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The Humanities E-Book Project has over 500 works of major importance to the field of history. This database is available on campus, and off-campus with WKU email and password login.

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ACS Web contains journals and magazines published by the American Chemical Society. This database is available on campus, and off-campus with WKU email and password login.

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In EBSCOhost via the Kentucky Virtual Library (KYVL) or via the National Agricultural Library, AGRICOLA provides citations to articles in the field of agriculture. Subjects include food and nutrition, agricultural economics, and parasitology.. This database is available on campus, and off-campus with WKU email and password login.

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American Law Reports (ALR) contains articles (called annotations) on specific legal topics. The annotations provide background, analysis, and citations to relevant cases, statutes, law review articles, and other annotations. The articles attempt to include all significant citations up to the time the annotation was published. ALR annotations resemble a law review article rather than a legal encyclopedia. This database is available on campus, and off-campus with WKU email and password login.

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Part of the EBSCOhost group of databases, America: History and Life provides access to almost 400,000 bibliographic entries on the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Historical Abstracts indexes articles from over 2,000 journals published since 1970 on world history since 1450 (excluding the United States and Canada). These databases are available on campus, and off-campus with WKU email and password login. Access is restricted to a total of six simultaneous users.

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American Jurisprudence Legal Encyclopedia provides background information on legal topics, explains relevant terms of art, and provides citations to cases, statutes, regulations, law review articles, and ALR Annotations. The encyclopedia is national in scope and uses broad topics. This database is available on campus, and off-campus with WKU email and password login.

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This database is available on campus, and off-campus with WKU email and password login.

Annual Review of Anthropology Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics Annual Review of Biochemistry Annual Review of Biophysics and Biomolecular Structure Annual Review of Cell & Developmental Biology Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Science Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics Annual Review of Entomology Annual Review of Environment and Resources Annual Review of Genetics

Annual Review of Immunology Annual Review of Microbiology Annual Review of Neuroscience Annual Review of Physiology Annual Review of Phytopathology Annual Review of Plant Biology Annual Review of Political Science Annual Review of Psychology Annual Review of Public Health Annual Review of Sociology

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Biblical Archaeology Society Online Archive contains the editorial content of each issue of the Biblical Archaeology Review (1975 to 2003), Bible Review (1985 to 2003), and Archaeology Odyssey (1998 to 2003). This database is available on campus, and off-campus with WKU email and password login.

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BIOSIS Previews, the comprehensive biological services resource combines the content from Biological Abstracts® and Biological Abstracts/RRM® (Reports, Reviews, and Meetings). Updated weekly, BIOSIS Previews provides current, in-depth, global coverage of the life sciences and biomedical sciences literature. This database is available on campus, and off-campus with WKU email and password login.

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Booklist Online (American Library Association)

Booklist is a 100-year-old journal published by the American Library Association which contains reviews of new books. Booklist Online is both a free Web site and a subscription database. The free site offers a generous selection of Booklist content—plus some Web-only features—and is updated daily or weekly, depending on the portion of the site. The subscription database contains over 120,000 reviews and thousands of features dating back to 1992. This database is available on campus, and off-campus with WKU email and password login.

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Books In Print contains information about books currently in print and titles to be published in the next six months, as well as information on titles out-of-print or out-of-stock indefinitely since 1979. Books In Print features over 3.5 million titles, 7,000 author bios, over 300 awards, and stock availability from over 20 major suppliers, as well as over 600,000 full-text reviews from leading sources.This database is available on campus, and off-campus with WKU email and password login. Access is restricted to a total of five simultaneous users.

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Cambridge Journals Online contains tables of contents and abstracts for for over 100 journals in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities, with selected full text of journals the library subscribes to in print. You can register for a free email Table of Contents alert. This database is available on campus, and off-campus with WKU email and password login.

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CSA includes ERIC, GeoRef, Social Services Abstracts, and Sociological Abstracts. This database is available on campus, and off-campus with WKU email and password login.

GeoRef indexes over 3,000 journals, as well as a number of books, maps, theses, reports, and conference papers in mineralogy, soil science, geologic time, crystallography, limnology, and other geology topics. North American geology is indexed from 1785 to the present; the rest of the world is indexed from 1933.

Social Services Abstracts indexes articles in social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. The database abstracts and indexes over 1,406 serials publications and includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations, and citations to book reviews.

Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes articles from over 1,809 serials publications, books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers in sociology and related social and behavioral sciences. Since 2001, many records also include cited references from the source article.

PILOTS, produced by the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, includes citations to all literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events, without disciplinary, linguistic, or geographical limitations, while offering both current and retrospective coverage. Document types covered include journals, books, book chapters, pamphlets, technical reports, and materials in all languages.

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Cambridge Journals Online allows users to conduct searches, view tables of contents, and view abstracts for for over 100 journals in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities, and to view the full text of selected journals which the library subscribes to in print. Cambridge Journals Online also offers individuals the ability to sign up for email Table of Contents alerts. If you would like to use the Table of Contents alerting services, you need to register for a free account with Cambridge Journals Online. This database is available on campus, and off-campus with WKU email and password login.

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Checkpoint contains tax accounting news and research materials for the accounting industry. Requires ID and Password for access. Ask at the Helm Library Reference Desk for assistance.

