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| Database | Coverage | Discipline | Vendor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Academic OneFile | Full Text | Multidisciplinary | Gale |
| Peer-reviewed, full-text articles from leading journals and reference sources. Covers the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Includes podcasts and transcripts from NPR, CNN and the CBC plus full-text New York Times content from 1995 to present. Updated daily. | |||
| Search Tips | |||
| Academic Search Elite | Full Text | Multidisciplinary | EBSCOhost |
| Multidisciplinary with full text for more than 2,100 journals, including over 1,700 peer-reviewed titles covering virtually every area of academic study with backfiles as far back as 1985. | |||
| AccessScience | Full Text | Multidisciplinary | McGraw-Hill |
| Science database with full text articles from the Encyclopedia of Science & Technology plus full text biographical information, news articles, and science dictionary. | |||
| Demo (online tutorial) | |||
| Alt HealthWatch | Full Text | Health | EBSCOhost |
| Alternative health database with full text for more than 180 complementary and alternative medicine journals, reports, proceedings and newsletters plus hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, etc. Full text coverage dates back to 1990. | |||
| Advanced Search with Guided Style | |||
| Applied Science & Technology | Full Text | Science | EBSCOhost |
| Wilson's full text science and technology database - Select 'Applied Science & Technology (AST)' from the pull-down menu under 'Subject Area' - Includes articles from 175 journals covering a wide variety of applied science specialties. | |||
| ArchiveGrid | Full Text | Multidisciplinary | FirstSearch |
| Historical documents, personal papers and family histories held in archives around the world. | |||
| Art Full Text | Full Text | Fine Arts/Humanities | EBSCOhost |
| Wilson's full text art database - Select 'Art (ART)' from the pull-down menu under 'Subject Area' - Articles from some 160 journals. International coverage, new artists, exhibition reviews, criticism, etc. | |||
| AtoZ Maps | Images | Multidisciplinary | World Trade Press |
| The world's largest subscription-based database of proprietary, royalty-free world, continent, country, and state maps. | |||
| Biography in Context | Full Text | Multidisciplinary | Gale |
| Contextual information on the world's most influential people. Authoritative reference content (including Lives & Perspectives) merged with periodicals and multimedia organized into a user-friendly portal experience while also allowing users to search for people based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender as well as keyword and full text. | |||
| Navigation the Homepage | Searching | Topic Pages and Documents | |||
| Biological & Agricultural Index Plus | Full Text | Science/Land Resources | EBSCOhost |
| Wilson's full text biological & agricultural database - Select 'Biological & Agricultural (BA)' from the pull-down menu under 'Subject Area' - Nearly 90 journals ranging from popular to professional with about a 45 percent of the focus on agriculture. | |||
| Books in Print Professional (with reviews) | Full Text | Multidisciplinary | Bowker |
| In-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming book, audio, & video titles featuring full-text previews and reviews of titles - reviews are from CHOICE, Library Journal, School Library Journal, Research & Reference Book News, University Press Book News, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, Booklist, Quill & Quire, Horn Book Guide, Horn Book Magazine, and more. Includes cover images, author biographies, annotations, etc. | |||
| Business Abstracts with Full Text | Full Text | Business | EBSCOhost |
| Wilson's business full text database - Select 'Business (BUS)' from the pull-down menu under 'Subject Area' - Over 410 publications covering a wide range of specialties. | |||
| Business Source Elite | Full Text | Business | EBSCOhost |
| Full text from scholarly business, management and economics journals covering such topics as accounting, banking, finance, international business, marketing, sales, etc. for over 1,000 business publications with information dating back to 1985. Includes 10,100 substantial company profiles from Datamonitor. | |||
| Basic Searching for Academic Libraries | Advanced Search with Guided Style | |||
| CAMIO | Images | Fine Arts/Humanities | FirstSearch |
| Catalog of Art Museum Images Online - a premiere resource for works of art from prominent museums around the world. | |||
