Search nearly 1800 worldwide business periodicals available in full-text for in-depth coverage of business and economic conditions, management techniques, theory, and practice of business, advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more. Expanded international coverage. Access to information on 60,000+ companies with business and executive profiles.

1971 - present

Contains full text articles from nearly 4,500 journals, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for all 8,144 journals in the collection. PDF back files to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for 1,000 titles. The majority of full text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color.
Provided by the KYVL

Access NewspaperARCHIVE contains tens of millions of searchable newspaper pages, dating as far back as the 1700's. It is a gateway to searching and reading historical newspapers online. Use the archive to view, save and print full-page newspapers from around the world.

1700 - present

Full-text databases contain primary sources of historical information including eyewitness accounts of historical events, vivid descriptions of daily life, editorial observations, commerce as seen through advertisements and genealogical records.

18th and 19th century

Provides access to journals in accounting and related subjects.
Steely Library Reference Collection - Accounting and Tax Index

1992 - present, updated quarterly

A collection of major scholarly works from all areas of history, including online versions of printed works as well as original electronic publications.

Consists of over 4.3 million citations to journal articles, monographs, theses, patents, software, audio-visual materials, and technical reports that have been compiled by the U.S. National Agricultural Library (NAL). The records describe publications and resources encompassing all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines including plant and animal sciences, forestry, entomology, soil and water resources, agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, agricultural products, alternative farming practices, and food and nutrition. Auxiliary subjects that support NAL's Information Center activities, such as agricultural trade and marketing, rural information, and animal welfare are also included in the database.
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1970 - present

Created to allow students to use resources across the country in an integrated, interactive learning resource on the Internet. As an "encyclopedia of agriculture," Agripedia presents facts, figures, demonstrations, examples, graphics, and more regarding the concepts, practices, and vocabulary of agriculture in a multimedia format using audio clips, graphics, text, and animation."

A full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals from alternative and independent presses.

Varies based on journal

Indexes almost 300 alternative, radical, and left periodicals, newspapers, and magazines. Interdisciplinary and international in scope. Other features include selected abstracts, journal record information, and hot links to Publisher web sites.

1991 - present, updated quarterly

Comprehensive index of alternative, radical, and left periodicals, newspapers, and magazines published from 1969 to 1990. Interdisciplinary and international in scope. Includes book, film, and television reviews, interviews, obituaries, and biographical information, in addition to feature articles.

1969 - 1990

An international, collaborative initiative building an online digital library of resources from and about Africa. Includes archival documents, periodicals, books, reports, manuscripts, reference works, three-dimensional models, maps, oral histories, plant specimens, photographs, and slides.

Contains reference and media materials about animals around the world for grades 2 and up.

A complete bibliographic reference to journal articles, books, book reviews, theses, and dissertations pertaining to the history of United States and Canada. Abstracts are provided.

Updated quarterly

Statistics and information of the Census Bureau.

American History in Video provides a collection of videos, available online, for the study of American history, with 2,000 hours and more than 5,000 titles on completion. The collection allows students and researchers to analyze historical events, and the presentation of historical events over time, through commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries.

An author and subject index to serial and edited works received by the anthropology library of Harvard University. Subjects include archaeology, biological and physical anthropology, cultural and social anthropology, linguistics, sociology, history, ethnohistory, demography, geography, international development, and human genetics.
Steely Library Reference Collection - Anthropological Literature
Steely Library Reference Collection - Anthropological Literature (previous record)

1979 - 1980; 1989 - present, updated quarterly

Comprehensive international resource for the fields of anthropology, archaeology and related interdisciplinary research. Offers access to more than 570,000 citations that cover articles published from the early 19th century to the present in more than 50 languages. Contains articles and essays on social and cultural anthropology, Old and New World archaeology, physical anthropology and anthropological aspects of related subjects emphasizing Mesoamerican, Native American and Andean archaeology and ethnology.

1900 - present, updated quarterly

Features graphs, charts, diagrams, photos, and illustrations that convey data from scientific and technical articles covering engineering, mathematics, physics, and computer technology.

Indexing 1983 - present
Abstracting 1993 - present

Indexing of an international array of peer-selected publications - now with expanded coverage of Latin American, Canadian, Asian and other non-Western art, new artists, contemporary art, exhibition reviews, and feminist criticism. In addition to articles, this database indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals.

