Electronic Resources
The KLN subscribes to databases. Because of license restrictions, they are limited to our members.
Electronic Resources Offered by the Keystone Library Network:
EBSCOHost | CHEMnetBASE | JSTOR | ProQuest
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EBSCOHost - Databases include:
Academic Search Complete
Full text for over 5,300 periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. Offers indexing and abstracts for 9,810 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. Offers coverage of information in many various fields of study. Features PDF content going back as far as 1865. Searchable cited references provided for nearly 1,000 journals. Updated daily.
AGRICOLA
Contains bibliographic records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library. Coverage dates back to 1970 and includes more than 2.5 million citations. Citations are comprised of journal articles, monographs, theses, patents, software, audiovisual materials, and technical reports related to agriculture.
Alt HealthWatch
Focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approches to health care and wellness. Offers full text articles for 180 international, and often peer-reviewed, journals and reports. Includes hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts. Provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine.
Business Source Premier
Full text for nearly 3,600 business journals, including nearly 1,050 peer-reviewed business publications. Provides full text (PDF) for more than 300 of the top scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922. Updated daily.
Clinical Pharmacology
Provides Access up-to-date, concise and clinically relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products, and new and investigational drugs.
ERIC
The U.S. Department of Education Educational Resource Information Center database. Contains citations and abstracts from over 980 educational and education-related journals as well as full text of more than 2,200 digests.
Health Source: Consumer Edition
Allows searches 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 as well as abstracts and indexing for 205 general health, nutrition and professional health care publications.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Provides nearly 600 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for over 850 journals. Updated daily.
Legal Collection
Contains full text for over 250 of the world's most respected, scholarly law journals. An authoritative source of information on current issues, studies, thoughts, and trends of the legal world.
Library Information Science & Technology Abstracts
(LISTA) Available FREE to any library - compliments of EBSCO Publishing. 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 extends as far back as the mid-1960s.
Magazine Article Summaries Ultra School Edition
Designed specifically for high school libraries. Provides full text for nearly 550 popular general interest and current events publications with information dating as far back as 1975 for key magazines. Provides nearly 550 full text pamphlets, 237 full text reference books, 91,600 biographies, 75,000 primary source documents, and an image collection of 107,135 photos, maps, and flags. Updated daily.
MEDLINE
Provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and pre-clinical sciences. Created by the National Library of Medicine. Allows users to search abstracts from over 4,600 current biomedical journals.
Military and Government Collection
Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government. 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 for more than 300 journals and periodicals, and indexing and abstracts for more than 400 titles.
Newspaper Source
Provides full text for 159 regional U.S. newspapers, 18 international newspapers, 6 newswires, 9 newspaper columns, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Los Angeles Times, for a total of 194 full text newspapers and other sources.
Primary Search
Provides full text for more than 60 popular magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text information dates as far back as 1990. Updated daily.
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection
Comprehensive database covering information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry and psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. Can be seearched independently, but also allows users to conveniently link to full text from citations within PsycInfo. The citations have the ability to link to articles from more than 500 full text journals.
Religion & Philosophy Collection
Comprehensive database covering topics such as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy, and the history of philosophy. More than 300 full text journals.
Serials Directory
Provides access to the most up-to-date and accurate bibliographic information as well as current pricing structures for popular serials. Contains over 182,000 U.S. and international titles, including newspapers, historical data for an additional 2,000 titles, and data from over 85,000 publishers worldwide.
Sociological Collection
A comprehensive database with nearly 580 full text titles. Provides information on all areas of sociology, including social behavior, human tendencies, interaction, relationships, community development, culture, and social structure.
Vocational & Career Collection
Designed to meet a wide variety of vocational and technical research needs. Provides full text coverage for nearly 350 trade and industry-related periodicals.
Core Titles for PASSHE include:
Art Abstracts
Produced by the H.W. Wilson Company. Provides comprehensive indexing and abstracts for 378 leading international publications pertaining to a variety of art types. This bibliographic database indexes reproductions of art that appear in indexed periodicals covering topics such as advertising art, antiques, architecture, computers, fashion, graphics, photography, television, textiles, and video from periodicals published throughout the world.