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CHID Online provides titles, abstracts, and availability information for health information and health education resources, many of which are not indexed elsewhere. Updated quarterly. This free database is available both on and off campus.

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Choice Reviews Online contains over 80,000 reviews written by subject experts of current books and electronic resources in all academic areas. This database is available on campus, and off-campus with WKU email and password login.

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Classification Web enables the user to browse and search the full text of the Library of Congress Classification (LCC) schedules and Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH). Features a calculator that combines tables and schedule data, then displays fully calculated numbers together with their corresponding captions. This database is available on campus, and off-campus with WKU email and password login. Access is restricted to a total of four simultaneous users.

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ComAbstracts contains abstracts of primary professional articles in the field of communications, searchable by word, phrase, or author. The search system supports full Boolean search logic, proximity searching, wildcard searching, and word conflation (which finds alternative forms of words based on common linguistic roots). This database is available on campus, and off-campus with WKU email and password login.

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Combined Kentucky Adult Ed. Resources & LINCS

Combined Kentucky Adult Ed. Resources & LINCS contain materials on adult education. LINCS is a national database of resources collected by all adult educators and family literacy people all over the US, while the Kentucky Adult Ed. Resources database consists of materials from Kentucky. The resources in the two databases were selected by adult educators and include websites, curriculum guides, recommended reading, lesson plans and more. The two databases can be searched together at the same time. This database is available on campus, and off-campus with either through the KYVL Gateway or with WKU email and password login.

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Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography This e-book contains the entire 18-volume set of the the original Dictionary of Scientific Biography, along with the recently-published 8 volumes of the New Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Full-text access to this e-book is available on campus, and off-campus with WKU email and password login.

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The Country Studies Series describes and analyzes historical setting and the social, cultural, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of 102 countries. This free database is available both on and off campus.

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Current Law Journal Content indexes 1,336 journals law and legal journals. Tables of contents are available via the website, e-mail, and RSS feed. You can also create a profile to run stored searches in CLJC weekly for new listings. This free database is available both on and off campus.

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CQ Researcher contains in-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy. includes a background and chronology; an assessment of the current situation; tables and maps; pro/con statements from representatives of opposing positions; and bibliographies of key sources. CQ Global Researcher covers global affairs from several international viewpoints. These databases are available on campus, and off-campus with WKU email and password login.

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Dance In Video is a searchable database containing streaming video files of dance productions and documentaries by influential performers and companies of the 20th century. Selections cover ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance, as well as forerunners of the forms and the pioneers of modern concert dance. Videos can be browsed by people, role, ensemble, genre, and venue. Material types include documentaries, editorials, instructional, interviews, and performances. Database users may create their own custom playlists and video clips. This database is available on campus, and off-campus with WKU email and password login.

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Dissertations and Theses Full Text indexes doctoral dissertations and master's theses from over 1,000 North American graduate schools and European universities from the first U.S. dissertation, accepted in 1861, to the present. Citations for dissertations published after 1980 also include 350- word abstracts written by the author, and for master's theses after 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Titles published since 1997 are available in PDF digital format and have 24 page previews available. This database is available on campus, and off-campus with WKU email and password login.

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The Directory of Open-Access Journals contains the full text of academic peer-reviewed journals that do not charge subscription fees. This free database is available both on and off campus.

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EBSCOhost, part of the database offerings of the Kentucky Virtual Library (KYVL), offers a variety of full text databases on many different topics.
EBSCOhost is also available in multiple languages, including:

French (Français) German (Deutsch) Hungarian (Magyar) Italian (itaniano)

Polish (Polski) Portugese (Português) Spanish (Español) Turkish (Türkçe)

Separate databases from EBSCO include multiple K-12 databases, Searchasaurus, and Novelist. EBSCOhost core databases currently include:

Academic Search Premier AGRICOLA America: History & Life Business Source Premier CINAHL with Full-Text Communications & Mass Media Complete Educational Administration Abstracts EBSCO Jrnl Service (EJS) ERIC (Education) Family & Society Studies Worldwide Greenfile Health Source Consumer Historic Abstracts MasterFile Premier

Medline Mental Measurements Yearbook Newspaper Source Philosopher's Index PsycInfo Public Administration Abstracts Race Relations Abstracts Regional Business News RILM Abstracts of Music Lit Sociological Collection SPORTDiscus Tests in Print TopicSearch Teacher Reference Center

This database is available on campus, and off-campus with WKU email and password login.

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EBSCOhost K-12 Databases

EBSCOhost has several databases that are specifically aimed at students in the K-12 setting. These can be searched either with the standard academic EBSCOhost interface, or with special interfaces for kids.

EBSCOhost for K-12 (With standard interface) EBSCO Animals Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia MAS Ultra School Edition Middle Search Plus Newspaper Source Primary Search TOPICsearch	Searchasaurus (For Elementary School) Academic Search Premier American Heritage Children's Dictionary EBSCO Animals ERIC Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia Middle Search Plus Newspaper Source Primary Search
Kids Search (For Elementary & Middle School) Academic Search Premier American Heritage Children's Dictionary EBSCO Animals ERIC Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia Middle Search Plus Newspaper Source Primary Search TOPICsearch	Student Research Center (For Middle & High School) Academic Search Premier Columbia Encyclopedia ERIC Health Source Consumer Edition MAS Ultra - School Edition Middle Search Plus Newspaper Source TOPICsearch

These databases are available on campus, and off-campus with WKU email and password login.

