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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,
Books)
•Business & Technology
•Best for Kids & Students
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•Health & Medical Information
•En Español
•Specialized Information |
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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
Infotrac Newstand: you can search a collection of thousands of national, international, state and local newspapers.
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.
Kansas EZ Library: You can browse and search hundreds of great titles and download them to your computer, transfer them to a portable device 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
Computer Database: news & reviews of hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communication and technology applications |

Health & Wellness Resource Center, 1980 – present: consumer & alternative health information
Nursing & Allied Health Source, 1986- present: full text of nursing, allied health, alternative & complementary medicine
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

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.
Kansas History: Provides access to a variety of documents: memoirs, pamphlets, political speeches, sermons and songs, legal treatises and children's books, from 1854-1865.
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.
Price It!: The most comprehensive collectible pricing tool in the world. This online resource delivers 23 million realized prices on treasures collected everyday.
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LearningExpress Library
LearningExpress Library: For new users, click here. Already have an account? Click here. Whatever your goal, LearningExpress Library's resources will help you succeed. Each of our Learning Centers offers the practice tests, exercises, skill-building courses, and information you need to achieve the results you want-at school, at work, or in life. Looking to land a job? You'll find an entire Learning Center dedicated to helping you get the one that's right for you. |

Britannica Online School Edition: Offers encyclopedias and related materials for students of all levels. Users can also take advantage of the Learning Materials, a collection of educational exercises, activities, and study guides. In the library, click here to access. To access remotely with your library card, click here.
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'sŪ 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 PressŪ and UXL. Also included are
more than 100 full-text, age-appropriate magazines,
more than 6,400 searchable, indexed images,
Merriam-WebsterŪ's Elementary Dictionary and
1,200 maps, flags & seals and over 1,700 colorful
charts and graphs. It features a developmentally
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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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