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Use these databases to find general interest articles and resources.

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Academic Search Complete
Provides full text for more than 4,000 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. This database is updated daily.
List of journals included.

AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive
Available under its new name, AP Images. Contains approximately 500,000 photos and selections of pictures from the AP image and print negative library. Pictures cover local, state, national and international subjects.

America's Newspapers
Complete full-text of 17 Ohio newspapers, including the Akron Beacon Journal, The Toledo Blade, The Cleveland Plain Dealer and the Dayton Daily News, plus other major newspapers from other states. Content includes local and regional news. Paid advertisements are excluded

American National Biography Online
Covers more than 18,000 people from all eras who have influenced and shaped American history and culture. Includes illustrations and links to select web sites. Also includes articles from The Oxford Companion to United States History, which gives context to the lives included in ANB Online. All articles originally included in the ANB Online were on biographical subjects who died before the end of 1995. Articles on important figures who have died since 1995 are being added in quarterly updates, but coverage of people in this category is not yet complete.

AP Images
Contains approximately 500,000 photos and selections of pictures from the AP image and print negative library. Pictures cover local, state, national and international subjects. (Formerly AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive.)

ArticleFirst (OCLC) (1990 - Current)
Contains citations to journal articles covering the humanities, popular culture, science, technology, business and the social sciences. Updated daily.

ATLA Religion Database (1949 - Current)
A premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all scholarly fields of religion representing all the major religious faiths, major denominations, and numerous language groups. Major areas of coverage include: Archaeology & Antiquities, Bible, Church History, Human Culture & Society, Missions & Ecumenism, Pastoral Ministry, Philosophy & Ethics, Religious Studies, Theology, and World Religions. Updated twice per year.

Biography and Genealogy Master Index
Contains nearly 12 million biographical entries from over 2700 current and retrospective reference books; covers historic and contemporary figures.

Biography Reference Bank
Biography Reference Bank provides biographical information on approximately half a million people, from antiquity to the present, along with thousands of images.

Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (1976 - Current)
Includes descriptive records for historical and current federal publications and provides direct links to those that are available online.

Chronicle of Higher Education
The Chronicle is a trade paper providing news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators. The Chronicle's Web site features the complete contents of the latest issue; daily news and advice columns; thousands of current job listings; articles published since September 1989; discussion forums; and career-building tools such as online CV management, salary databases, and more.

Citation Indexes (1980 - Current)
Three multidisciplinary "Web of Science" databases covering the journal literature in the areas of the arts and humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Updated weekly.
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Computers & Applied Sciences Complete
Computers & Applied Sciences Complete covers the spectrum of the applied sciences, representing knowledge on traditional engineering challenges and providing material for research concerning the business and social implications of new technology. This resource incorporates Computer Science Index, Computer Source, Information Science & Technology Abstracts, Internet & Personal Computing Abstracts, and provides indexing and abstracting for academic journals, professional publications, and other reference sources. Full Text is available for more than 500 periodicals. Subject areas include the many engineering disciplines, computer theory, and new technologies.
List of journals included.

CQ Historic Documents Series Online (1972 - Current)
Includes the full-text of each of the annual volumes of the CQ Historic Documents set. The volume for each year includes approximately one hundred documents covering the most significant events of that year. These documents range from presidential speeches, international agreements, and Supreme Court decisions to U.S. governmental reports, scientific findings, and cultural discussions.

Digital Media Center
Several databases of electronic images, videos, and sound; will eventually also include numeric data and other types of electronic media.

Dissertation Abstracts (ProQuest Dissertations & Theses) (1861 - Current)
Includes citations for dissertations dating from the first U.S. dissertation issued in 1861. Contains abstracts for dissertations from 1980 to the present and for master's theses from 1988 forward. The work of authors from over 1,000 North American graduate schools and European universities are also included. Titles published since 1997 are available in PDF digital format and have 24 page previews available.

