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This is a collection of standard methods of analysis of grains. It explains principles behind a method and how to perform a method better or more quickly. It includes built-in calculators, videos, spreadsheets, co-lab reports, and other aids.
Full text content for a group of American Association of Petroleum Geologists journals, as well as related petroleum geology journals including the AAPG Bulletin and the Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology, etc.
Covers thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, key business and economics periodicals such as The Economist and Sloan Management Review, country-and industry-focused reports, and major news sources like the Wall Street Journal. Its international coverage gives researchers a complete picture of companies and business trends around the world.
Publication Dates Covered: 1966 - present Paid for by K-State Libraries
Contains over 120,000 records related to social gerontology, including the biology of aging, the politics of aging, the medicalization of aging, the elderly and their families, aging and the workplace, and aging and the economy. An essential resource for anyone interested in gerontology research.
Publication Dates Covered: 1980 - present Paid for by K-State Libraries
This is a good starting place for almost any topic. Provides millions of articles from over 17,000 scholarly journals and other authoritative sources. Searches can be limited to articles from peer-reviewed (refereed) publications.
Publication Dates Covered: 1980 - present Paid for by K-State Libraries
This is a good starting place for almost any topic. Full-text is included for many of the articles indexed. Searches can be limited to articles from peer-reviewed (refereed) publications. The Subject Guide Search is helpful for browsing subdivisions of a topic.
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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Delivers more than 66,000 video titles spanning the widest range of subject including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music and more. More than 14,000 titles are exclusive to this database. It includes every kind of video material available with curricular relevance: documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, field recordings, raw footage and thousands of award-winning films. Further information on films and usage is available.
From McGraw-Hill Medical. Offers a new approach to anesthesiology reference, research, and curricular instruction – all in one place. Updated regularly, this comprehensive online anesthesiology resource covers the entire spectrum of anesthesiology from the basics to specialty-specific content -– optimized for viewing on any device. AccessAnesthesiology provides unique benefits that deliver indispensable support in resident education and certification/recertification in pain management, critical care, and perioperative medicine.
Provides students with online medical resources that contain interactive content, self-assessment, and leading medical texts to enhance decision-making at the point-of-care and ensure best patient outcomes. It includes a complete full-text library of clinical textbooks.
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Provides the most current editions of full-text books from the McGraw-Hill Medical collection. Contains video tutorials of the human anatomy, patient interviews, and much more. Drug information and patient material are also available. Create a free MyAccess account to ensure ease of off-campus use and access study aids including quizzes and flashcards.
From McGraw-Hill Medical offers an approach to obstetrics and gynecology reference and research – all in one place. Updated regularly, this comprehensive online ObGyn resource covers the entire spectrum of obstetrics and gynecology–for viewing on any device. Allows users to strengthen their skills with instant access to sonography videos and cases, a growing list of Williams animations, and an expanding library of landmark obstetrics and gynecology references from McGraw-Hill Medical that will establish a solid base for learning.
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Provides students with interactive content, self-assessment, and leading medical texts to excel in studies and crucial test prep. It enhances decision-making at the point-of-care and ensures best patient outcomes. It includes a complete full-text library of clinical textbooks.
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Provides students with a variety of resources needed to excel in surgery by gaining instant access to videos, self-assessment, and leading surgical textbooks that will establish an important foundation for learning. It includes the leading surgical textbooks, instructional videos, 16,000+ high quality full-color images, more than 3,000 ABSITE-style review Q&A designed to prepare for exams, and an integrated drug database.
Bridges the gap between the academic and professional worlds and covers all relevant disciplines including accounting, auditing, taxation, financial management, risk, and insurance information including policies, standards, taxation, and corporate financial management. Contains over 500 titles that are not included in ProQuest’s ABI/INFORM Collection.
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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.
Fully searchable collection of high-quality books in the humanities, sponsored by the American Council of Learned Societies. Titles consist of new books in electronic-only format and time-tested works originally published in paper but converted to electronic format.
The full-text collection of all ACM publications including journals, conference proceedings, technical magazines, newsletters, and books. A collection of curated and hosted full-text publications from select publishers is also available as well as the ACM Guide to Computing Literature, a comprehensive bibliographic database focused exclusively on the field of computing.
Covers African American experiences before the Civil War through the Civil Rights Movement, and up to the end of the 20th century. Includes more than 270 newspapers (published by or for African Americans) from 35 states, including many rare and historically significant 19th century titles, and provides access to both full-text and images.
A public, government, scientific research data catalog and repository available to help the agricultural research community share and discover research data funded by the United States Department of Agriculture and meet Federal open access requirements.
AgEcon Search: Research in Agricultural and Applied Economics contains full text copies of scholarly research in the broadly defined field of agricultural and applied economics including agribusiness, food security and supply, energy and natural resource economics, environmental economics, policy issues, international trade, and economic development. Content includes conference presentations, working papers, journal articles, government documents, and theses and dissertations.
Publication Dates Covered: 1978 - present; selected 1966-1977 Simultaneous users: 1 Paid for by K-State Libraries
Ageline exclusively focuses upon the population aged 50 and over, containing indexes, abstracts, books, journals, research reports, and consumer guides on the following topics: theories of aging, Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, marketing to older adults, elder care, Alzheimer’s disease, health care costs and policy, financial and retirement planning, fitness, nutrition, and more.
Publication Dates Covered: 1970 - present Paid for by the State Library of Kansas
Contains citations from the National Agricultural Library. Around 2,500 journals are indexed as well as USDA publications, state agricultural experiment station and extension services documents, conference proceedings, books, theses, and audio-visual materials. All aspects of agriculture are covered.
AGRIS provides an international view of agriculture, especially information on agriculture in developing countries. The database includes information on animal husbandry, forestry, range management and human nutrition, and extension literature from over 100 countries. It also includes unpublished scientific and technical reports, theses, conference papers, and government publications. AGRIS is also accessible through Google Scholar.
Biographies, discographies, and album reviews for jazz and popular music.
Showcases unique, independent voices from many respected and cited grassroots newspapers, magazines, and journals. The database features around a million articles from over 270 publications, offering a wide range of unfettered, critical coverage of the news.
Publication Dates Covered: 1964 - present Simultaneous users: 6 Paid for by K-State Libraries
Indexes and abstracts for approximately 1,800 journals in the field of United States and Canadian history. Full-text coverage for more than 280 journals and more than 80 books. Contains citations and links to book and media reviews. Can search by time period.
Publication Dates Covered: 1639-1819 Paid for by K-State Libraries
Browse the full text of books, pamphlets, broadsides, and other scarce printed material in the United States between 1639 and 1819. The collection is made up of two separate series; Series I: Evans, 1639-1800; and Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819.
Publication Dates Covered: 1684-1912 Paid for by K-State Libraries
Documenting the life of America's people from the Colonial Era through the Civil War and Reconstruction, this resource provides digital access to the most comprehensive collection of American periodicals published between 1684 and 1912. Divided into five series, each one can be searched individually or combined into one search. Series 1 (1684-1820); Series 2 (1821-1837); Series 3 (1838-1852); Series 4 (1853-1865); Series 5 (1866-1912).
Provides firsthand accounts from politicians, generals, soldiers, prisoners, slaves, and other historical figures both famous and unknown, giving the Northern, Southern, and foreign perspectives. Includes over 100,000 pages of source material and 4,000 pages of facsimiles of previously unpublished manuscripts.
Includes newsreels, government and commercial films, and significant documentaries on various topics in American History. Contains 2,000 total hours of streaming video content. More than half is contemporaneous video from the 1890s to the 1980s.
American Journeys contains more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in AD 1000 to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies 800 years later.
This collection includes full-text PDFs of current and back issues of publications by scientists and their colleagues from the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in the areas of zoological systematics, paleontology, geology, evolution, and anthropology.
Contains periodicals published between 1740 and 1940, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines and many other historically-significant periodicals. Includes graphic elements and article layouts.
This open access collection provides full text access to hundreds of digitized newspapers published by incarcerated people within American prisons and penal institutions over the past 200 years. A special emphasis is paid to women-only institutions.
Over 20,000 datasheets and 400,000 abstracts on animal health and production.
Annual Reviews critically reviews the most significant primary research literature to guide researchers to the principal contributions of their field and help them keep up to date in their area of research. Each article is its own search engine, providing a gateway to the essential primary research literature referenced within each topic.
Publication Dates Covered: Late 19th century - present Paid for by K-State Libraries
Indexes journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies. The database offers coverage of all core periodicals in the field in addition to local and lesser-known journals.
Provides indexing and full-text access to peer-reviewed journals, newsletters, and bulletins from the American Anthropological Association (AAA).
Publication Dates Covered: 1983 - present Paid for by K-State Libraries
Includes more than 400 core English-language scientific and technical publications pertaining to physical science, engineering, and sustainable design. Provides citations and abstracts.
Archives Unbound presents topically-focused digital collections of historical documents. Particular strengths include U.S. foreign policy; U.S. civil rights; global affairs and colonial studies; and modern history.
Includes documentaries, interviews, and critical analysis on art and architecture from the Renaissance, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Modern, and Contemporary time periods, placing emphasis on art history, theory, architecture, and graphic design. A key feature is the Michael Blackwood Film Collection, a series of internationally acclaimed documentaries covering innovations in art and architecture.
Publication Dates Covered: Indexing 1982 - present; abstracts 1994 - present; select full text 1997 - present Paid for by the State Library of Kansas
Addresses “art” in the broadest sense including topics relevant to archaeology, architecture, art history, ceramics, fashion design, graphic arts, interior design, landscape architecture, metalsmithing, photography, sculpture, textiles and more. Includes content from international arts journals, periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins.
To search this index, select the "Editions" pull-down menu above the search boxes. Be sure only Arts & Humanities Citation Index is selected. In addition to searching by keyword, subject, author, etc. for articles in over 1,800 journals, a “cited reference” search can be conducted to see how frequently and where an article has been cited.
Provides open access to over 900,000 e-prints in physics, mathematics, computer science, nonlinear sciences, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, and statistics. Content is submitted by authors/scientists. Formerly known as the Los Alamos arXIv pre-print/e-print service.
Includes over 1,500 information resources from the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, such as technical papers from meetings and conferences, peer-reviewed journal articles, textbooks, reference books, and standards.
This resource provides unprecedented access to more than 33,000 full-text papers from the American Society of Civil Engineers’ journals and conference proceedings. All proceedings articles require using Interlibrary Services to obtain the full-text document.
ASTM Compass provides comprehensive electronic access to all ASTM standards, journals, symposia papers and selected technical papers, data series, and manuals. Access to standards published to organizations outside of ASTM is limited. Covers aerospace, biomedical, chemical, civil, environmental, geological, health and safety, industrial, materials, mechanical, nuclear, petroleum, soil science, and solar engineering.
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Published by the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library at Columbia University, this database offers a comprehensive listing of journal articles on architecture and design, including subjects such as the history and practice of architecture, landscape architecture, city planning, historic preservation, and interior design and decoration. Article descriptions cover American and international journals from scholarly and popular periodical literature, publications of professional associations, American state and regional periodicals, and the major serials on architecture and design of Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Australia.