| Consumer Health Complete | Full Text | Health | EBSCOhost |
| Provides convenient access to easily understandable health and medical information. Consumers can search and browse within medical encyclopedias, popular reference books and magazine articles. | |||
| Consumer Health Complete Tutorial | Advanced Search with Guided Style | |||
| CQ Researcher | Full Text | Multidisciplinary | CQ Press |
| Full text, comprehensive reports and analysis on issues shaping our world with statistics, chronologies, bibliographies, and more. | |||
| Reference Guide | |||
| Credo Reference | Full Text | Multidisciplinary | Credo |
| Contains all types of reference books - dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri, and books of quotations plus subject-specific titles covering everything from the arts to accountancy and law to literature. Provides quick definitions/explanations and in-depth coverage. | |||
| Criminal Justice Periodicals Index | Full Text | Social Science | Proquest |
| Covers all areas of criminal justice. Includes abstracting/indexing for 240 journals with over 80 in full text. | |||
| Quick Reference Guide | |||
| eBook Collection | Text | Multidisciplinary | NetLibrary |
| Access to RFK library's collection of over 36,100 electronic books on EBSCOhost (formerly NetLibrary eBooks). | |||
| Help and User Guide | |||
| EBSCOhost Databases | Full Text | Multidisciplinary Gateway | EBSCOhost |
| All the RFK Library databases offered through the EBSCOhost gateway. | |||
| Basic Searching for Academic Libraries | Advanced Search with Guided Style | |||
| Education Full Text | Full Text | Education | EBSCOhost |
| Wilson's education full text database - Select 'Education (EDU)' from the pull down menu under 'Subject Area' - Over 350 journals including the Chronicle of Higher Education back to January 2000. | |||
| Encyclopedia Britannica | Full Text | Multidisciplinary | Britannica |
| Encyclopedia articles plus a dictionary, a thesaurus and an Internet guide. | |||
| Guided Tour | |||
| ERIC | Education | EBSCOhost | |
| Abstracting/indexing to education journals included in Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index - with linked access to more than 317,000 full-text documents dating back to 1966. ALL ED# articles up through June 2006 are available on microfiche in the RFK library. | |||
| ERIC | Education | U.S. Department of Education | |
| Bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials and, if available, includes links to full text. | |||
| Basic Searching for Academic Libraries | Advanced Search with Guided Style | |||
| FirstSearch Databases | Multidisciplinary | FirstSearch | |
| Subject-specific databases of materials. Mostly bibliographic and abstracts with information where located. Can limit some to resources held in the RFK Library. | |||
| Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia | Full Text | Multidisciplinary | EBSCOhost |
| Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas plus images and brief biographies. | |||
| Basic Searching for Academic Libraries | Advanced Search with Guided Style | |||
| Gale Databases | Full Text | Multidisciplinary Gateway | Gale |
| RFK Library databases offered through the Gale Group gateway - Academic OneFile, Biography Resource Center, General OneFile, Health and Wellness Resource Center, Literature Resource Center and Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center. | |||
| Gale PowerSearch | Full Text | Multidisciplinary | Gale |
| Provides researchers access to almost all the Gale content in the Robert F. Kidd Library Gale databases through one, single search query. | |||
| General OneFile | Full Text | Multidisciplinary | Gale |
| News and periodical articles covering business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social sciences, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images. | |||
| Search Tips | Navigation Guide | |||
| General Science Full Text | Full Text | Science | EBSCOhost |
| Wilson's full text database - Select 'General Science (GS)' from the pull-down menu under 'Subject Area' - Nearly 100 journals designed for students and non-specialists. | |||
| Global Road Warrior | Full Text | Multidisciplinary | World Trade Press |
| The ultimate guide to the world with information on 175 countries. | |||
| Google Scholar Advanced Scholar Search | Full Text | Multidisciplinary | |
| Search for court cases, journals, and books. Fees apply for some items but court cases are free. Books may frequently be obtained via interlibrary loan; see a librarian for details. | |||
| GPO | Full Text | Multidisciplinary | FirstSearch |