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EDGAR (available from Securities & Exchange Commission or from LexisNexis Academic)contains submissions and forms since 1994 which companies are required by law to file with the SEC, including annual reports on Form 10-K or 10-KSB. Submissions are posted within 24 hours of filing. This free database is available both on and off campus.

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Electronic Journal Service (EJS) allows users to search the tables of contents and abstracts of more than 8,000 journals and to access the full text of 497 journals which WKU Libraries subscribes to. This database is available on campus, and off-campus with WKU email and password login.

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Encyclopedia of Social Work (National Ass'n of Social Workers/Oxford University Press)
The 20th edition of the Encyclopedia of Social Work contains entries and biographies in the field of social work, arranged in A-Z format. Full-text access to this e-book is available on campus and off-campus with WKU email and password login.

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ERIC (EBSCOhost & CSA)

Available from EBSCOhost or from CSA, ERIC indexes and abstracts journals in the field of education since 1966. ERIC also abstracts Documents (which use an ED number), including research reports, association publications, conference proceedings, teaching guides, instructional materials, professional development materials, bibliographies. Most ERIC Documents since 1997 are available full text; older documents are available in microfiche on the 2nd floor of Helm Library. Links are available to some of the journal articles. This database is available on campus, and off-campus with WKU email and password login.

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Facts on File News Digest (FACTS.com) includes the complete full-text of the Facts On File News Digest since January 1960, updated every week. It also provides information from six other core reference databases. Half a million internal hyperlinks interconnects related stories. This database is available on campus, and off-campus with WKU email and password login.

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The Family Index Database indexes articles from over 2,100 journals in the fields of family studies, sociology, psychology, social work, education, child development, nursing, medicine, law, counseling, religion, history, and feminist studies. This database is available on campus, and off-campus with WKU email and password login.

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FindArticles is a free database of interdisciplinary magazine and journal articles. Constantly updated, it contains articles dating back to 1998 from more than 300 magazines and journals. This free database is available both on and off campus.

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FirstGov allows users to research government information and conduct government business online - such as applying for student loans, tracking Social Security benefits, comparing Medicare options and administering government grants and contracts. This free database is available both on and off campus.

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FirstSearch Databases for Faculty/Staff/Grad Students ONLY - This set of databases costs the library 98¢ for every search and $3.80 for every document viewed (or printed or emailed), so its use is restricted to faculty, staff, and graduate students. This database is available on campus and off campus via password access. For password information call the Reference Desk at (270) 745-6125 or e-mail the WKU Libraries' Web Reference Service and provide your full name and WKU ID number.

The databases currently consist of the following:

AHsearch (Arts and Humanities Citation Index) – Indexes journals in the humanities and includes citation searching.	Alt Press Index/Alt Press Index Archive – Indexes journals covering cultural, economic, political & social change.
Bio Digest - Life-science information written in a non-technical style.	Business Dateline – Full-text regional business news.
Business Industry – Business and industry facts, figures, and key events.	Business Organizations – Organizations that serve business and industry.
Business Management – Practical aspects and approaches to business management.	Economic Literature – Journals, books, and working papers on economics.
GEOBASE – Worldwide literature on geography, geology, and ecology.	News Abs – Contains abstracts of articles from over 50 U.S. national and regional newspapers.
Per Abs – Contains abstracts and full text from general and academic journals.	PsycFIRST – Psychology and related fields in the current and most recent three update years.
SIRS Researcher – Social, scientific, economic, and political issues worldwide.	Wilson Select Plus – Full text articles in science, humanities, education, and business.
Worldscope – Basic financial information on public companies worldwide.

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The Foundation Directory Online (Platinum) includes information and application guidelines for 6,000+ U. S. foundations and sponsoring company information for corporate givers. This service also includes a searchable file of approximately 150,000 grants of $10,000 or more awarded by the top 1,200 funders. The Trustees, Officers, and Donors search field and its corresponding index allow users to search among 300,000 trustee, officer and donor names. Please "logout" from the Foundation Directory Online when finished. Access to this database is restricted by IP address to networked computers in the WKU Helm-Cravens Library Complex. Dialup remote access is not available.

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Foundation Grants to Individuals Online is updated quarterly and contains a complete listing of foundations that give grants to individuals, more than 6,100 entries in all. These records include detailed descriptions of approximately 2,000 programs which fund individual grantseekers. Please "logout" from the Foundation Grants to Individuals Online when finished. Access to this database is restricted by IP address to networked computers in the WKU Helm-Cravens Library Complex. Dialup remote access is not available.

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GEOBASE includes abstracts of the geography, geology, and ecology literature from 1980 to the present. This database is available on campus, and off-campus via password access to the faculty/staff/graduate student FirstSearch account. GEOBASE is also available to undergraduates with special permission. For password information call the Reference Desk at (270) 745-6125 or e-mail the WKU Libraries' Web Reference Service and provide your full name and WKU ID number.