Dissertations and Theses (OhioLINK ETD Center)
Online theses and dissertations from Ohio graduate students. Includes links to full-text.

E-Journal Finder
Search or browse this list of full-text electronic journals available at Kent State, including titles available through OhioLINK.

EBSCO databases
Menu of databases provided via EBSCO publishing.

Electronic Book Center (OhioLINK)
Contains thousands of scholarly and reference e-books in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences.

Electronic Journal Center (OhioLINK)
Full-text coverage of selected journals in the areas of arts, humanities, math, medicine, science, engineering, computer science, and social sciences.

Electronic Reference Books (ABC-CLIO)
Full-text collection of encyclopedias, handbooks, biographical works, guides, and more in most subjects, from the educational reference publisher, ABC-CLIO.

These titles are now included in the OhioLINK Electronic Book Center.


Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
Online theses and dissertations from Ohio graduate students. Includes links to full-text.

Enciclopedia Universal en Espanol
Spanish edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica Online

Factiva
Factiva is a good source for international business and company news. It includes full text news reports from more than 10,000 sources from 159 countries and available in 22 languages.

FindArticles.com (1998 - Current)
A full-text archive of published articles from over 500 magazines and journals that cover various topics, such as business, health, technology, entertainment, sports, and more.

Garden, Landscape & Horticulture Index
Provides abstracts and limited full-text for articles from more than 300 core publications covering horticulture, garden and landscape design and history, botany, ecology, plant and garden conservation, garden management, and horticultural therapy.

Government Periodicals Index (1988 - Current)
Search for citations to articles published in U.S. Government periodicals; numerous subject areas, including arts and humanities, business, health, science and medicine, social topics and more are covered.

GreenFILE
GreenFILE indexes 200+ scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports. Materials draw on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology.

ICONDA
Covers the international literature concerning building construction, construction engineering, architecture, and city planning. Includes journals, books, conference contributions, reports, descriptions of research projects, and other non-conventional literature.

International Index to Black Periodicals
An interdisciplinary index that includes over 150 scholarly and popular journals, which cover art, cultural criticism, economics, education, health, history, language and literature, law, philosophy, politics, religion, and sociology, and more.

JSTOR
JSTOR is an electronic archive of complete journal backruns, current to within 2 to 5 years. The collections include: Arts & Sciences I, Arts & Sciences II, Business Collection, Ecology & Botany, General Science, and Language and Literature. For Kent State University, students and faculty now have access to 381 JSTOR journals representing over 2 million articles.

LearningExpress Library plus Learn2
LearningExpress provides skill-building interactive courses in math, reading, and writing, as well as online interactive practice tests for several types of exams including grade school achievement tests, the SAT, GED, U.S. Citizenship, and civil service positions. Complete answer explanations accompany each response. To take a test, a user first sets up an individual account. Note: Setting up an account must be done at an authenticating site (on campus or at an Ohio public library or school). Thereafter, the account is accessible from anywhere. Learn2 includes more than 50 computer skills tutorials that will help improve your computer skills. Tutorials cover basic through advanced skill levels for Microsoft Access, PowerPoint, Word, Excel, and Outlook plus Adobe Acrobat to name a few.

LexisNexis Academic
Contains the full-text of newspapers for the past 20 years, federal and state case law and legislative materials, law reviews, company news and financial information, medical and health information, general information sources and much more. Updates and coverage vary by section.

Marquis Who's Who (1985 - Current)
Marquis Who’s Who on the Web, a 'high-speed', searchable online database, features comprehensive profiles on over 1.3 million of the most accomplished individuals from all fields of endeavor including: government, business, science and technology, the arts, entertainment, and sports. Search by name, gender, occupation, geography, hobbies and interests, religion and much more.

MAS Ultra (school edition)
Provides full text for 460 general interest and current events magazines for high school students in grades 9-12.
List of journals included.

