Databases @ EKU Libraries
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ABC-CLIO eBook Collection
A broad online collection of encyclopedias, handbooks, dictionaries, and guides on history, culture, social issues, and other subjects. Formerly called "History Reference Online."
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Academic Search Premier
A broad, expansive database including full text coverage of nearly every area of academic study.
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African / African-American Studies,
Agriculture,
Air Force Science,
Anthropology,
Appalachian Studies,
Art and Design,
Aviation,
Biology,
Chemistry,
Communication,
Computer Science,
Distance Learning,
Economics,
Education,
English,
Environmental Health Science,
Exercise and Sport Science,
Family and Consumer Science,
Foreign Languages and Humanities,
General,
Geography and Geology,
Government and Law,
Health Promotion and Administration,
History,
Mathematics and Statistics,
Military Science,
Music,
Nursing,
Occupational Therapy,
Philosophy and Religion,
Physics and Astronomy,
Psychology,
Recreation and Park Administration,
Social Work,
Sociology,
Technology,
Theatre,
Women and Gender Studies
African American Experience
Extensive database of information relating to the African American Experience. Includes material from major multivolume print reference sets, such as The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Literature, Encyclopedia of Racism in the United States, and African American Religious Experience in America. Also includes hundreds of primary documents: manuscripts, speeches, court cases, quotations, advertisements, statistics, and other papers, plus over 4,000 interviews with former slaves—the WPA slave narratives—from the The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography.
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AGRICOLA
Materials relating to all aspects of agriculture; contains citations to journal articles, books, reports, theses
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Alt-Press Watch
Full text coverage of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the alternative and independent press
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African / African-American Studies,
Agriculture,
Air Force Science,
Anthropology,
Appalachian Studies,
Art and Design,
Biology,
Communication,
Computer Science,
Distance Learning,
Economics,
Education,
English,
Environmental Health Science,
Family and Consumer Science,
Foreign Languages and Humanities,
General,
Geography and Geology,
Government and Law,
Health Promotion and Administration,
History,
Military Science,
Music,
Nursing,
Occupational Therapy,
Philosophy and Religion,
Recreation and Park Administration,
Social Work,
Sociology,
Theatre,
Women and Gender Studies
America: History & Life
Abstracts of journal articles and book reviews in American History
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Access Note: Access limited to 6 simultaneous users – please close window when through with session. Ancestry Library Edition
Ancestry Library Edition is a genealogy research tool created for libraries that provides patrons instant access to a wide range of unique primary resources for genealogical and historical research. With more than 1.5 billion names in over 4,000 databases, Ancestry Library Edition includes records from the United States Census; military records; court, land and probate records; vital and church records; directories; passenger lists and more.
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Access Note: Access is limited to 2 simultaneous users. Anthrosource
Searchable database containing more than 250,000 articles from American Anthropological Association journals, newsletters, bulletins, monographs. Contains the complete archives for AAA's 32 publications, including American Anthropologist, Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Archeological Papers of the AAA and Visual Anthropology Review.
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Applied Science & Technology Index
Citation index in science and technology; covers leading trade and industrial publications, professional and technical society journals, specialized subject periodicals, plus buyers' guides, directories, and conference proceedings
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Access Note: Access is limited to 8 simultaneous users. Art Index
Citation index in art; covers an international array of peer-selected publications -- Latin American, Canadian, Asian and other non-Western art, new artists, contemporary art, exhibition reviews, and feminist criticism
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Access Note: Access is limited to 8 simultaneous users. Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AH Search)
Citation index in the arts and humanities; search by keyword or cited author/cited reference
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African / African-American Studies,
Air Force Science,
Anthropology,
Appalachian Studies,
Art and Design,
Biology,
Communication,
Economics,
English,
Environmental Health Science,
Family and Consumer Science
Birds of North America
Provides scientific information for each of the 716 species of birds nesting in the USA and Canada, with image and video galleries showing behaviors, habitat, nests, eggs and nestlings, recordings of bird’s songs and calls selected from the collection in Cornell’s Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds. Includes also an extensive bibliography for each species.
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Business Source Premier
Full text articles from 1300 scholarly journals. Subject coverage includes management, economics, finance, accounting, and international business with SWOT analyses and over 10,000 company profiles.
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CABI Online
Applied life sciences abstracts, covering the areas of Agriculture, Animal and Veterinary Sciences, Environmental Sciences, Human Health, Leisure and Tourism, Microbiology and Parasitology, Nutrition, and Plant Sciences. Includes the online versions of CAB Abstracts and Nutrition Abstracts (Global Health).