1984 - present

A citation index to international journals in the humanities. The online equivalent of ISI's Arts & Humanities Citation Index.

1980 - present, updated weekly

Approximately 500,000 images covering art, architecture, and archeology.

[American Statistics Index]
Indexes statistical data published by all branches and agencies of the Federal Government.
Steely Library Reference Collection - ASI [American Statistics Index]

1974 - present, updated monthly

Provides web-based software training and support on more than 100 applications for students, faculty, and staff. Includes over 30,000 short video tutorials to give you just the training you need for a specific software task.
Provided by the Professional Organizational Development Center

Indexes current reference sources such as biographical dictionaries and who's whos, which supply information on a number of individuals; subject encyclopedias, which include some biographical entries; volumes of literary criticism, which may contain only a limited amount of biographical information but give critical surveys of writer's works; indexes, which refer the user to a body of information found elsewhere. It does not include periodical articles or books of biography about a single individual.

Updated twice a year

Index of biographical material appearing in periodicals, books of individual and collective biographies, incidental biographical material appearing in non-biographical books, obituaries, collections of letters, diaries, memoirs, and bibliographies.
Steely Library Reference Collection & Closed Stacks - Biography Index

1946 - 1999

Ancient times to present. With links to every article focused on any individual in nearly every WilsonWeb database, Biography Reference Bank covers over 500,000 people and includes over 36,000 images.

Ancient times to present

Provides detailed abstracts written in a non-technical style for students and interested nonscientists. Conveys solid, factual information useful to life scientists exploring areas outside their specialties

1989 - present, updated 9 times per year

Biological Abstracts includes bibliographic references (records) with abstracts derived from life sciences research journals published worldwide.

1989 - present

Indexes reviews of current fiction and non-fiction, and provides review excerpts and over 100,000 full text reviews. Reviews are arranged by book. Includes books for children, young adults and adults.
Steely Library Reference Collection & Closed Stacks - Book Review Digest

1905 - 2000

Indexes reviews of current fiction and non-fiction, and provides review excerpts and over 100,000 full text reviews. Reviews are arranged by book. Includes books for children, young adults and adults.

1983 - present

Indexes reviews of published and forthcoming books, audio-books, and e-books.
Steely Library Reference Collection - Book Review Index

1965 - present, updated monthly

Provides complete, publisher-verified information on all U.S. books in print. Contains in-print and forthcoming books, audios, videos, and e-books. Includes books, audios, and videos declared out-of-print or out-of-stock since 1979. Also includes full-text book reviews, complete publisher information, and information about authors/contributors.

Statistics and information of the Census Bureau.

Contains important facts, figures and key events for international public and private companies, industries, products, and markets for manufacturing and service industries. Covers all the primary business information sources--from leading trade magazines, newsletters, and the general business press to international business dailies.

1994 - present, updated daily

Provides real-world know-how that focuses on how organizations make and implement decision, develop and launch new strategies, and plan for change, including case studies and how-to articles. Searches for business concepts, industries, and specific departments within an organization.

1995 - present, updated weekly

Includes information about library resources that describe regional business activities and trends and major stories on local firms, their products, and executives. Provides online articles from regional publications, Business Wire press releases, and major newspapers.

1985 - present, updated weekly

Includes abstracts in most records describing the organization's products and services and giving other information about the organization, such as founding date, membership size, and publications. Can search by broad subject area by using section headings assigned to each organization.

Indexes business periodicals by subject. Also lists citations of book reviews.
Steely Library Reference Collection & Closed Stacks - Business Periodicals Index

1958 - 1986, 1986 - 2000

Enhanced Business Searching Interface
Provides full text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Also includes country economic reports from the EIU, Global Insight, ICON Group and CountryWatch and detailed company profiles. Additional full text, non-journal content includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses.
Provided by the KYVL

Varies based on journal, updated daily

Indexes and provides abstracts and full text for articles. Topics include computing science, healthcare, building trades, auto mechanics, sales and retail, accounting, graphic design, and photography.

1975 - present

The finding tool for electronic and print publications from the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the U.S. government. These publications make up the National Bibliography of U.S. Government Publications. The CGP contains descriptive records for historical and current publications and provides direct links to those that are available online.

July 1976 - present, updated daily

Statistics and information of the Census Bureau.

Statistics and information of the Census Bureau.

Statistics and information of the Census Bureau.

