If you have questions regarding these resources, please contact the Forsyth Library Reference Desk at (785) 628-5283, or at refserv@fhsu.edu
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A to Z Maps - maps of all kinds: modern outline, political, thematic, topographic, scientific and animated maps, as well as tens of thousands of antique maps of the world, individual countries, U.S. states, and U.S. towns and cities, in an array of digital formats unavailable anywhere else.
ABI/INFORM Complete
Academic Search Premier - This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.
Access World News Research Collection - NEW RESOURCE for 2014-15! This is a full-text news resource offering coverage of over 8,200 local, regional, national and international sources from over 200 countries. To narrow your search choose one of the Access World News Research Collection subject collections such as:
- Access Business News - backfiles for over 400 publications. Use this for researching annual and quarterly financial results, comparing forecasts and strategy versus execution, trends and emerging market opportunities, and more.
- Acceda Noticias - convenient access to complete electronic editions of more than 100 Spanish-language newspapers published in major U.S. cities. The collection also includes tens-of-thousands of current and archived full-text articles from across Argentia, Brazil, China, Columbia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru and Spain.
- Access Newswires - full-text of current and archived articles from key domestic newswires including AP, Scripps Howard, McClatchy-Tribune, Copley, PR Newswire and Financial Wire.
- Access Military, Government & Defense - current and archived news and information from Air Force Times, Army Times, Marine Corps Times, Navy Times, Armed Forces Journal and Defense News, as well as others. Congressional Quarterly Transcriptions and Federal Times are also incorporated covering key issues across all U.S. government departments and agencies.
- Need help using Access World News? Watch these short video tutorials for tips.
ACLS Humanities E-Book
ACS Web Editions (American Chemical Society)
Agricola - The National Agricultural Library - This database contains bibliographic records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library. Coverage for <i>AGRICOLA</i> dates back to 1970 and includes more than 4.8 million citations. The citations are comprised of journal articles, monographs, theses, patents, software, audiovisual materials, and technical reports related to agriculture.
Ambrose Digital Video This service offers a wide subject range of streaming video in the humanities and sciences. The collection includes nearly 600 titles, including the BBC's Complete Shakespeare Collection. All videos and clips are closed captioned, and many also include downloadable curricular resources.
Applied Science and Technology Abstracts - contains indexing and abstracts for nearly 800 core English-language, scientific and technical publications back to 1983. Content includes coverage of a wide variety of applied science specialties—acoustics to aeronautics, neural networks to nuclear and civil engineering, computers and informatics and much more.
Art Full Text - Now via EbscoHost databases - comprehensive resource for art information featuring full-text articles from more than 300 periodicals dating back to 1995; indexing and abstracting of over 600 periodicals dating as far back as 1984 of 280 peer-reviewed journals; indexing and abstracting of over 13,000 art dissertations. Indexing of almost 200,000 art reproductions provides examples of styles and art movements, including works by emerging artists. The database covers fine, decorative and commercial art, folk art, photography, film, and architecture, and also includes a database-specific thesaurus.
Bartleby.com
BioMed Central (Open access journals - registration required)
BioOne
Britannica
Buckmasters Annual Stockholders Reports
Business Abstracts with Full Text - a multitude of business magazines and scholarly journals: this comprehensive database contains the full text of articles from more than 510 key publications dating back to 1995, and provides access to product evaluations, interviews, biographical sketches, corporate profiles, obituaries, surveys, statistical rankings, book reviews and reports from associations, societies, trade shows, conferences and more.
Business Source Premier - This database provides full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles, full text back to 1886, and searchable cited references back to 1998.
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Cabell's Directories of Publishing Opportunities - Business Directories: Accounting, Economics & Finance, Management, Marketing
Catalog of Government Publications
Checkpoint RIA Tax Site ****This link is for on campus access only
Checkpoint RIA Tax Site This link is by password. Registration shown below must be completed to use this access method. Registration must be completed on campus. *Students using this database from off campus must register to receive password access - Please contact the Research Desk at Forsyth Library (785) 628-5283. The librarian on duty will assist you with the registration process.
Chicago Manual of Style Online - The online version of the 16th edition of the manual provides recommendations on editorial style and publishing practices in the digital age. Access also includes the Chicago Style Q&A, the 15th edition of the manual, and tools such as sample correspondence, proofreaders' marks and a quick guide to citation.