Biological Abstracts 1969-2006 and Biological Abstracts 2007
A complete collection of bibliographic references covering life science and biomedical research literature published from more than 4,000 journals internationally. Provides users with easy access to the latest information in virtually every life science discipline and contains nearly 7.7 million archival records from as far back as 1969, with more than 370,000 citations added each year. Most of the records include informative abstracts written by the author. Produced by Thomson Scientific.
CINAHL
Authoritative resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers. Provides indexing and abstracting for over 1,700 current nursing and allies health Journals and publications dating back to 1982, totaling over 880,000 records.
Communication & Mass Media Complete
Provides quality research in communication and mass media. Resulted from the merger of CommSearch (formerly produced by the national Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Pennsylvania State University).
Computers & Applied Sciences Complete
Covers the research and development spectrum of the computing and applied sciences disciplines. Contains collected knowledge on traditional engineering challenges & research, and is a resource for research concerning the business and social implications of new technology. Indexing and abstracts for more than 1,400 academic journals, professional publications, and other reference sources from a diverse collection. Full text is available for more than 630 periodicals. Subject areas include the many engineering disciplines, computer theory & systems, new technologies, and social & professional context. Research is aided by the inclusion of searchable cited references for key journals.
EconLit
Produced by the American Economics Association. Contains more than 610,000 records covering 1969-present. Covers virtually every area related to Economics.
Education Research Complete
The definitive online resource for education research. Offers the world's largest and most complete collection of full text education journals. It is a bibliographic and full text database covering scholarly research and information relating to all areas of education. Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,780 journals as well as full text for more than 870 journals. Also includes full text for 71 books and monographs, and full text for numerous education-related conference papers.
Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print
Provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. Designed for an audience ranging from novice test consumers to experienced professionals. Contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership. Provides coverage from Volume 9 to the present.
MLA International Bibliography
Bibliography of journal articles, books, and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association. Electronic version of the Bibliography dates back to 1963 and contains over 1.5 million citations and more than 4,400 journals and series, and 1,000 book publishers.
PsycARTICLES
From the American Psychological Association (APA). Definitive source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. Contains more than 122,000 articles from 60 journals - 49 published by the APA and its imprint, the Educational Publishing Foundation (EPF) - and 11 from allied organizations. It includes all journal articles, book reviews, letters to the editor, and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1894 to present.
PsycINFO
From the American Psychological Association (APA). Contains more than 2.4 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines, dating as far back as the early 1800s. 98 percent of the covered material is peer-reviewed. Also includes information about the psychological aspects of related fields such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, law and others. Journal coverage, which spans 1887 to present, includes international material selected from more than 2,200 periodicals in more than 27 languages.
SocINDEX
The world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. Features more than 1,910,000 records with subject headings from a 19,300 term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers. Also contains informative abstracts for more than 815 "core" coverage journals dating as far back as 1895. Provides data mined from more than 630 "priority" coverage journals as well as from more than 2,840 "selective" coverage journals. Searchable cited references are also provided. Features over 10,000 Author Profiles covering the most prolific, most cited, and most frequently searched for authors in the database.
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JSTOR - Database includes:
Life Sciences
The Life Sciences Collection is JSTOR's largest collection, with over 5.5 million pages available today and scheduled to grow to more than seven million. At completion, it will comprise a minimum of 160 titles spanning disciplines in the biological, health and general sciences. View Title List
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CHEMnetBASE - is chemical information from Chapman & Hall/CRC. It includes 421 chemistry handbooks and texts with access to:
Combined Chemical Dictionary (CCD)
The Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
Polymers: A Property Database
Properties of Organic Compounds
CRCPress Periodic Table Online
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ProQuest - Database includes:
Criminal Justice Abstracts
Criminology database from SAGE Publications. Contains comprehensive coverage of international journals, books, reports, dissertations, and unpublished papers on criminology and related disciplines. Covers crime trends, crime prevention and deterrence, juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, police, courts, punishment and sentencing. Contains indexes and summaries of international journal articles, books, and governmental and non-governmental reports on a wide range of topics in criminal justice.