Academic OneFile provides access to peer-reviewed, full-text articles in the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. If you wish to power search Academic OneFile along with General OneFile and Custom Newspapers,
Academic Search Premier (ASP) contains indexing and abstracts for more than 8,200 journals, with full text for more than 4,500 of those titles. Academic Search Premier contains unmatched full text coverage in biology, chemistry, engineering, physics, psychology, religion & theology, education, English literature, etc.
AccessScience features fully searchable content from McGraw-Hill's Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, 10th Edition which provides authoritative articles in all major areas of science and technology. Its continuously updated content also includes definitions of scientific and technical terms, illustrations and graphics, bibliographies, biographies, news, and videos. (Restricted to 1 simultaneous user.)
Contains bibliographic information, abstracts, reviews, and full-text for articles published in ACM periodicals and proceedings.
Provides online full-text access to journals published by the American Chemical Society contained in two databases: ACS Web editions; and ACS Journal archives.
Provides bibliographic coverage of basic and applied research in aeronautics, astronautics, and space sciences; also covers technology development and applications in supporting fields such as chemistry, geosciences, physics, communications, and electronics. Includes journal literature, reports issued by NASA and other U.S. government agencies, international institutions, universities, and private firms.
Includes citations to material acquired by the National Agricultural Library and cooperating institutions. It also abstracts articles, audiovisual materials, books, book chapters, computer databases and software, maps, manuscripts, serials, and sound recordings. It is the most comprehensive source of bibliographic citations covering U.S. agricultural and life sciences information.
The AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics) Electronic Library provides a searchable interface to the Institute's publications, covering all aspects of aerospace. Full-text access from 1997 to present is available through a subscription from the KU Libraries to the journals and meeting papers.
American West provides electronic access to the Everett D Graff Collection of Western Americana at the Newberry Library, Chicago. This digital collection contains over 300 manuscripts, broadsides, maps, and rare printed works. Material in the collection ranges from 1722 to 1939, with the majority covering 1830 to 1839.
Contains abstracts of papers relevant to animal behavior, with subjects ranging from neurophysiology to behavioral ecology, from genetics to applied ethology.
Provides searchable abstracts and full-text access to articles in the biomedical sciences, physical sciences, and social sciences in the Annual Reviews publications.
Contains bibliographic citations that describe items listed on the table of contents pages of more than 13,000 journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture. Offers the full text of some articles.
Collection of electronic pre-prints, and e-print service, in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science and computer science.
Access includes a basic subscription to active standards and to the Digital Library which provides full text access to symposia papers and to special technical publications.
Provides full-feature, one-query searches of the world micropaleontological literature. Intelligent searches can be narrowed according to fossil groups, range of dates, types of publications, GeoRef keywords, singly or in combination. Matched citations and groups of citations can be downloaded as plain text files for reference lists.
Abstracts and indexes reference publications for life science information. Includes bibliographical references with abstracts in English from life sciences research journals published worldwide, representing virtually every life science discipline, including agriculture, biochemistry, biotechnology, ecology, immunology, microbiology, neuroscience, pharmacology, public health, and toxicology.
Provides immediate free access to peer-reviewed biomedical research.
Contains the full texts of various research journals focused on the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences. Includes BioOne and BioOne 2.
BuildingGreen Suite offers articles, case studies and links to information on sustainable design issues, strategies, green building products, and current projects.
Provides business and industry content in the following areas: periodical articles, news articles, and press releases; detailed information for domestic and international companies and associations, including information on corporate hierarchical structures; investment reports; corporate chronologies and company histories; brands and product information; industry and company rankings; financial overviews; industry overviews; HR Law Case Digests.
Contains citations and abstracts to ASCE journals, conference proceedings, books, standards, manuals, magazines, and newsletter.
Consists of the online public access catalog (OPAC) of the Center for Research Libraries in Chicago, Illinois, which collects research materials not targeted by other North American research institutions. Materials from CRL are available via Interlibrary Loan.