Masterfile Premier
Provides full text for over 1,900 periodicals, mainly popular magazine titles, covering nearly all subjects including general reference, business, health, and much more.
List of journals included.

Middle Search Plus
Provides full text for over 140 magazines covering general topics appropriate for middle and junior high school students in grades 6-8.
List of journals included.

Morgan Bibliography of Ohio Imprints, 1796-1850
The Morgan Bibliography of Ohio Imprints describes books, pamphlets, and broadsides printed in Ohio, from the earliest in 1796 through 1850.

Newspaper Source
Provides selected full text for over 180 regional U.S. newspapers, international newspapers, newswires, newspaper columns and other sources as well as indexing and abstracts for national newspapers. In addition, full text television & radio news transcripts are provided from CBS News, FOX News, NPR, etc. This database is updated daily.
List of journals included.

OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) Center
Online theses and dissertations from Ohio graduate students. Includes links to full-text.

Oxford English Dictionary
Can be searched for both current and historical definitions of a word, as well as provide quotations and the ability to search for the occurrence of a word in any definition. Updated periodically.

Oxford Reference Online
Contains entries from over 100 major discipline-related dictionaries and other publications from Oxford University Press. Coverage includes the sciences, foreign languages, art and architecture, politics, business, literature and more.

PAIS (1972 - Current)
Contains citations and abstracts to articles, with emphasis on public policy and modern political, social, and economic issues. Updated monthly.
List of journals included.

PapersFirst (1993 - Current)
Provides access to individual papers presented at conferences worldwide, covering every congress, symposium, exposition, workshop and meeting added to the The British Library Document Supply Centre's collection. Updated monthly.

Polling the Nations
Contains the full text of 400,000 questions and responses from 14,000 surveys/public opinion polls conducted from 1986-present in the U.S. and 80 other countries.

Primary Search
Provides full text for 50 children's magazines and over 100 children's pamphlets, designed for elementary school students in grades K-5.
List of journals included.

ProceedingsFirst (1993 - Current)
Provides tables of contents of papers presented at conferences worldwide. Each record contains a list of the papers presented at one conference. ProceedingsFirst provides access to the British Library Document Supply Centre's collection of conference proceedings. Updated monthly.

Television News Archive (1968 - Current)
Contains listings, summaries, and descriptions of news broadcasts found in the Vanderbilt University television news archive. Segments of the evening news as well as special broadcasts covering political conventions, presidential campaigns, international events, and more are included. Names of reporters, anchors, persons involved in an event, and a summary may be searched. Major networks covered are ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN, as well as ABC's Nightline since 1989.

Theses and Dissertations (OhioLINK ETD Center)
Online theses and dissertations from Ohio graduate students. Includes links to full-text.

Ulrich's Periodicals Directory
Contains information on currently published as well as discontinued periodicals. Includes magazines, journals, newsletters, newspapers, conference proceedings, and electronic publications.

Vocational and Career Collection
Vocational & Career Collection is designed for vocational and technical libraries servicing high schools, community colleges, trade institutions and public libraries. The collection provides full text coverage for 350 trade and industry related periodicals.
List of journals included.

World Almanac (1998 - Current)
Includes full-text of the following: The World Almanac and Book of Facts 1998; The World Almanac of the U.S.A.; The World Almanac of U.S. Politics; and The World Almanac for Kids. Updated annually.

World Book Web
World Book Web, which includes includes World Book Dictionary, World Book Atlas, World Book Advanced, World Book Kids, and Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos, offers a suite of online research tools that delivers encyclopedia articles, primary source collections, educator tools, student activities, pictures, audio, and video, complemented by current periodicals and related Web sites.

WorldCat
Contains records to over 100 million items in most (if not all) subject areas. Materials may include books, computer data files and programs, films, journal and magazine titles, newspapers, manuscripts, musical scores, and more. Not included are individual articles, stories, or book chapters. Updated daily.