| U.S. government publications (can generally connect to a publication through URL link in record). | |||
| GreenFILE | Full Text | Multidisciplinary | EBSCOhost |
| Offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. | |||
| Basic Searching for Academic Libraries | Advanced Search with Guided Style | |||
| GREENR | Full Text | Multidisciplinary | Gale |
| Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources focuses on the physical, social, and economic aspects of environmental issues. Topic, organization, and country portals form research centers around issues that are shaping our future such as energy systems, healthcare, agriculture, climate change, population, and economic development. Portals include authoritative analysis, academic journals, news, case studies, legislation, conference proceedings, primary source documents, statistics, and rich multimedia. | |||
| Search Tips | Fact Sheet | |||
| Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia | Full Text | Multidisciplinary | WV Library Commission |
| Provided courtesy of the West Virginia Library Commission's WV Info Depot. Articles, research starters, world newspapers, lesson plans, and much more. | |||
| Health & Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module | Full Text | Health | Gale |
| Contains nearly 400 health/medical journals, hundreds of pamphlets, over 700 health-related videos and articles from 2,200 general interest publications in addition to a broad collection of Gale reference titles. | |||
| Search Tips | Navigation Guide | Guided Tour | |||
| Health Source - Consumer Edition | Full Text | Health | EBSCOhost |
| Provides consumer health information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Accesses nearly 80 full text consumer health magazines. | |||
| Basic Searching for Academic Libraries | Advanced Search with Guided Style | |||
| Health Source - Nursing/Academic Edition | Full Text | Health | EBSCOhost |
| Provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also features the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide. | |||
| Basic Searching for Academic Libraries | Advanced Search with Guided Style | |||
| Humanities Full Text | Full Text | Fine Arts/Humanities | EBSCOhost |
| Wilson's humanities full text database - Select 'Humanities (HUM)' from the pull-down menu under 'Subject Area' - Nearly 250 journals covering a full range of subjects. | |||
| Index to Legal Periodicals & Books Full Text | Full Text | Social Science | EBSCOhost |
| Wilson's legal full text database - Select 'Legal (ILP)' from the pull down menu under 'Subject Area' - Nearly 270 periodicals, many peer-reviewed. | |||
| JSTOR | Full Text | Literature | JSTOR |
| GSC's four JSTOR collections provide access to 471 full text journals. Our JSTOR collections are: Arts and Sciences II; Arts and Sciences III; Ecology & Botany; and Language & Literature. These collections cover a large number disciplines. | |||
| LearningExpressLibrary | Full Text | Multidisciplinary | WV Library Commission |
| (Practice Tests/Tutorial Courses/Writing Improvement) Provided courtesy of the West Virginia Library Commission's WV Info Depot. Offers study guides, e-books, and practice tests for major standardized exams like the GRE, Praxis, ASVAB and many others. New users click here to register. Returning users click here. | |||
| About Learning Express Library | |||
| Library Catalog (MARLO) | Multidisciplinary | Innovative Interfaces, Inc. | |
| Robert F. Kidd Library's online catalog for finding books, videos, DVDs, journals and other materials housed in the library. | |||
| Library Literature & Information Science Full Text | Full Text | Literature | EBSCOhost |
| Wilson's library and information full text database - Select 'Library & Information Science (LIB)' from the pull-down menu under 'Subject Area' - Over 155 journals as far back as 1997. | |||
| Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) | Librarianship | EBSCOhost | |
| Indexes more than 500 core journals, more than 50 priority journals, and 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings covering librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. | |||
| Basic Searching for Academic Libraries | Advanced Search with Guided Style | |||
| Literature Resources from Gale | Full Text | Literature | Gale |
| Research authors and their works, literary movements and genres. Search across several major literature databases to find full text of literary works, journal articles, literature criticism, reviews, biographical information and overviews. | |||