CINAHL - collection of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 610 journals indexed. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the index, with no embargo. Full-text coverage dates back to 1981.
ClinicalTrials.gov
Cochrane Library
CollegeSource
Communication & Mass Media Complete - offers cover-to-cover (“core”) indexing and abstracts for more than 570 journals, and selected (“priority”) coverage of nearly 200 more, for a combined coverage of more than 770 titles, including full text for over 450 journals.
CQ Researcher
CQ Weekly /Tutorial
CREDO Reference - Find information on any topic. Credo provides access to hundreds of in-depth encyclopedias and handbooks covering every major subject; over 300,000 images and audio files, plus millions of full-text encyclopedia entries.
Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text
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EbscoHost E-book Collection
Ebook Library (EBL)
- Offering FHSU patrons access to 100,00-+ e-book titles. Read the books
online and take notes, create citations, copy and print portions of the
books, and much more. Prefer to read a book offline? You can download
entire books to your chosen device. You can also find links for EBL
books in the Forsyth Library Catalog. Your TigerTracks username and password are required. Here are instructions for how to download Ebook Library resources to your computer or mobile device.
Ebscohost Databases - see a complete menu of Ebscohost databases available to FHSU users
Education Full Text
Education Source - The collection provides indexing and abstracts for more than 2,850 academic periodicals and includes full text for more than 1,800 journals, 550 books and monographs, education-related conference papers, citations for over 4 million articles including book reviews and over 100,000 controlled and cross-referenced names of educational tests.
Emerald 120 - Peer-reviewed, fully searchable full-text for 120+ business and management journals with subject strength in Computer Science, Marketing, Management, and Library and Information Sciences. Full text archives back to the 1990s and abstracts in some cases to the 1980s.
ERIC (via Ebscohost) Education and related topics - journal articles,
conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations,
reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and
monographs. This database is sponsored by the U.S. Department
of Education to provide extensive access to education-related
literature. ERIC provides coverage of journal articles, conferences,
meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports,
audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs.
ERIC (via ProQuest) Education and related topics - journal articles,
conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations,
reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and
monographs. This database is sponsored by the U.S. Department
of Education to provide extensive access to education-related
literature. ERIC provides coverage of journal articles, conferences,
meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports,
audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs.
Ethnic Newswatch
Faulkner's Advisory for IT Studies
Films on Demand Master Academic Collection - are you ready for this? - streaming video for over 20,000 full length films and over 200,000+ clips available 24/7 in class, in the library, or off-campus. Films on Demand is iPad, Android, PC and Mac friendly. New titles are added monthly with over 800 subjects covered, including Business and Economics, Science and Mathematics, Humanities and Social Sciences, Health and Medicine, and Archival Films and Newsreels.
Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia - This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.
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Gale Databases
Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL) - Over 1200 cross-searchable reference books to assist you with your research.
General Science Full Text - full text from more than 100 periodicals dating as far back as 1995, in addition to indexing and abstracts for nearly 300 periodicals dating back to 1984. Subject coverage includes astronomy, biology, botany, chemistry, conservation, health & medicine, oceanography, physics, zoology and much more.
GEOBIB (1985-2005)
GeoRef - a comprehensive geosciences database containing over 2.8 million bibliographic records to the geoscience literature of the world. Over 3,500 journals are reviewed for indexing in the database as well as books, maps, government reports, conference papers, and theses and dissertations.
Global Road Warrior - a comprehensive cultural, business, and travel database. Learn about the traditions, habits, and social norms of people around the globe. From cultural stereotypes and superstitions, to social and business etiquette, to women's role in society - everything from dating rituals, holidays and festivals, to classic recipes for each country, and visa and passport information.
GreenFILE
Health & Life Sciences (Science Direct)- For best full-text results go to search screen and select "subscribed sources" from drop-down "source" menu
Health Source: Consumer Edition
Heritage Quest
Hospitality and Tourism Complete - Scholarly research and industry news relating to all areas of
hospitality and tourism. This collection contains more than 828,000
records, with coverage dating as far back as 1965. There is full text
for more than 480 publications, including periodicals, company &
country reports, and books. Subject areas covered include the culinary arts, demographics &
statistics, development & investment, food & beverage
management, hospitality law, hotel management & administrative
practices, leisure & business travel, market trends, technology and
more.
