John Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory
(1990-present; all full-text) includes more than 240 entries on critics and theorists, critical schools and movements, and critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods. Users can search by keywords or browse specific entries (sources), topics, or names through the table of contents. It is published by and the user interface is provided by Johns Hopkins University Press.
Journal Citation Reports
(2006) permits users to evaluate and compare journals using 2006 citation data drawn from over 7,500 scholarly and technical journals form more than 3,300 publishers in over 60 countries. The science edition contains data from over 5,900 journals and the social science edition over 1,700 journals. It can show you the most frequently cited journals in a field, the highest impact journals in a field and the largest journals in a field. Citation and article counts are important indicators of how frequently current researchers are using individual journals. It is produced by the Institute of Scientific Information (ISI) and the user interface is provided by Thomson. Click the Additional Resources tab to access this database.
(the Electronic Journal Locator and more!) contains all of the electronic, full-text journals in
most of the library's research databases and full-text journal collections. Search for a particular journal title using title begins with, title equals (exact title) or title contains all words. Browse for a journal using the alphabetical display or search for a journal by subject category. Results provide links to the research database(s) or electronic journal collection(s) that index the journal and include the years covered. If full-text is not available, it provides links to XPLORE for print and microform holdings and to the Document Delivery/Annex Article Request Form - both are automatically populated with journal and article information. Instructions are available for accessing articles within databases and from bibliographies. It is compiled by and the user interface
is provided by Serials Solutions.
JSTOR
(1st issue of 1st volume to 3 years from present; all full-text;
RefWorks help; XLinks; title list) provides online
access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in a variety of academic
disciplines including the arts, business, demographic studies, humanities, social sciences,
and science.
Kent State Shootings, Oral Histories (XLinks) is a part of OhioLINK's Digital Media Center
and contains a collection of 69 oral histories related to the May 4, 1970 shootings of Vietnam War protestors at Kent State University. The oral histories include many eyewitness accounts of the event and its
aftermath, contributed by people who were students, faculty members, and City of
Kent residents at the time, as well as an account by an Ohio National Guardsman.
Apple's free QuickTime player is required to listen to the audio files. Written transcripts are also available for many of the oral histories. It was contributed by Kent State University Libraries & Media Services and the user
interface is provided by OhioLINK.
Kid's Search (much full-text; RefWorks help; XLinks) provides elementary school students in kindergarten through 5th grade with an easy-to-use, graphically-appealing search interface for databases such as American Heritage Dictionary, BookSource NonFiction, EBSCO Animals, Image Collection, Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, History Reference Center, Historical Video Collection, Marshall Cavendish Science Reference Center, Marshall Cavendish Wildlife Reference Center, Middle Search Plus, Newspaper Source, Primary Search, and TOPICsearch. Teacher resources search databases such as
Academic Search Elite, Academic Search Premier, Advanced Placement Source, ERIC and the Professional Development Collection. It is produced by and the user
interface is provided by the EBSCO Publishing.
Kraus
Curriculum Development Library Online (1966-present; some full-text) brings
together educational objectives, content, instructional strategies, and evaluative
techniques for all subjects covered in pre-K through 12 and adult basic education.
It includes curricula, frameworks, and standards. It is produced by and the user
interface is provided by the Kraus Curriculum Development Library.
Lake Erie's Yesterdays (XLinks) is a part of OhioLINK's Digital Media Center
and contains a collection of historic photographs of northwestern Ohio, documenting the local history of the Erie islands and Lake Erie's western basin. These 1,087 black and white images were produced by Sandusky, Ohio, commerical
photographer Ernst Niebergall between 1909 and 1915. From ice harvesting and
railroads to early aviation and island leisure activities, the Niebergall
photographs richly depict the everyday lives and activities of Lake Erie's
southern shoreline residents. The photographs provide a record of communities in
transition as old methods gave way to advances in industry and technology. The
original photos were part of the Charles E. Frohman Collection at the Manuscripts Division of the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center. The user
interface is provided by OhioLINK.
LANDSAT 7 Satellite Images (updated every 16 days) is part of OhioLINK's
digital Media Center and makes Ohio-based satellite data available for download or
web viewing. Several views are available, including infrared and true color composite.