See the individual products contained in ChemNetBase: Properties of organic compounds, and CRC Handbook of chemistry and physics.
Provides citations and abstracts relating to the neurobiology, chemistry, and physiology of taste, smell, internal chemoreception, and chemotaxis, including signal transduction, receptors, channels and neurogenetics; also practical areas as standardization and legislative aspects, apparatus and methodology, new products, patents, and marketing. Major areas of subject coverage include animal behavior studies, aroma studies of food, chemistry of …
Includes clinically oriented monographs on all U.S. drugs; off-label drug uses and dosages; thorough coverage of new and investigational drugs; hard-to-find drug information on IV admixtures and nutritional products; nutraceuticals, such as herbal products and trace elements. Features include extensive indexing, cross-referencing, and linking for optimum searching; printable OBRA compliant patient information; product identification feature …
Provides up-to-date notices of upcoming conferences, deadlines, awards, and other professional information. CogNet also provides a library of searchable electronic texts for cognitive and brain sciences. Contains works from the MIT Press, as well as content and links to resources from other publishers, professional associations and institutions. In addition, provides publisher information about new and important books from publishers like …
Cold Spring Harbor Protocols is a definitive, interactive source of new and classic research techniques and methodologies in molecular and cellular biology. Its coverage includes cell and molecular biology, genetics, bioinformatics, protein science, and imaging. Research protocols presented are continuously expanded, updated, and annotated by the originators and users of the techniques.
Compendex is a comprehensive interdisciplinary engineering database referencing engineering journals and conference materials.
Provides a combination of indexing, abstracts and full text for leading business and technical publications in the computer, telecommunications and electronic industries.
A collection of selected monographs with expired copyrights chosen from the mathematics field. These were monographs that were brittle and decaying and in need of rescue. Also known as: Cornell Digital Library math collection.
Online, digital version of the print handbook of the same title. Searchable across tables and chapters, this resource provides access to physical science data, and physical property data of common compounds, both inorganic and organic. (Restricted to 2 simultaneous users.)
Covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. Aims to cover all subjects and languages.
Contains citations and abstracts of dissertations and theses submitted by the University of Kansas and published in UMI's Dissertations Abstracts database, and full text of KU dissertations published after 1996 and KU theses published after 2005. Previously known as Current research @ University of Kansas.
The Early Encounters database documents the relationships among peoples in North America from 1534 to 1850. It makes available a collection of published and unpublished accounts, including narratives, diaries, journals, and letters that document the first impressions of North America by Europeans and of Europeans by native people. The collection includes primary materials, images, environmental studies and maps that researchers and students …
Earthquake Engineering Abstracts (EEA) provides comprehensive coverage of earthquake engineering and earthquake hazard mitigation. EEA is currently comprised of full citations and abstracts from 1971 forward, plus several hundred earlier classic papers and reports. EEA includes journal articles of all major journals that publish significant earthquake engineering research; proceedings abstracts of conferences and major meetings in earthquake …
Allows simultaneous searching of more than 20 life sciences sequencing, full-text, and abstracts databases.
E & E Publishing provides comprehensive, daily coverage of domestic and foreign environmental and energy politics and policy with electronic newsletters, journals, and webcasts. Publications include: Environmental and Energy Daily, OnPoint, Greenwire, E & E News P.M., E & E TV News, and Land Letter. E-mail alerts and extensive searchable archives are available for each publication.
Provides indexing and abstracts to the journal literature in the area of environmental policy and studies. The database covers applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, environmental law, geography, marine & freshwater resources, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more. Formerly called: Environmental issues & policy index.
See: Environment index.
Ergonomics Abstracts, an international abstracting service spanning the world of ergonomics and human factors, covers the literature of mainstream ergonomics as well as related material from psychology, physiology, biomechanics, job design, human-computer interaction, safety science, human engineering, medicine, occupational health, sport and transport. Includes over 119,500 records dating from 1997-present.