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Careers Internet Database
Online versions of career reports that cover education requirements, positive and negative aspects of each career, and interviews with people working in the field. Includes an interest assessment test, career news, and lists of best colleges and graduate schools specific to each career.
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Carlyle Letters Online
A collection of over 10,000 letters written by Thomas Carlyle and his wife Jane Welsh Carlyle. Browse their correspondence by date, by recipient, and by subject.
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CAS Chemical Abstracts Online
Group of chemistry and related databases. Includes Chemical Abstracts Online, Chemical Abstracts Old, Chemical Abstracts Registry, and selected Science Citation links to cited references.
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Access Note: Available evenings after 5:00 and weekends. Password access available at the Reference Desk in EKU Libraries. Students in some Chemistry classes may be assigned temporary passwords (see Chemistry Instructor). CCH Internet Employment Safety & Health
A research tool for legal consel and safety professionals who need coverage of the workplace regulations issued by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). Includes full text of laws, standards, and regulations issued by OSHA; explanations and analysis provided by CCH; the OSHA Field Inspection Reference Manual; and state laws and summaries.
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Access Note: Users must register a personal login consisting of their email address and a password of their choosing. CCH Internet Tax Research Network
Contains the entire Library of CCH tax resources, including federal and state tax reporters for all 50 states, tax guides, supporting documentation and in-depth coverage of tax issues.
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Access Note: Users must register a personal login consisting of their email address and a password of their choosing. Children's Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD)
Provides more than 250,000 reviews of children’s books, multimedia, audio books, etc. from 34 sources including The ALAN Review, Booklist, The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, CCBC Choices, The Five Owls, The Horn Book Magazine--Audio Reviews, The Horn Book Guide, Inis, KIRKUS Reviews, KLIATT, Library Media Connections, Resource Links and VOYA. National, state and international awards back to the first Newbery in 1922 and more than 60 best books lists, plus all state reading lists are included and updated annually. Curriculum Tools are also part of the database.
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Choice Reviews Online
Premier source for reviews of academic books, electronic media, and internet resources of interest to those in higher education
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Access Note: Access limited to 4 simultaneous users. CINAHL with Full Text
CINAHL with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 520 journals indexed in CINAHL. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index - with no embargo. It also provides indexing for over 2,950 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health.
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Cochrane Library
Contains high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making, including Cochrane and other systematic reviews, clinical trials, and more.
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Communications and Mass Media
Full text coverage of over 285 journals plus indexing and abstracts for over 390 journals in areas related to communications and mass media. Also includes a Communication Thesaurus, comprehensive reference browsing, and over 3,000 author profiles that include biographical data and bibliographic information.
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Contemporary Women's Issues (CWI)
Provides access to global information on women in over 150 countries; Indexes books, journals, newsletters, research reports from non-profit groups, government and international agencies, and fact sheets.
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CQ Supreme Court Yearbook Series
The Supreme Court Yearbook Series provides analysis of every decision from the nation’s highest court since the 1989-1990 term. Includes year-end overviews of Supreme Court terms, case summaries of every opinion written during each Supreme Court term, essays on the most significant cases from each year and the trends in each term, tables and figures on voting patterns and trends in constitutional law, and reference documents for understanding how the Supreme Court works.
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Criminal Justice Abstracts
Abstracts in criminal justice periodicals; Areas covered include trends, crime prevention and deterrence, juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, police, courts, punishment, and sentencing.
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Criminology : A SAGE Full-text Collection (SAGE Journals Online)
Includes the full-text of 15 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back twenty years, encompassing over 4,100 articles. It covers such subjects as Criminal Justice, Juvenile Delinquency, Juvenile Justice, Corrections, Penology, Policing, Forensic Psychology, and Family and Domestic Violence.
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Criminology: A SAGE Full-text Collection (CSA)
Includes the full-text of 15 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back twenty years, encompassing over 4,100 articles. It covers such subjects as Criminal Justice, Juvenile Delinquency, Juvenile Justice, Corrections, Penology, Policing, Forensic Psychology, and Family and Domestic Violence.
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Access Note: As of December 2009, Criminology will no longer be available through CSA. It will only be available through SAGE Journals Online. Dance Education Literature and Research descriptive index (DELRdi)
Index of literature and research from 1926 to the present that informs teaching, learning, and future directions of research in the field of dance education. It contains extensive descriptions of 4,100+ literary works including theses, dissertations, journal articles, conference proceedings and other reports from over 200+ different publications and organizations and 147 university dance programs.