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GeoScienceWorld is a collection of approximately 40 geoscience-related E-journals. GeoScienceWorld also integrates the GeoRef database. GeoRef indexes and abstracts Over 3,000 journals; U.S. Geological Survey publications; maps; books; and U.S. and Canadian dissertations and theses in geology and geosciences, North American geology since 1785 and world geology since 1933. This database is available on campus, and off-campus with WKU email and password login.

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MarciveWeb DOCS (GPO Monthly Catalog) indexes federal government documents from July 1976 to the present, and shows which federal documents are selected by WKU. Links to full text web documents are made when available. This database is available on campus, and off-campus with WKU email and password login.

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Grolier Online

Grolier Online is part of the database offerings in the Kentucky Virtual Library (KYVL). Grolier Online - Kids provides the same material with a learning environment designed specifically for kids K-5. The database provides full-text access to the following encyclopedias:

Encyclopedia Americana, the Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, Amazing Animals of the World, and the New Book of Knowledge. This database is available on campus, and off-campus with WKU email and password login.

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HighWire contains free full text for 362 journals in the life sciences, along with indexing and abstracting for all journals in MEDLINE. Articles that are not free may be purchased with a credit card. The database contains cited references (with free links to the full text of the articles), along with citation analysis of journals on HighWire. Receive Table of Contents email updates with free registration. This database is available on campus, and off-campus with WKU email and password login.

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History Cooperative contains full-text journals in the field of history. This database is available on campus, and off-campus with WKU email and password login.

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HLAS Online indexes and annotates over 5,000 works on Latin America published since 1935. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities. Updated monthly. This free database is available both on and off campus.

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InfoTrac currently contains three databases. This database is available on campus, and off-campus with WKU email and password login. Access is restricted to a total of five simultaneous users for BGMI, One user for Times Digital Archive, and unlimited users for Testing & Education Reference Center.

Biography and Genealogy Master Index A comprehensive index to over 11 million biographical sketches from 3,000 volumes and editions of current and retrospective reference books, covering both contemporary and historical figures throughout the world.	The Times Digital Archive contains the complete digital edition of The Times (London) from 1785 to 1985. The entire newspaper is available, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching.
Testing & Education Reference Center Contains information on private high schools, undergraduate/graduate programs, and executive education programs, searchable by location, major, tuition, and sports. The database also features interactive online practice tests for preparatory examinations including entrance exams and certification and licensing tests.

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IngentaConnect indexes articles from over 26,000 magazines and journals. Searching and browsing are free. Articles that are not free may be purchased with a credit card. Receive Table of Contents email updates from up to five journals with free registration. This database is available on campus, and off-campus with WKU email and password login.

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International Abstracts of Human Resources contains abstracts of articles from 53 journals in the field of human resources management. You may search by author, keyword, subject category, or company name. This database is available on campus, and off-campus with WKU email and password login.

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ICPSR contains a vast archive of social science research data files for use with statistical software, such as SAS or SPSS. Please note that ICPSR does not provide publications, reports, or ready-made statistics, but rather the numeric raw data used to create publications, reports, and figures. For pre-processed statistics, select the "related literature" link for a given data set on the search results page or at the top of each study description. This will take you to a bibliography of publications based on that data, with links to online reports, when available. This database is available on campus, and off-campus with WKU email and password login.

IOPscience is a new online service for journal content published by IOP. It contains more than 250,000 articles, from 1874 to the present day. It's been designed to give you easy access to scientific, technical and medical content. The content in IOPscience has been organized by more than 6,000 classifications using PACS and MSC codes in physics, astronomy and mathematics, so you will easily discover scientific research that matches your specific needs and interests. You can interact with these subject classifications in a multitude of ways throughout IOPscience, and for every article in which you have an interest, you will be able to find other articles in the same area. This database is available on campus, and off-campus with WKU email and password login.

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Iter contains approximately 250,000 articles and reviews from over 400 journal titles discussing the Medieval, Middle Ages, and Renaissance periods (A.D. 400 - A.D. 1700). Iter is updated daily with more than 60,000 new records added annually. This database is available on campus, and off-campus with WKU email and password login.

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Journalism & Mass Communications Abstracts, formerly Journalism Abstracts, includes abstracts of dissertations and theses accepted for graduate degrees. Prepared by student authors, the abstracts represent research theses. Database does not include abstracts of creative projects done to complete the graduate degree. This free database is available both on and off campus.

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JSTOR provides the full text/full image web access of the complete archival collections of over 150 core scholarly journals up to the most recent three to five years. WKU subscribes to the JSTOR Arts & Sciences I and II modules; and the 19th Century British Pamphlets collection. This database is available on campus, and off-campus with WKU email and password login.

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State Labor & Employment Law contains cases, statutes, and regulations pertaining to Kentucky law in the area of labor and employment. The database also contains explanatory materials on labor, employment law, and employment-at-will. This database is restricted to one WKU Library user and requires login by library staff--please ask for assistance at the service desk.

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The Kentuckiana Digital Library contains historical materials specific to Kentucky, including archival finding aids, photographs, sound recordings, diaries, and letters held by special collections and archives throughout Kentucky.

