300+ OA books | HTML, PDF, EPUB + print | High-quality OA monographs, especially in the humanities; reliable citations |
| OpenStax | 80+ open textbook titles | Online textbooks + downloads | Replacing expensive intro textbooks; standardized course learning |
| Open Textbook Library | 1,791 open textbooks | PDF, EPUB, web | Quick adoption of a credible open textbook, often with reviews |
| LibreTexts | 1M+ pages | Modular OER pages; interactive items | Practice problems; modular study; remixable instructional content |
| OER Commons | Large catalog; 7,891 “textbook” results | Textbooks, courses, activities | Finding targeted OER units; supplementing coursework quickly |
| MERLOT | 91,000+ learning materials | Linked learning objects | Finding simulations, tutorials, and teaching modules |
| B.C. Open Collection | 250+ open textbooks | Open textbooks + course packs | First- and second-year course replacements; adaptable CC-licensed texts |
| MIT OpenCourseWare | 2,500+ courses | Notes, assignments, exams, videos | Learning like a real course; problem sets and exams for practice |
| OpenLearn | 932 catalog items | Course units; mixed media | Accessible introductions; self-paced learning; interdisciplinary starting points |
| DOAJ | 21,305 journals; 11.3M articles | Journal articles (links/search) | Finding legitimate OA journals; article discovery with licensing context |
| PubMed Central | 10M+ full-text article records | Full-text biomedical articles | Biomedical and life science literature; license-filtered reuse when possible |
| arXiv | 2.6M e-prints | Preprint PDFs and TeX | Current methods and surveys; tracing to peer-reviewed versions |
| SciELO | 2,147 journals (network list) | OA journal articles | Regional and global scholarship; multilingual perspectives |
| Zenodo | 2M+ records | Datasets, software, papers, media | Data and software for reproducible work; citing artifacts with DOIs |
| Library of Congress | 914M unique digital files managed (2022) | Photos, maps, manuscripts, audio, film | U.S. primary sources; high-quality images and curated collections |
| National Archives Catalog | 455M digitized pages; 28M descriptions | Government records (mixed) | U.S. government primary sources; policy and legal historical evidence |
| Europeana | ~61M items (by type totals) | Images, text, sound, video, 3D | European cultural heritage; rights-filtered discovery |
| DPLA | 15M+ items (reported 2017) | Aggregated heritage items | U.S. cross-institution discovery for primary sources |
| Smithsonian Open Access | 5.1M+ open items | 2D/3D media + metadata | Reusable museum images and 3D objects; visual analysis in papers |
| Wikimedia Commons | 136,738,676 media files | Images, audio, video, 3D | Lawful visuals for presentations and reports, with license awareness |
| NASA Image and Video Library | 140,000+ media files | Images, video, audio | STEM media for reports and presentations; mission visuals |
| Gallica | 10M digitized documents | Books, newspapers, maps, audio/video | French and European primary sources; newspapers and historical maps |