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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.
Streaming video collection of 37 of William Shakespeare’s best known works. Plays can be watched either in their entirety or by act. Public Performance Rights are included for each play.
Publication Dates Covered: 1985-1995 Free Resource
This free online version of the BdSL (frequently referred to as Eppelsheimer-Köttelwesch) allows the user to search bibliographies and index of publications on German language and literacy studies from 1985-1995. Print versions from 1957 to 2003 are located in the Hale Stacks at Z2231 E65.
Publication Dates Covered: 1975-2007 Free Resource
Provides citations and abstracts from 1975-2007 for articles, art-related books, conference proceedings, dissertations, and exhibition catalogs, focusing on European and American art from late antiquity to the present. This multilingual database encompasses writings on the visual arts including traditional fine arts (ceramics, drawing, painting, prints, sculpture, etc.), architecture and industrial design, and decorative and applied arts (crafts, folk art, graphic arts, etc.). For material published after 2007 see the International Bibliography of Art (IBA) database.
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BioOne is a global collaboration bringing together scientific societies, publishers, and libraries to provide access to critical, peer-reviewed research in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences.
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Provides scientific information for 10,721 species of birds around the world. Includes an extensive bibliography, images, and video galleries showing behaviors, habitat, nests, eggs and nestlings, and recordings of bird’s songs and calls. Contains an illustrated index of every bird species within all 249 bird families with global distribution maps.
Publication Dates Covered: 1850 - present Paid for by K-State Libraries
Contains more than 1,462 plays from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 233 black playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. Also includes theatre and production information for selected plays and authors.
Features select primary source documents related to critical people and events in African American history. The intention is to support a wide range of students as well as independent researchers and anyone interested in learning more about the foundation of ongoing racial injustice in the U.S. – and the fights against it. This includes contemporary primary sources.
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The Bloom's library of literary criticism presents expert analysis, by world-renowned scholar Harold Bloom, of the writers and works most often studied in high schools and universities. Professor Bloom's hundreds of critical volumes illuminate the major achievements of the Western literary tradition. Includes Bloom's eBooks.
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BRENDA is the main collection of enzyme functional data available. Data on enzyme function are extracted directly from the primary literature. The data collection is being developed into a metabolic network information system with links to Enzyme expression and regulation information.
Paid for by the State Library of Kansas
Britannica Academic is a comprehensive, authoritative reference tool, containing e-books, primary sources, full-text journal and magazine articles, World Atlas and World Data Analyst, Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, quotations, and full-text classics.
Publication Dates Covered: 1732-1950 Paid for by K-State Libraries
A collection of over 150 national and local newspapers from the United Kingdom and Ireland. The collection is full-text and searchable, including images that appeared in the newspapers. Over three million pages have been digitized and include stories on international, national, and local events, as well as information about trends, fashions, social movements, and science.
BrowZine provides awareness, discovery, and access to titles otherwise hidden in databases or behind A-Z lists. With My Bookshelf, users may easily follow titles of interest and be notified anytime a new article is published.
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The Building Technology Heritage Library (BTHL) is primarily a collection of American and Canadian, pre-1964 architectural trade catalogs, house plan books, and technical building guides. Trade catalogs are an important primary source to document past design and construction practices. These materials can aid in the preservation and conservation of older structures as well as other research goals.
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Provides comprehensive content on sustainable design practices and green building materials. Shares expertise and lessons learned from design experts working in the field. Builds context for sustainable design strategies and what makes a building product or material green.
Publication Dates Covered: 1980 - present Paid for by K-State Libraries
Citations, abstracts and some full-text articles from business and management periodicals. Includes directory listings as well as investment analysts’ reports.
Publication Dates Covered: 1965 - present Paid for by K-State Libraries
Business Source Premier is a basic resource for researching business topics providing full text for more than 2,100 journals, as well as market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses. All disciplines of business are covered, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, banking, and finance. There are instructions available for finding company and industry profiles.
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Find company histories, brand information and investment reports, and industry news. Formerly known as Business and Company Resource Center, the user can search for articles, case studies and market reports by company name, Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) code, or industry. Some full text available.
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Publication Dates Covered:1973 - present Paid for by K-State Libraries
Over 9.7 million citations and abstracts are searchable in the applied life sciences, including agriculture, environment, veterinary sciences, applied economics, food science, health and nutrition, recreation, leisure, and tourism. It comes with CABI Full Text for access to over 495,000 articles, conference papers, and reports in English and foreign languages.
Publication Dates Covered:1920 - present Paid for by K-State Libraries
The most thorough and extensive source in the applied life sciences, incorporating the leading bibliographic databases CAB Abstracts and Global Health. Other databases available are VetMed Resource, CABI Full Text, Distribution Maps Plant Diseases, CAB ebooks Archive (2008-2010), and Animal Health and Production Compendium (AHPC). Each database is available through the above CAB Direct link or an individual link found under the corresponding first letter. Over 13 million records are available in CAB Direct.
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Includes crystal structure information for organic molecules and metal-organic compounds whose structure is known from X-ray diffraction or neutron diffraction. Records for the molecules or compounds include information on publications in the literature as well as chemical and crystallographic information.
PLEASE NOTE: You will be required to log in with your eID and password to gain access on campus.
Publication Dates Covered: 1970s - present Paid for by K-State Libraries
Provides users with unmatched access to current Canadian news content with archives as far back as the 1970s, from over 360 news sources. Newspapers including The Globe and Mail and Toronto Star along with newswires and broadcast transcripts in full-text format. Canadian Newsstream content is updated daily so researchers always have timely access to new information.
Funding provided by program start-up funds.
The Case Files Collection is a part of AccessMedicine. Case files are presented in an interactive format covering basic science to clinical medicine in realistic patient cases. Answers can be saved by creating a personal MyAccess account (allows for easy off-campus access also). If answers do not need to be saved, no account is needed. Close out out of the pop-up window by pressing the x.
Publication Dates Covered: 1976 - present Free Resource
This is the official source of bibliographic information for U.S. Government publications. Users can search multiple government databases at once, sorting results by agency, subject, title, or keyword.
The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) supports original research and inspired teaching by preserving and making available a wealth of rare and uncommon primary source materials from all world regions. CRL works with specialists and experts at major research universities to identify and preserve unique and uncommon documentation and evidence.
Simultaneous users: 35 Paid for by K-State Libraries
Provides comprehensive coverage of primary U.S. tax documents, secondary analysis for federal, state, and local taxation, estate planning, and more. Also includes an international tax library, a state and local library, a pension and benefits library and versions of the U.S. tax code from 1990 to date.
You may find it helpful to create a personal account. To create the account, you need to be on a K-State network or logged into the VPN (Virtual Private Networking). Then create an account with your K-State email.
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ChemSpider is a free chemical structure database maintained by the Royal Society of Chemistry, providing access to over 67 million structures, properties, and associated chemical data. Chemicals may be searched according to name or identified by structure (manual drawing or uploaded structure), while links to references, physical properties, spectra data, and chemical suppliers are included for more advanced research capabilities.
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This is the online edition of the standard guide to editorial style and publishing practices. Authors, publishers, and students are able to find answers to particular questions or just browse general categories.
Publication Dates Covered: 1995 - present Free Resource
This free database contains resources from disciplines related to child care and early education, including research reports, fact sheets and briefs, datasets, instruments and measures, citations for scholarly journal articles and books, grey literature, government documents, and more.
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The CLCD is a complete source of information about children’s books, audio recordings, and films. Can search by age, genre, grade, reading metrics, and language. Also includes curriculum tools for lesson planning. Contains book awards and reviews from major publications such as Booklist, Horn Book, and Kirkus. All reviews of books are full text searchable.
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The nation’s largest newsroom dedicated to covering colleges and universities. Full text access is available for articles published 2015-Present and selected full text access is available for articles 1967-2014.
For future reference, this title and all journals and newspapers are available by a title search in the eJournals listing.
Publication Dates Covered: 1756-1963 Free Resource
Search U.S. newspapers (or just Kansas Newspapers) published between 1777 and 1963.. Excellent database of primary source material.
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The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities. The reference tab includes: maps of the major world regions, as well as Flags of the World, a Physical Map of the World, a Political Map of the World, and a Standard Time Zones of the World map.
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The Cochrane Library is the gold standard for evidence-based research to inform healthcare decision making. It is a collection of databases including the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews and Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials.
Sourced from the National Archives in London, this collection of digitized primary source material documents the tumultuous years during the American Revolution in the 1770s and 1780s, and features volumes of letters from colonists, military correspondence, newspapers, and other related materials.
Note: Other modules within this collection are not available.
Paid for by the State Library of Kansas
Contains unlimited comics, graphic novels, and manga.
A Kansas Library eCard is required to use Comics Plus. (A Kansas Library eCard can be issued at any K-State Libraries location or at a local public library (PDF).) Once you have your card information, you'll be able to login.
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Indexes and abstracts of more than 600 journals, 420 of which also include full text articles. CMMC contains a Communication Thesaurus and comprehensive reference browsing as well as over 3,000 author biographies.
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ProQuest built this database in response to the rapidly growing need for authoritative content related to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). The database aggregates open content from ProQuest with content made freely available by members of the International Association of STM Publishers. Notable publishers contributing to the Coronavirus Research Database include Public Library of Science, BioMed Central, MDPI AG, Springer Nature Publisher Group, Taylor & Francis and The BMJ. Preprint servers include arXiv.org and BioRxiv.
Volume 1 is a collection of more than 2,000 real transcripts of counseling and therapy sessions and 44,000 first-person narratives illuminating the experience of mental illness and treatment, as well as reference works to contextualize the primary material.
Volume 2 follows the progress and setbacks of a diverse clientele with a wide range of presenting issues using multiple therapeutic approaches. These transcripts are from content that was recorded 2012 or after.
Provides a firsthand look at the realities of working with clients and the challenges associated with putting theoretical concepts into practice. This series contains more than 2,400 hours of footage from actual therapy sessions, training videos, and reenactments conducted by renowned counseling professionals. Within this collection are foundational videos from 1985-2010 which cover the recent history of practices; videos of the founders of theory and the progression of practices to today; videos addressing new population groups, contemporary approaches and issues; and has comprehensive DSM-5® / ICD-10 coverage with built-in assessments to assess comprehension.
The latest international multilingual scientific findings and knowledge on COVID-19. The global literature is updated daily (Monday through Friday) from searches of bibliographic databases, hand searching, and the addition of other expert-referred scientific articles. This database represents a comprehensive multilingual source of current literature on the topic. Full-text article access is not available for every article.
Publication Dates Covered: 1923 - present Paid for by K-State Libraries
Single-themed reports on current issues from Congressional Quarterly Press dating back to 1923. Topics include social trends, health concerns, the economy, education, and technology. Reports provide overview, background, pro/con arguments, chronologies, current situation, and bibliographies of additional sources.
