Dodge City Public Library
Dodge City Public Library
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capitol Agriculture
capitol Criminal Justice
capitol Culinary Arts
capitol Hospitality, Tourism, & Leisure

capitol Fine Arts & Music
capitol Gardening, Landscaping, & Horticulture
capitol Home Improvement
capitol Environmental Studies

General Information (Magazines & Journals,
Newspapers, Encyclopedias, Books)
Business & Technology
Best for Kids & Students
Health & Medical Information
En Español
Specialized Information
Employment & Career

General Information

Magazines & Journals

capitol Academic OneFile: Science, Technology and Medicine, the humanities and more. For academics and students, undergraduate and postgraduate.
capitol General OneFile: Time, Newsweek, Consumer Reports and thousands more magazines full text.
capitol Expanded Academic ASAP, 1980-present: covers all academic areas, full text.

Newspapers

capitol Custom Newspapers: full text from over 150 worldwide newspapers

Encyclopedia

capitol WorldBook Encyclopedia: entire 22 volume print edition plus multimedia, interactive atlas, dictionary.
capitol WorldBook Advanced: For secondary and college students, integrates primary and secondary source databases in a single search.

Books

capitol Kansas Library Catalog (KLC): search holdings of 900 Kansas libraries.
capitol Talking Book Catalog: Books, magazines and other materials available to qualified patrons through the Talking Books program.
capitol 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.
capitol WorldCat (OCLC): catalog of library holdings worldwide, over 96 million books and other materials.
capitol Virtual Reference Library: E-books, including science, health, history, and culture.

Business & Technology

capitol Business & Company Resource Center: company & industry information
capitol Business & Company Profiles: Over 200,000 combined directory listings including the Graham & Whiteside international company directories.
capitol Computer Database: news & reviews of hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communication and technology applications
capitol 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/Medical Information

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

En Espanol

capitol Informe, 1994 – present: articles from Spanish & bilingual magazines & newspapers
capitol 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.

Specialized Information

capitol 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.
capitol 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.
capitol HeritageQuest: Search US federal censuses 1790-1930, family & local histories, tax lists, city directories, probate records.
capitol LegalTrac: Indexing over 875 titles, including major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals and international legal journals.
capitol Literature Resource Center: Biographical and bibliographical information covering over 130,000 writers.
capitol Military and Intelligence Database: Journals related to military and intelligence topics.

Employment & Career

capitol Adult Education & Career Center: Many features for job-seekers, including career help and resume proofreading.

Knowledge is power!
Knowledge is power!

Best for Kids

capitol 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.
capitol DISCovering Collection: Thousands of overview essays, critical analyses, biographies, primary sources, creative works and multimedia elements.
capitol Junior Reference Collection: Approximately 8,000 reference documents from UXL reference sources, covering biographies, authors, science, cultures, and geography.
capitol 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.
capitol Junior Edition: For the middle school student, including newspaper & magazine articles, encyclopedia & almanac articles, maps, and much more.
capitol 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.
capitol 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.
capitol History Resource Center - World: Brings together a broad collection of full-text periodicals, reference works, primary documents and scholarly analysis about world history.
capitol Homework Kansas: Get free help with homework through online tutoring, and even get your papers proofread.
capitol WorldBook Encyclopedia: entire 22 volume print edition plus multimedia, interactive atlas, dictionary.
capitol 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.


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.

 

Useful Databases
Books & Authors
Chilton Auto Repair
Academic One File
General One File
Expanded Academic ASAP
Literature Resource Center
Business and Company Resource Center
Health and Wellness Resource Center
LegalTrac
Military and Intelligence Collection
Fine Arts & Music Collection
Computer Database
Culinary Arts Collection
Criminal Justice Collection
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