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Dissertation Abstracts
Index to U.S., Canadian, British, and other European dissertations and theses. Coverage includes: basic data for 1861 to present; dissertation abstracts since 1980; and thesis abstracts since 1988.
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Dissertations & Theses Full Text
Includes 2.4 million dissertation and thesis citations from around the world from 1861 to the present day together with 1 million full text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. The database, added to EKU Library's collection in December 2008, offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works.
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ebrary
A collection of ebooks on a wide variety of subjects.
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Access Note: For full functionality (printing, copying & pasting, etc.) you will need to download the ebrary reader. EBSCO Animals
Topics relating to animals; indexing, abstracts and full text describing nature and habitat of animals; equivalent to print Encyclopedia of Animals
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EBSCOhost Web
Group of multi-disciplinary and subject databases covering all subject areas.
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African / African-American Studies,
Agriculture,
Air Force Science,
Anthropology,
Appalachian Studies,
Art and Design,
Biology,
Communication,
Computer Science,
Economics,
English,
Environmental Health Science,
Exercise and Sport Science,
Family and Consumer Science,
Foreign Languages and Humanities,
General,
Geography and Geology,
Government and Law,
Health Promotion and Administration,
History,
Military Science,
Music,
Nursing,
Occupational Therapy,
Philosophy and Religion,
Recreation and Park Administration,
Theatre,
Women and Gender Studies
EconLit with Full Text
Contains all of the indexing available in EconLit, plus full text for more than 400 journals. Covers fields including economics, capital markets, country studies, econometrics, economic forecasting, environmental economics, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, urban economics.
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Education Full Text
Includes comprehensive coverage of an international range of English-language periodicals, monographs and yearbooks. Contains abstracting and indexing coverage for over 475 periodicals included in Education Index as well as the full text of over 150 periodicals.
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Access Note: Access limited to 20 simultaneous users – please logoff when through with session. Education: A SAGE Full-Text Collection
This database includes the full text of 36 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, encompassing over 52,900 articles and up to 90 years of backfiles; covers such subjects as Adult and Continuing Education, Assessment, Multilingual Education, Content Areas, Curriculum, Early Childhood Education, Educational Administration, Educational Policy, Educational Psychology, Elementary and Primary Education, Family and Community, High School and Secondary Education, Higher Education, International Education, Leadership, Measurement and Testing, Middle School Education, Multicultural Education and Diversity, Philosophy of Education, Professional Development, Research Methods and Evaluation, School Counseling, School Finance and Budgeting, School Funding, School Health, School Law, School Reform, Special Education and Gifted Education, Standards, Teaching and Instruction, Teaching Methods, Technology, Theory of Education, and Vocational Education.
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Educational Administration Abstracts
Educational Administration Abstracts includes over 60,000 bibliographic records covering areas related to educational administration, including educational leadership, educational management, educational research, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.
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Effective Schools Research Link
Contains 1,500 research abstracts on topics ranging from strategies that work in the classroom to what works at the district level, and everything in between. An additional 72 abstracts are added each year. Coverage extends back to 1986.
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Access Note: Requires login information--ask at the library desk for information. ERIC (CSA)
Index to journal articles & reports in education. NOTE: EBSCOhost Web has links to ERIC Document Reproduction Service Full Text Documents (ED400000- ). Equivalent or Related Print Source: CIJE; RIE (Resources in Education)
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ERIC (EBSCOHost Web)
Index to journal articles & reports in education. NOTE: EBSCOhost Web has links to ERIC Document Reproduction Service Full Text Documents (ED400000- ). Equivalent or Related Print Source: CIJE; RIE (Resources in Education)
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Europa World Plus
Online version of the "Europa World Year Book" and the nine-volume "Regional Surveys of the World" series, covering political and economic information in more than 250 countries and territories.
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General Science Index
Citation index in the sciences; covers a broad range of fields in general interest periodicals and specialized journals as well
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Access Note: Access is limited to 4 simultaneous users. GeoRef
Guide to materials in geology & earth sciences; equivalent to print Bibliography and Index of Geology
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Grolier Online
Online versions of the "Encyclopedia America", "Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia", and "The New Book of Knowledge". Also includes several dictionaries, a thesaurus, an interactive world atlas, and resources for educators.