Publication Dates Covered: 1968 - present Paid for by K-State Libraries
Includes information on crime trends, prevention and deterrence, juvenile delinquency, police, and sentencing. Contains indexes and summaries on international journal articles, governmental and non-governmental reports, and books.
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CRIS (Current Research Information System) is the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) documentation and reporting system for ongoing and recently completed research projects in agriculture, food and nutrition, and forestry. CRIS contains over 30,000 descriptions of current, publicly supported agricultural and forestry research projects of the USDA agencies, the State Agricultural Experiment Stations, the state university land-grant system, and other cooperating state institutions.
Publication Dates Covered: 1975 - 2017 Free Resource
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The Current Index to Statistics (CIS) is a bibliographic index of publications in statistics, probability, and related fields. It includes data from approximately 160 core journals, 1,200 additional journals in related fields, and 11,000 books. The bulk of the content in CIS is from 1975-2017. Developed by the Institute of Mathematical Studies and the American Statistical Association.
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Publication Dates Covered 1926-Present Paid for by grant funding
An index of literature and research in dance education. Descriptions of more than 9000 literary works (theses, dissertations, journal articles, conference proceedings, reports). Detailed information on methodology, techniques, and characteristics of the literature from over 200 publications, more than 150 university dance programs, organizations, government agencies and individuals. Full text is included when permission is granted.
Publication Dates Covered: 1950s - present Paid for by K-State Libraries
Offers more than 900 hours of streaming video of dance and related documentaries spanning the 1950s to today. Includes modern dance, ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance, as well as forerunners of the forms and the pioneers of modern concert dance.
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DART Europe is a partnership of 619 universities, providing researchers with a single portal to discover European theses and dissertations with a wide range of topics and publication dates. The electronic theses and dissertations are open access with full text downloading and saving options.
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The Reference Solutions U.S. Businesses database includes more than 60 million businesses (public and private) in the United States. Use the database to identify customers or competitors by industry classification of geographic location.
This free resource provides public access to data sets created by the federal government. Includes searchable catalogs that can be accessed in XML, Text/CSV, KML/KMX, Feeds, MLS, or ESRI Shapefile formats.
Dates covered: 1550 - present Free resource
Contains over 100,000 digitized maps and related images. The maps span the 16th through 21st century, include maps for all continents, plus data visualizations. The collection focuses on maps of North and South America, as well as maps of the World, Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania. It includes atlases, wall maps, globes, school geographies, pocket maps, books of exploration, maritime charts, and a variety of cartographic materials.
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Provides paleogeographic maps and shows varied landscapes of the ancient Earth, including distribution of ancient shallow seas, deep ocean basins, mountain ranges, coastal plains, and continental interiors. Tectonic features shown include subduction zones, island arcs, mid-ocean ridges and accreting terranes. K-State Libraries’ collection includes maps from two series: “Global Paleogeography and Tectonics in Deep Time Series” (© 2016 Colorado Plateau Geosystems Inc.) and “North American Key Time-slices Series” (© 2013).
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Dialnet is one of the largest bibliographic portals in the world, whose main mission is to give greater visibility to Hispanic humanities, legal, sciences, and social sciences resources. Materials include journals, doctoral theses, conference proceedings, books, and book chapters written in Spanish.
Paid for by K-State Libraries NEH Endowment Fund
This resource consists of curated and indexed declassified government documents covering U.S. policy toward critical world events – including their military, intelligence, diplomatic and human rights dimensions – from 1945 to the present. Each collection is assembled by foreign policy experts and features chronologies, glossaries, bibliographies, and scholarly overviews to provide access to the defining international issues of our time.
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DPLA offers a one-stop site to search digital collections from cultural institutions across the United States. Materials include photographs, maps, letters, diaries, among other cultural artifacts.
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DZ publishes the full past issues of German journals in a wide variety of subjects. While K-State does not have the paid version, many of the titles are freely available under open access principles, and the search works for all journals free or not, making DZ a useful indexing tool for 19th- and early 20th-century German periodicals.
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Provides access to thousands of open access, academic, peer-reviewed books.
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.
Publication Dates Covered: 2004 - present Free Resource
Full text of theses, dissertations, and reports submitted by K-State graduate students. Papers are typically available by the end of the semester in which the student graduated. Full coverage begins in Fall 2006 for doctoral dissertations and Fall 2007 for masters' papers. Limited availability before 2006.
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Database of over 1800 maps showing the presence and extent of specific plant diseases worldwide. Covers plant diseases and pests of economic or quarantine importance.
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Provides a combined search for Ethnic NewsWatch and Ethnic NewsWatch History which feature newspapers, magazines, and journals from ethnic and minority presses; GenderWatch which features historical and current perspectives of gender roles; and Alt-PressWatch which showcases some of the nation’s most respected and cited grassroots publications. Searches can be narrowed to peer-reviewed publications.
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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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Publication Dates Covered: 1534-1850 Paid for by K-State Libraries detailed description
Personal accounts from traders, slaves, missionaries, explorers, soldiers, native peoples, and officials, both men and women. Includes narratives, diaries, journals, and letters from 1534 to 1850. Includes maps and images.
Publication Dates Covered: 1473-1700 Paid for by K-State Libraries
Contains page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America, as well as works in English printed elsewhere between 1473 and 1700. Exhaustive resource on the first books in English from the ages of Spenser, Shakespeare, and the English Civil War.
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Offers over 139,000 scholarly ebooks, including books from university presses. Includes hundreds of books in languages other than English. Books can be viewed through a web-browser or through apps for IOS and Android that use the highly rated Bluefire Reader for mobile devices.
Use is restricted to currently enrolled K-State students and employees of K-State.
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With over 7,100 ebooks related to sustainability, this growing collection is interdisciplinary--spanning life and environmental sciences, technology, economics, engineering, law, and business. The collection is mapped to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). All books feature unlimited, multi-user access.
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Contains 1.2 million theses and dissertations from around the world. Open Dissertations is an open-access database built to assist researchers in locating both historic and contemporary dissertations and theses. Provides 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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Offers thousands of scholarly, reference, and professional full-text books in electronic format. Titles range across virtually all academic areas. Users can search for individual titles or perform full-text searches across multiple titles. Many books may be downloaded for use on portable devices.
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This search interface allows you to search all the EBSCOhost databases to which K-State Libraries subscribe.
Publication Dates Covered: 1969 - present Paid for by K-State Libraries
Produced by the American Economic Association, EconLit provides comprehensive indexed coverage of a wide range of economics-related literature. Topics include economic development, forecasting, and history; fiscal and monetary theory; business and public finance; international, health care, regional and urban economics, agricultural economics and more. Includes book reviews from the Journal of Economic Literature.
Publication Dates Covered: late 19th century-2003 Free Resource
A bibliography of around 33,000 references to publications relating to the uses by humans of flowering plants, gymnosperms, and ferns. Subjects covered include the ethnobotany of plant use in traditional societies, medical and industrial uses of plants, and their domestication and history. Coverage focuses on wild plants and minor crop plants.
Publication Dates Covered: 1996-present Free Resource
Contains full text of reports companies are required to file with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Find company financial data, information about mergers and business activities, bankruptcy petition disclosures, and executive compensation data.
Publication Dates Covered: Indexing 1983 - present; full text 1996 - present Simultaneous users: 8 Paid for by K-State Libraries
Includes full-text education journals that cover the essentials of education and related fields of study, including in-depth coverage of special education. Contains some publications not covered in ERIC.
Publication Dates Covered: 1980 - present Paid for by K-State Libraries
A collection of over 1,100 periodicals and 200 reports on topics in all levels of education, from preschool to college. Subject areas range from bilingual education to educational funding and administration. Full text for over half the journals indexed in ERIC is provided.
Publication Dates Covered: 1701-1800 Paid for by K-State Libraries
Includes eighteenth century collections on history and geography, social sciences, religion and philosophy, fine arts, literature and language, law, medicine, science, and technology. Users can view digital page images; full-text searchable.
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The Encyclopædia Iranica is a comprehensive research tool dedicated to the study of Iranian civilization in the Middle East, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and the Indian subcontinent. Subject coverage includes Iranian history, culture, languages, and literature.
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Part of Oxford Music Online, the Encyclopedia of Popular Music covers all popular musical genres spanning from 1900 to the present day, including artist bibliographies and discographies.
Publication Dates Covered: 1966-current Paid for by K-State Libraries
Part of the suite of databases from ProQuest. Contains engineering-related full-text articles and a comprehensive index to world literature on technological and engineering innovations going back to 1966. It provides titles from around the world including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, and more. For researchers who need to conduct comprehensive literature reviews, this database includes specialized, editorial-controlled A&I resources for discovery of relevant scholarly research and technical literature critical to the discipline.
Publication Dates Covered: 1473 - 1800 Free Resource
The ESTC serves as a comprehensive bibliography of material printed in Britain and its colonies in any language up to 1800. Also includes materials printed globally in English during that time period.
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Part of the ProQuest suite of databases. Provides the most complete collection of resources available to support this multi-disciplinary field. The collection combines specialist topic resources from engineering, biotechnology, bateriology, atmospheric science, ecology, and biology.
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The resources cover topics like food safety, sustainability, healthcare, the impact of economic development on international relations and include news articles, videos, government documents and other primary source materials as well as interactive maps, refereed case studies, multimedia and so on. The information is arranged in 3 sections – issue, organization or country.
Publication Dates Covered: 1966 - present Paid for by K-State Libraries
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Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, ERIC provides coverage of journal articles, conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, and books on education-related topics. Links to some full-text articles. ERIC also has an excellent thesaurus.
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Espacenet contains data on more than 110 million patent documents from around the world.
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Conduct on-going, quantitative analyses of research performance and trends in science. Rank top scientists, institutions, countries, and journals in 22 specific fields of research based on journal article publication counts and citation data.
Publication Dates Covered: 1960 - present Paid for by K-State Libraries
Features newspapers, magazines, and journals of ethnic and minority presses.
Publication Dates Covered: 1493-1750 Free Resource detailed description
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This database indexes European works published between 1493 and 1750 that relate to the Americas. More than 32,000 entries are included, ranging from Native Americans to wildlife to diseases. Users can identify publications on their topics, then obtain the full text elsewhere.
Publication dates covered: 1939-pressent Free Resource
Exploring Race in Society is a free database that contains context and solutions-oriented points of view within a scholarly collection of proprietary and licensed content on topics related to race, ethnicity, diversity and inclusiveness. It provides today’s students with a deeper understanding of how current issues stem from actions and policies of the past.
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Choosing a career is a challenging decision. Many different professions can suit your skills, interests, and goals. Here you can learn about 140 different industries and career fields and thousands of professions to find the one right for you.
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Provides information about books, serials, videos, and other items cataloged by libraries around the world, including K-State. Each of the more than 57 million records contains information regarding which libraries hold the item. Items not available through K-State Libraries can be requested via Interlibrary Loan by clicking on the Get It button.
Paid for by the State Library of Kansas
Discover your family's military past. You can search names, dates, places, publication names, conflict periods, document types, and more.
