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Kansas
Library Card Databases
If links below do not work, try the Kansas Library Card web site.
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•General Information (Magazines & Journals,
Newspapers,
Encyclopedias, Books)
•Business & Technology
•Best for Kids & Students
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•Health & Medical Information
•En Español
•Specialized Information
•Employment & Career |
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Magazines & Journals
Academic OneFile: Science, Technology and Medicine, the humanities and more. For academics and students, undergraduate and postgraduate.
General OneFile: Time, Newsweek, Consumer Reports and thousands more magazines full text.
Expanded Academic ASAP, 1980-present: covers all academic areas, full text.
Newspapers
Custom Newspapers: full text from over 150 worldwide newspapers
Encyclopedia
WorldBook Encyclopedia: entire 22 volume print edition plus multimedia, interactive atlas, dictionary.
WorldBook Advanced: For secondary and college students, integrates primary and secondary source databases in a single search.
Books
Kansas Library Catalog (KLC): search holdings of 900 Kansas libraries.
Talking Book Catalog: Books, magazines and other materials available to qualified patrons through the Talking Books program.
Audio books, Music & More: You can browse and search hundreds of great titles and download them to your computer, transfer them to a portable device, or burn onto a CD for your reading and listening pleasure anywhere, anytime.
WorldCat (OCLC): catalog of library holdings worldwide, over 96 million books and other materials.
Virtual Reference Library: E-books, including science, health, history, and culture.

Business & Company Resource Center: company & industry information
Business & Company Profiles: Over 200,000 combined directory listings including the Graham & Whiteside international company directories.
Computer Database: news & reviews of hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communication and technology applications
Online Computer Classes: The interactive tutorial courses found here will take your computer skills to the next level, while allowing you to learn at your own pace. |

Health & Wellness Resource Center, 1980 – present: consumer & alternative health information
Health Reference Center Academic, 1980 – present: full text of nursing & allied health journals
Nursing & Allied Health Source, 1986- present: full text of nursing, allied health, alternative & complementary medicine
Health Source - Consumer Edition: A rich collection of consumer health information.
Kansas Health Online: Tools to compare hospitals, find doctors and information about healthy lifestyles to help you make healthy choices.

Informe, 1994 – present: articles from Spanish & bilingual magazines & newspapers
WorldBook Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos: La Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos está organizada de modo que los estudiantes puedan encontrar información rápida y fácilmente. Pulse en la primera letra del título del artículo para ver el artículo.

Books and Authors: Combining over 140,000 titles, 50,000 authors, and thousands of read-alike, award winner and librarian's favorites lists, Books & Authors helps bring readers and literature together. Chilton's Auto Repair: Quick online access to repair, maintenance and service information on the most popular cars, trucks, vans and SUVs on the road today.
HeritageQuest: Search US federal censuses 1790-1930, family & local histories, tax lists, city directories, probate records.
LegalTrac: Indexing over 875 titles, including major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals and international legal journals.
Literature Resource Center: Biographical and bibliographical information covering over 130,000 writers.
Military and Intelligence Database: Journals related to military and intelligence topics.
Employment & Career
Knowledge is power! |

Student Resource Center Gold: Award-winning content based on national curriculum standards featuring original reference material, a massive archive of primary source documents and periodicals and newspapers that are updated daily.
DISCovering Collection: Thousands of overview essays, critical analyses, biographies, primary sources, creative works and multimedia elements.
Junior Reference Collection: Approximately 8,000 reference documents from UXL reference sources, covering biographies, authors, science, cultures, and geography.
Student Edition: Content from authoritative reference works,
including Asimov’s Chronology of Science
& Discovery, The Columbia Encyclopedia,
Encyclopedia of American Facts and Dates,
Merriam-Webster’s® Biographical Dictionary,
World Almanac and Book of Facts, and much more.
Junior Edition: For the middle school student, including newspaper & magazine articles, encyclopedia & almanac articles, maps, and much more.
Kids InfoBits: For K - 5th grade. Contains full-text proprietary content
from Blackbirch Press® and UXL. Also included are
more than 100 full-text, age-appropriate magazines,
more than 6,400 searchable, indexed images,
Merriam-Webster®’s Elementary Dictionary and
1,200 maps, flags & seals and over 1,700 colorful
charts and graphs. It features a developmentally
appropriate and visual graphic interface.
History Resource Center - U.S.: Brings
together a broad collection of full-text
periodicals, reference works, primary
documents and scholarly analysis about U.S. history.
History Resource Center - World: Brings
together a broad collection of full-text
periodicals, reference works, primary
documents and scholarly analysis about world history.
Homework Kansas: Get free help with homework through online tutoring, and even get your papers proofread.
WorldBook Encyclopedia: entire 22 volume print edition plus multimedia, interactive atlas, dictionary.
World Book Kids: Designed especially for younger users, English-language learners, and reluctant readers. Offers simple navigation, easy-to-read content and a graphical design.
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Free
quality web sites with many free full-text articles
- BASE: Bielefeld Academic Search Engine. Multi-disciplinary search engine, created and developed by Bielefeld University Library, for scientifically relevant web resources using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol.
- Directory
of Open Access Journals: From Lund University,This service
covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and
scholarly journals. They aim to cover all subjects and languages.
There are now over 5104 journals in the directory.
- ERIC: Educational Resource Information Center, provides access to abstracts of education literature and resources.
- FindArticles.com:
FindArticles gives you free access to millions of articles
from thousands of top publications in various industries
and general interest.
- Free
Medical Journals: Allows access to full text articles
from medical journals that are free now and those that are
free 1-6 months after publication.
- Google
Scholar: Enables you to search scholarly literature,
including peer-reviewed papers, theses, and books.
- HighWire
Press: From Stanford University, HighWire provides almost 6 million full text, peer-reviewed articles for free (and many more for a price) from
1277-plus journals.
- LivRe. Portal to free access journals on the Internet - 4073 titles. From Brazil.
- Open J-Gate. Provides seamless access to millions of journal articles available online, indexed from 6953 open access journals, with links to full text at publisher sites. From India.
- PubMed
Central: NIH's free digital archive of biomedical and
life sciences journal literature (with free, full text articles
from hundreds of journals).
- Public
Library of Science:PLoS
publishes peer-reviewed, open access scientific and medical
journals. All PLoS articles are immediately freely accessible
online and can be redistributed and reused according to
the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.
- Scirus. Scirus is the most comprehensive scientific research tool on the web. With over 370 million scientific items indexed, it searches for journal content, scientists' homepages, courseware, pre-print server material, patents and institutional repository and web site information.
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