Steely Library Closed Stacks - Chemical Abstracts

1907 - 1993

Child Welfare Information Gateway promotes the safety, permanency, and well-being of children and families by connecting child welfare, adoption and related professionals as well as concerned citizens to timely, essential information. A service of the Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, we provide access to print and electronic publications, websites, and online databases covering a wide range of topics from prevention to permanency, including child welfare, child abuse and neglect, adoption, search and reunion, and much more.

1965 - present

Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries is the premier source for reviews of academic books, electronic media, and Internet resources of interest to those in higher education. More than 35,000 librarians, faculty, and key decision makers rely on Choice magazine and Choice Reviews Online for collection development and scholarly research. Choice reaches almost every undergraduate college and university library in the United States.
One user at a time

Provides full text for more 520 journals indexed in CINAHL. Includes nursing and allied health journals.
Provided by the KYVL

1982 - present

[Congressional Information Service]
Provides abstracts and indexes for all publications of Congress except the Congressional Record.
Steely Library Reference Collection - CIS Index

1970 - 2005

[Congressional Information Service]
Index to U.S. Congressional publications, including committee hearings, reports, and other documents. Legislative histories lead to primary documents that are related to a particular law.

1970 - present

Provides full text from eight regionally balanced cover-to-cover newspapers and nearly 2,000 pamphlets. Primary sources covering cultural, regional, ethical, and economic viewpoints from the American Civil War period.

1840 - 1865

Includes recordings of music written from the earliest times (e.g. Gregorian Chant) to the present, including many contemporary composers. Repertoire ranges from vocal and choral music, to chamber, orchestral, solo instrumental, and opera.

The Cochrane Library is a collection of databases that contain high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. Cochrane Reviews represent the highest level of evidence on which to base clinical treatment decisions. In addition to Cochrane Reviews, The Cochrane Library provides other sources of reliable information: other systematic reviews abstracts, technology assessments, economic evaluations, and individual clinical trials.

• Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
• Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE)
• Cochrane Central Cegister of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL)
• Cochrane Database of Methodology Reviews
• Cochrane Methodology Register
• Health Technology Assessment Database (HTA)
• NHS Economic Evaluation Database (NHS EED)

Provides full text (in PDF format) of 38,500 college catalogs, including 2-year, 4-year, graduate, and professional schools. Searchable by major, geographic location, tuition, enrollment, affiliation, and other criteria. Also includes course descriptions.

Provides abstracts for major communication-related articles, reports, and books. Subjects include general communication, mass communication, advertising and marketing, broadcasting, communication theory, interpersonal and intrapersonal communication, small-group communication, organizational communication, journalism, public relations, radio, public opinion, speech, and television.
Steely Library Reference Collection - Communication Abstracts

1999 - present, updated every two months

Provides abstracts for major communication-related articles, reports, and books. Subjects include general communication, mass communication, advertising and marketing, broadcasting, communication theory, interpersonal and intrapersonal communication, small-group communication, organizational communication, journalism, public relations, radio, public opinion, speech, and television.

1977 - present, updated bimonthly

Includes indexing, abstracts, and some full text for journals on communication, mass media and other closely-related fields.

Statistics and information of the Census Bureau.

Indexes books, journals, newsletters, research reports form non-profit groups, government and international agencies, and fact sheets about women's issues in over 150 countries. Includes links to full-text articles.

1992 - present

(North American Industry Classification System)
Statistics and information of the Census Bureau.

1998 - present

Provides reporting and analysis on issues in the news, including health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy. Reports are published online 44 times a year.

1991 - present

Published weekly in print and archived on the web. Gives in-depth reports on issues looming on the Congressional horizon, plus a wrap up of the previous week's news, including the status of bills in play, behind-the-scenes maneuvering, committee and floor activity, debates and all roll-call votes.

1983 - present

A complete reference collection from over 50 publishers, powered by a network of cross-references that cut across topics, titles and publishers to provide answers - and new connections - in context.

Contains abstracts of current books, journal articles, and reports published worldwide. Many issues also include a review that synthesizes the research on a subject of current importance.
Steely Library Closed Stacks - Criminal Justice Abstracts

1988 - 1998

Index to journals in criminal justice and police science.
Steely Library Closed Stacks - Criminal Justice Periodical Index

1975 - 1998

Includes abstracting, indexing, and some full text. Includes topics such as criminal justice, law enforcement, corrections administration, drug enforcement, rehabilitation, family law, and industrial security.