Urban growth, natural resource loss, and crop health are a few of the environmental issues
that may be monitored with this type of satellite data. It is produced by the U.S. Geological
Survey and the user interface is provided by OhioLINK.
L'Année
Philologique (1969-2002 vols. 30-73; updated annually in the spring), also called Database of Classical Bibliography, indexes
and abstracts 1,500 journals and 500 collections and conference papers classified
under ancient authors, texts, subjects and disciplines. It includes articles in
French, English, German, and Italian, and Spanish. It is published by the Société Internationale de
Bibliographie Classique, the American Philological Association and the Database
of Classical Bibliography with support from the Centre National de la Recherche
Scientifique (France) and the National Endowment for
Humanities (USA). This subscription is limited to 10 simultaneous users.
Learning Express Library plus Learn2
(quick start guide;
complete list of tests) offers
students and adults unlimited, 24/7 access to targeted skill-building interactive courses in math, reading, and
writing, as well as courses in Microsoft Office products, including Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, and
Outlook (click Computer Skills; requires media player). There are hundreds of online interactive practice tests that prepare them for several types of
standardized testing, including tests for school achievement, school skill improvement, advanced placement,
U.S. citizenship, civil service, real estate, law enforcement, military entrance, nursing school entrance,
college entrance, graduate school entrance, and cosmetology, as well as the ACT, ASVAB, CBEST, CUNY, EMS, GED,
GMAT, GRE, LSAT, MCAT, PPST, SAT, THEA, and TOEFL. Complete answer explanations accompany each response so
that patrons understand why a particular answer is correct or incorrect. All practice tests include instant
diagnostic score reports that help patrons to target those skill areas that need the most attention. To help
students master the SAT and recently added essay, instant score reports provide immediate feedback on how well
they performed in each of five writing skill areas. To use this database, users must first set up an account
on campus or at an Ohio public library or school.
Legal Collection (much full-text from 1965-present; video tutorials; RefWorks help; XLinks) indexes and abstracts scholarly
peer-reviewed publications including law journals, documents, and case studies. It covers current issues, studies,
thoughts and trends of the legal world. This database provides information on criminal justice, international law,
federal law, organized crime, medical law, labor & human resource law, ethics, and the environment.
It is produced by and the user interface is provided by EBSCO Publishing.
Lexi-PALS Drug Guide (updated monthly; all full-text; video tutorials) was formerly incorporated into the Health Source (both the nursing & consumer editions), but is now separate database. It provides vital information on medications for patients through its Patient Advisory Leaflets. It contains over 1,450 rmedication and natural product leaflets representing the most commonly used medications, with an additoonal 600 leaflets in Spanish. It is produced by Lexi-Comp, Inc. and the user interface is provided by EBSCO Publishing.
LexisNexis
Academic (all full-text; RefWorks help) covers a wide variety of subjects including law, government, international affairs, politics, current events,
business and medicine. Legal research provides federal and state cases, Shepard's citations, federal and state codes, tax law, Canadian court cases and legislation, law reviews, and patents. Business research allows users to create company profiles, lists, and comparisons, as well as SEC filings, account and country profiles. Company reports can be created and data can be downloaded into spreadsheets. The People tab allows users to find obituaries, elected officials, and industry contacts. It is compiled by and the user interface is provided by
LexisNexis. (Interfaces: News; Power Search; Easy Search)
LexisNexis
Advertising Redbooks (all full-text) contains information on nearly 18,000 U.S. and international
advertisers who each spend more than $200,000 annually on advertising. Each
listing includes advertising expenditures by media, current agency, fiscal
year-end and annual sales, contact information, brand names, S.I.C. classifications and other key data.
It also contains profiles of nearly 14,000 U.S. and international advertising
agencies, including accounts represented by each agency, fields of
specialization, breakdown of gross billings by media, and contact information on
agency personnel. It is produced by and the user interface is provided by LexisNexis. This subscription is limited to 1 simultaneous user.
LexisNexis Congressional (selected publications 1970-present; updates vary from daily
to annually; all full-text) contains comprehensive coverage of U.S. Congress and
covers CIS Index, congressional publications, testimony, bills, laws, regulations,
members, committees, an insider's perspective, hot topics, and Internet links.
