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Academic Search Complete A scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 9,810 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.
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Access Military, Government News (Newsbank) Access Military, Government & Defense offers extensive coverage of the Armed Forces and U.S. federal government, as well as military and defense news.
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Alt-HealthWatch Alt Healthwatch is a full-text alternative health research database focused on complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It offers the latest information about the evolving practice of holistic medicine and therapies.
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America: History & Life with Full Text (EBSCO) The definitive database of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. With selective indexing for 1,700 journals from 1955 to present, this database is without question the most important bibliographic reference tool for students and scholars of U.S. and Canadian history. Also provides full-text coverage of more than 200 journals and nearly 100 books.
American History in Video People who witness notable historic moments, either in real time or on film, remember forever how they felt at the time.
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Applied Science & Technology Abstracts (H.W. Wilson) Applied Science & Technology Abstracts™ contains indexing and abstracts for nearly 800 core English-language, scientific and technical publications back to 1983. Content includes coverage of a wide variety of applied science specialties acoustics to aeronautics, neural networks to nuclear and civil engineering, computers and informatics and much more.
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Art Full Text (H.W. Wilson) comprehensive resource for art information featuring full-text articles from more than 300 periodicals dating back to 1995, high-quality indexing and abstracting of over 600 periodicals dating as far back as 1984, including 280 peer-reviewed journals, as well as indexing and abstracting of over 13,000 art dissertations. Indexing of almost 200,000 art reproductions provides examples of styles and art movements, including works by emerging artists. The database covers fine, decorative and commercial art, folk art, photography, film, and architecture, and also includes a database-specific thesaurus.
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Battlespace Journal
Business Source Complete A scholarly business database, providing bibliographic and full text content, including full text of the Harvard Business Review.
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Chicago Manual of Style Online Provides recommendations on editorial style and publishing practices for the digital age.Completely searchable and easy to use, The Chicago Manual of Style Online provides recommendations on editorial style and publishing practices for the digital age. Now offering the full contents of the 16th and 15th editions.
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Consumer Health Complete Consumer Health Complete supports the information needs of patients and fosters an overall understanding of health-related topics. This resource provides content covering all key areas of health and wellness, from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary and holistic medicine.
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CountryWatch CountryWatch provides critical country-specific intelligence and data to a global audience including public and private sector organizations with overseas operations and global interests. In addition, CountryWatch provides country information to large media audiences in various venues as part of its media strategy.
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Digital National Security Archive (DNSA) The National Security Archive produce the Digital National Security Archive, the most comprehensive collection available of significant primary documents central to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945. Collections cover the most critical world events, countries, and U.S. policy decisions from post-World War II through the 21st century, providing unparalleled access to the defining international strategies of our time with more than 150,000 indexed, declassified government documents; many are published now for the first time.
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Ebook Central Formerly known as Ebrary, EBook Central ProQuest allows you to quickly find relevant eBooks and chapters; read online; search within the eBook; and highlight, take notes, and bookmark pages in your online copy. An eBook is stored on your bookshelf for you once your EBook Central ProQuest account is created.
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EBSCO Audiobook Collection Search audiobooks, listen to samples, and download your selection.
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EBSCO Ebooks Ebooks from EBSCO in a wide variety of topics.
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Education Abstracts (H.W. Wilson) Education Abstracts™ provides indexing and abstracts for more than 680 periodicals and yearbooks, dating as far back as 1983. Books on education published after 1995 are also indexed. Subject coverage includes adult education, multicultural/ethnic education, teaching methods and much more.
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ERIC ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) is an authoritative database of indexed and full-text education literature and resources. Sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education, it is an essential tool for education researchers of all kinds.
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Fuente Academica Plus Fuente Académica provides researchers with a collection of full-text scholarly journals from Latin America, Portugal and Spain, designed to make academic research readily available in PDF format.
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Google Scholar Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines.
GreenFILE GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment
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Harvard Business Publishing Collection The Harvard Business Publishing Collection includes HBR’s complete catalog of e-books. HBR Press is a leading global book publisher and a division of Harvard Business Review Group.
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Health Source: Consumer Edition This rich collection of consumer health information provides access to full-text consumer health magazines and reference books. It also includes searchable full text for current health pamphlets.
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Health Source: Nursing and Academic Edition This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features the AHFS Consumer Medication Information, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.
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Historical Abstracts with Full Text This bibliographic database covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada), focusing on the 15th century to the present. For more than 50 years, researchers have used this database to discover groundbreaking work.
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History Reference Center Covering both U.S. and world history topics, History Reference Center is a full-text database featuring historical reference books, magazines, journals and thousands of primary source documents.
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History Vault: U.S. Military Intelligence Reports, 1911-1944 (ProQuest) Key primary source materials Full sweep of U.S. history Complements course curriculum
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IngentaConnect Ingenta provides technology and associated services to the publishing and ... Ingentaconnect hosts content from over 250 publishers, with an aggregated database of over 13,500 publications and over 4.5 million articles.
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International Journal of Military History and Historiography (Brill) The International Journal of Military History and Historiography has been continuously published (from 1978 to 2015 as the International Bibliography of Military History (IBMH)) on behalf of the International Commission of Military History (ICMH), which can trace back its origins to 1938.
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International Security & Counter Terrorism Reference Center International Security & Counter Terrorism Reference Center is the definitive intelligence database for security and threat analysis. Essential for security analysts and researchers, it provides full-text articles, news feeds, reports, books and summaries covering regional conflict, terrorism, domestic security and risk management options.
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Janes Country Intelligence Country Intelligence provide subscribers with the most current, in-depth and impartial analysis of political, economic, social, military, defense, and foreign affairs, along with security profiles.
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Janes World Insurgency and Terrorism This resource delivers in-depth information and contextual analysis on 250+ non-state armed groups, in addition to offering at-a-glance briefings on immediate concerns and international incidents.
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JSTOR Digital archive of leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs. CARL subscribes to Arts & Sciences I, II, III, V, VI, VII and Security Studies.
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JSTOR Security Studies (Journals and Research Reports) Explore a wide range of journals, ebooks, and research reports in the field of security studies. This content looks at security studies through a broad lens, encompassing research on international security and peace and conflict studies from all corners of the globe.
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Legal Collection This database contains full text for more than 250 of the world's most respected, scholarly law journals. Legal Collection is an authoritative source for information on current issues, studies, thoughts and trends of the legal world.