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Health Sciences: A SAGE Full-Text Collection (CSA)
Health Sciences: A SAGE Full-Text Collection includes the full text of 24 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back 23 years, encompassing over 6,000 articles.
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Access Note: As of December 2009, Health Sciences will no longer be available through CSA. It will only be available through SAGE Journals Online. Helminthological Abstracts (See "CABI Online")
Available online through
"CABI Online". Covers taxonomy, biology, pathology, immunology, diagnosis, epidemiology, treatment and control of all helminths (Monogenea, Aspidogastrea, Digenea, Cestoda, Acanthocephala, Nematoda) parasitic in man and domestic and wild animals.
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Historical Abstracts
Abstracts of journal articles and book reviews in World History
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Access Note: Access limited to 6 simultaneous users – please close window when through with session. Homeland Security Digital Library
Searchable collection of important U.S. policy documents, presidential directives, and national strategy documents as well as specialized resources such as theses and research reports from various universities, organizations, local agencies and state agencies.
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Access Note: For off-campus access, students will need to create a free account using their EKU email address in order to login. More information about logging in can be found here. Informa Healthcare
Search the pharmaceutical, life science and medical journal titles published by Informa Healthcare. EKU subscribes to "Issues in Comprehensive Nursing," "Issues in Mental Health Nursing," "Occupational Therapy in Health Care," "Physical and Occupational Therapy in Geriatrics," "Physical and Occupational Therapy in Pediatrics," and "The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse."
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Access Note: Full text available for the journals listed above. Request all other articles through ILLIAD. Informaworld
Search a collection of journals published by Taylor & Francis and Routledge covering the sciences, technology, social science, and humanities fields.
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African / African-American Studies,
Agriculture,
Air Force Science,
Anthropology,
Art and Design,
Aviation,
Biology,
Chemistry,
Communication,
Computer Science,
Distance Learning,
Economics,
Education,
English,
Environmental Health Science,
Exercise and Sport Science,
Family and Consumer Science,
Foreign Languages and Humanities,
General,
Geography and Geology,
Government and Law,
Health Promotion and Administration,
History,
Mathematics and Statistics,
Military Science,
Music,
Nursing,
Occupational Therapy,
Philosophy and Religion,
Physics and Astronomy,
Psychology,
Recreation and Park Administration,
Social Work,
Sociology,
Technology,
Theatre,
Women and Gender Studies
Access Note: Some full text available. Request all other articles through ILLIAD. InfoSci-OnlineLearning
5,000+ authoritative studies on the state of knowledge and practice on instructional technology, distance learning, and other educational applications of technology.
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Ingenta
Indexing and search alert service for more than 20,000 periodicals. Includes some full text.
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African / African-American Studies,
Agriculture,
Air Force Science,
Anthropology,
Appalachian Studies,
Art and Design,
Aviation,
Biology,
Communication,
Computer Science,
Distance Learning,
Economics,
Environmental Health Science,
Exercise and Sport Science,
Family and Consumer Science,
Foreign Languages and Humanities,
General,
Geography and Geology,
Government and Law,
Health Promotion and Administration,
History,
Mathematics and Statistics,
Military Science,
Music,
Nursing,
Occupational Therapy,
Philosophy and Religion,
Physics and Astronomy,
Recreation and Park Administration,
Technology,
Theatre,
Women and Gender Studies
IOPscience
Includes the full text for over 70 journals published by IOP. Includes scientific, technical, and medical content
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Journals@OVID
Includes the full text of select EKU subscribed nursing journals: American Journal of Nursing (AJN), American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Critical Care Nursing Quarterly, Family & Community Health, Health Care Management Review, Holistic Nursing Practice, Home Healthcare Nurse, Infants & Young Children, Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease, Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Nurse Educator, Nursing Administration Quarterly, Nursing Made Incredibly Easy!, Nursing Management, and Topics in Language Disorders.
The database also includes bibliographic information for hundreds of non-subscribed scientific, technical, and medical journals.