Provides indexing and abstracts to the education literature. ERIC consists of two files: Resources in Education, covering the document literature, and Current Index to Journals in Education, covering the published journal literature. Many of the documents, identified by the ED number, are available full text.
Provides access to worldwide patent information. Patents by member states of the European Patent Office and the World Intellectual Property Organization are included. Years of coverage and availability of full text and images vary by country.
Provides a combination of indexing, abstracts, images, and full text for scholarly and general interest journals embracing all academic disciplines.
Faculty of 1000 Biology provides research scientists with a continuously updated guide to the most important papers within a specified biological field. This awareness tool highlights papers on the basis of their scientific merit rather than the journal in which they appear. Merit determination is based on the recommendations of a faculty of well over 1000 selected leading researchers.
FRANCIS is a multilingual, multidisciplinary database covering the humanities and social sciences. Its broad subject areas and international scope make it an ideal stand-alone social science database, as well as a suitable complement for more specialised databases. FRANCIS is strong in areas such as archaeology, geography, linguistics, philosophy, religion, and sociology. The database contains more than 1 million records, with abstracts in …
Gale Virtual Reference Library provides a platform for searching Gale reference titles simultaneously. Individual reference titles included are: College blue book (32nd ed.); Encyclopedia of aging; Encyclopedia of bioethics; Gale encyclopedia of science (3rd ed.); Scholarships, fellowships, and loans (21st ed.); World Press encyclopedia; Beacham's guide to the endangered species of North America); Biology (1st edition); Encyclopedia of popular …
Gartner, Inc., provides this online resource focused on research and analysis of the global information technology industry. The database includes reports, analyses, overviews, trends, best practices, and other information on existing and emerging information technologies. This site is restricted to KU users and is currently accessed through the Kyou Portal. Once in the portal, click on "Services" at the top followed by "Technology …
General OneFile indexes newspapers, newswires and a collection of refereed academic journals, business publications, technology periodicals, general interest magazines as well as specialty titles in law, health care and computers. General OneFile includes more than 4,200 full-text titles; five newspaper indexes -- a total of nearly 8,000 titles in all with more than 20 years of backfile coverage from 1980 to present. If you wish to power …
Provides indexing and abstracts to the journal literature, books, conference proceedings and reports on geography, geology, ecology, and related disciplines.
Indexes and abstracts the world's literature in geology and the geosciences. GeoRef covers the geology of North America since 1785 and the geology of the rest of the world since 1933. Indexes journals, books, maps, reports, most U.S. Geological Survey publications, and U.S. and Canadian master's theses and doctoral dissertations. A database of the American Geological Institute.
Full text of association and society journals in geology and related geosciences beginning with the year 2000. The journals may be searched individually or in sets of particular interest, and the GeoRef database may also be included in a search if desired.
Google Book Search is a discovery tool for books. Click a book title and you'll see the Snippet View which, like a card catalog, shows information about the book plus a few snippets - a few sentences of your search term in context. You may also see the Sample Pages View if the publisher or author has given Google permission or the Full Book View if the book is out of copyright. Links are also provided to book reviews, synopses, sources to …
Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, patents, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.
Provides citations, abstracts, and full-text material to topics in health and medicine, medications, and wellness. Sources include encyclopedias, directories, medical dictionaries, magazines, journals, and newspapers.
Historical Statistics of the United States: Millennial Edition contains over 37,000 different time-series statistics providing a quantitative view into American history, Colonial Times to the present. Data series address many different topics of the United States, including Colonial, Revolutionary, and Confederate States aspects of American History. The Millennial Edition includes dozens of new topics including slavery, American Indians, and …
IEEE Explore provides access to IEEE/IET Electronic Library (IEL). The database contains almost a third of the world's current electrical engineering and computer science literature, featuring high-quality content from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). A subscription to IEL includes: Full-text access to nearly 2 million documents; IEEE and IET journals, …
Content is now available in IEEE Xplore.