Publication Dates Covered: 1969 - present Paid for by K-State Libraries
Covers topics relating to every aspect of the food chain including all the major food commodities plus biotechnology, microbiology, food safety, additives, nutrition, packaging and pet foods. Alongside journal articles, FSTA includes trade publications, books, reviews, conference proceedings, reports, and patents.
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Fuente Académica is a valuable resource for finding scholarly journals from Latin America, Portugal, and Spain. Offering nearly 500 publications from 20 countries, topics of coverage include agriculture, biological sciences, economics, history, law, literature, philosophy, psychology, public administration, religion and sociology.
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Able to search the following publications either individually or together:Encyclopedia of Associations: International Organizations; Encyclopedia of Associations: National Organizations of the U. S.; Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media; Statistics Sources.
Dates Covered:17th century-19th century. Paid for by the State Library of Kansas
Contains lists of emigrants from both coasts, lists from transatlantic voyages, several ethnic genealogies, and so much more. Includes books on how to conduct genealogy research.
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Gale NewsVault delivers the definitive cross-searching experience for exploring Gale’s range of historical newspaper collections, such as 19th Century U.S. Newspapers, British Library Newspapers 1800 - 1900, and the Times Digital Archive.
Primary Sources allows users to search multiple primary source databases, ifor example, Archives Unbound, British Library Newspapers, Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Nineteenth Century Collections Online, Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers, Sabin Americana, 1500 - 1926, the Times Digital Archive, and almost 20 other databases.
The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music provides more than 9,000 pages of reference material in 10 volumes, serving as an authoritative resource for regional information, musical heritage, traditions, genres, practices, and performances. Articles contain photographs of musicians, as well musical instruments, maps, and drawings, with added insights to cultural practices of dance rituals and ceremonies. Each volume concentrates on a specific global region, making it one of the most substantial and current reference resources on world music.
Gartner Technical Research provides access to over 1,900 Global Analysts and research, in which analysts are all Subject Matter Experts in their field (typically with 20+ years of experience), demonstrating how technology is being used in specific industries. Coverage includes research business strategy, new technology and how to use it, IT strategy, objective real-world examples, and emerging research and supporting data.
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Look at gender roles through current and historical lenses in more than 230 academic, gray, and popular literature titles.
Publication Dates Covered: 1980 - present Paid for by K-State Libraries
This is a good starting place for finding articles on almost any topic from journals, magazines, newspapers, or reference works. Full-text and/or scanned pdfs are included for many of the articles it indexes. Searches can be easily limited to articles from peer-reviewed (aka scholarly, academic, refereed or professional) publications. The Subject Guide Search is especially useful for browsing subdivisions of a topic.
Publication Dates Covered: North America 1666 - present; world 1933 - present Paid for by K-State Libraries
Covers the world’s technical literature on geology and geophysics from 13,000 serials, U.S. Geological Survey publications, and dissertations. Corresponds to the print publications Bibliography and Index of Geology, Bibliography and Index of Geology Exclusive of North America, Bibliography and Index of North American Geology, and Geophysical Abstracts.
Find monographic and serial holdings of the library of Deutscher Bundestag. This database provides indexing for journals and government publications not included in other European databases on a variety of topics of relevance to federal parliament, such as medical ethics, democratic systems, German unity, globalization, economics, foreign relations, and military issues.
Publication Dates Covered: 1973 - present Paid for by K-State Libraries
Dedicated to public health, over 7,000 journals, reports, books, and conferences are searchable with over 3 million scientific records. Over 100 countries in 50 languages are abstracted with 96% of the records with at least an English abstract and over 90% full text. The database's open serials policy and coverage of international and grey literature means that 40% of the material is unique.
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The Global Jukebox explores expressive patterns of musical recordings in their cultural-geographic and diasporic settings.
Encompasses over 1000 international newspapers in more than 30 languages, coverage includes huge portions of the world, including China, East Africa, India, Mexico, Philippines, Russia, and Vietnam. All presented in full-image and full-text format.
A growing collection of books Google has received digitally from publishers or scanned from the shelves of one of its library partners. This is an excellent resource for reading books in the public domain (generally those published before 1922), for reading selections of copyrighted books, and for identifying books about a particular subject. Books that K-State doesn’t own can be requested by submitting an Interlibrary Loan request.
This is an international collection of content from newspapers, magazines, legal archives, and news archives. If you are looking for primary source material about an event or person from the past two centuries, this is an excellent place to look.
Google Scholar is a useful tool for searching through a very broad scope of articles; however, be aware that they aren’t actually all “scholarly.” Look for the text “Get It @ KSU” instead of the usual “Get It” button to search for the full text of articles that don’t have an included PDF. It is sometimes found under the “more” link below the record.
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A website from the Government Printing Office (GPO) that provides free public access to more than a million official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government. govinfo replaced the FDsys website in December 2018.
Paid for by K-State Libraries
Non-K-Staters: use this link
GreenFILE resources examine the connection between humans and the environment, from both positive and negative perspectives. 200 scholarly and general interest titles covering agriculture, education, law, health and technology are included.
Publication Dates Covered: 2001 - present Paid for by K-State Libraries
Non-K-Staters: use this link
Find information about applied plant science. Includes seed & pest control field trial publications, an image collection, an education & training center, a plant science database, and several peer-reviewed journals. Covers agronomy, biosecurity, ecology, entomology, horticulture, plant pathology, turf management, and weed science.
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Browse digital versions of award-winning books presented by the American Historical Association and the Columbia University Press.
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Contains scholarly assessments of publications related to Latin America, from the 1930s to the present, including books, articles, maps, e-resources, and more.
Provides complete bibliographic citations to the contents of scholarly journals published around the world on Latin America and the Caribbean since the late 1960s. Includes everything from political, economic, and social issues to the arts and humanities.
Publication Dates Covered: 1857-1912 Paid for by K-State Libraries
Harper’s Weekly was one of the leading literary and news publications of 19th century America. It was noted for its use of illustrations and carried information on a variety of topics to a national audience. Searchers can search the full text of articles and retrieve both images and text files of relevant stories.
Publication Dates Covered: pre-1500-2009 Paid for by K-State Libraries
A preservation repository with millions of volumes digitized by Google, the Internet Archive, and HathiTrust’s partner institutions. Approximately one-third of the volumes are in the public domain and can be viewed in their entirety. K-State faculty, staff, and students who login to HathiTrust with their K-State eID can download full-text PDFs of these public domain works.
Publication Dates Covered: 1980 - present Paid for by K-State Libraries
Provides references, abstracts, and full text from health publications. Includes a medical dictionary; medical directories and reference books; consumer-oriented and professional health periodicals; and pamphlets issued by health organizations.
Medicine, health, and alternative medicine topics are covered. Provides access to medical journal and magazine articles, a medical encyclopedia, and dictionary. Directories of medical organizations and drugs are provided along with a health assessment tool.
HeinOnline is a premier online database containing more than 160 million pages and 200,000 titles of historical and government documents in a fully searchable, image-based format. HeinOnline bridges an important research gap by providing comprehensive coverage from inception of more than 2,600 law-related periodicals. In addition to its vast collection of academic journals, HeinOnline contains the entire Congressional Record, Federal Register, and Code of Federal Regulations, complete coverage of the U.S. Reports back to 1754, and entire databases dedicated to treaties, constitutions, case law, world trials, classic treatises, international trade, foreign relations, U.S. Presidents, and much more.
HeinOnline Water Rights & Resources Is dedicated to understanding the complex interplay of state and federal laws that govern all aspects of water in society, from its municipal use to restoring its pristine condition. Collecting congressional documents, books, legislative histories on major legislation, and Supreme Court briefs on related cases, this collection touches on a wide range of water issues. Topics covered includeirrigation, hydropower, water conservation, drinking water quality, and tribal water rights.
Paid for by the State Library of Kansas
Useful for genealogical research. Contains images from complete U.S. Federal Censuses from 1790-1930. Search by name, state, place of birth, age, and ethnicity. Includes collection of keyword searchable family and local history books, index to periodicals, and records of soldiers in the Revolutionary War.
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A High-Energy Physics (HEP) open access digital library combining SPIRES database content, curated at DESY, Fermilab and SLAC with digital library technology developed at CERN.
Explore images and descriptions of thousands of pieces housed at the Historic Costume and Textile Museum, College of Health and Human Sciences, K-State's Manhattan campus. The collection of clothing and textiles spans centuries starting from the Byzantine Era to more recent designer collections. Available in the database are past and present exhibits with items being added as they are available.
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Full text history reference database which provides full text for over 1,990 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books from leading history publishers, and more than 150 leading history periodicals. Also includes thousands of historical documents, biographies of historical figures, maps and photos, and hours of historical video.
The U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security’s Digital Library includes material from Federal, State, international and private sources related to security policy, strategy, and management. Content is primarily current with some historical material. To access the Restricted Collection and take advantage of special options, users must set up an individual HSDL account.
Publication Dates Covered: 1965 - present Paid for by K-State Libraries
Research and industry news relating to all areas of hospitality and tourism, both domestic and international; full-text coverage of more than 200 publications in subjects including hospitality law, hotel management, and market trends.
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K-State Libraries subscribes to IBISWorld US Industry Reports and US Specialized Industry Reports. The US Industry reports module covers over 700 industries. Reports have statistics and analysis on market characteristics, operating conditions, current and forecast performance, major industry participants and more. The Specialized Industry Reports complement the Industry Reports module and can be useful when researching small or new industries.
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The ICPSR data archive houses research in the social and behavioral sciences. It hosts specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields. ICPSR also collaborates with U.S. statistical agencies and foundations on data stewardship and creating thematic data collections.
ICPSR requires the creation of a free personal account using your K-State email to download data and access full site features. If you are on-campus, please use the link above to access ICPSR and create an account. If you are off-campus, please use this link to create your account, then access ICPSR content using the link above.
Publication Dates Covered: generally 1988 - present Paid for by K-State Libraries
IEEE Xplore provides access to full-text electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics publications from IEEE and IEE (Institution of Electrical Engineers) journals, transactions, magazines, letters, e-books, conference proceedings, and technical standards.
Publication Dates Covered: selected 1974 - present Paid for by K-State Libraries
Available through IEEE Xplore, access full-text content pertaining to cutting-edge technologies in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics. The collection of titles includes handbooks, introductory and advanced texts, reference books, and professional books.
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IMSLP (International Music Score Library Project) has an ultimate goal to gather all public domain music scores and music scores of those composers/estates who wish to release them to the public free of charge. Another goal is to facilitate the exchange of musical ideas outside of compositions. Feel free to create/edit a page with your analysis of a particular piece (please use the "Discussion" link on the work page of that particular piece). Forums are available for general discussions, and IMSLP-related questions, score requests, etc.
Publication Dates Covered: 1950-2023 Free Resource
This open access digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines, and journals provides full text access to materials produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press, and alternative literary magazines.
An easy-to-use database of Hispanic magazines, most written in Spanish and available in full text. It covers business, health, technology, culture, and other current issues.
