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Library Databases

 

Databases provide library users easy access to more current information resources.  These links are designed to work from within the Kentucky State University network.     If you are using them from elsewhere, you may need to stop by the library for a list of current IDs and passwords.

AABD African American Biographical Databases
[http://aabd.chadwyck.com]
 
Biographies of over 30,000 African Americans in more than 40,000 biographical sketches from Chadwyck-Healey's acclaimed Black Biographical Dictionaries 1790-1950.  This database is updated monthly.

AABD

 

Books In Print
[http://www.booksinprint.com]

Provides users with access to:  
The complete Books In Print database of US titles; Books Out-of-Print; Children’s Books In Print;  Forthcoming Books;  Bowker’s Publisher Authority Database;  Bowker’s Complete Video Directory;  Words on Cassette.

booksinprint.com logo

 

CSA - Sociological Abstracts [http://www.csa.com/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username= kentst&access= kentst34&db= socioabs-set-c]
Abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from 1800+ publications.

 

EBSCOhost Web
[http://search.ebscohost.com ]

General and specialized databases in business, nursing, medicine, education, psychology, etc. Also features Books in Print with Reviews. Includes the full text of many periodicals.

EBSCOHost Web

 

Ethnic NewsWatch
[http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?RQT=306&TS=1199891363&clientId=51714]
Full text articles from newspapers and periodicals published by the ethnic and minority press in America.  This source has information on such topics as social justice, race relations, and bilingual education.  Ethnic NewsWatch is a collection of more than 600,000 full-text articles from 200 publications.

 

Ethnic NewsWatch

 

Gale Virtual Reference Library[http://find.galegroup.com/gvrl/start.do?prodId=GVRL&userGroupName=ksu_blazer]                              Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7.

Thomson Gale

 

GPO Access
[http://www.gpoaccess.gov/index.html]
Federal Government information from 1,500 databases covering topics such as Health, Law, Science & Technology, Business and Census statistics.

GPO Access

 
Greenwood Digital Collection
[http://ebooks.greenwood.com/browse/index.jsp]
Provides access to full-text multidisciplinary electronic books that can be read on the web.

 

Greenwood logo

 

Infotrac / Reference Gold
[http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/ksu_blazer]

General interest databases that contain information on business, industry, current events, the arts, science, entertainment, etc.

 

 

InfoTrac Web

 

Kentucky Virtual Library (KYVL)
[http://www.kyvl.org]

Provides the same databases offered by EBSCOhost Web and OCLC FirstSearch, plus access to the online catalogs of Kentucky universities and links to many useful reference sources.  Full text ERIC documents (journal and non-journal material on educational topics) can be found in this database.  Just choose the section, Find Books, Articles, and More.  Then choose Select a Single  Catalog or Database and click on the word, ERIC, to get to the database.  ERIC documents can also be found on microfilm at Blazer Library.  Ask a Reference Librarian for additional details.

KYVL home

 

Literature Research Center
http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/LitRC?locID=ksu_blazer

Literature Resource Center provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline.

 
My iLibrary
[http://www.myilibrary.com/browse/open.asp]
My iLibrary is a leading aggregated eContent platform, supplying content information and management services to millions of end users worldwide.

 
NetLibrary
[http://www.netlibrary.com]
NetLibrary provides access to Blazer library's eContent collection. eContent is the digital version of books, journals, and databases contents

 

Mosby's Nursing Consult
[www.nursingconsult.com]
Mosby's Nursing Consult brings the leading resources together in one integrated online service to help nurses efficiently find answers to pressing clinical questions. Mosby's Nursing Consult is the perfect resource for the clinical nurse, the nurse administrators and the nurse faculty.

 

 

OCLC FirstSearch
[http://newfirstsearch.oclc.org]

General and specialized databases with bibliographic citations in biology, applied science and technology, public affairs, etc.  No full text.

 

FirstSearch

 

/Oxford Art Online
[www.oxfordartonline.com][
www.oxfordartonline.com]
Oxford Art Online offers the most extensive and easily searchable online art resource available today.

Oxford Art Online

 

SIRS
[http://researcher.sirs.com]

SIRS provides full-text articles on social, scientific, health, historic, business, economic, political and other issues.

 

Sirs

 

ValueLine [http://www.valueline.com/secure/vlispdf/stk1700/index.aspx]
The Value Line Investment Survey is one of the most widely used independent investment information services in the world. Its up-to-date, weekly issues are also a comprehensive reference that has something useful for virtually every investor. In breadth of coverage it is encyclopedic, covering some 1,700 equity issues.

 

Wilson Web

 

Wilson Web [http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com/hww/jumpstart.jhtml]
General and specialized databases in Applied Science, Biology, Agriculture, Literature, Education, Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, and Library Science. Also features Book Review Digest Plus  and the Biograhy Reference Bank .

 

Wilson Web

 

Revised: 2/2008

 


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