1981 - present

Contains information about all public company filing including annual reports, company summary information, and shareholder reports. Includes information from public documents maintained by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Updated weekly

ProQuest's UMI Dissertation Publishing group publishes more than 65,000 new dissertations and theses each year.

1637 - present, updated weekly

EBSCOhost
EBSCOhost - Español
EBSCOhost - Francais
EBSCOhost - Deutsch

Provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. Consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals.
Provided by the KYVL

Provides citations for dissertations, journal articles, books, and working papers related to economics.

The Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval system performs automated collection, validation, indexing, acceptance, and forwarding of submissions by companies and others who are required by law to file forms with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Provides access to electronic journals and full text of articles for journals managed through EBSCOhost Electronic Journals Service (EJS). Allows search and retrieval of citations, abstracts and full text.

Access to the Encyclopedia Americana. To access this off campus, go to the KYVL site, using the KYVL password.
Ask a Librarian for access details.
Provided by the KYVL

Lists early books, serials, newspapers and selected ephemera. Contains catalog entries for items issued in Britain, Ireland, overseas territories under British colonial rule, and the United States. Also included is material printed elsewhere which contains significant text in English, Welsh, Irish or Gaelic, as well as any book falsely claiming to have been printed in London.

1473 - 1801

The Educational Resource Information Center provides citations, abstracts, and full text for articles in educational and education-related journals.

The Educational Resource Information Center provides citations, abstracts, and full text for articles in educational and education-related journals.
Provided by the KYVL

The Educational Resource Information Center provides citations, abstracts, and full text for articles in educational and education-related journals.

An author and subject index to collections of essays pertaining to materials in the humanities and social sciences. Subjects include philosophy, religion, social and political science, economics, law, education, linguistics, science, the various arts, literature, and history.
Steely Library Reference Collection & Closed Stacks - Essay and General Literature Index

1900 - 1999

Provides abstracts for books, journal articles and other print and non-print sources on special education, gifted education, and related disciplines.
Steely Library Closed Stacks - Exceptional Child Education Resources
Steely Library Closed Stacks - Exceptional Child Education Abstracts (previous title)

1974 - 1977, 1974 - 1998

Covers company, product, and industry information from financial publications, business-oriented newspapers, trade magazines and special reports. Indexes contain information on corporate acquisitions and mergers, new products, technological developments, and social and political factors affecting business.
Steely Library Closed Stacks - F & S Index of Corporations and Industries
Steely Library Closed Stacks - Predicasts F & S Index United States (previous title)

1968 - 1978, 1979 - 1992

Facts on File

Explores more than 800 hot topics in business, politics, government, education, and popular culture.

Bridges the gap between the science that students learn in the classroom and the discoveries pushing the boundaries of science today.

Brings together content from the Facts On File World News Digest and a live newsfeed from Reuters to answers question about events, people, issues, facts, and figures. Also delivers maps, photographs, historic documents, and special overviews of key issues, newsmakers, and events.

1940 - present, updated daily

The official daily publication for rules, proposed rules, and notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as executive orders and other presidential documents.

1994 - present, updated daily

A collection of over 40 databases.

Varies

Provides indexing and full-text for over 25,000 records. Also contains images, brief biographies, and information in a variety of subject areas.
Provided by the KYVL

Updated annually

A subject index to science periodicals. Also includes an author listing of citations to book reviews. Subjects include astronomy, atmospheric science, biology, botany, chemistry, earth science, environment and conservation, food and nutrition, genetics, mathematics, medicine and health, microbiology, oceanography, physics, physiology, psychology, and zoology.
Steely Library Reference Collection & Closed Stacks - General Science Index

1978 - 1984, 1984 - 1999

Indexes articles on a variety of science-related information. Designed for students and non-specialists.

1984 - present, updated monthly

Abstracts journals, books, monographs, conference proceedings and reports about geography, geology, and ecology.

1980 - present

Indexes bibliographic records from books, maps, government reports, conference papers, and theses and dissertations. Subjects include environmental and engineering geology, hydrology, economic geology, geophysics, petrology, paleontology, marine geology and oceanography, and mineralogy.

A network of digital collections and online resources provided by the Library of Congress.

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.

Index to articles published by agencies of the U.S. government.

1988 - present

Offers well-researched but accessible information covering all aspects of human impact on the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles include content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done on each level to minimize negative impact. Topics covered include global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. GreenFILE is multidisciplinary by nature and draws on the connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology.