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Kentucky Encyclopedia

Log on via the Kentucky Virtual Library (KYVL).

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The aggregated Knovel Online Library content covers 18 industrially important Subject Areas in the fields of Chemistry and the Life Sciences; Materials; and Engineering. Our arrangement with Knovel currently provides WKU with full-text access to several E-Books from the Knovel Online Library in addition to a number of subject related reference works.

The titles WKU currently has full-text access to include:

Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences (Galilei, Galileo)	Engineering Problem Solving-A Classical Perspective (Shaw, Milton)
Essential Practices for Managing Chemical Reactivity Hazards (Johnson, Robert W.; Rudy, Steven W.; Unwin, Stephen D.)	Handbook of Mathematical Functions with Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables (Ed. by: Abramowitz, M.; Stegun, I. A.)
International Critical Tables of Numerical Data, Physics, Chemistry and Technology (Ed. by: Washburn, E.W)	Knovel Critical Tables
Knovel Sample Book	Knovel Science and Engineering Units Converter
Large-Scale Adsorption and Chromatography, Volumes 1-2 (Wankat, Phillip C.)	Metallic Materials Properties Development and Standardization (MMPDS) (U.S. Dept. of Transportation)
Military Handbook - MIL-HDBK- 5H: Metallic Materials and Elements for Aerospace Vehicle Structures (U.S. Dept. of Defense)	Periodic Table of the Elements
Smithsonian Physical Tables (9th Revised Ed.) (Forsythe, W.E.)	Teaching Engineering (Wankat, Phillip C.; Oreovicz, Frank S.)

Full-text access to these e-books is available on campus, and off-campus with WKU email and password login.

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The Kentucky Virtual Library (KYVL) gateway searches 20 online catalogs from Kentucky libraries, as well as providing access to 34 research databases. Libraries include Western Kentucky University, Warren County Public Library, and Bowling Green Technical College (included in the Kentucky Community & Technical College catalog). This database is available on campus, and off-campus via both remote password and WKU email username and password login. If you are registered with a library in Kentucky, contact that library to get username and password information.

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Lexi-Comp ONLINE for dentistry contains:

This database is available on campus, and off-campus with WKU email and password login.

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LexisNexis includes four databases: 1) @LexisNexis Academic@ , 2) LexisNexis Congressional@, 3) @LexisNexis Statistical@, and 4) @LexisNexis Government Periodicals Index@. This database is available on campus, and off-campus with WKU email and password login

LexisNexis Academic News Newspapers & News magazines Wire services Broadcast transcripts Medical news & journals Newstex Blogs The New York Times The Washington Post Chronicle of Higher Ed. Financial Times USA Today University Newswire (Includes the College Heights Herald)	LexisNexis Academic Legal Information U.S. Federal & State case law Statutes, codes, & regulations Legal news Law reviews & legal journals Shepard's Citations Reference Material People database (biographies) Gallup Poll News Service Gallup Poll Tuesday Briefing World Almanac	LexisNexis Academic Business Information Accounting Database The American Marketplace Business Directories Business news Company Profiles Company Profiles Disclosure Reports and SEC Filings Hoover's Company & Industry Reports The NAICS-SIC Directory S&P Corporate Descriptions +Daily News WorldScope Int'l Company Profiles
LN Congressional Includes U.S. congressional publications, hearings, reports, prints, documents, and Legislative Histories, as well as the full text of proposed legislation and its status. Includes Federal statutes, the United States Code Service, the Federal Register, and the Code of Federal Regulations, as well as biographical & financial information and voting records for members of Congress.	LexisNexis Statistical Provides statistical surveys, charts, and tables produced by federal, state, and intergovernmental agencies, professional and trade organizations, commercial publishers, independent research organizations, and universities. It also includes the online version of the American Statistics Index (ASI).	LN Gov't Periodical Index Indexes approximately 170 magazines and newsletters with substantial research value Published by U.S. government agencies. Updated quarterly with indexing since 1988.

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Library, Information Science, & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, and information management. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s. This database is available on campus, and off-campus with WKU email and password login.

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The Literary Index is a master index author names and titles in over 50 major literature series published by Gale Group, Inc. This database is available on campus, and off-campus with WKU email and password login.

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Literature Online contains full text of over 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, along with literature journals and other key criticism and reference resources. The database also includes a classified listing and subject index of scholarly books and articles on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics, including a combined search with the MLA International Bibliography. This database is available on campus, and off-campus with WKU email and password login. Access is restricted to a total of four simultaneous users. Individual collections include:

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Marquis Who's Who features comprehensive profiles on over 1 million of the most accomplished individuals from all fields of endeavor including: government, business, science & technology, the arts, entertainment and sports. Recognized globally since 1899 as the premier biographical data provider, Marquis Who's Who now gives you the ability to conduct powerful searches of its entire database of achievers from around the globe. Search by name, gender, occupation, geography, hobbies and interests, religion and much more. This database is available on campus, and off-campus with WKU email and password login. Access is restricted to two concurrent users.