Provides indexing and abstracts to the journal literature in the areas of clinical and technical drug information, pharmacy practice, pharmaceutical education, and legal aspects of pharmacy and drugs. Produced by the American Society of Health- System Pharmacists.
International Tables for Crystallography is a definitive resource and reference work for crystallography. Each volume in the series contains articles and tables of data relevant to crystallographic research and to applications of crystallographic methods in all sciences concerned with the structure and properties of materials. Emphasis is given to symmetry, diffraction methods and techniques of crystal structure determination, and the physical …
IOPscience is an online service for journal content published by the Institute of Physics. It contains more than 300,000 articles, from 1874 to the present day. As well as regular peer-reviewed content from IOP Publishing journals, users can also find pre-prints from eprintweb.org (based on the arXiv.org at Cornell University), and editorials and news from IOP community websites, alongside their search results.
Provides comprehensive details of all civil and military gas-turbine engines (turbofans, turbojets, turboprops and turboshafts) currently in use worldwide for the propulsion of manned aircraft. Also includes precise diagrams and illustrations, detailed specifications of each engine, descriptions of the background to each engine type, plus manufacturers' details.
Provides technical detail on over 950 civil and military aircraft currently being produced or under development by more than 550 companies. Includes photographs and line drawings, key specifications for any aircraft including dimensions, performance, structure, landing gear, power plants, and armaments. Also, has details of the world's aircraft manufacturers and their programs, for identification of key contracts and customers.
Provides details of over 180 UAVs, 120 aerial targets and 240 subsystems. Includes a full vehicle and target listing with information on development, mission payloads, guidance and control, operational status, specifications, customers, and contractors together with photographs. Each entry details the manufacturer, complete with contact information and the civil and military organizations using the aircraft.
The Journal Citation Reports on the Web is a unique multidisciplinary research tool that provides a systematic, objective way to determine the relative importance of journals within their subject categories. JCR(r) Web is available in two editions: the Science Edition covers over 6,100 leading international science journals from the ISI database. The Social Sciences Edition covers approximately 1,800 leading international social sciences …
Provides image and full-text online access of core academic journals in a variety of disciplines in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. The following collections are accessible: Arts and Sciences Collections I-VII; Life Sciences Collection; and Public Health Reports.
KU ScholarWorks is a digital repository for scholarly work created by the faculty and staff of the University of Kansas. KU ScholarWorks makes important research available to a wider audience and helps assure its long-term preservation.
Contains records for the majority of items in the KU Libraries, including the Regents Center Library and the Law Library.
Electronic full-text of journals and books on the Earth sciences that have been published by the Geological Society of London. Specifically, the Journal of the Geological Society, Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology, Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis Online, Geological Society Special Publication series, Engineering Geology Special Publication series, and Geological Society Memoirs.
Marquis Who's Who on the Web allows users to locate biographical information about more than one million individuals in more than 800 occupations using a single search and is updated daily. The database includes biographical data from the following Marquis Who's Who titles:. Who's who in America; Who's who in American politics; Who's Who in the East; Who's who in the world; Who's who in the Midwest; Who's who of American women; Who's who in …
MathSciNet consists of reviews and citations to the world's research literature in mathematics and related areas compiled from Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications. It is produced by the American Mathematical Society and includes over 2 million items and over 700,000 direct links to original articles. It provides citation data for journals, authors, articles and reviews based on the reference lists from over 300 journals.
Meteorological & geoastrophysical abstracts (MGA) contains records drawn from the World's literature on meteorology, climatology, atmospheric chemistry and physics, astrophysics, hydrology, glaciology, physical oceanography and environmental sciences. Summaries from over 600 journal titles, as well as conference proceedings, books, technical reports and other monographs, are included.