Derived from the Academic American Encyclopedia database, an 11-million-word repository of text and images.

Access to reference resources from Grolier. To access this off campus, go to the KYVL site and use the KYVL password.
Ask Steely Library! for access details.
Provided by the KYVL

Provides access to a variety of health-related resources, with information about medical treatment, clinical trials, senior health care, genetic conditions, health issues related to household products, environmental concerns, and a variety of additional topics. [From the National Library of Medicine]

Provides full text for consumer health magazines, health-related pamphlets, and health reference books. Contains Clinical Reference Systems reports (in English and Spanish) and drug monographs.
Provided by the KYVL

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. Covers both historic and current information.

Covers the history of the world, including world history, military history, women's history, and history of education. Provides indexing for academic historical journals in over 40 languages.

Offers full page and article images with searchable full text. Includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.

September 18, 1851 - December 31, 2004

Includes citations to English-language articles, focusing on the health systems of industrialized countries. Subjects include the organization and administration of hospitals and other health care providers, the financing and delivery of health care, the development and implementation of health policy and reform, and health planning and research.
Steely Library Closed Stacks - Hospital and Health Administration Index
Steely Library Closed Stacks - Hospital Literature Index (previous title)

1978 - 1994, 1995 -1999

Index of author and subject entries to periodical articles and author listing of citations to book reviews. Subjects include archaeology and classical studies, area studies, folklore, history, language and literature, literary and political criticism, performing arts, philosophy, religion and theology, and related subjects.
Steely Library Reference Collection & Closed Stacks - Humanities Index
Steely Library Reference Collection - Social Sciences & Humanities Index (previous title)

1965 - 1974, 1975 - 1999

Provides bibliographic indexing of sources in the humanities. Features articles, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction, drama, and poetry, book reviews, and reviews of ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, operas, plays, and radio and television programs.

1984 - present

Indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. Includes journals, conference proceedings, monographs, multi-authored works and book reviews.

1906 - present

Indexes about 20 core journals in speech communication, journalism and mass media, and related fields.
Steely Library Reference Collection & Closed Stacks - Index to Journals in Communication Studies

1974 - present, updated every 5 years

Index to the Times London.
Steely Library Reference Collection - Index to the Times
Steely Library Reference Collection - Official Index to the Times (previous title)
Steely Library Reference Collection - Annual Index to the Times (previous title)

1906 - 1973

Online document delivery service. Ingenta offers NKU faculty access to articles from over 27,000 journals and scholarly publications.

Includes CCH Business Network, CCH Human Resources Network, and CCH Tax Network

Statistics and information of the Census Bureau.

Includes bibliographic records for articles, essays, books, dissertation abstracts, encyclopedia entries and reviews.

400 - 1700 (Middle Ages and Renaissance), updated daily

A historical survey of the field's most important figures, schools, and movements. Includes alphabetically arranged entries on critics and theorists, critical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods.

An archive of journals that spans many disciplines. Provides high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated.

Provides access to rare and unique digitized collections housed in Kentucky archives. Includes finding aids, newspapers, electronic texts, images, maps, and oral histories.
Provided by the KYVL

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.

Provides a link to catalogs and databases offered through KYVL.

Provides indexing for major law review, legal newspapers, bar association journals, and international legal journals. Also contains law-related articles from business and general interest titles.

Features more than 6,000 full-text sources, including foreign and U.S. newspapers (among them The New York Times), magazines and trade journals, broadcast transcripts, company financial information, industry and market news, federal and state case law, law reviews, medical news and abstracts, and state and country profiles.

An author and subject index to materials on library and information science. Includes citations for periodicals, books, pamphlets, films, filmstrips, microcards, microfilms, and library school theses and research papers.
Steely Library Reference Collection & Closed Stacks - Library Literature

1921-1997

Indexes articles and book reviews in library and information science periodicals. Also includes books, chapters in collected works such as conference proceedings, library school theses, and pamphlets. Some full text available beginning in 1994.

[LISTA]
Indexes periodicals, books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information and retrieval, and information management.

1960's - present

Provides information on a wide variety of literacy relevant topics, issues, and resources.
Provided by the KYVL

Full-text journal articles, literary criticism, reviews, biographical information, and overviews on over 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods from around the world.

[Law Library Microform Consortium]
Updated monthly. 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.