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MathSciNet contains Mathematical Reviews, with indexing from 1940 to 1979 and full reviews from 1980 to the present (updated monthly), as well as Current Mathematical Publications (updated daily) for recent and forthcoming publications which are later reviewed in Mathematical Reviews. MathSciNet also provides links to the full text of articles from SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, SIAM Journal on Computing, SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, and SIAM Review. This database is available on campus, and off-campus with WKU email and password login.

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Mediamark Reporter - MRI+ This database is available both on and off campus by using your WKU e-mail address. For access, first use the link above and register for a free account as a new user. You must register using your WKU e-mail address (your e-mail account@wku.edu) and a password you want to use to access the Medimark Reporter database. Once registered, a verification link will be sent to your WKU e-mail account. Access your WKU e-mail account and click on the verification link to activate the account. After registration and verification you will be able to login to the database by using the link provided above. For further information call the Reference Desk at (270) 745-6125 or e-mail the WKU Libraries' Web Reference Service and provide your full name and WKU ID number.

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Available in EBSCOhost, PubMed, or in HighWire, MEDLINE indexes and abstracts articles about medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the healthcare system, and the preclinical sciences from 1966 to present. This free database is available both on and off campus.

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Mergent Online provides business information, including financial reports, company news and securities data. Mergent Online contains company data and annual reports for both U.S. and international companies. U.S. company data includes SEC (EDGAR) filings. Mergent Online is the successor to FISonline, which was created when Mergent acquired the Financial Information Services division of Moody's® Investors Service. This database is available on campus, and off-campus with WKU email and password login.

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Morningstar.com provides access by name of fund, selector, or investment analyst to mutual fund information, including ratings, for five years. This database is restricted to one WKU Library user and requires login by library staff--please ask for assistance at the service desk. Remote access is not available.

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The Clearinghouse is a national resource for professionals seeking information on the prevention, identification, and treatment of child abuse and neglect and related child welfare issues. This free database is available both on and off campus.

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Nature Online is a weekly international journal publishing peer-reviewed research in all fields of science and technology on the basis of its originality, importance, interdisciplinary interest, timeliness, accessibility, elegance and surprising conclusions. Nature also provides rapid, authoritative, insightful and arresting news and interpretation of topical and coming trends affecting science, scientists and the wider public. This database is available on campus, and off-campus with WKU email and password login.

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Naxos Music Library is a comprehensive collection of online classical music. It includes the complete Naxos, Marco Polo and Dacapo catalogues of over 85,000 tracks, including Classical music, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music. Naxos also includes notes on the works being played as well as biographical information on composers and artists. (Naxos Music Library and all its contents are owned by Naxos Digital Services Ltd., part of the Hong Kong-based Naxos Group of Companies.) This digital music library is available on campus, and off-campus with WKU email and password login.

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NCJRS indexes and abstracts journals, reports, and documents relating to all areas of criminal justice and law enforcement, including such topics as death penalty, child abuse, and youth gangs. The time period covered is from 1972 to the present. This database is available on campus, and off-campus with WKU email and password login.

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The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) is an international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination and preservation of electronic analogues to the traditional paper-based theses and dissertations. This website contains information about the initiative, how to set up Electronic Thesis and Dissertation (ETD) programmes, how to create and locate ETDs, and current research in digital libraries related to NDLTD and ETDs. This database is available on campus, and off-campus.

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NetLibrary is a collection of 896 full text electronic books. You can read the books online, and can download or print a page at a time. You can search the entire text of all ebooks or search the collection by author, title, publisher, or subject heading. You can also browse the text of ebooks or search within a selected ebook. NetLibrary contains books on:

Business, Economics, & Management Computers Criminal Justice Education

Library Science, Journalism, & Publishing Medicine/Health/Nursing Popular Culture Psychology & Social Work Sociology & Gender

NetLibrary also provides access to 3,399 publicly-available e-books. This database is available on campus, and off-campus with WKU email and password login.

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NewsBank includes:
Access World NewsNews contains the complete full-text content of U.S. local and regional news, broadcast transcripts, millitary, government, and defense news sources (not including paid advertisements or funeral notices). Also includes international news articles from all corners of the world. All articles are in English and are from over 1000 translated broadcasts, news agency transmissions, wire services, newspapers, magazines and government documents.
America's Obituaries & Death Notices searches all newspaper sections for articles and paid obituaries. Search by name, date range, or text such as institutional name, social affiliation(s), geographic location(s), philanthropic activities, etc.
Kentucky Newspapers include the Lexington Herald-Leader (1983-present), the Bowling Green Daily News (July 6, 1999-present), and many other news outlets in Kentucky.

This database is available on campus, and off-campus with WKU email and password login.

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NLM Gateway provides access to the following U.S. National Library of Medicine databases: MEDLINE/PubMed, OLDMEDLINE, LOCATORplus, AIDS Meetings, HSR Meetings, HSRProj, MEDLINEplus and DIRLINE. MEDLINE/PubMed provides journal citations for medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences back to 1966. OLDMEDLINE provides MEDLINE references from 1958 to 1965. LOCATORplus is the catalog of the U.S. National Library of Medicine book, serials, and audiovisual materials. AIDS Meetings is a database of conference proceedings on AIDS. HSR Meetings and HSRProj are two health services research databases. MEDLINEplus is an index covering health information for the layman. Finally, DIRLINE is a directory of medical libraries in the U.S. This free database is available both on and off campus.

