Publication Dates Covered: 1975 - present Paid for by K-State Libraries
A good place to start searching for almost any topic. It provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles.
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ProQuest Central brings together many of the most used ProQuest databases. Comprehensive, diverse, and relevant multidisciplinary research database. It provides access to databases across all 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. With our Ebook Central subscription (especially access to Academic Complete and Academic Video Online) users can now search in a comprehensive way that connects text and video.
Publication Dates Covered: 1971 - present Paid for by K-State Libraries
This is a good starting point for finding journal articles on almost any topic. Over 150 academic subject areas are covered, and most articles are full-text. Searches can be limited to scholarly, peer-reviewed journals.
Publication Dates Covered: 1800s - present Paid for by K-State Libraries
Scopus is a good starting point for finding articles on almost any topic. It contains over 47,000,000 records to scholarly publications, trade publications and conference proceedings. Scopus is an excellent database for cited reference searching. It does not contain full text articles, but users can get access to full text by using the Get It button.
Publication Dates Covered: Science 1945 - present; Social Sciences 1956 - present; Arts & Humanities 1975 - present; Emerging Sources: 2015 - present Paid for by K-State Libraries
Online version of four Citation Indexes: Science, Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, and Emerging Sources. In addition to searching by keyword, subject, author, etc. for articles in over 8,000 journals, one can do a “cited reference” search to see how frequently and where an article has been cited. Explore the new format by clicking the purple "preview" link in the upper right corner.
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Provides more than 300 narrated videos of real cadaver specimens from one of the premier doctors in anatomy. A glossary is available to help with Latin terminology. There is an exam section where you can test yourself or exams can be assigned as part of a class assessment. Links are available for use within Canvas. Users are encouraged to create a personal account to store selected videos and exams.
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Includes OSCE Clinical Skills videos. Delivers head-to-toe and systems-based physical examination techniques with careful attention to clinical accuracy and a range of patient types are profiled. There is over 8 hours of video content. Users are encouraged to create a personal account to bookmark their favorite content and for use off campus with no need for authentication. This will need to be renewed every 90 days. Links are available to embed within Canvas.
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This independent database contains over 15 000 peer-reviewed open access journals covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, arts and humanities. DOAJ allows for keyword searching of articles as well as searching of journals.
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Docuseek streams essential independent, social-issue and environmental films, providing on demand access. Films are created by renowned leaders in documentary film distribution, including Bullfrog Films, Icarus Films, First Run Features, Kartemquin Films, KimStim Films, MediaStorm, Scorpion TV, Terra Nova Films and the National Film Board of Canada. Previews of the first 10 minutes of most films are available. Instructors will need to register within Docuseek to request individual films. Already licensed material is available under My Library.
For further information on video resources for teaching, a resource guide is available. Scroll down to the section on Streaming Videos.
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Founded by the pioneering American actor and director Sam Wanamaker, Shakespeare's Globe is dedicated to the exploration of Shakespeare's work and the theatre for which he wrote. The Globe Theatre has gained an international reputation for world-class Shakespeare.
Shakespeare’s Globe on Screen 1 (2008 – 2015) contains 21 plays recorded live on the Globe stage from leading actors including Mark Rylance, Stephen Fry, and Roger Allam’s Olivier Award-winning Falstaff in Henry IV.
Shakespeare’s Globe on Screen 2 (2016 – 2018) contains 9 landmark productions from the theatre’s most recent seasons, including two productions from Emma Rice’s tenure as Artistic Director and the first production from the indoor Jacobean theatre, the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. We have access to this resource only through May 31, 2021.
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Contains 1.2 million theses and dissertations from around the world. OpenDissertations is an open-access database built to assist researchers in locating both historic and contemporary dissertations and theses. Proviides researchers with citations to graduate research across a span of time, from the early 20th century to the present, this database will continue to grow through regular updates and new partnerships with graduate degree-granting institutions.
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Allows the mining and analyzing of text and data from a selection of newspapers including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post. Visualization tools provide easy ways to manipulate the results. An account, using your K-State email address, must be created to use this database.
For more in-depth analysis, researchers with coding skills can request a workbench, from your subject librarian, that will allow for collaboration of colleagues and analyzing of data using Python or R. A workbench allows the mining and analyzing of text and data from the Libraries’ ProQuest collections (current and historical newspapers, full-text dissertations and theses, scholarly journals, primary sources, etc.) and personal datasets (open-access content such as institutional repositories, journal articles, social media, blogs, etc.).