Provides access to the Foraminifera and Ostracoda databases. Reproduces the complete type descriptions for genus- and species-level taxa, including full-size reproduction of original figures and charts. Diagnoses in western European languages are given verbatim, while those in Russian, Chinese, and other non-western languages are translated by professional micropaleontologists. The stratigraphic level, locality and depository of the type …
The Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a NASA-funded project which maintains four bibliographic databases containing more than 4.0 million records: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Physics and Geophysics, and preprints in Astronomy. The main body of data in the ADS consists of bibliographic records and abstracts of articles and monographs which are searchable and full-text scans of much of the astronomical literature which can be …
Contains a searchable collection of electronic books which can be viewed or read online. All titles are also accessible from the KU Online Catalog. (Access to each book is restricted to one simultaneous user.)
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 union catalog serves as a repository of graduate educational material contributed by a number of member institutions worldwide. The University of Kansas will be contributing …
Provides indexing and abstracts to technical reports from both U.S. and non-U.S. sponsored research. Compiled by the U.S. National Technical Information Service, the database covers topics in the sciences, engineering, business, and social sciences. Reports received since 1997 are available as downloadable PDF files. Publications under 20 pages are free.
OnePetro (expands SPE eLibrary significantly): This database provides access to technical literature on oil and gas exploration and production produced by nine or more organizations, including the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) and the American Petroleum Institute (API). Some content from some of the organizations covers other topics, including energy, corrosion, and road and subway tunnels. SPE manages the database. Content from at …
Online Geographical Bibliography (GEOBIB) is a database containing the accumulated entries published in the journal Current Geographical Publications. This database continues the Research Catalogue of the American Geographical Society.
Provides full-text online access to most of the electronic journals published by the Oxford University Press. Disciplines covered are humanities, social sciences, and the sciences.
Cross-searchable online database of Oxford University Press subject dictionaries and reference works in the Premium Collection. Each topical division contains the searchable version of the latest edition of published dictionaries and encyclopedias. (Restricted to 5 simultaneous users.)
Indexes papers presented at worldwide meetings, conferences, expositions, workshops, congresses, and symposia received by the British Library Document Supply Center.
Databases of U.S. patents, including patent grants (full text since 1976, full-page images since 1790) and patent applications (published since 15 March 2001). To view the patent images, a plug-in is required. For links to free TIFF plug-ins,
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Indexes papers presented at worldwide meetings, conferences, expositions, workshops, congresses, and symposia received by the British Library Document Supply Center.
The Euclid Project hosts a growing aggregation of peer-reviewed journals in theoretical and applied mathematics and statistics published by small or society publishers. Full-text searching and reference linking are included.
PROLA is the American Physical Society's Physical Review Online Archives. The complete archive consists of all of Physical Review back to 1893, all of Physical Review Letters back to 1958, and all of Reviews of Modern Physics back to 1929. The majority of the collection consists of scanned images of the printed journals available as either GIF images or as PDF files.
Online, searchable database which provides access to information on tens of thousands of commonly sought organic compounds, featuring physical data, spectral data, and structures. Helps identify unknown compounds and can be used to locate additional data and references for a known compound. (Restricted to 2 simultaneous users.)
PQDT provides online access to over 2 million dissertations and master's theses, many of which are available in full text for immediate downloading. Citations are available for dissertations dating from 1861 and full text online from 1997 for over 1,000 schools submitting to the ProQuest UMI database. More than 55,000 new citations are added to the database every year.
Research Library is a comprehensive database available through the ProQuest online system. It indexes and abstracts general interest magazines and scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines and newspapers in the social sciences, humanities and sciences. The database includes more than 3820 titles -- over 2550 in full text -- from 1971 forward. Topics covered include arts, business, children, education, general interest, health, …
A comprehensive electronic guide to federal, state, local and international public documents, spanning over 200 years of publication, in a single searchable database.
Includes over 15 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. Includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.