Una colección de revistas hispánicas con textos completos. Abarca negocios, salud, tecnología, cultura, temas de actualidad y otras materias.
Publication Dates Covered: 2008 - present Paid for by K-State Libraries
Provides citations and abstracts for articles, art-related books, conference proceedings, dissertations, and exhibition catalogs, focusing on European and American art from late antiquity to the present. This bilingual database encompasses writings on the visual arts including traditional fine arts (ceramics, drawing, painting, prints, sculpture, etc.), architecture and industrial design, and decorative and applied arts (crafts, folk art, graphic arts, etc.). For materials published from 1975 through 2007 see the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) database.
IMF Data is a standard source for locating international financial statistics and data. It contains financial and macroeconomic data for over 200 countries, covering economic indicators, world consumer prices, trade, public debt, world domestic product, exchange rates, and more.
Publication Dates Covered: 1920 - present Paid for by K-State Libraries
Provides the most recent news content from outside of the U.S. and Canada with archives that stretch back decades. The comprehensive collection features newspapers, newswires, transcripts, and digital-only news sites in full-text format. Some of the world's top news sources such as The Times (London), The Bangkok Post, El Norte, Financial Times, The Guardian, Jerusalem Post, South China Morning Post, The Daily Telegraph, Asian Wall Street Journal, and the BBC Monitoring series of publications are included in the collection.
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This fulltext search index includes over 25 million research articles and other scholarly documents preserved in the Internet Archive. The collection spans from digitized copies of eighteenth century journals through the latest Open Access conference proceedings and pre-prints crawled from the World Wide Web.
Browse an international collection of books, articles, pamphlets, and other documents contributed by governments, libraries, and other organizations. It includes many of the most popular works of literature and scholarship as well as a host of lesser-known gems. Each of its items can be viewed, downloaded, and printed for free.
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The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism is a comprehensive work for literature study. It is comprised of nearly 300 entries on subjects pertaining to critics and theorists, important figures, schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific historical periods.
Publication Dates Covered: 2002 - present Paid for by K-State Libraries
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Critically evaluate and compare journals in the sciences and social sciences using citation data from over 7,500 scholarly and technical journals. Use JCR to find the most frequently cited journals, and measure research influence through impact factor, aggregate impact factor, the aggregate immediacy index, aggregated cited half-life, and the number of articles in each category.
JoVe provides videos covering intricate details of recorded-live experiments and procedures, and animated video lessons to teach scientific fundamentals.
Video Journal Collection Publication Dates Covered: 2011 - June 14, 2022
Scientists perform detailed experiments that will allow viewers to replicate the experiments. Subscribed subjects are Biology, Bioengineering, Immunology and Infection, Medicine, and Neuroscience. Jove Immunology and Infection publishes methods and techniques for evaluating biological responses to pathogens, immune responses to infection, basic microbiology and novel therapeutics or treatments for infectious organisms.
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A full-text collection of journals ranging from history to business to literature to science and mathematics. Coverage begins with the first issue of a title, but the most recent three to five years of each title are usually not available. The full article text is searchable. Images are available for searching as well.
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JSTOR offers a collection of free, open access journals and books. These titles include those published by university and academic presses.
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Publication Dates Covered: 2004 - present Free Resource
The institutional repository for Kansas State University provides permanent access to scholarly materials created by our faculty and students, including dissertations, theses, and master’s reports. In support of the principles of Open Access, materials in K-REx are freely available to all and comply with publisher agreements and copyright law.
Kanopy is an on-demand streaming video service for educational institutions. Kanopy works directly with filmmakers and film distribution companies to offer award-winning collections including titles from PBS, Criterion Collection, HBO Documentary Films, Paramount and more. Instructors can request the resources from within the Kanopy website.
For further information on video resources for teaching, a resource guide is available.
Collection of significant historical Kansas newspapers from the time before Kansas was a state, to the recent past. Includes complete, searchable issues. These newspapers are a subset of African-American Newspapers, Series II.
Dates covered:1854-1865 Paid for by the State Library of Kansas
Provides access to a wide variety of documents: personal narratives and memoirs, pamphlets and political speeches, sermons and songs, legal treatises and children's books related to Kansas History. It covers a variety of subjects during a pivotal period in American history, including the Civil War, the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, the Kansas Constitution of 1857, American fiction and antislavery literature, Native Americans in Kansas, John Brown, and more.
The Kansas Land Treaties Project is a public resource for educators, students, and the public to learn more about how Kansas went from the ancestral homeland of Indigenous nations to a state within the United States. This project is in process and will change over the next several years. This project is sponsored by the Chapman Center for Rural Stiudies, Kansas State University.
Search the catalogs of Kansas libraries. Access materials held at various state-wide education and community institutions, including fiction and nonfiction books, ebooks, audio books, and more.
This electronic version of the 4th edition (2008)* of the Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology includes more than 1200 full text articles. Tables, figures, CAS Registry Numbers, and chemical structures appear with the articles. Articles cover chemical substances, industrial processes, uses, fundamentals, chemical engineering processes, foods, pharmaceuticals, dyes, and fibers. *Please note articles published after 2008 will need to be requested via Interlibrary Loan.
Contains over 2000 digital versions of books in scientific and engineering fields. Browse by subject or title, or search across part or all of the collection by keyword.
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Kansas residents not affiliated with K-State can use this link.
Learning Centers (elementary through college levels) plus computer skills, GED and new workplace skills training. The Job and Career Accelerator will identify strengths and weaknesses, help with resume writing, and even monitor postings on job boards. Includes preparation for GMAT, GRE, LSAT, MCAT, and PPST/Praxis.
**To use this resource you must create an account.**
Publication Dates Covered: 1982 - present Paid for by K-State Libraries
The Left Index is a comprehensive resource focusing on leftist and radical media. This index includes over 507,000 citations and abstracts (some full-text) with an emphasis on political, economic, and social and culturally engaged scholarship inside and outside academia, including significant, but little known sources of news and ideas. Subjects covered include art & aesthetics, the labor movement, ecology and environment, race and ethnicity, social and cultural theory, sociology, sexuality, philosophy, history, education, law, globalization, and wars.
Publication Dates Covered: 1887 - present Paid for by K-State Libraries
The Legal Collection contains hundreds of the world’s most respected scholarly law journals (full-text), covering topics on criminal justice, ethics, international law, federal law, medical jurisprudence, labor and human resource law, organized crime, the environment, and more. Complete runs of some law reviews are also included.
Publication Dates Covered: 1980 - present Paid for by K-State Libraries
Indexes more than 1,500 law reviews, legal newspapers, specialty publications, bar association journals, and international legal journals, all selected according to criteria set by the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL). In addition to legal publications, LegalTrac indexes over 1,000 business and general interest titles. Many articles are available as full-text.
Publication Dates Covered: mid 1960s - present Free Resource
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Indexes more than 600 journals, books, reports, and proceedings in library and information science. Subject coverage includes librarianship, information management, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, information retrieval, and more.
Publication Dates Covered: 1600 - present Free resource
Similar to Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Content is primarily U.S. newspapers. Most of the coverage is 1800-1949 with minimal resources before and after.
Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) abstracts and indexes the international literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences. All aspects of the study of language are covered, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Subject coverage includes anthropological linguistics, applied and descriptive linguistics, hearing and speech physiology, learning disabilities, communication behavior, philosophy of language, semiotics, special education, writing systems, and more.
Gale's Literary index is a master index to the major literature products published by Gale. It combines and cross-references author names, including pseudonyms and variant names, and listings for titles of works into one source. Provides quick and easy access to author and title listings from over 130 literature products from Gale and the imprints Charles Scribner's Sons, St. James Press, and Twayne Publishers. The referenced products themselves will contain complete biographies on authors and critical essays on their writings.
Publication Dates Covered: 1818-1956 Paid for by K-State Libraries
Contains the intimate papers and writings of some of the Victorian period’s finest thinkers and artists including the Brontes, Joseph Conrad, George Elliot, Alfred Tennyson, Charles Dickens, John Ruskin, and Henry James.
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Offers full-text reference resources geared primarily toward undergraduate students. In addition to critical reviews of literature and encyclopedias, the Literary Reference Center also provides biographies, book reviews, author interviews, synopses and work overviews, literary journals, classic novels, and classic and contemporary short stories and poems.
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Provides researchers with unbounding literary resources to support their literary responses, literary analysis, and thesis statements through a wide variety of scholars and critics that ensure all views and interpretations are represented through up-to-date biographies, overviews, full-text criticisms, audio interviews, and reviews on writers from all eras. Use this resource to analyze authors and works throughout time.
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Access the language learning program with more than 60 foreign languages and 18 ESL courses. Includes sessions on vocabulary, pronunciation, grammar, and culture. Additional features include film-based learning, with subtitles and interactive guides to help improve language acquisition. Free individual accounts must be created for use. The accounts can be set up to easily track lessons and progress over time.
Collection of restored newsreels originally shown in theaters between 1935 and 1967, including scenes of science, social movements, war, entertainment, and more. Browse by subject, event, or keyword. Transcriptions provided.
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Use to search the works housed at the Beach Museum of Art. Searching includes books linked to artists in the museum's collection (offsite books). Additional searching is available by Collections, People, and Exhibitions.
Paid for by the State Library of Kansas
A general interest database with periodicals, photos, maps, flags, primary source documents, and reference books. Subjects covered include business, health, education, general science, and multicultural issues.
A database of contemporary materials used in industry, construction, and other aspects of life. It provides information about the properties of the materials, current uses, their producers and places of production.
Each individual user of Material ConneXion is limited to 100 downloads per day
Begun by Mathematical Reviews, MathSciNet covers the world’s mathematical literature since 1940 including journals, conference proceedings, and books. It also provides links from reviews to the text of more than 435,000 online articles in over 870 journals, although full-text, article-level access usually requires an institutional subscription to that journal. MathSciNet also incorporates a citation tracking database.
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Offers a global perspective on this rich field of study, bringing together high quality secondary content with visual primary sources, a brand new reference work and object images in a one-stop digital resource that will open up the medieval world.
Maintained by the National Library of Medicine, MedlinePlus includes information from the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources. It contains references to the latest health professional articles, a medical encyclopedia and dictionary, and drug information.
Publication Dates Covered: 1985 - present Simultaneous users: 4 Paid for by K-State Libraries
Contains descriptive information and critical reviews of new and revised tests from the Buros Institute’s Yearbooks. Covers more than 2,200 commercially-available tests in categories such as personality, development, behavioral assessment, achievement, intelligence and aptitude, speech & hearing, and sensory motor.
Publication Dates Covered: 1909 - present Paid for by K-State Libraries
Formerly Mergent WebReports, Mergent Archives features more than a century’s worth of global corporate and industry related documents. This collection contains hundreds of thousands of reports covering over 100 countries and industries. Mergent Archives is designed to meet your historical research needs. Includes digital corporate manuals and digital municipal & government manuals.
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Information on company financials, ratios, business segments, descriptions, sustainability, officers and directors. Powerful and intuitive search capabilities combined with an easy to learn and use interface provide quick access to a multitude of company, industry, index, ESG and economic data views and reports.