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Access Note: Access limited to 15 simultaneous users – please logoff when through with session. Select “Your Journals@Ovid” to search only the EKU subscribed journals. Select “Journals@Ovid Full Text” to search the entire database. JSTOR
Full-text articles for journals covering a broad range of subjects in Arts & Sciences including many of the core research and society published journals in economics, history, political science and sociology, ecology, mathematics and statistics, language and literature, music, film studies, folklore, performing arts, religion, art and architecture, law, psychology, public policy and administration, business, and education
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African / African-American Studies,
Agriculture,
Air Force Science,
Anthropology,
Appalachian Studies,
Art and Design,
Biology,
Communication,
Distance Learning,
Economics,
Education,
English,
Environmental Health Science,
Exercise and Sport Science,
Family and Consumer Science,
Foreign Languages and Humanities,
General,
Geography and Geology,
Government and Law,
Health Promotion and Administration,
History,
Mathematics and Statistics,
Military Science,
Music,
Nursing,
Occupational Therapy,
Philosophy and Religion,
Psychology,
Recreation and Park Administration,
Social Work,
Sociology,
Theatre,
Women and Gender Studies
LearningExpress Library
LearningExpress Library is a comprehensive, interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help its users succeed on academic or licensing tests. Includes scoring, complete answer explanations, and individualized analyses of results.
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Access Note: In order to take the tests, you must register for a personal account. Simply click on the "Register" button under "New User," and then create a personal login and password that you can remember. If logging in from off campus, you must first use your EKU email login/password when prompted, and then you'll need to login with your LearningExpress personalized login and password. Library Literature & Information Science
Citation index in the library and information sciences; covers English and foreign-language periodicals, selected state journals, conference proceedings, pamphlets, books, and library school theses, and over 300 books per year
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Access Note: Access is limited to 20 simultaneous users. Life Sciences Collection : JSTOR
The Life Sciences Collection is JSTOR's largest collection, with over 5.5 million pages available today and scheduled to grow to more than seven million. At its completion, it will comprise a minimum of 160 titles spanning disciplines in the biological, health, and general sciences. Includes the Biological Sciences Collection and the Health & General Sciences Collection.
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Literature Criticism Online
Includes complete, searchable backfiles for 6 of the Gale “Literature Criticism” book series: Contemporary, 20th Century, 19th Century, Shakespeare, Poetry, and Short Stories.
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Literature Resources from Gale
A comprehensive online literary site that includes books, journals, and essays covering biographical, critical, and contextual information on authors and their works.
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Access Note: Access is limited to 3 simultaneous users. MAS FullTEXT Ultra School Edition
Magazine article summaries and general index for general interest and current events magazines, and general reference sources; includes Magill's Book Reviews, CIA World Factbook, Essential Documents in American History, news weeklies, New York Times, USA Today; school edition, K-12
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MasterFile Premier
Index to periodical articles on subjects including general reference, business, health; includes Magill's Book Reviews, CIA World Factbook, Essential Documents in American History, journals, magazines, and newspapers
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African / African-American Studies,
Agriculture,
Air Force Science,
Anthropology,
Appalachian Studies,
Art and Design,
Biology,
Communication,
Computer Science,
Distance Learning,
Economics,
Education,
English,
Environmental Health Science,
Exercise and Sport Science,
Family and Consumer Science,
Foreign Languages and Humanities,
General,
Geography and Geology,
Government and Law,
Health Promotion and Administration,
History,
Military Science,
Music,
Nursing,
Occupational Therapy,
Philosophy and Religion,
Recreation and Park Administration,
Theatre,
Women and Gender Studies
MathSciNet
Abstracts and reviews of research literature in mathematics, computer science, statistics; includes print sources Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications
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Mental Measurements Yearbook
Mental Measurements Yearbook, produced by the Buros Institute at the University of Nebraska, provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. Designed for an audience ranging from novice test consumers to experienced professionals, the MMY series contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership.
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Micromedex Healthcare Series
Includes unbiased, referenced information about drugs, toxicology, diseases, acute care, and alternative medicine.
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Access Note: Access limited to nursing students - request login information from nursing faculty. MLA International Bibliography
Provides a classified listing and subject index for books and articles published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics; annually indexes over 66,000 books and articles. Equivalent to the print MLA International Bibliography
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Music-in-Print Series
Includes the Music-In-Print volumes on Sacred Choral, Secular Choral, Classical Vocal, Orchestral, String, Classical Guitar, Woodwind, Organ and Piano Music In Print. The series also includes a collection entitled Miscellaneous Music In Print which includes Band, Brass, Handbell, Percussion and Harp music. Please note that the base volume of String Music In Print (1973) is not available online.
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National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts
Contains summaries of over 189,000 U.S. and international publications, including federal, state, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, audiovisual presentations, and unpublished research. The NCJRS Abstracts Database excludes most legal decisions, opinions, and statutes.