| Literature Resource Center - LRC | Full Text | Literature | Gale |
| Up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world plus links to authoritative related web sites and much more. Also has both LitFinder and MLA International Bibliography integrated into the database. | |||
| Basic Search | Advanced Search | Article Options | Managing Results | Person/Work Search | Guided Tour | |||
| LitFinder | Full Text | Literature | Gale |
| Contains over 150,000 full-text poems and 800,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays with biographies, explanations, overviews and images. | |||
| Basic Search | Article Options | Managing Results | |||
| MasterFILE Premier | Full Text | Multidisciplinary | EBSCOhost |
| Multidisciplinary with full text for over 1,750 periodicals. Also includes nearly 500 full text reference books, over 164,474 primary source documents and an Image collection of over 453,000 photos, maps and flags. | |||
| Basic Searching for Academic Libraries | Advanced Search with Guided Style | |||
| MEDLINE | Health | EBSCOhost | |
| Abstracting/indexing for over 4,800 current, biomedical journals (some linked to full text). Covers medicine, nursing, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and other related topics. | |||
| Basic Searching for Academic Libraries | Advanced Search with Guided Style | |||
| MLA International Bibliography | Full Text | Multidisciplinary | Gale |
| Contains all the entries in the print issues from 1926 to the present. Includes the Directory of Periodicals and the MLA Bibliography names and subject thesauri. | |||
| National Oceanic and Atmospheric Data | Full Text | Science | .gov |
| Official climate publications of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) national data centers - compiled using information from weather observing sites supervised by NOAA/National Weather Service. All online publications are FREE of charge for all .gov, .edu, .k12, .us, and .mil domains. | |||
| Naxos Music Library | Audio | Fine Arts | Naxos |
| Online collection of over 500,000 tracks of Classical, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music. | |||
| NewsBank Access World News | Full Text | Multidisciplinary | WV Library Commission |
| [Selected WV Newspapers] Electronic editions of Charleston Daily Mail, Charleston Gazette, Dominion Post, Herald-Dispatch, and several news magazines. Provided courtesy of the West Virginia Library Commission's WV Info Depot. | |||
| Newspaper Archive | Full Text | Multidisciplinary | WV Library Commission |
| Provided courtesy of the West Virginia Library Commission's WV Info Depot. Contains tens of millions of searchable newspaper pages from 4,026 newspapers dating as far back as the 1700s. | |||
| Newspaper Source | Full Text | Multidisciplinary | EBSCOhost |
| Cover-to-cover full text for nearly 35 national U.S. and international newspapers and select full-text to more than 375 U.S. regional newspapers. Plus full text television & radio news transcripts from ABC News, CBS News, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, NPR, etc. | |||
| Basic Searching for Academic Libraries | Advanced Search with Guided Style | |||
| OmniFile Full Text Select | Full Text | Multidisciplinary | EBSCOhost |
| Wilson's full text databases - Art, Applied Science & Technology, Biological & Agricultural Index, Education, General Science, Humanities, Index to Legal Periodicals & Books, Library Literature & Information Science, Readers' Guide, Social Sciences, and Wilson Business. Full text coverage begins in 1994. | |||
| Opposing Viewpoints in Context | Full Text | Multidisciplinary | Gale |
| Contextual information and opinions on hundreds of today's hottest social issues featuring continuously updated viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-test magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, statistics, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience. | |||
| Navigating the Homepage | Searching | Topic Pages and Documents | |||
| Points of View Reference Center | Full Text | Multidisciplinary | EBSCOhost |
| Multidisciplinary - provides essays that present multiple sides of 200 controversial topics. Also offers guides to debate, developing arguments and writing position papers. | |||
| Basic Searching for Academic Libraries | Advanced Search with Guided Style | |||
| Primary Search | Full Text | Multidisciplinary | EBSCOhost |
| Multidisciplinary juvenile database with popular full text magazines for elementary school research. Full text articles are assigned reading level indicators (Lexiles). | |||