Humanities Full Text
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IOP Science
Issues and Controversies (Facts on File)
JSTOR
Kansas History, Territorial through the Civil War Years, 1854-1865 - primary source documents for the study of Kansas history, including state and regional histories, travel guides, biographies, speeches and more.
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
Literature Criticism Online - LCO is a curated compilation of literary commentary. Cross-search seven (7) titles previously available only on Forsyth Library's Reference Collection shelves: Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Short Story Criticism, Children's Literature Review and Something About the Author. These resources provide scholarly and popular commentary from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals, and represent a broad range of modern and historical views on authors and their works, across regions, eras and genres.
Literature Resource Center - Up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews of nearly 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods from around the world.
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Medlineplus
Mental Measurements Yearbook
MLA Directory of Periodicals
MLA International Bibliography
Music Index
National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts
National Library of Medicine Specialized Information Services
Naxos - listen to classical music online
NBC Learn HE
- Streaming video of more than 12,000 stories from the NBC News
archives dating back to the 1920s. In addition to the archives,
collections are updated each weekday with current event stories from
programs such as the TODAY show, Meet the Press, Dateline NBC, and
offerings from MSNBC, CNBC and Telemundo. Users can create personal
accounts and save personalized playlists, notes, etc. Guides and tutorials are available to help you optimize your use of NBC Learn.
New York Times - Grab your electronic access to the New York Times. The FHSU license includes iPhone and Android smartphone apps. Register here and follow the instructions. Brought to you through the cooperative efforts of The Office of the Provost, Global Challenges, Forsyth Library, The Center for Civic Leadership and The American Democracy Project.
New York Times Digital Microfilm - Digitally archived news content from the NYT beginning in 2008 - no need to thread the film in the machine!
Omnifile Full Text
Opposing Vewpoints in Context - Contextual information and opinions on hundreds of social issues. The resource includes continuously updated viewpoints, topic overviews, full-text magazines, academic journals, news primary source documents, statistics, images, videos, audio and links to vetted websites.
Oregon PDF in Health & Performance - This database contains nearly 11,000 dissertations/theses in Health, Health Education, Athletics,Physiology, Exercise Epidemiology, Sports Psychology, and Recreation and Leisure.
Oxford Art Online - Encompassing all aspects of visual culture, Art Online features articles, bibliographies and thousands of searchable images.
Oxford Music Online
Oxford Reference Online - Over 2 million digitized entries across Oxford's Dictionaries, Companions and Encyclopedias spanning 25 different subject areas with continuously updating and exclusive online-only content.
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Philosopher's Index
Physical Education Index
PILOTS - Published International Literature on Traumatic Stress - sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs
Project Muse
PROLA American Physical Society's Physical Review Online Archive
ProQuest Databases - Search any of the ProQuest databases available through FHSU/Forsyth Library.
ProQuest Digital Microfilm - Digitally archived newspaper content beginning in 2008 for the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times.
Proquest Nursing Database
PsycInfo
PubMed Central*
Readers Guide Full Text
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Sage Premier
Science Direct (Health & Life Sciences collections)
Sheet Music Collection: Mississippi State University *
Social Services Abstracts
Social Sciences Full Text
Social Work Abstracts - This resource is limited to one(1) user at a time. If you are not actively searching in the database please close it so others may access the content. Thank you.
Sociological Abstracts
Something About the Author - Consisting of more than 225 volumes, 19,000 entries, and nearly 17,000 images, this resource examines the lives and works of authors and illustrators of books for children and young adults. But if you need more than just biographical information you can cross-search this resource with Literature Criticism Online and obtain additional information about the author's works, era, genres, criticism and analysis.
Topic Search
Wall Street Journal - via Proquest
Wall Street Journal Digital Microfilm - Digitally archived news content from the WSJ beginning in 2008 - no need to thread the film in the machine!
Web of Knowledge - Forsyth Library has expanded its coverage in Web of Knowledge! Now, in addition to Science Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index, we provide you with access to Arts & Humanities Citation Index, and the full Web of Knowledge platform. Search Conference Proceedings, Book Citation Index, Current Chemical Reactions, Index Chemicus, BIOSIS Citation Index, Zoological Record, Data Citation Index and much more. Many of the resources include backfiles dating to 1981, with some resources delivering results from as far back as 1864.
WorldCat
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