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National Fire Codes Online
Access to the complete set of the nearly 300 NFPA® codes and standards, including NFPA 101®: Life Safety Code®, NFPA 72®: National Fire Alarm Code®, NFPA 13: Installation of Sprinkler Systems, NFPA 70®: National Electrical Code®, NFPA 70E®: Standard for Electrical Safety in the Workplace®, that define fire, electrical, and building safety today.
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Naxos Music Library
Naxos Music Library [NML] is the world's largest online classical music library. It also includes world music, jazz, film music, nostalgia, classic and contemporary rock content. Currently, it offers streaming access to more than 23,990 CDs with more than 341,300 tracks.
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Access Note: Access is limited to 5 simultaneous users. NCJRS (National Criminal Justice Reference Service)
Web version of criminal justice publications from U.S. Justice Department; more than 170,000 criminal justice publications, including Federal, State, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research; collection of 7,000+ full-text publications in NCJRS Virtual Library
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NETC LRC Online Card Catalog
The Online Card Catalog (OCC) is the index that provides bibliographic access only to the collection of the National Emergency Training Center's (NETC) Learning Resource Center (LRC).
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NetLibrary
A collection of electronic books covering numerous subject disciplines.
Important tips and information about NetLibrary can be found here.
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African / African-American Studies,
Agriculture,
Air Force Science,
Anthropology,
Appalachian Studies,
Art and Design,
Aviation,
Biology,
Communication,
Computer Science,
Distance Learning,
Economics,
English,
Environmental Health Science,
Exercise and Sport Science,
Family and Consumer Science,
Foreign Languages and Humanities,
General,
Geography and Geology,
Government and Law,
Health Promotion and Administration,
History,
Mathematics and Statistics,
Military Science,
Music,
Nursing,
Occupational Therapy,
Philosophy and Religion,
Physics and Astronomy,
Recreation and Park Administration,
Social Work,
Sociology,
Technology,
Theatre,
Women and Gender Studies
Access Note: Each ebook in NetLibrary has a limit of 1 user at a time. New York Times Historical (ProQuest)
The New York Times (1851-2005) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
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African / African-American Studies,
Agriculture,
Air Force Science,
Anthropology,
Appalachian Studies,
Art and Design,
Biology,
Communication,
Computer Science,
Distance Learning,
Economics,
Education,
English,
Environmental Health Science,
Family and Consumer Science,
Foreign Languages and Humanities,
General,
Geography and Geology,
Government and Law,
Health Promotion and Administration,
History,
Military Science,
Music,
Nursing,
Occupational Therapy,
Philosophy and Religion,
Physics and Astronomy,
Recreation and Park Administration,
Social Work,
Sociology,
Theatre,
Women and Gender Studies
Newsbank
Access World News contains the full-text content of over 700 local and regional newspapers. Also included is an electronic image edition of the New York Times. This is an exact digital reproduction of the print editions, with keyword searching and ability to browse the full publication.
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African / African-American Studies,
Agriculture,
Air Force Science,
Anthropology,
Appalachian Studies,
Art and Design,
Biology,
Communication,
Computer Science,
Correctional and Juvenile Justice Studies,
Criminal Justice and Police Studies,
Distance Learning,
Economics,
Education,
English,
Environmental Health Science,
Family and Consumer Science,
Foreign Languages and Humanities,
General,
Geography and Geology,
Government and Law,
Health Promotion and Administration,
History,
Military Science,
Music,
Nursing,
Occupational Therapy,
Philosophy and Religion,
Physics and Astronomy,
Recreation and Park Administration,
Safety Security and Emergency Management,
Social Work,
Sociology,
Theatre,
Women and Gender Studies
Access Note: Access World News is available both on-campus and off-campus. The electronic image editions are NOT accessible off-campus. Notable Kentucky African Americans Database
The Notable Kentucky African Americans Database (NKAA) has been developed as a finding aid to bring together a brief description of pertinent names, places, and events, and to list the sources where additional information may be found.
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NoveList
Readers' advisory for fiction, and links to other home pages and fiction related web sites; includes reviews and descriptions; reviews from Library Journal, Publisher's Weekly, Booklist, Kirkus from 1996-
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Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center covers social issues such as Gun Control, Genetic Engineering, Censorship, Endangered Species, and Terrorism. Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center brings together viewpoint articles, contextual topic overviews, government and organizational statistics, biographies of social activists, court cases, profiles of government agencies and special interest groups, newspaper and magazines articles, primary source documents, images, and a collection of subject-indexed Web sites.