| Basic Searching for Academic Libraries | Advanced Search with Guided Style | |||
| Pubmed Central | Full Text | Health | U.S. National Institutes of Health |
| PubMed Central (PMC) is the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature. | |||
| Readers' Guide Full Text Select | Full Text | Multidisciplinary | EBSCOhost |
| Wilson's Readers' Guide full text database - Select 'Readers' Guide (Current Events) (RDG)' from the pull-down menu under 'Subject Area' - Articles from some 215 journals, many of them peer-reviewed. | |||
| Regional Business News | Full Text | Business | EBSCOhost |
| Full text regional business publications including journals, newspapers and newswires covering metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. | |||
| Basic Searching for Academic Libraries | Advanced Search with Guided Style | |||
| Salem History | Full Text | Social Science | Salem Press |
| Milestone Documents in American History combines 134 full-text primary source documents with expert analysis and commentary covering the years 1763-2003. | |||
| Searchasaurus | Full Text | Multidisciplinary/Education/Juvenile | EBSCOhost |
| A colorful, easy-to-use search interface for elementary and middle school students. Includes the Encyclopedia of Animals, Funk & Wagnall's New Encyclopedia, the American Heritage Children's Dictionary, 3rd ed., and an Image Collection of over 235,000 images covering history, politics, animals, topical news, science, maps and flags. | |||
| Searchasaurus Tutorial | |||
| Serials Directory | Bibliographic | EBSCOhost | |
| Up-to-date bibliographic information and pricing structures for magazines, journals, newspapers, and other serials plus contact information on publishers. (This is not an index to articles.) | |||
| Social Sciences Full Text | Full Text | Social Science | EBSCOhost |
| Wilson's social science full text database - Select 'Social Science (SS)' from the pull-down menu under 'Subject Area' – Contains articles from some 215 journals covering the latest concepts, trend, opinions, theories, and methods from both applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences. | |||
| Student Resources in Context | Full Text | Multidisciplinary | Gale |
| Contextual information on a broad range of topics, people, places, and events. Authoritative reference content merged with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience combined with new features such as "Search Assist" and quick fact boxes. | |||
| Navigating the Homepage | Searching | Topic Pages and Documents | |||
| TEAS - Test Prep Review | Full Text | Multidisciplinary | TestPrepReview.com |
| Provides free unofficial review materials for a variety of exams through Test Prep Review and TEAS (Test of Essential Academic Skills). | |||
| Test Preparation (LearningExpressLibrary) | Full Text | Multidisciplinary | WV Library Commission |
| (Practice Tests/Tutorial Courses/Writing Improvement) Provided courtesy of the West Virginia Library Commission's WV Info Depot. Offers study guides, e-books, and practice tests for major standardized exams like the GRE, Praxis, ASVAB and many others. New users click here to register. Returning users click here. | |||
| About Learning Express Library | |||
| TOPICsearch | Full Text | Multidisciplinary | EBSCOhost |
| Contains full text from diverse sources including international and regional newspapers, periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, and government information. Covers social, political and economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms. | |||
| Basic Searching for Academic Libraries | Advanced Search with Guided Style | |||
| WorldAlmanac | Full Text | Multidisciplinary | FirstSearch |
| Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia and four almanacs. | |||
| WorldCat | Multidisciplinary | FirstSearch | |
| OCLC catalog of books, videos, web resources, and other library items in libraries worldwide. | |||
| WVDeli | Full Text | Multidisciplinary | OverDrive |
| West Virginia Digital Entertainment Library Initiative. Download audiobooks, eBooks, music and video from a rapidly growing library collection of digital materials. Sign in by selecting Glenville State College from the library drop down list and using your ten digit college ID number. Call 304-462-4109 if you need help. | |||
| QuickStart Guide | |||
| WV Info Depot | Full Text | Multidisciplinary Gateway | WV Library Commission |
| Databases available from the West Virginia Library Commission including Learning Express Library and Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. Call 304-462-4109 or ext. 6160 for log on information. | |||