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Health Source: Consumer Edition
Search for information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine, and general health. Features searchable full text for over 190 journals including Consumer Reports on Health and Men's Health, as well as abstracts and indexing for over 205 general health, nutrition, and professional health care publications. [from EBSCO & KYVL]
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Provides nearly 600 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. This database is updated on a daily basis. [from EBSCO & KYVL]
Hein Online
"Provides access to law journals, the Federal Register, U.S. Treaties and Agreements, U.S. Attorney General Opinions, and U.S. Supreme Court information. The online documents are image based or high resolution reproductions of the original hardcopy. The resource covers both historic and current information." [from Hein Online and Chase Law Library]
Historical Abstracts
Coverage: 1954-present. Index to journal articles on topics related to history (outside the U.S. and Canada) since 1450. [ABC-CLIO]
Historical Abstracts
Coverage: 1955-1983. Index to journal articles on topics related to history (outside the U.S. and Canada) since 1450. Reference area print index.
Historical New York Times
Coverage: 1851-2003. For more recent indexing, see the New York Times Index (in print) or Academic Search Premier.
Hospital and Health Administration Index
Coverage: 1978-present. Updated 3 times per year. Index to journal articles on hospital and health care administration. Reference area print index.
Humanities Index
Coverage: 1974-present. Updated monthly. Index to periodicals in archaeology, art, classics, film, folklore, journalism, linguistics, music, the performing arts, philosophy, religion, world history, and world literature. Reference area print index.
Humanities Index Online
Index to periodicals in archaeology, art, classics, film, folklore, journalism, linguistics, music, the performing arts, philosophy, religion, world history, and world literature. [from WilsonWeb]

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Index Islamicus
The Index Islamicus database indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East, and the Muslim world.
Index to Journals in Communication Studies [Matlon]
Coverage: 1974-present. Updated every 5 years. Indexes about 20 core journals in speech communication, journalism and mass media, and related fields. Reference area print index.
Ingenta
Online document delivery service. Ingenta offers NKU faculty access to articles from over 27,000 journals and scholarly publications.
More information on faculty accounts and access.
International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP) Full Text
“International Index to Music Periodicals is an excellent resource for anyone who needs information on virtually any style or genre of music. It combines the ability to search the thesaurus-controlled indexing of the International Index to Music Periodicals with in-depth, full-text searching. It instantly delivers complete articles, including images, from many important music journals.” [ProQuest]
Iter
Iter was created for the advancement of learning in the study and teaching of the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700) through the development of electronic resources. It contains the following databases: The Iter Bibliography; Iter Italicum; Renaissance Quarterly Online (RQ Online);and the International Directory of Scholars.

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Johns Hopkins Online Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism
Provides more than 240 alphabetically arranged entries on critics and theorists, critical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods.
JSTOR
Journal archives across the curriculum. The individual titles can be found in NKUIRE.

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Kentuckiana Digital Library
From the KYVL. Provides online finding aids and digitized material from archival collections across the state of Kentucky. [KYVL]
Kentucky Encyclopedia
"The web edition of The Kentucky Encyclopedia contains all of the entries in the print and CD-ROM editions along with selected front and back matter. Entries have been enhanced with descriptive markup using the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), a widely recognized standard for the encoding of electronic scholarly editions, which allows for additional search and display capabilities in the web environment."
Kentucky Virtual Library Databases
Kentucky Virtual Library contains catalogs and databases. Some of Northern Kentucky University's subscriptions such as FirstSearch and EBSCO are part of the KYVL.

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LegalTrac
"Provides citations to articles published in law reviews and legal newspapers. Coverage is 1980 to present." [from Gale and Chase Law Library]
Lexis-Nexis
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA)
"LISTA indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports, and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management, and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s." [EBSCO]
Library Literature
Coverage: 1921-1998. Updated monthly. Index to professional literature in the field of Library and Information Science. Reference area print index.
Library Literature Online
Index to professional literature in the field of Library and Information Science. [from WilsonWeb]
LINCS National Institute for Literacy
From the KYVL. Resources for adult educators and family literacy. [KYVL]
Literary Reference Center
"Literary Reference Center (LRC) is a comprehensive literary reference database, which provides users with a broad spectrum of reference information from antiquity to the present day. LRC is a completely full-text database that combines information from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, hundreds of literary journals, and unique sources not available anywhere else." [from EBSCO]
Literature Resource Center
Biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism, and reviews on nearly 130,000 writers in all disciplines.
LLMCDigital: Law Library Microform Consortium
"A cooperative effort to preserve titles of interest to researchers in the areas of law and history. The historic collection includes legal treatises and primary resources for both federal and state governments." [from LLMC and Chase Law Library]

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Marcive
Coverage: 1976-present. Updated monthly. This is an index to selected U.S. government publications. Provides direct links to government documents available on the Web.
MasterFile Premier
Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 2,000 general reference publications with full-text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also includes 268 full-text reference books, nearly 100,000 biographies, 76,000 primary source documents, and an image collection of 116,000 photos, maps, and flags. [from EBSCO & KYVL]
MAS Ultra - School Edition
Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database provides full text for over 500 popular general interest and current events publications with information dating back as far as 1975 for key magazines. MAS Ultra - School Edition also provides nearly 550 full-text pamphlets, 252 full-text reference books, nearly 100,000 biographies, 76,000 primary source documents, and an image collection of 116,000 photos, maps, and flags. [from EBSCO & KYVL]
MEDLINE in EBSCO
Provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE allows users to search abstracts from over 4,600 current biomedical journals.
Also: MEDLINE in FirstSearch
MEDLINE Plus
From the National Library of Medicine. Provides information on health and diseases. Contains a medical encyclopedia and dictionary, among other resources.
Mergent Online
Provides access to U.S. Company Data, International Company Data, and Factsheets Plus.
Middle Search Plus
Provides full text for more than 150 popular magazines for middle and jr. high school research. All full-text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full-text information dates as far back as 1990. [EBSCO & KYVL]
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. The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 titles." [EBSCO]
MLA International Bibliography
Coverage: 1921-present. Updated annually. Comprehensive index to books and articles on the modern languages and literature. International coverage. Online and Reference area print index.

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