Produced by SAE International, this database indexes technical papers, standards, and conference proceedings relating to mobility systems engineering in the aerospace, automotive, and commercial vehicle industries back to the early 1900s. Full text content is only available for technical reports from 1998 to the present. SAE International was previously the Society of Automotive Engineers.
Safari Books Online includes a variety of computing, programming, information technology, and business subjects, digitized and made available by Safari Books Online in conjunction with the original publishers. KU has access to all the titles in the database published in the current year + 2 previous years. When you have completed your search session, please click on "log out." (Restricted to 3 simultaneous users).
The Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) is an electronic virtual library covering a selected collection of scientific journals of Latin America, the Caribbean countries and Spain. As the project develops, new journal titles will be added in the library collection. The full-text content is in English, Portuguese and/or Spanish.
The online version of Science Citation Index has been incorporated into the Web of Science database.
Provides citation access to books and over 2,000 journals published by Elsevier in the following disciplines: science, technology, medicine, and social sciences. Full-text content is available to a limited number of these journal titles (around 25%) through KU subscriptions.
SciFinder Scholar is a downloadable client that provides access to CAplus, MedLine, CASREACT, and the Registry database from Chemical Abstracts Service. Includes journal articles, book chapters, patents, conference proceedings, technical reports, substance database and dissertations covered in Chemical Abstracts. Includes the substructure search module. SciFinder Scholar is available on several workstations in the Anschutz Library and Spahr …
Scitopia is a search portal which provides the means to simultaneously search the entire electronic libraries of 21 leading science and technology societies as well as patents from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, European Patent Office, and Japan Patent Office. Societies included are Acoustical Society of America, American Geophysical Union, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, American Institute of Physics, American …
Provides access to the electronic editions of the research journals published by the Society. Includes recently posted articles scheduled to appear in SIAM's print journals over the next one to two years.
The SPIRES HEP database provides more than 500,000 high-energy physics related articles, including journal papers, preprints, e-prints, technical reports, conference papers and theses, comprehensively indexed by the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and Deutsche Elektronen-Synchrotron libraries since 1974. Where applicable each record links to the full text, related experiments, references of the paper, reaction data, and conference …
SPORTDiscus with Full Text is the most comprehensive source of full text for sports & sports medicine journals, providing full text for more than 350 journals dating back to 1985. The SPORTDiscus database also contains full-text and citation information on the following sports-related topics: exercise physiology, biomechanics, psychology, training techniques, coaching, physical education, physical fitness, active living, recreation, history, …
SpringerLink provides online full-text access to over 1400 journal titles from 1997 to the present and to books published from 2005 to the present. Published content is predominantly in the sciences, medicine, technology, business and economics.
Provides electronic access to those journal titles for which the University of Kansas Libraries subscribes to in print.
A growing library of books selected from the University of Michigan mathematics collection that have been digitized to improve access and to preserve the content of these books. All of the books in this collection were published in the 19th or early 20th century.
Indexes and abstracts citations in research journals across the disciplinary spectrum. Online version of: Arts and humanities citation index (1975-present); Science citation index (1900-present); and Social sciences citation index (1956-present).
Provides full-text access to the journal titles published by Wiley in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Blackwell Synergy titles are now available on the Wiley platform.
Provides indexing, abstracting and full-text content to journal articles in a variety of disciplines.
World Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology Abstracts is an online bibliographic and abstracts database of internationally published research on rural socioeconomic research. This database covers such diverse topics as agricultural policy and development, biotechnology and genetic resources, food policy, food industry, international trade, natural resource economics, and rural sociology.
Includes millions of records describing items owned by OCLC member libraries, including the KU Libraries. (Restricted to 25 simultaneous users.)
Abstracts and indexes journals in political science, international relations, law, public administration and policy, including the merged backfile of Political Science Abstracts and ABC POL SCI. Some full-text linking. Coverage 1975 - .
Indexes and abstracts journals, monographs, books and reports in all major areas of zoology.
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