Simultaneous users: 50 Paid for by K-State Libraries
Information found in this database includes financial statements and company histories covering approximately 20,000 U.S. and foreign public companies.
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A federated search engine that searches multiple U.S. Federal government databases, retrieving reports, articles, and citations while providing direct links to selected resources available online
Comprehensive compilation of the methods used in the study of enzymes which might be used in chemistry, biochemistry, and practically all branches of biological and medical sciences. Provides full-text access to all 409 plus volumes in the series.
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Current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government. Contains nearly 300 full-text periodicals and journals dating back to the beginning of the 20th century. Indexes and abstracts available for 400 additional journals.
Mintel Reports is a market research database that publishes 200+ business to consumer reports each year for US consumer markets. Each report focuses on consumer attitudes and behaviors, including survey data to understand demographic and psychographic segmentation. Also included are market size, brand share, social media analysis, and category trends.
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Provides detailed information–editorial, submission, subscription, etc.–for the journals indexed in the MLA International Bibliography. Useful for academic authors looking for a publishing venue.
Publication Dates Covered: 1926 - present Paid for by K-State Libraries
This is the largest and most comprehensive database for literary criticism in all languages. Also covers folklore, linguistics, and film studies. Includes journal and book articles, books, and dissertations. Does not index book reviews in literary journals.
Publication Dates Covered: 1976 - present Paid for by K-State Libraries
Articles and reviews published in academic journals and popular magazines on all aspects of music including styles such as classical, jazz, popular, folk, and world music, and the fields of musicology, ethnomusicology, theory, applied and professional topics, music education, and the music industry.
An encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions. The collection provides an unprecedented variety of online resources that include diverse musical forms, historical speeches, poets and authors reading their own works, and an extensive children's collection.
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NASA PubSpace is a peer-reviewed repository of NASA-funded authors and co-authors' (both civil servant and non-civil servant) scientific publications and associated data. However, certain materials are excluded, such as patents, publications that contain material governed by personal privacy, export control, proprietary restrictions, or national security law or regulations.
Provides online access to millions of records, maps, photos, and documents held by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), the nation’s official record keeper. In addition to famous documents such as the Declaration of Independence, it includes individual military records and naturalization records, letters from public officials, treaties, charters, manifests, diary entries, and many other historical artifacts.
NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals. Key focus areas include developing new statistical measurements, estimating quantitative models of economic behavior, and analyzing the effects of public policies.
Find data collected by The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education.
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Provides information about the geology of the country; including data about rock types, fault lines, past geologic events, geologic ages, mineral resources, etc. A project led by the United States Geological Survey and the Association of American State Geologists to provide access to the geoscience information of the country. It provides geologic, geochronologic, and geophysical information and maps. Users can search for geologic maps and reports by geographic area, geologic unit name, map title, author, or publication year; can also browse the geologic names lexicon (Geolex) to learn about the definitions and descriptions of geologic units used by the USGS and State Geological Surveys.
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Focuses on surface features and topography of the United States. Examples of included layers are road networks, structures, geographic names, hydrography, boundary lines, etc. A collaborative effort of the United States Geological Survey and other federal, state, and local partners to improve and deliver U.S. topographic information. It's designed to enable users to view, download, and print topographic maps, access web map services, and create custom maps using topoBuilder. Provides the ability to learn about the physical features and characteristics of the country, explore different types of geospatial data and analysis, and support research.
The National Security Archive combines a unique range of resources and functions including: the investigative journalism center, the research institute on international affairs, and the library and archive of declassified U.S. documents. The Archive is also a leading non-profit user of the U.S. Freedom of Information Act, a public interest law firm defending and expanding public access to government information, a global advocate of open government, and an indexer and publisher of former secrets.
A database of government-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and business related information. Covers more than 350 subject areas from over 200 federal agencies. Although the NTIS offers documents for sale, many are available at K-State Libraries or through Interlibrary Loan. Use Search It to look for any titles found in the NTIS before purchasing.
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Offers online, free and open access to these authenticated government technical reports. Technical reports and documents in its repository may be available online for free either from the issuing federal agency, the U.S. Government Publishing Office’s Federal Digital System website, or through search engines. Compiled by the U.S. National Technical Information Service, the database covers topics in the sciences, engineering, business, and social sciences.
Simultaneous users: 5 Paid for by K-State Libraries
Naxos Music Library World features contains streaming audio of thousands of recordings of music from around the world. The entire Smithsonian Folkways catalog is included.
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Expansive online library containing all music in the Naxos recording label's library in streaming format. It is continually updated with new music as it is released on the Naxos label.
This supplemental resource to the Naxos Music Library adds more than 60,000 tracks and 5,200 albums, representing nearly 7,000 jazz artists world-wide. Covered genres include Contemporary Jazz, Jazz, Blues, Nostalgia, World, Contemporary Instrumental, Pop and Rock, and Spoken Word.
Containing over 1,780 scores marked by master conductors, and over 520,000 pages of music parts marked by Philharmonic musicians, the New York Philharmonic Digital Archives offer a wealth of materials for research and study.
Publication Dates Covered: 1851-2021 Paid for by K-State Libraries
Digitized version of The New York Times since its first issue in 1851. Search the full text of articles to find articles on a wide variety of topics. Full name of the database is ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times with Index.
Publication Dates Covered: 1980 - present Paid for by K-State Libraries
A full text collection of over 2700 newspapers published between 1980 and the present. National and major regional newspapers from around the United States, as well as important newspapers from around the world, are included. Users can search by newspaper title, headline, date, section, or other fields.
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Contains more than 1,000 full-text newspapers, television and radio news transcripts, videos, and podcasts from around the world.
Newspapers.com is powered by Ancestry.com. It is an extensive database with online access to nearly 198,000,000 pages of historical newspapers dating from the 1700s to the 2000s. This resource includes searchable full-text access for millions of pages of well-known regional and local newspapers in the U.S. and other countries and receives regular, ongoing updates to new content.
Publication Dates Covered: 1800-1900, with some exceptions Paid for by K-State Libraries
Collection of primary materials from the 19th century on all kinds of topics. Fully searchable documents, books, images, maps, and other types of materials. Societies from around the world are profiled, as well as issues such as women’s rights, science, technology, politics, and business.
Publication Dates Covered: 1801-1919 Paid for by K-State Libraries
The NSTC aims to catalogue all works printed in English from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the end of World War One. Includes indexed books, periodicals, directories, and other publications. Currently includes more than 1.2 million records from the U.S. and UK.
Publication Dates Covered: 1800-1899 Paid for by K-State Libraries
Search complete issues of more than 500 U.S. newspapers published during the 19th century. Search by keyword to find images and text from rural and urban papers from different geographical areas of the country.
Primary source documents from immigrants who have come from virtually all over the world. Personal narratives, including letters, diaries, pamphlets, autobiographies, and oral histories from 1840 to the present.
Historical resources on nearly 500 North American groups. Autobiographies, biographies, Indian publications, oral histories, personal writings, photographs, drawings, and audio files. Includes 2,000 oral histories in audio and transcript form, and more than 20,000 photos.
Rich collection of works produced by women playwrights, containing over 1,500 plays by over 330 authors. Also includes playbills, photographs, and other resources of interest.
Letters and diaries detailing the personal lives and experiences hundreds of women spanning over 300 years. Includes over 1,500 biographies. Ideal for research in women’s studies, history, sociology, literature, genealogy, as well as other disciplines.
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A book selection guide allowing readers, librarians, and researchers to search for recommended works of fiction and non-fiction. Includes book discussion guides and thematic and award-winning book lists.
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Contains videos (formerly in Alexander Street's Nursing Education & video collection) and citations, abstracts, and full-text of nursing and allied health publications. Results can be limited by age group, source type, language, and more.
Responsibilites of healthcare professionals extend beyond addressing just physical examinations and ailments. They must understand, assess and manage mental health issues that often present themselves alongside physical conditions. These training videos provide guidance with issues.
An up-to-date collection of demonstration and training videos designed to help students improve their clinical skills. This resource provides access to Medcom's complete collection of 300+ full-length training videos allowing for anytime, anywhere access to the latest resources to be able to provide the best possible patient care.
Produced by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, this contains research-based nutrition information and clinical tools available to dietitians and other health care professionals.
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O’Reilly for Higher Education is a collection of about 42,000 ebooks and videos, covering topics in computer science, business and management, personal and career development, engineering, software and Web development, drawing and painting, and travel.
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A catalog of millions of freely-available, open access digital resources from thousands of contributors. Find various digitized books, journal articles, newspapers, audio and video files, photographs, data sets, and theses and research papers.
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Formerly Grove Art Online, this is the definitive encyclopedia for the arts and design. This portal to Oxford art reference products includes cross-referenced articles and links to art images in galleries and museums. Articles are scholarly and include bibliographic references. This database contains Grove Art Online (the entire text of The Dictionary of Art), The Oxford Companion to Western Art, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, and is continually updated.
Simultaneous users: 6. Paid for by K-State Libraries
Over 60,000 biographies of men and women who have impacted British history and culture worldwide from the Romans to the 21st Century. Includes over 11,000 portraits.
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Online edition of one of the most authoritative sources for the English language. More manageable than the print edition and updated quarterly.
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Formerly Grove Music Online, this is the definitive encyclopedia for all things musical. It contains The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, New Grove Opera, and New Grove Jazz. Composer articles include biographies, works lists, and bibliographies of sources. Other articles cover topics such as musical genres, specific performers or ensembles, and theoretical and musicological vocabulary. For more concise entries Oxford Music Online also includes The Oxford Dictionary of Music and The Oxford Companion to Music.
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Funding provided by program start-up funds.
Access is limited. Current Physician Assistant Program faculty should contact the program director. Current Physician Assistant Program students should contact their faculty. Non-physician assistant faculty, staff, and students should email Cindy Logan (clogan@k-state.edu), librarian for public health.
Publication Dates Covered: 1915 - present. Paid for by K-State Libraries
Indexes publications on public affairs, public and social policies, international relations, and world politics from over 120 countries throughout the world. Articles are published in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese. Types of materials indexed include articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, conference reports, grey literature, and Internet materials. Newspapers and newsletters are not indexed. Includes access to PAIS Archive.
Publication Dates Covered: 1964 - present Paid for by K-State Libraries
Records on essential areas such as conflict resolution, international affairs, and peace psychology.
PEDro is the Physiotherapy Evidence Database created by the Centre for Evidence-Based Physiotherapy at the George Institute for Global Health. PEDro contains more than 30,000 randomized trials, systematic reviews, and clinical practice guidelines in the area of physiotherapy.
A database of Timpani and Percussion requirements for orchestral, operatic and contemporary repertoire. Each work included is broken down by movement, and notes specifically which instruments each player requires, and for more complex works, explanatory notes are included. Publication Dates Covered:1700 - present.
