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Agricola
Indexes the National Agricultural Library.  Useful for science and environmental topics.
 
American Fact Finder 
From the U.S. Census Bureau. Information on population, economic  and geographic data as well as some data sets.

 
ArticleFirst    On Campus   Off Campus
ArticleFirst describes items listed on the table of contents page of individual issues of more than 13,000 journals.

 
 
BioMed Central 
An independent publishing house committed to providing immediate free access to peer-reviewed biomedical research, it offers original research in all biomedical fields - from basic life sciences to clinical medicine.
 
Book Source Nonfiction    On Campus   Off Campus via the public library  Need a card?
For school and public libraries, includes full text articles on civics, social studies, science, careers, health, sports, adventure, hobbies, technology, biographies from more than 2,100 popular nonfiction books.

 
Business-LexisNexis    On Campus   Off Campus
Business & accounting articles, company reports and profiles and SEC filings.

 
Contemporary Authors    On Campus   Off Campus via the public library  Need a card?
Biographical and bibliographic information for writers in fiction, journalism, drama, film, television, etc. 

 
EBSCOhost    On Campus   Off Campus
Search multiple Ebsco databases at once.
 
 
Educator's Reference Desk   
Largest source of education information with abstracts of documents and journal articles and limited full-text.
 
 
Energy Citations Database 
Developed by the U.S. Department of Energy, it contains citations and some full-text in the areas of chemistry, physics, environmental science, geology, mathematics, climatology, oceanography and other related disciplines.

 
ERIC [via EBSCO]    On Campus   Off Campus via the public library  Need a card?
EBSCO offers a more user-friendly interface to the largest source of education information with abstracts of documents and journal articles and limited full-text.

 
Expanded Academic ASAP    On Campus   Off Campus
General interest and scholarly resources across a variety of disciplines.

 
FORENSICnetBASE    On Campus   Off Campus
Provides online access to full-text references and books in forensics, criminal justice, homeland security and law enforcement.

 
Gale's Literary Index 
A master index to Gale's print references. Search Twentieth Century Literary Criticism (TCLC) and Contemporary Literary Criticism (CLC) for authors and their works. TCLC and CLC are located in the Library's Reference section.
 
GreenFILE    On Campus   Off Campus via the public library  Need a card?
GreenFILE indexes scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports. This resource offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the environment and draws on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology.

 
HighWire Press 
A division of the Stanford University Libraries, HighWire Press hosts the largest repository of free, full-text, peer-reviewed content, with 925 journals and 1,250,111 free, full-text articles online. N.B. Keystone does not have free access to all articles. You should use Interlibrary Loan services.

 
History Reference Center    On Campus  Off Campus via the public library  Need a card?
Offers full text from more than 750 history reference books and encyclopedias, and nearly 60 history magazines. The database contains 58,000 documents; 43,000 biographies; 12,000+ historical photos and maps; and 87 hours of historical film and video.

 
Homeland Security Digital Library    On Campus  Off Campus- Special Instructons
The Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL) is the nation's premier collection of homeland security policy and strategy related documents." More info...
 
LexisNexis Academic    On Campus  Off Campus
News, current events, business, medicine and law with access to news transcripts.

 
Legal Research-LexisNexis    On Campus  Off Campus
Case law, statutes, law reviews, IRS regulations, court decisions and patents.

 
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) 
Searchable database of article citations on information issues and librarianship.

 
Medical-LexisNexis    On Campus  Off Campus
Full-text and abstracted medical information.

 
MEDLINE 
Nearly eleven million records in the biomedical and life sciences.

 
National Criminal Justice Reference Service 
Offers some full-text access to criminal justice and forensic science issues. NCJRS is sponsored by the US Department of Justice. Keystone College does not have free access to all articles.

 
NetLibrary    On Campus  Special Instructions for off campus access.
Access to digital versions of printed material such as books or journals, databases or any digital content. Available 24/7.

 
News-LexisNexis    On Campus  Off Campus
Over 350 newspapers and broadcast transcripts from major networks including ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC, & NPR.

 
Novelist    On Campus   Off Campus via the public library  Need a card?
Includes fiction authors, titles and themes. Provides suggestions of books that are similar to those of a particular author or a certain title.


Novelist K-8    On Campus  Off Campus via the public library  Need a card?
Information about more than 38,000 fiction titles of interest to students in grades K-8. Full text reviews from professional journals and book talks for selected titles are available in this database.


PLANTS Database 
From the USDA, provides information on U.S. plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts and lichens.



Professional Development Collection    On Campus  Off Campus via the public library  Need a card?
Information on education, psychology, children’s health and development & pedagogical theory and practice.



Proquest's PA Research I    On Campus  Off Campus
Abstract and full-text database of general interest and scholarly resources. 



PsycArticles    On Campus   Off Campus
Offers full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology.



PubMed
Nearly eleven million records in the biomedical and life sciences.



ScienceDirect Health & Life Sciences   On Campus   Off Campus   Help using this database
Offers access to over 1000 of Elsevier's full-text, peer-reviewed journals in the Health & Life Sciences and abstract access to other Elsevier journals. Subject areas include medicine, nutrition, forestry, environmental science, biology, biochemistry, plant, water & soil science, neuroscience, immunology and others.
 
Science.gov 
Selected science information from the U.S. Government.
 
 
Teacher Reference Center    On Campus  Off Campus via the public library  Need a card?
Provides indexing and abstracts for over 280 of the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals to assist professional educators.

 
WorldCat    On Campus   Off Campus
WorldCat contains more than 43 million items owned by libraries around the world. Materials covered in the catalog include: books, internet resources, films, journals, magazines, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, newspapers, slides, sound recordings, and videotapes. WorldCat does not include individual article titles or stories in journals, magazines, newspapers, or book chapters.


 

 
 

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