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Ovid
Includes the full text of select EKU subscribed nursing journals (select “Your Journals@Ovid” to search only the EKU subscribed journals). The database also includes bibliographic information for hundreds of scientific, technical, and medical journals (select “Journals@Ovid Full Text” to search the entire database)
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Access Note: Access limited to 15 simultaneous users – please logoff when through with session so that others may access the database. Oxford Reference Online
Searchable database of over 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. Includes access to the Oxford Companions Series.
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African / African-American Studies,
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Distance Learning,
Economics,
English,
Environmental Health Science,
Family and Consumer Science,
Foreign Languages and Humanities,
General,
Geography and Geology,
Government and Law,
Health Promotion and Administration,
History,
Military Science,
Music,
Nursing,
Occupational Therapy,
Philosophy and Religion,
Physics and Astronomy,
Reference,
Social Work,
Theatre,
Women and Gender Studies
Oxford Scholarship Online - Social Work Collection
The award-winning social work eBook collection at Oxford, added January 2009, reflects the wide range of the field and the depth of its growing body of research. Strengths in broad areas of the discipline, such as child welfare and mental health, are supported by a particular focus on research methods and evidence-based practice.
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PILOTS
The PILOTS database, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, includes citations to literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events
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Play Index
Search over 30,000 plays written from Antiquity to the present and published from 1949 to the present. Covers a wide range of plays written in or translated into English, including mysteries, pageants, plays in verse, puppet performances, radio and television plays, and classic drama. Search for plays by title, author, subject, genre, cast type, and more.
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Access Note: Access is limited to 4 simultaneous users. Praeger Security International Online (PSIO)
PSIO provides information on security and terrorism. All books published by Praeger Security International are included in the database, as well as news feeds and other documents related to international security, defense and foreign policy, regional security, military history, and terrorism.
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Primary Search
Magazine articles, pamphlets and reference sources for elementary schools; includes K-12 magazines, documents of American History database, CIA World Factbook, and other reference sources
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ProjectMUSE
Collection of electronic scholarly journals in the humanities and the social sciences
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African / African-American Studies,
Anthropology,
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Communication,
Economics,
Education,
English,
Geography and Geology,
History,
Foreign Languages and Humanities,
Government and Law,
Health Promotion and Administration,
Music,
Social Work,
Sociology,
Theatre,
Women and Gender Studies
ProQuest Newspapers
National Newspapers Core is a single source for coverage of the nation's leading newspapers. National Newspapers Core includes abstracting, indexing, and comprehensive full text for The Christian Science Monitor, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. Researchers can find the information they need quickly because of the database's detailed indexing.
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African / African-American Studies,
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Communication,
Computer Science,
Distance Learning,
Economics,
Education,
English,
Environmental Health Science,
Family and Consumer Science,
Foreign Languages and Humanities,
General,
Geography and Geology,
Government and Law,
Health Promotion and Administration,
History,
Military Science,
Music,
Nursing,
Occupational Therapy,
Philosophy and Religion,
Physics and Astronomy,
Recreation and Park Administration,
Social Work,
Sociology,
Theatre,
Women and Gender Studies
PsycARTICLES
PsycARTICLES is a definitive source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. The database contains more than 45,000 articles from 57 journals. It includes all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1985 to present.
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PsychiatryOnline
This new database (added August 2009) features the DSM-IV, including the Handbook of Differential Diagnosis, Casebook, and Treatment Companion. It also includes the full text of journals such as The American Journal of Psychiatry, Psychiatric Services, Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, Psychosomatics, and Academic Psychiatry. Finally, it includes a number of additional resources such as textbooks, APA practice guidelines, self-assessment tools for board certification, medication information handouts, and clinical & research news.
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PsycINFO
Abstracts of journal articles, book chapters and dissertations; from American Psychological Association
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Research Starters - Business
Research Starters are study and research guides designed specifically for advanced high school students, college students and selected graduate students. They consist of comprehensive, yet concise topic summary articles of about 3,000 words in length written by researchers, scholars and other subject matter experts.
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Access Note: This is available on a trial basis until June 30, 2009. Research Starters - Education
Research Starters are study and research guides designed specifically for advanced high school students, college students and selected graduate students. They consist of comprehensive, yet concise topic summary articles of about 3,000 words in length written by researchers, scholars and other subject matter experts.
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Access Note: Trial database from EBSCO - available through June 30, 2009.