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19th Century British Pamphlets collection, created by RLUK (Research Libraries UK), contains the most significant British pamphlets from the 19th century held in UK research libraries. Pamphlets were an important means of public debate, covering the key political, social, technological, and environmental issues of their day. They have been underutilized within research and teaching because they are generally quite difficult to access – often bound together in large numbers or otherwise hard to find in the few research libraries that hold them. The digitization of more than 20,000 pamphlets from seven UK institutions will provide researchers, students, and teachers with an immensely rich and coherent corpus of primary sources with which to study the socio-political and economic landscape of 19th century Britain. This collection was created with funding from the JISC Digitisation Programme. This database is available on campus, and off-campus with WKU email and password login.

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NoveList allows readers to enter favorite author or title and find works that are the same subject or are similar. NoveList also allows users to enter words that describe the contents of a book they would like to read and retrieves titles that contain these words in the book's subject headings field. Users can also browse over 1000 theme-oriented booklists, award-lists and fiction related web-sites. This database is available on campus, and off-campus with WKU email and password login.

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The Occupational Outlook Handbook describes what workers do on the job, working conditions, the training and education needed, earnings, and expected job prospects in over 250 occupations. You can search by occupation, browse through various categories (Sales, Service, Mechanics, etc.), or browse the alphabetical listing of jobs in the A-Z Index on the page. This free database is available both on and off campus.

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Online Geographical Bibliography (GEOBIB) is a searchable online database of all bibliographic entries found in Current geographical publications, from 1985-present. This database is available on campus, and off-campus with WKU email and password login.

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p4A Antiques Reference (Prices For Antiques Reference) database provides price and background information on antiques, collectibles, fine art, and historic Americana. Data is based on regional auctions throughout the United States. This database is available on campus, and is available off-campus with WKU email and password login.

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The Philosopher's Index covers journals and selective monographic/edited publications since 1940 in philosophy, logic, epistemology, and ethics, as well as the philosophy of various disciplines (science, education, religion, etc.). This database is available on campus, and off-campus with WKU email and password login.

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Project Muse provides online, worldwide, institutional subscription access to the full text of over 100 scholarly journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences and mathematics. This database is available on campus, and off-campus with WKU email and password login.

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Access ProQuest on campus, or off campus using your WKU email username and password. {Login}

WKU's ProQuest subscription consists of following databases: ABI/Inform, Accounting & Tax with Standards, Alt-Press Watch, Career & Technical Education, Dissertations and Theses, The (Historical) Los Angeles Times 1881-1986, and The (Historical) New York Times 1851-2004. This database is available on campus, and off-campus with WKU email and password login.

ABI/Inform has 700 full text titles with coverage back to 1991 with indexing back to 1971 in the fields of business, management, trends, corporate strategies and tactics, and competitive and product information.	Accounting & Tax with Standards has accounting standards from FASB, GASB, and IASB plus accounting literature. Includes Current Text, Board Opinions, Statements, EITF Abstracts, Original Pronouncements, & AICPA Interpretations.
Alt-Press Watch has full text of over 170 alternative and independent newspapers, magazines and journals.	Career & Technical Education has full text articles about career, vocational, & technical education.
Dissertations & Theses Full Text indexes doctoral dissertations and master's theses from from 1861 to the present. There are abstracts for dissertations after 1980 and master's theses after 1988. Titles published since 1993 are available in full-text PDF.	The (Historical) Los Angeles Times 1881-1986 (includes L.A. Daily Times 1881-1886 and L.A. Times 1886-1986). Contains full page and article images with searchable full text. Select News - The Historical Los Angeles Times on the database selection dropdown list.
The (Historical) New York Times 1851-2004 contains full page and article images with searchable full text. Select News - The Historical New York Times under the database selection dropdown list.

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PsycINFO (1887-Current) provides indexing and abstracts for articles, dissertations, books, & book chapters in psychology from 1887 to the present. This database is available on campus, and off-campus with WKU email and password login.

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PubMed Central is a digital archive of full-text life sciences journal literature managed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). This free database is available both on and off campus.

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Use RAND Abstracts to search for reports that detail the research of RAND Corporation, a nonprofit institution that helps improve public policy through research and analysis. The library has selected RAND reports through 2002. This free database is available both on and off campus.

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RILM Abstracts of Music Literature indexes international music literature from 1969 to the present in over 202 languages from 3,700 journals. Compiled by the Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale. This database is available on campus, and off-campus with WKU email and password login.

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The Scholarly Society Serial Publications page provides links to full-text archives of some serial publications of scholarly societies. Most, but not all, of these publications are newsletters or similar to newsletters; a small number are research publications. This database is available on campus, and off-campus with WKU email and password login.

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Science (Magazine) Online (AAAS)

Science Magazine, published weekly by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, is one of the top journals for publication of cutting edge research in the sciences. It also contains reviews and news of the field. Full-text access available from 1997. This database is available on campus, and off-campus with WKU email and password login.

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ScienceDirect has full text access to Elsevier Science E-Journals. This database is available on campus, and off-campus with WKU email and password login.