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Library Literature & Information Science Full Text (H.W. Wilson) Library Literature & Information Science Index™ provides cover-to-cover indexing of over 400 journals, including key library and information science periodicals. Subjects include automation, cataloging, censorship, circulation procedures, classification, copyright legislation, government aid, library associations and conferences, library equipment and supplies, personnel administration, preservation of materials, and more. Coverage reaches as far back as 1980.
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Literary Reference Center This rich full-text database provides a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. It gives students, professors and researchers a foundation of literary reference works to meet their research needs
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MasterFILE Premier Designed specifically for public libraries, this database provides full-text magazines, reference books and primary source documents. It also includes an extensive image collection containing photos, maps and flags.
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MedicLatina Access Top-Tier, Peer-Reviewed Spanish and Latin American Medical Journal
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MEDLINE Created by the United States National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE is an authoritative bibliographic database containing citations and abstracts for biomedical and health journals used by health care professionals, nurses, clinicians and researchers.
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Military & Government Collection Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. Provides cover-to-cover full text to nearly 300 journals.
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Military Database The Military Database covers topics across all government and military branches, including international relations, political science, criminology, defense, aeronautics and space flight, communications, civil engineering, and more. An important benefit of the Military Database is its content diversity. Included are scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications, and more.
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Military Periscope Resource for defense and military information. Includes United States Naval Institute (USNI) military database, Pentagon articles and news releases, daily defense news capsules, congressional budget documents, research and development program descriptive summaries, and special reports.
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NewsBank Armed Services and Government News is a comprehensive, full-text collection of the following military and government newspaper and periodical titles (plus another 25 military magazines) covering military issues from all branches of the service: Air Force Times, Armed Forces Journal, Army Times, C4ISR -- The Journal of Net-Centric Warfare, Decision Times, Defense News, Federal Times, Marine Corps Times, Military Times Association Guide, Navy Times, Special Sections, and Training and Simulation Journal.With unmatched U.S. news content from local, regional, and national sources, this resource is the largest of its kind. Its diverse source types include printed and online newspapers, blogs, journals, newswires, broadcast transcripts and videos. Explore a specific issue or event through the detailed coverage provided by local reporting or compare a wide variety of viewpoints from across the country on topics such as politics, business, health, sports, cultural activities and people.
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Newspaper Source Plus Newspaper Source Plus provides a full-text digital collection of the world's major news content. It includes millions of articles from newspapers, newswires and news magazines. In addition, it offers television and radio transcripts and ongoing daily updates from popular news sources.
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Newswires The Associated Press Newswire (formerly AP NewsMonitor collection) is a full-text database that contains harvested news from the Associated Press. When a link to a news story is clicked, you are brought to the Detailed Record and HTML Full Text of the story.
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Novelist Plus NoveList Plus is a comprehensive readers' advisory resource for fiction and nonfiction. With an intuitive interface and extensive proprietary content, NoveList Plus answers the question: What should I read next?
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Political Science Complete Designed specifically for students, researchers and government institutions, this full-text database covers political topics with a worldwide focus.
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Professional Development Collection Professional Development Collection is a highly specialized database of full-text electronic information especially for educators, professional librarians and education researchers.
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ProQuest Databases ProQuest databases provides a single source for scholarly journals, newspapers, reports, working papers, and datasets along with millions of pages of digitized historical primary sources and more than 450,000 ebooks.
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ProQuest Historical Newspapers: U.S. Major Dailies This historical newspaper collection provides researchers, genealogists, and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time. Coverage: 1849 - 2019
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ProQuest Military The Military Database covers topics across all government and military branches, including international relations, political science, criminology, defense, aeronautics and space flight, communications, civil engineering, and more. An important benefit of the Military Database is its content diversity. Included are scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications, and more.
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Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection This full-text database is an essential tool for psychologists, counselors, researchers and students, providing extensive coverage for a broad range of subjects in the fields of psychology, behavioral sciences and related disciplines.
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RefWorks Legacy Citation management tool that enables users to store, manage, and output (in a variety of styles) bibliographic references from various sources, including online article databases
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Regional Business News Regional Business News provides full-text regional business publications for the United States and Canadian provinces. Users can search newspapers, magazines and other resources from trusted news sources
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Religion & Philosophy Collection This database is an essential tool for researchers and students of theology and philosophical studies, providing a full-text source of content pertaining to the topics related to and discussed in disciplines of religion and philosophy.
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Research Library ProQuest Research Library provides one-stop access to thousands of full-text periodicals from one of the broadest, most inclusive general reference databases ProQuest has to offer. Search from a highly-respected, diversified mix of scholarly journals, professional and trade publications, and magazines covering over 150 subjects and topics. in all instances.
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SAGE Journals Online access to the SAGE journals CARL subscribes to and a limited portion of their back files.
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SIPRI Yearbook Online The SIPRI Yearbook is a compendium of data and analysis in the areas of: Security and conflicts Military spending and armaments Non-proliferation, arms control and disarmament
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Small Engine Repair Reference Center This comprehensive resource contains 410 full text reference books with original photos and illustrations for small engine repair assistance, including: ATVs, commercial mowers, generators, motorcycles, marine, outdoor power equipment, PWC (personal watercraft/jet ski), snow blowers, tillers and other small engines.
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SocINDEX with Full Text Full-text research database covering sociology and related disciplines. It features hundreds of full-text journals and millions of records with subject headings from a sociological thesaurus
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Taylor & Francis Online Provides access to quality, peer-reviewed journal articles published under the Taylor & Francis and Routledge imprints.
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TOPICsearch TOPICsearch contains full text for over 150,961 articles from 475 diverse sources including international and regional newspapers, EBSCO's unparalleled collection of periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, and government information.
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U.S. Newsstream (ProQuest) U.S. Newsstream enables users to search the most recent premium U.S. news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites in active full-text format. For academic and public libraries, U.S. Newsstream offers exclusive access to the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and co-exclusive access (with Factiva) to The Wall Street Journal.
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Vocational & Career Collection Designed to meet a wide variety of vocational and technical research needs, this database provides full-text coverage for trade and industry-related periodicals for high schools, community colleges, trade institutions and the general public.
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Web News Web News provides near real-time access to thousands of top news feeds from around the globe. This collection includes over 14,000 feeds covering a range of business and general news topics. End users can immediately access the full text of the web content, by following the link in the record.
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WorldCat (the OCLC Online Union Catalog)
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Writer's Reference Center Writer’s Reference Center provides users with a convenient one-stop location for all of the tools necessary to write and research effectively.
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New / Trial Databases