Safari Tech Books Online
Searchable collection of technical books. To browse titles owned by EKU, in the Search box, click on “My Bookshelf” and then hit the blue "Go" button.
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Access Note: This resource is available to 2 simultaneous users only. Science Citation Index
Provides access to current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references found in 3,700 of the world's leading scholarly science and technical journals.
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ScienceDirect
Full text collection of online science and social science journals.
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Aviation,
Biology,
Chemistry,
Environmental Health Science,
Exercise and Sport Science,
Geography and Geology,
Library and Information Science,
Mathematics and Statistics,
Physics and Astronomy,
Psychology,
Safety Security and Emergency Management,
Technology
Social Sciences Citation Index
Provides access to current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references found in over 1,700 of the world's leading scholarly social sciences journals.
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African / African-American Studies,
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Business,
Education,
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History,
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Library and Information Science,
Nursing,
Occupational Therapy,
Recreation and Park Administration,
Sociology,
Women and Gender Studies
SPORTDiscus
Journal articles, books, dissertations on sports, recreation, fitness, and physical education
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Access Note: Access restricted to 4 simultaneous users. Stat-USA
Statistical data from U.S. Government sources
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Access Note: Available in Crabbe Library in Documents and Reference; password restricted Tests in Print
Produced by the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements at the University of Nebraska, Tests in Print (TIP) serves as a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language. TIP provides vital information to users including test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s).
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Walt Whitman Archive
The Walt Whitman Archive is an electronic research and teaching tool that sets out to make Whitman's vast work, for the first time, easily and conveniently accessible to scholars, students, and general readers. His many notebooks, manuscript fragments, prose essays, letters, and voluminous journalistic articles all offer key cultural and biographical contexts for his poetry. The Archive sets out to incorporate as much of this material as possible, drawing on the resources of libraries and collections from around the United States and around the world.
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Web of Knowledge
Simultaneously searches 5 databases: CAB Abstracts, Medline, Science Citation Index (SCI), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), and Zoological Record.
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African / African-American Studies,
Agriculture,
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Anthropology,
Appalachian Studies,
Art and Design,
Aviation,
Biology,
Communication,
Computer Science,
Distance Learning,
Economics,
Environmental Health Science,
Exercise and Sport Science,
Family and Consumer Science,
Foreign Languages and Humanities,
General,
Geography and Geology,
Government and Law,
Health Promotion and Administration,
History,
Mathematics and Statistics,
Military Science,
Music,
Nursing,
Occupational Therapy,
Philosophy and Religion,
Physics and Astronomy,
Psychology,
Recreation and Park Administration,
Social Work,
Technology,
Theatre,
Women and Gender Studies
Westlaw Campus Research
Full text coverage of thousands of news databases arranged geographically and topically, hundreds of newswires as well as business, trade, and professional publications. Full text access to federal and state case and statutory law, and European Union information.
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WorldCat (FirstSearch)
Books and other materials in libraries worldwide
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African / African-American Studies,
Agriculture,
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Appalachian Studies,
Art and Design,
Aviation,
Biology,
Communication,
Computer Science,
Correctional and Juvenile Justice Studies,
Criminal Justice and Police Studies,
Distance Learning,
Economics,
Education,
English,
Environmental Health Science,
Exercise and Sport Science,
Family and Consumer Science,
Foreign Languages and Humanities,
General,
Geography and Geology,
Government and Law,
Health Promotion and Administration,
History,
Mathematics and Statistics,
Military Science,
Music,
Nursing,
Occupational Therapy,
Philosophy and Religion,
Psychology,
Recreation and Park Administration,
Safety Security and Emergency Management,
Technology,
Theatre,
Women and Gender Studies
WorldCat.org
Freely available website that includes records for the holdings (databases, books, journals, sound recordings, videos, etc.) of libraries worldwide.
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African / African-American Studies,
Agriculture,
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Anthropology,
Appalachian Studies,
Art and Design,
Biology,
Business,
Chemistry,
Communication,
Computer Science,
Distance Learning,
Economics,
Education,
English,
Environmental Health Science,
Exercise and Sport Science,
Family and Consumer Science,
Foreign Languages and Humanities,
General,
Geography and Geology,
Government and Law,
Health Promotion and Administration,
History,
Military Science,
Music,
Nursing,
Occupational Therapy,
Philosophy and Religion,
Physics and Astronomy,
Psychology,
Recreation and Park Administration,
Social Work,
Sociology,
Theatre,
Women and Gender Studies
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