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SciFinder Scholar provides access to Chemical Abstracts and to MEDLINE. Documents indexed in Chemical Abstracts includes articles from over 9,000 journals, patents, conference proceedings, dissertations, technical reports, and books in the field of Chemistry from 1907 to the present. Chemical Abstracts also covers chemistry-related information in the fields of biology, engineering, and medicine. MEDLINE covers biomedical literature from over 3,900 journals, 1958 to the present. In addition, Sci-Finder Scholar contains indexed patent records (available online within 2 days and indexed within 27 days) from nine major patent offices worldwide, including Canada, France, Germany, the European Patent Office, the United Kingdom, Japan, Russia, the U.S., and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

Searchasaurus

Searchasaurus is an animated interface with a dinosaur theme that encourages students to enhance and develop basic search methodologies. The interface searches the EBSCOhost databases Primary Search and Middle SearchPlus. Results can be limited by Lexile reading level. This database is available on campus, and off-campus with WKU email and password login.

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The Standard & Poor's Research Insight CD-ROM contains standardized historical and numerical data on 10,300 publicly traded companies in the U.S. and Canada. The CD-ROM also contains information on 7600 inactive companies that no longer file with the SEC. You can select from predefined and individual report formats.Updated annually. This CD-ROM database is available on campus only. Dialup remote access is not available.

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Stat-USA/Internet provides one-stop Internet browsing for business, trade, and economic information, including current and historical economic and financial releases, trade-related releases, international market research, trade opportunities, country analysis, and the DOC trade library, National Trade Data Bank. This database is available on campus, and off-campus with WKU email and password login.

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Tales Online is a database of folktales, fairytales, myths of indigenous peoples, legends, sagas, and fables of world cultures in collections. All of the texts and notes are exact duplication of the original and no attempt has been made to either alter the style or wording contained in the original collection. Although at times the language is awkward, it is true to the original. This database is available on campus, and is available off-campus with WKU email and password login.

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TeachingBooks' mission is to generate enthusiasm for books and reading by bringing authors, illustrators and engaging resources about books for children and teens to every school, library and home. Register as a first time user by using your WKU e-mail address and a chosen password. After receipt of e-mail confirming your registration, use the following link to TeachingBooks.net for access to the database (WKU e-mail address and previously chosen password required to sign in).

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TEST (Transfer Evaluation System) TEST at its core is a database containing millions of course descriptions. The database contains complete course details, including course code, course title, description and number of credits. TEST includes a suite of tools that automate and streamline transfer course evaluation. With TEST you can easily email course description data to staff/faculty. TEST also allows you to store and maintain a course equivalency database. Access to this database requires a Username and Password and is limited to the Helm Library. See the staff at the Helm Reference Desk for assistance.

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Ulrichsweb provides bibliographic and access information for journals and other serials published worldwide in all subjects. Entries provide pricing, subscription, indexing, and distribution details, as well as publisher and editor contacts. Websites and e-mail addresses are given when available, along with reviews excerpted from Magazines for Libraries and Library Journal. This database is available on campus, and is available off-campus with WKU email and password login.

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UK-ETD provides worldwide access to electronic theses and dissertations prepared and submitted by University of Kentucky graduate and doctoral students. The database includes all disciplines with graduate or doctoral programs at the University of Kentucky from 2000 to the present which were published as electronic documents.

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The U.S. Census Bureau serves as the leading source of quality data about the Nation's people and economy. This free database is available both on and off campus.

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Value Line Investment Survey provides several free services of interest to investors that do not require authorization and password. The free services include "Ask Value Line" and the "Economic Calendar This Month" (the latter with events that will impact the market this month) under the Feature Articles section; and a Markets Center with stock quotes. WKU also subscribes to restricted information and advice on approximately 1,700 stocks, more than 90 industries, the stock market, and the economy. Accessed via the site's "Research Center" or the "Print Subscriber Services" links, the restricted services include Value Line's "Ratings & Reports" and "Summary & Index." This portion of the website is restricted to one WKU Library user and requires login by library staff--please ask for assistance at the service desk.

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The Television News Archive collection at Vanderbilt University is the world's most extensive and complete archive of television news. The collection holds more than 30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN, and more than 9,000 hours of special news-related programming including ABC's Nightline since 1989. These special reports and periodic news broadcasts cover presidential press conferences and political campaign coverage, and national and international events such as the Watergate hearings, the plight of American hostages in Iran, the Persian Gulf war, and the terrorist attack on the United States on September 11, 2001. This database is available on campus, and off-campus with WKU email and password login.

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WILEY InterScience contains a variety of electronic journals in the fields of science, technology, and medicine. This database is available on campus, and off-campus with WKU email and password login.

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WKU's subscription to H. W. Wilson's WilsonWeb currently contains the following databases:

Applied Science and Technology Index	Education Full Text
Library Literature and Information Science Full Text	Play Index
Wilson Core Collections Children's Core  Graphic Novels Core  Middle and Junior High Core Senior High Core

This database is available on campus, and off-campus with WKU email and password login.

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Zacks Investment Research is a free Web based financial research program. Use this site to find information on over 6,000 companies, including data from over 240 different brokerage houses and over 3,000 analysts on a national, regional, and institutional level. This free database is available both on and off campus.

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