It includes the Federal Register, CIS Legislative Histories, the
Congressional Record, and U.S. Code of Federal Regulations. Some
information is produced by the Congressional Information Service and the user
interface is provided by LexisNexis.
LexisNexis
Corporate Affiliations (all full-text) provides a guide to nearly 200,000 U.S. and worldwide corporations, including parent companies, affiliates,
subsidiaries, and divisions to the seventh level of reporting
relationships. It covers public and private firms, specific products and services and individual executives. Corporate entries include type of business, net worth, sales data, and contact information of key personnel. It is produced by and the user interface is provided by LexisNexis. This subscription is limited to 1 user.
LexisNexis
Statistical Publications & DataSets (exportable data) includes datasets from many sources, including the US government, international organizations, and the private sector. It covers all subject areas, including banking and finance, criminal justice and law, education, energy resources and demand, food and agriculture, government and politics, health and vital statistics, housing and construction, industry and commerce, international; labor and employment, natural resources and environment, population and income, prices and cost of living, stocks and commodities, and transportation and travel. Users can search datasets by keyword; browse datasets by subject or source; display datasets by trend, map or ranking; and output datasets in print, PDF, delimited, Excel or SAS formats. Datasets can be limited by date and geographic area (country, state, county). Years available varies by dataset; for example, births 1999-present and breast cancer 1973-present. It also features datasets currently in the news, such as crude oil price, 30-year fixed mortgage rate, airline on-time arrival rate, campaign contributions for both Obama and McCain, gasoline prices, the prime rate and the unemployment rate. It is compiled by and the user interface is provided by
LexisNexis. Click Customize Data to access the datasets. Users will need to run the Java installation.
LGBT Life (much full-text; video tutorials;
RefWorks help; XLinks) contains full-text for 50 of the most important and historically significant LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) journals, magazines and regional newspapers, as well as dozens of full-text monographs. The database includes comprehensive indexing and abstract coverage as well as a specialized LGBT thesaurus containing over 6,300 terms. It is produced by and the user
interface is provided by EBSCO Publishing.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) (1965-present; much full-text; video tutorials; RefWorks help; XLinks) indexes and abstracts 600 periodicals,
as well as books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification,
cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. It is produced by and the
user interface is provided by EBSCO Publishing.
Library
of Congress Classification WEB (updated weekly) provides access to the
Library of Congress classification and subject headings. This subscription is limited to 4 simultaneous users.
Literary Reference Center (all full-text; video tutorials; RefWorks help; XLinks) is a comprehensive literary reference database
that provides a broad spectrum of reference information from antiquity to the present day. It
combines information from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and
reference works, and hundreds of literary journals. Search results can be limited to literary criticism
or Masterplots. Users can browse most studied authors and works and view book highlights and the author
in focus. Features include a glossary and historical timeline. It is produced by and the user
interface is provided by EBSCO Publishing.
Literature
Resource Center (all full-text; XLinks) provides access to biographies, bibliographies
and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline. It covers
more than 90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers, with
in-depth coverage of 2,000 of the most-studied authors. It includes online versions
of Gale's Contemporay Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism,
and Dictionary of Literary Biography, as well as selections from Gale's
other Literature Criticism and For Students Series, such as Nineteenth
Century Literary Criticism and Short Stories for Students. It permits
searches by author name, title, genre, literary movement or literary themes. It is produced by Thomson-Gale and the user interface is provided by InfoTrac.
LWW Complete Nursing Collection (coverage beginning in1995 to 2006-present; all full-text; RefWorks help; XLinks test) indexes and abstracts 193 nursing periodicals with links to the full-text for all article in the journals. Users can search by keyword(s), enter a citation, or browse journals by subject category or by name from an A-Z list. In the browse mode, users can set up an RSS feed of the table of contents for any journal in the collection. Search results provide view abstract, find similar, find citing articles, TOC of the journal, and view the complete reference. The complete reference includes references cited by the author(s). It is produced by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins and the
user interface is provided by Wolters Klluwer | OVID.