1976 - present, updated monthly

Provides full text for articles, biographies, and primary source documents for high school students. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Also contains reference books, photos, maps, and flags.
Provided by the KYVL

Provides full text for general readership periodicals covering a broad range of disciplines including general reference, business, education, health, general science, multi-cultural issues. Also provides indexing and abstracts, primary source documents, photos, maps, and flags.
Provided by the KYVL

Indexes biomedical journals using MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Topics include medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and per-clinical sciences.

Provides information from the National Library of Medicine (NLM), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations. Also includes medical journal articles, information about drugs, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, interactive patient tutorials, and health news.

Provides access to U.S. Company Data, International Company Data, U.S. Annual Reports, International Annual Reports, and Corporate Visibility.

Provides full text for middle school magazines, biographies, and historical essays. Also contains primary source documents, reference books, photos, maps, and flags. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles).
Provided by the KYVL

The MLA Directory of Periodicals offers detailed information on over 5,500 journals, with 4,400 currently indexed in the International Bibliography. The detailed entries include editorial contact information, as well as frequency, circulation, subscription prices and submission guidelines.

MLA International Bibliography offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association, the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to the 1920s and contains over 2.2 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series and 1,000 book publishers. The indexed materials coverage is international and includes almost 60 titles from J-STOR's language and literature collection as well as links to full text.

1926 - present

(CD-ROM)
Provides access to information on world trade and commerce from various U.S. government departments and agencies. It provides trade and commerce statistics, economic trends, market information, regulations, and other information relating to global economic competition. Export and import information, trade agreements, country reports, and market profiles are included, as well as economic information.
Steely Library Government Documents Collection - National Trade Data Bank

Current, updated monthly

Naxos Music Library includes the complete Naxos, Marco Polo, and Dacapo catalogues of over 258,000 tracks, including Classical music, Jazz, World, Folk, and Chinese music. While listening, users can read notes on the works being played as well as biographical information on composers or artists in Naxos's extensive database.

A collection of electronic books.

New Book of Knowledge provides online access to this popular resource from Grolier, a standard in school, public, and academic libraries.

Index to The New York Times newspaper.
Steely Library Reference Collection - New York Times Index
Steely Library Reference Collection - New York Times Index "Prior Series"

1851 - 2005

Index to full-text newspaper articles, from U.S. regional and national papers, newswires and broadcasts.

Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County's index to local newspaper articles.

Indexes and abstracts more than 50 U.S. and regional newspapers, including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, USA Today, and The Wall Street Journal.

1989 - present

Newspaper Source provides selected full-text coverage for more than 260 regional, national and international newspapers. This database also contains full text television & radio news transcripts.
Provided by the KYVL

All books, journal titles, and government documents held by the libraries at Northern Kentucky University.

The NLM Gateway is a Web-based system that lets users search simultaneously in multiple retrieval systems at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). It allows users of NLM services to initiate searches from one Web interface, providing "one-stop searching" for many of NLM's information resources or databases.

Kenton County Public Library's index to local newspaper articles.

NoveList is a fiction database that provides reviews and annotations for more than 135,000 fiction titles. It assists fiction readers in finding new authors and titles. It is searchable by title, author, or keyword.
Provided by the KYVL

Statistics and information of the Census Bureau.

Like the print version but online.

Oxford Music Online is a new gateway that offers users the ability, for the first time ever, to access and cross-search the vast resources of Oxford's music reference in one location. The cornerstone of Oxford Music Online, Grove Music Online, has been completely redesigned with a number of functional enhancements and new content.

[Public Affairs Information Service]
Indexes literature on public policy, social policy, and the social sciences in general. Indexes journal articles, books, government documents, statistical compilations, committee reports, directories, serials, and reports of public, intergovernmental, and private organizations from all over the world.
Steely Library Reference Collection - PAIS international in print.
Steely Library Reference Collection - PAIS Bulletin
Steely Library Reference Collection - Public Affairs Information Service Bulletin (previous title)
Steely Library Reference Collection - Bulletin of the Public Affairs Information Service (previous title)

1968 - 1999

Database from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Database from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Periodical abstracts from popular and academic journals. Included are transcripts of news-oriented television and radio shows.

This international index covers all major fields of philosophy such as aesthetics, epistemology, ethics and logic. Philosopher's Index searches more than 560 journals, with some links to full-text available.