The following databases are newly acquired or being evaluated for a future subscription.
American History in Video People who witness notable historic moments, either in real time or on film, remember forever how they felt at the time.
  • You will need a CARL Library Card to be able to access this database
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Digital National Security Archive (DNSA) The National Security Archive produce the Digital National Security Archive, the most comprehensive collection available of significant primary documents central to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945. Collections cover the most critical world events, countries, and U.S. policy decisions from post-World War II through the 21st century, providing unparalleled access to the defining international strategies of our time with more than 150,000 indexed, declassified government documents; many are published now for the first time.
  • You will need a CARL Library Card to be able to access this database
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Harvard Business Publishing Collection The Harvard Business Publishing Collection includes HBR’s complete catalog of e-books. HBR Press is a leading global book publisher and a division of Harvard Business Review Group.
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International Journal of Military History and Historiography (Brill) The International Journal of Military History and Historiography has been continuously published (from 1978 to 2015 as the International Bibliography of Military History (IBMH)) on behalf of the International Commission of Military History (ICMH), which can trace back its origins to 1938.
  • You will need a CARL Library Card to be able to access this database
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U.S. Newsstream (ProQuest) U.S. Newsstream enables users to search the most recent premium U.S. news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites in active full-text format. For academic and public libraries, U.S. Newsstream offers exclusive access to the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and co-exclusive access (with Factiva) to The Wall Street Journal.
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The DoD MWR Digital Library provides online resources for Military families, soldiers, retirees, and DoD civilians for recreation, professional development, and academic support. Each branch of service has their own login portal that pulls from DEERS. All you need is your CAC and birthday to log in. 

Note: this is a separate process than acquiring a CARL library account.

Online services include:

Fold3 Library

Mango Languages

Overdrive/Libby Popular

O'Reilly

PressReader Digital Newspapers

 

Any resident of Kansas may ask for a Kansas Library e-card (how to get).  The links on the Kansas Library website may work by verifying your Kansas internet provider address.  If it does not work for you, please login with your Kansas Library e-card to access the databases.

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