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A comprehensive guide to the journal literature on performing arts–drama, theater, dance, film, television, and more–from both scholarly and popular publications. Multidisciplinary fields include film, drama, dance, stagecraft, broadcast arts, circus performance, comedy, storytelling, and more.
University of Texas at Austin’s large digital collection of historical and current maps. Covers domestic and international. NOTE: the site search within this resource is not working, but the browse functions are working.
Indexes and abstracts for philosophy books and journals, including ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysics logic. Also includes materials on the philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education, and language.
PhilPapers is an open access, comprehensive index and archive of research literature in philosophy. This resource contains more than 1,700,000 research books and articles pertaining to metaphysics and epistemology; value theory; science, logic, and mathematics; history of western philosophy; philosophical traditions, and more.
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Find funding opportunities for disciplines including research, travel, curriculum development, equipment acquisition, and more. Includes private foundations, public agencies, governments, and corporations. Updated daily and easily searchable.
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PlantFacts merged several digital collections from Ohio State University. It contains an Internet search engine dealing strictly with plants along with images of ornamental plants, turf, plant diseases, and insects. Over 200 gardening how-to videos are available.
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The Plantwise Knowledge Bank is a global resource to help combat plant health problems. Select your location from the menu above to view country- or region-specific plant health information. You may use the diagnostic tool to find out what problem might be affecting your crop; use the site search to find information on management of pests and diseases; or use the map to view the distribution of up to three pest or crop species at a time.
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Find more than 31,000 plays by their author, subject, title, style, genre, cast type, and more. Database includes plot summaries and monologues. Can limit results to plays with a specific number of male and/or female roles, music requirements, and scenery requirements. Updated weekly.
Publication Dates Covered: 1931 - present Paid for by K-State Libraries
Professional Development Collection is intended for use by professionals in education, at all levels of teaching and supervision. It includes indexing and abstracts from 750 journals and full-text from over 500 education journals. Over 200 educational reports are also available. All topics in education and educational management are covered.
Full-text scholarly journals in the humanities, arts, and social sciences. Titles include the most widely held and heavily used core titles from noted academic publishers. Subjects include literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, mathematics and others.
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Project Muse offers a collection of open access books and journals. These titles are published by university presses and scholarly societies. Books and journals available through Project Muse's open access platform are available to libraries and users around the world for free.
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ProQuest Central brings together many of the most used ProQuest databases. It provides access to databases across all major subject areas (business, health and medical, social sciences, arts and humanities, education, science and technology, and religion). It includes 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: 1840-1865 Paid for by K-State Libraries
Find diverse viewpoints on the Civil War through pamphlets, and complete runs of regional newspapers from 1840 to 1865.
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Search Congressional hearings, public issues, legislation, and legal research. Includes the full-text of detailed information about Congress, expert testimony on the leading issues of the day, and federal regulations. Includes Serial Set and American State Papers. (Formerly LexisNexis Congressional).
Publication Dates Covered: 1861 - present; full text varies by school Paid for by K-State Libraries
Includes full text for many dissertations written after 1996, including some master’s theses. Copies of dissertations not available in full text in this database may be requested via interlibrary loan and/or purchased as microfilm or as unbound copies from UMI. You can limit the search to K-State dissertations only. Also, this database can be searched in the Web of Science (includes all databases) platform.
Publication Dates Covered: 1980 - present Paid for by K-State Libraries
Search the most recent global news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring content from newspapers, newswires, and news sites in active full-text format. This product provides one of the largest collections of news from the US, Canada, Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Australia. Includes ProQuest's Canadian Newsstream, International Newsstream, and US Newstream collections.
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This search interface allows you to search nearly all of the ProQuest databases subscribed to by K-State Libraries.
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.
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US Newsstream enables users to search current U.S. news content, as well as archives that stretch back into the 1980s. It features top newspapers, wires, broadcast transcripts, blogs, and news sites in full-text format. US Newsstream provides key national and regional news sources from the U.S. and includes exclusive and preferred access to top titles, including The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Newsday, and Chicago Tribune. US Newsstream is a subset of Global Newsstream.
Publication Dates Covered: 1894 - present Paid for by K-State Libraries
PsycArticles is a database of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber. The database includes all material from the print journals.
Publication Dates Covered: 1800s - 2017 Free Resource
Contains full-text reviews of books, APA videos, popular films, and software programs useful for practitioners or educators developing coursework. Although publishing ceased in 2017 all content is still freely available.
A text multimedia collection that synthesizes the most important psychological experiments of the 20th and 21st centuries, fostering deeper levels of understanding. These experiments have far-reaching impacts on fields as diverse as sociology, business, advertising, economics, political science, law, ethics, and the arts.
Publication Dates Covered: 1930 - present Paid for by K-State Libraries
Psychology & Behavioral Science Collection covers information about topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry and psychology, mental processes, anthropology, child and adolescent psychology, and observational and experimental methods in psychology. The full-text of more than 500 journals is available, including key journal backfiles from the 1960′s and 1970′s.
Publication Dates Covered: 1800s - present Paid for by K-State Libraries
Contains citations and abstracts of the world’s literature in psychology, behavioral sciences, and related subjects. It includes citations to journal articles from more than 1,900 journal titles, technical reports, and dissertations of psychological relevance from more than 50 countries. Also includes books and book chapters.
Publication Dates Covered: 1871 - present Free Resource
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A freely available, online database providing access to the worldwide literature on PTSD and other mental health consequences of exposure to traumatic events. It is produced by the National Center for PTSD, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, although it is not limited to literature on PTSD among Veterans..
Document types covered include journal articles, books, reports, newsletters, and dissertations.
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PubAg, created by the National Agricultural Library, is a portal to USDA-authored and other relevant agricultural research. At launch in 2015, it delivered over 40,000 full-text journal articles by USDA staff and citations to an additional 340,000 articles and continues to add citations and articles each month. The initial release also previews its directions for intended functionality and will serve as the foundation for further enhancements.
Publication Dates Covered: 1950 - present Free Resource
PubMed is a free service of the National Library of Medicine that includes over 21 million citations from Medline and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles.
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RAND Research provides free reports and eBooks addressing social and economic policy issues, both in the United States and overseas, with a focus on U.S. national security policy issues.
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Read It! supports reading comprehension skills for English-language learners, both students and adults. It is meant for users who have already learned basic English grammar and reading but need adapted reading material for a variety of subjects: history, civics and culture, science, math, literature and life skills. Includes helpful vocabulary and post-reading practice quizzes with answers. The core content design affirms existing proficiency and encourages reading comprehension progress.
Publication Dates Covered: 1890-1982 Paid for by K-State Libraries
Indexes popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States from 1890 through 1982. Includes citations for more than 3 million articles from 375 magazines.
Publication Dates Covered: 1969 - present Paid for by K-State Libraries
Full text access to approximately 100 important regional business publications from the United States and Canada, including those from Crain Communications.
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Includes more than 300 full-text journals, pertaining to topics such as world religions, biblical studies, language, and philosophy.
Created by the Transportation Research Board, RiP allows you to search more than 12,000 current or recently completed transportation research projects, most funded by Federal and State Departments of Transportation.
A single portal for discovery of restricted data in the federal statistical system. Detailed descriptions of each data asset are available. Users can search for data by topic, agency, and keywords. Questions should be directed to the owning agency, using the contact information on the page that describes the data. Users will need to apply for access to these data.
The Database developed by Association RIdIM is designed to facilitate discovery of music, dance, theatre and opera iconography images.
Publication Dates Covered: 1967 - present Paid for by K-State Libraries
A comprehensive bibliography of writings about music featuring citations, abstracts and indexes. It covers nearly one and a half million publications from the early 19th century to the present on traditional music, popular music, jazz, classical music, and related subjects, enhanced with the full text of over 260 periodicals. New titles are being added annually.
Publication Dates Covered: 1600 - present Free Resource
The International Inventory of Musical Sources - Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM) - inventoried primary sources are manuscripts or printed music, writings on music theory, and libretti. Resources are housed in libraries, archives, monasteries, schools and private collections and RISM documents written musical sources and where they can be found. Their motto: "Knowing what exists and where it is kept."
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Access a growing collection of conference proceedings and presentations on animal production and management. Includes presentations or papers presented at a U.S. or Canadian conferences or symposia. Dates and locations for upcoming conferences are listed.
Search Joseph Sabin’s bibliography of works on life and culture in North America from 1500 to 1926. Includes more than 29,000 full-text works, books, pamphlets, broadsides, and serials on topics such as Native Americans, agriculture, slavery and abolition.
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Sage Research Methods has the largest collection of qualitative methods books available online. It is the ultimate methods library with books, reference works, journal articles, and instructional videos by world-leading academics from across the social sciences.
Consists of large-scale, color plans of cities and towns in Kansas. In addition to street names and location of buildings, the maps also include details such as the construction materials and function of buildings, property boundaries, railroads, wells, etc.
The Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps Online Checklist provides a searchable database of the fire insurance maps published by the Sanborn Map Company housed in the collections of the Geography and Map Division. Covering multiple states and more than 3,000 city sets, this collection is continuously updated to reflect new acquisitions.
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A leader in point-of-care recommendations for the treatment of infectious diseases. Improves patient care by providing carefully curated recommendations based on the latest evidence. Their editorial process is wholly independent from outside corporate influence, and is focused on ensuring that content is accessible, concise, and reliable.
To search this index, select the "Editions" pull-down menu above the search boxes. Be sure only Science Citation Index Expanded is selected. In addition to searching by keyword, subject, author, etc. for articles in over 3,700 journals, a “cited reference” search can be conducted to see how frequently and where an article has been cited.
A portal that searches over 60 databases, over 2,200 websites, and over 200 million pages of authoritative federal science information in many formats, including full-text documents, citations, scientific data supporting federally funded research, and multimedia.
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This multidisciplinary resource indexes thousands of Elsevier journals and books. Full text is available for some of these publications. It is especially strong in topics related to the sciences, medicine, and technology.
Publication Dates Covered: 1907 - present Paid for by K-State Libraries
Click on database title to be taken to the next screen to register for an account and to access the database.
SciFindern is published by the American Chemical Society and provides access to CAplus, MedLine, CASREACT, and the Registry database from Chemical Abstracts Service. It includes relevance-ranked results, step-by-step procedures and protocols, citation mapping, biosequence searching, retrosynthetic analysis, parent landscape mapping, touch-screen enable structure drawing. Journal articles, book chapters, patents, conference proceedings, technical reports, a substance database, and dissertations are included.
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SciX covers and unifies the fields of Earth Science, Planetary Science, Astrophysics, and Heliophysics. It will also cover NASA funded research in Biological and Physical Sciences.
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. Full-text articles are available by using the Get It button.
Search It enables simultaneous searching of information about K-State Libraries' physical and online collections and about articles and other sources from hundreds of databases, journal publishers, and organizations.
This database provides essential legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world. This includes every statute passed by every colony and state on slavery, every federal statute dealing with slavery, and all reported state and federal cases on slavery. It also includes legal commentary, pamphlets and books on slavery from the 19th Century, as well as many modern histories of slavery.