1940 - present, updated quarterly

Index to about 150 U.S. and British periodicals.
Steely Library Reference Collection - Poole's Index to Periodical Literature

1802 - 1906

International index to demographic and population studies journals.
Steely Library Microfilm Collection & Closed Stacks - Population Index

1962 - 1996

Provides full text for nearly 70 popular magazines for elementary school research. All full-text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator and full-text information dates as far back as 1990.
Provided by the KYVL

Full text of over 100 scholarly journals, primarily in the humanities, arts and social sciences. A non-profit collaboration from Johns Hopkins University Press, Duke University Press, Oxford University Press, and others.

1995 - present

ProQuest Combined Database Search

A database of full-text articles from about 61 journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe Publishing Group. The database includes all substantive material from the print journals but does not include nonarticle content such as ads, covers, editorial board lists, and the like.

This database provides nearly 575 full-text publications, including nearly 550 peer-reviewed titles. Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.
Provided by the KYVL

1965 - present

PsycInfo, from the American Psychological Association, contains nearly 2.3 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books and dissertations. Journal coverage includes international material selected from more than 2,100 periodicals.
Provided by the KYVL

1887 - present

PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 17 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.

Indexes popular periodicals published in the U.S. and Canada. Includes current events and news, fine arts, fashion, education, business, sports, health and nutrition, consumer affairs, and others.
Steely Library Reference Collection - Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature

1900 - 2000

RefWorks is a web-based research management, writing and collaboration tool, designed to help researchers easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies.
Provided in part by the Office of Information Technology.

This database provides comprehensive full-text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis.
Provided by the KYVL

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Standard & Poor's most complete and current database of U.S. and Canadian public companies and indices available today. Available on Steely Library's computers.
Ask Steely Library for access details.

(unregistered login, on campus only)
Provides primary sources, legislative documents, editorial information, and news about taxes. For off campus access, you must first register for a password from on campus or via VPN. With the username and password provided at registration you will find more features available: RIA Checkpoint, Password Access.

A collection of e-reference books on information technology topics.

Indexes journal articles on family studies, including marriage and divorce, child care, gender studies, family economics, social problems, and other topics.
Steely Library Reference Collection - Sage Family Studies Abstracts

1979 - 1991; 1996 - 1998

Indexes journal articles on urban architecture and planning, environmental issues, communications and transportation, and social and political aspects of urban studies.
Steely Library Reference Collection - Sage Urban Studies Abstracts

1973 - 1997

The three collections that comprise the College Edition of ScienceDirect are as follows: Health & Life Sciences - Consisting of over 1,100 titles, the HLS collection delivers an immense amount of peer-reviewed journal content covering nursing and allied health, biology, sports science, environmental science, veterinary sciences, and much more. Physical Sciences & Engineering - The PS&E collection brings together over 730 journals to deliver cutting edge information in the areas of chemistry, physics, computer science, mathematics, engineering, information technology, energy, and more. Social & Behavioral Sciences - Comprised of over 380 high-quality journals, the S&BS collection delivers comprehensive coverage in the fields of business administration, management, accounting, psychology, political science, education, economics, sociology, and more.

Scientific American is the oldest continuously published magazine in America. Now current issues of the magazine are combined with a large backfile of this authoritative source of scientific and technical information, and are available online as a stand-alone database. Scientific American Archive Online is a comprehensive, searchable science and technology resource containing the full text and graphics of every Scientific American issue from 1993 to the present. The archive features the writings and colorful graphics that readers of Scientific American have come to depend upon and enjoy. Each of the more than 4,000 articles in the archive is available to view online or to download in color PDF, and presented exactly as originally printed in the magazine. In addition to the regular monthly issues of the magazine, users will find all of the Scientific American special issues included in the archive as well.

1993 - present

[Access to SciFinder requires a SciFinder account.]
Scholar provides access to the CAplus database of chemical literature and U.S. and foreign chemical-related patents, to CASREACT, to the Registry database from Chemical Abstracts Service, and to Medline. It includes journal articles, book chapters, patents, conference proceedings, technical reports, substance database and dissertations covered in Chemical Abstracts as well as articles currently being indexed, book reviews and biographical information.
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1840 - present, updated daily

This site searches more than 450 million science-specific Web pages. Provides users with scientific, scholarly, technical and medical data on the Web. Information includes reports, peer-reviewed articles, patents and journals.