Publication Dates Covered: 1980 - present Paid for by the State Library of Kansas
Find information on small businesses including business types, entrepreneurship, help and advice, and business plans. Includes business videos for owners to increase successful management. Includes almost 400 full-text business periodicals and more than 450 full-text reference books. State-specific resources are available.
To search this index, select the "Editions" pull-down menu above the search boxes. Be sure only Social Sciences Citation Index is selected. In addition to searching by keyword, subject, author, etc. for articles in over 3,200 journals, a “cited reference” search can be conducted to see how frequently and where an article has been cited.
Search research focused on social work, human services, social welfare, social policy, and community development.
A first-of-its-kind resource that pairs recently published social work textbooks along with compelling documentaries, clinical demonstration videos, and engaging lectures that illustrate the complex and challenging realities social work students will face as practitioners. The content is far reaching which impacts a variety of topics.
A multimedia resource that combines video—compelling documentaries and client demonstrations—with relevant text content to illustrate the complex and challenging realities practitioners see today..
Search international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Indexes journal articles, book reviews, books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers.
Publication Dates Covered: 1830 - present Simultaneous users: 4 Paid for by K-State Libraries
An international database for sports, sports medicine, physical fitness, physical education, physiology, and medicine. Also provides indexing of the Microform Publications collection of dissertations and theses of the International Institute for Sport and Human Performance.
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SpringerLink is a full-text database of journals, books, protocols, and eReferences published by Springer. K-State subscribes to the Computing and Biomedical and Life Sciences portions of the database. In addition to the newest information in these two sections, K-State has access to the historical archives of all the sections of the database. A wide range of subjects, ranging from sciences to the humanities, are covered.
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View a collection of laboratory protocols in the life sciences. Each protocol has step-by-step instructions for a specific laboratory method so that researchers in different laboratories can repeat the same experiment and reliably get the same results.
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Insights and facts across 600 industries and 50+ countries; includes Consumer Insights. Use as the starting point of your research to get facts and insights on topics that matter, expert research in condensed form, market outlooks, analyzed markets from 150+ countries, daily infographics, visualized global stories, and global consumer survey information.
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This open access collection of digitized primary sources documents the extensive history of student protest in the United States during the 20th and 21st centuries. The collection captures the voices of students from a variety of political viewpoints—from conservative to anarchist.
Swank Digital Campus provides select movies and TV shows requested by faculty to support campus courses. Faculty can request access to the online resources through K-State Libraries Video Request Form. Swank resources can be used for individual study or within a classroom context. Please note that Swank resources may only be publicized to members of an enrolled class.
For further information on video resources for teaching, a resource guide is available.
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Arabidopsis thaliana is a widely used model plant. This database maintains genetic and molecular biology data for this plant. TAIR includes the complete genome sequence along with gene structure, gene product information, gene expression, DNA and seed stocks, genome maps, genetic and physical markers, publications, and information about the Arabidopsis research community. It is updated weekly with the latest gene product function data from the latest published research literature and community data submissions.
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There are 2 individual products within TDM Studio.
The first product 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, and academic dissertations/theses. Visualization tools provide easy ways to manipulate the results. An account, using your K-State email address, must be created to use this database.
To help conduct more in-depth analysis, researchers with coding skills can request a workbench, from their subject librarian, that will allow for the 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.).
Publication Dates Covered: 1984 - present Paid for by K-State Libraries
K-12 teacher resources including assessment, best practices, continuing education, pedagogical research, curriculum development, and other areas of interest.
Search archived collections of newscasts from ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and Fox News. Also includes special programs such as presidential speeches, elections, and war coverage. Only searching is available, K-State does not have full-viewing rights. Full-viewing rights are available through a loan program from Vanderbilt.
Publication Dates Covered: 1944 - present Paid for by K-State Libraries
Access information about the scientific and technological aspects of textile production and processing. Includes indexing and abstracting for over 400 periodical titles, and for thousands of titles drawn from sources such as books, conferences, theses, technical reports, and trade literature. Includes subjects such as manufacturing techniques, textile end products, chemicals and dyes, the properties of natural and synthetic fibers and yarns, environmental issues, and the related areas of chemistry, biology, and physics.
Search more than 250 of the world’s most important plays and more than 100 video documentaries. Bookmark specific scenes, monologues, and staging examples for use in papers and course reserves.
The complete issues of more than two hundred years of The Times of London are available for keyword searching by users, including articles, advertisements, and illustrations. Coverage of specific events and trends can be reviewed, providing a contemporary view to modern researchers.
Publication Dates Covered: 1953-2018 Paid for by K-State Libraries
Coverage of current events with full text of over 140,000 articles from nearly 260 sources, including international newspapers, periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, and more. Explore social, political and economic, and scientific issues, including controversial opinions and viewpoints.
As of October 2022, TOXNET information has been integrated into other NLM products and services. Please consult the referral page for where the information is now located.
The Technical Report Archive & Image Library is an ongoing collaborative effort to identify, digitize, archive, and provide free access to federal technical reports. TRAIL includes reports from agencies such as the Atomic Energy Commission, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the National Bureau of Standards, the US Geological Survey, and more. A complete list of the included series is available at http://trailguides.crl.edu/series .
TRID provides access to over 900,000 records of transportation research worldwide and is comprised of the records from TRB’s Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) Database and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) Joint Transport Research Centre’s International Transport Research Documentation (ITRD) Database.
Started in 1983, the Center provides a database of resources concerning all aspects of turfgrass and its maintenance.
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Search 2000 full text plays by historical and social context, national heritage, gender, religion, literary movement and more. Provides unique avenues for research, teaching, and learning.
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The House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (HCCP) includes over 200,000 House of Commons sessional papers from 1715 to the present, with supplementary material back to 1688. HCPP delivers page images and searchable full text for each paper, along with detailed indexing. K-State provides access to the following modules: 18th century, 19th century, 20th century, 21st century (2000-2014), and the Hansard (1803-2005).
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Portal to free, publicly-available DOE-sponsored Research & Development results including technical reports, bibliographic citations, journal articles, conference papers, books, multimedia and data information. OSTI.GOV increases access to science, technology, and engineering research information from DOE and its predecessor agencies.
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Provides information about periodicals, covering more than 210,000 regularly and irregularly published serials including over 47,000 cessations since 1979. It includes purchasing and contact information for over 90,000 publishers in 200 countries. The Abstracting and Indexing Services (AI) field contains an abbreviation for any abstracting and indexing services that review the publication. The Special Features (SF) field lists abbreviations for components that are available in the periodical, such as indexes, abstracts, illustrations, and whether the journal is refereed.
This complete digital collection from LexisNexis includes both the United States Congressional Serial Set and its predecessor, the American State Papers. These two titles cover a broad spectrum of topics addressed by Congress and the President from this country’s early history to recent times.
USPTO's patent database houses full text for patents issued from 1976 to the present and PDF images for all patents from 1790 to the present.
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Point-of-care resource containing evidence-based decisions for treatment recommendations or drug information through a collection of patient and practitioner resources. Includes a variety of medical calculators. Contains more than 11,800 topics covering 25 specialties.
Contractually, access to UpToDate is only available via the proxy IP.
Create a guest account for limited access to case studies.
This resource requires that you create an account.
Provides information on more than 18,000 U.S. export and import commodities presented in the Harmonized Tariff Classification System (HS) and the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). Search for trade variants including port level detail, state export and imports, balance of trade, method of transportation, and market level ranking. Historical data is available monthly (2002-present) or annually (1992-present).
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Contains over 2.2 million abstracts, with over 145 thousand in full-text documents, news articles, book chapters, and disease datasheets. Species covered are ruminants, pigs, poultry, equine, fish & aquaculture, companion animals, exotics, zoo & wild animals, animal wellness & behavior.
Publication Dates Covered: 1985 - present Paid for by the State Library of Kansas
The Vocational & Career Collection provides more than 340 full-text trade and industry-related periodicals for vocational and technical research needs, primarily focusing upon audiences of K-12, community colleges, trade institutions, and the general public. Indexing and abstracts are also included for over 650 journals.
This database contains the entire run of Vogue magazine (US edition), from the first issue in 1892 to the current month, reproduced in high-resolution color page images. There are options to browse complete issues or search by garment type, designer, brand name, photographer and more.
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Publication Dates Covered: 2010 - present Paid for by K-State Libraries
Follow current business and financial news. Full-text of the articles is available. The Wall Street Journal, Eastern Edition (1984 - present) is also available.
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Simultaneously search the Korean Journal Database, Medline, the Russian Science Citation Index, the SciELO Citation Index, the Preprint Citation Index,™ ProQuest™ Dissertations & Theses Citation Index, and the Web of Science Core Collection.
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. Be sure all indexes are selected in the "Editions" pull-down menu above the search boxes. 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.
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World's Global Style Network (WGSN) is the world’s leading fashion and style forecaster, providing daily access to images, graphics, forecasting, trend and market analysis, business resources, research on products, and branding. Broad topics covered include fashion, interiors and beauty. WGSN content may be printed but not downloaded.
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Accounts must be approved by K-State's College of Business Administration before they can be used to access WRDS.
WRDS is a comprehensive economic and financial data management system intended for graduate and faculty-level research. The data, from various sources, covers multiple disciplines; covers thousands of companies; includes security prices and trading volume, income and balance sheet items, stock market indices, bond prices and interest rates, mutual fund and stock ownership information, options data, and a wide array of macroeconomic time series. International data, marketing and industry reports are also available. The data sets are downloaded and can be manipulated using Excel, SPSS, or SAS.
Publication Dates Covered: 1935 - present Paid for by K-State Libraries
Access literature on wild mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians from several U.S and international wildlife databases. All aspects of wildlife and wildlife management are covered.
Search a broad, multidisciplinary, full-text database of journals and books published by John Wiley & Sons with access to access to over 4 million articles from 1500 journals, over 15,000 online books, and hundreds of reference works and laboratory protocols.
Examines perspectives on women’s social movements from colonial times to the present. Brings together books, images, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies, documenting the multiplicity of women’s activism in public life.
Access to development indicators for more than 200 countries. Search or browse data sets from a number of access points, or view news articles and country profiles.
Provides firm-level data in emerging markets and developing economies for over 130,000 firms in 135 countries. Data are used to create indicators that benchmark the quality of the business and investment climates across countries. Data include surveys on topics such as finance, infrastructure, sales, competition, crime, business-government relations, labor, and performance.
Access international development information such as national economies, population, natural resources, the environment, and more. Includes 54 time series indicators from more than 200 countries and 18 country groups, since 1960.
The World Shakespeare Bibliography is one of the most comprehensive resources pertaining to Shakespeare-related scholarship and theatrical publications. Covering materials published between 1960 to the present, it contains more than 135,902 annotated entries, with international scholarship extending to more than 120 languages.
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Provides information about books, serials, videos, and other items cataloged by libraries around the world, including K-State. Editions and formats will be grouped together, not listed separately as in FirstSearch. Discovery processes searches similarly to Search It and may find additional resources beyond a FirstSearch search.