Scopus is a large abstract and citation database which covers 15,000 peer-reviewed journals from more than 4,000 international publishers. The majority of the publications are in science fields, however humanities and social sciences are represented. It also includes coverage of:

• Over 1200 Open Access journals
• 500 Conference Proceedings
• Over 600 Trade Publications
• 200 Book Series

Scopus contains millions of records, of which 16 million records include references going back to 1996 (75% include references), and 17 million pre-1996 records go back as far as 1841. Scopus also covers 386 million quality web sources, including 22 million patents. Web sources are searched via Scirus, and include author homepages, university sites and resources such as the preprint servers CogPrints and ArXiv.org, and OAI compliant resources.

1841 - present, updated bimonthly

SIRS is a general database containing thousands of full-text articles exploring social, scientific, historic, economic, political, and global issues. Articles are selected from domestic and international newspapers, magazines, journals, and government publications. Brief summaries accompany all articles added to the database since 1994.

1988 - present

Provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. The database abstracts and indexes over 1,300+ serials publications and includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations, and citations to book reviews.

Index to professional journals in social work.
Steely Library Reference Collection - Social Work Abstracts
Steely Library Reference Collection - Social Work Research & Abstracts (previous title)

1965 - present, updated quarterly

Social Work Abstracts offers extensive coverage of more than 450 social work and human services journals dating back to 1965. Produced by the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), the database provides indexing and abstracts dealing with all aspects of the social work field, including theory and practice, areas of service and social issues and problems. Researchers seeking scholarly and professional perspectives on subjects such as therapy, education, human services, addictions, child and family welfare, mental health, civil and legal rights, and more will find Social Work Abstracts to be an indispensable resource.
Note: Limited to 1 simultaneous user.

1965 - present

Provides abstract information on international literature in sociology and related disciplines. Includes abstracts for articles and book reviews from more than 18-hundred journals. It also includes abstracts for books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers.

1952 - present

Citations and abstracts from over 1,640 journals in the social and behavioral sciences.
Steely Library Reference Collection - Sociological Abstracts

1953 - 2004

This database provides coverage of more than 500 full-text journals, including more than 500 peer-reviewed titles. Sociological Collection offers information in all areas of sociology, including social behavior, human tendencies, interaction, relationships, community development, culture, and social structure.
Provided by the KYVL

A service of the U.S. Department of Commerce, is a single point of access to authoritative business, trade, and economic information from across the Federal Government.

Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 270 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.

The online edition of the Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture, a reference work on Tennessee.

Contains performances of the world's leading plays and film documentaries on the subject of theater in streaming video. Some plays presented in multiple productions exemplifying various interpretations of the text, and technical and cultural differences among the presentations. Stage work of directors and actors are cross-searchable and available for side-by-side comparison. Interviews with directors, designers, writers, and actors, along with excerpts of live performances, provide illustration of the development of texts and the productions.

1930 - present, updated periodically

This current events database allows researchers to explore social, political, and economic issues, scientific discoveries, and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms. TOPICsearch contains full text for more than 139,000 articles from nearly 5,000 sources.
Provided by the KYVL

A cluster of databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health and toxic releases.

List of periodicals in print.

1932 - present

Statistics and information of the Census Bureau.

The U.S. government's gateway to information on agency web sites.

The Value Line Investment Survey is a comprehensive source of information and advice on approximately 1,700 stocks in 98 industries, the stock market, and the economy.

A bibliography of women's and gender history in historical and women's studies journals. The entire database contains more than 10 thousand records describing articles published from 1975 onwards.

1975 - present

Index to the Wall Street Journal.
Steely Library Reference Collection - Wall Street Journal Index

1960 - 1999

Index to the Washington Post.
Steely Library Reference Collection - Washington Post Index

1973 - 1999

WilsonWeb Combined Database Search

Searches more than 2,000 full-text periodicals in the science, humanities, education, and business fields. Includes U.S. and international professional publications, academic journals, and trade magazines.

1994 - present

Indexes journal articles in women's studies, including history, politics and government, education, society, psychology, sports, literature, science, employment, and sexuality.
Steely Library Reference Collection - Women's Studies Abstracts

1977 - 2005

Provides access to 62 million bibliographic records across the world, representing 400 languages. Includes holding information at libraries world-wide.

1000 B.C. - present

Provides basic financial information on public companies worldwide. Includes information from a variety of sources, including newspapers and annual reports from corporations all over the world.