Online Library Databases

AccessScience: Contains science and technology reference sources, full-text journal articles on numerous science subjects, scientist biographies, information about science in the news, Nobel prizes, and other resources related to science.

BNA Human Resources Library: Contains a wealth of information related to personnel management, labor relations, wages and hours law, federal regulations, fair employment law, and international HR.

Britannica Online: Contains 73,000 full-text articles with basic and in-depth encyclopedia entries on a variety of subjects, a timeline, a world atlas, and a dictionary.

CQ RESEARCHER
This database is available to students only at their specific campus locations.
The CQ Researcher provides original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues shaping our world. CQ can be used to prepare for a debate, or become a quick expert on a topic, each 12,000-word report is a unique work, investigated and written by a seasoned journalist. Published 44 times a year, the single-themed CQ Researcher report offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy.

EBSCOHost: Contains abstracts, as well as full-text entries, for journals and magazine articles. Major databases include Academic Search Elite (coverage for most academic areas), PsychArticles, Regional Business News, and Business Source Elite (includes company records from Dun & Bradstreet).

First Search: Available to students at Kansas campuses only; it has been made available to Kansas libraries through a grant from the Kansas State Library. The database contains abstracts and full-text entries for journals and magazines on a wide range of topics in 13 databases and a catalog of books, web resources and other materials worldwide.

InfoTrac: This database is available to Kansas libraries through a grant from the Kansas State Library. The database contains abstracts and full-text entries for journals and magazines. Databases include Expanded Academic, ASAP, Business and Company ASAP, Informe, Computer Database, Health Reference Center, National Newspaper Index, Business and Company Resource Center, the Health and Wellness Resource Center, Literature Resource Center, Gale Virtual Reference Library and Infotrac OneFile.

Kansas Library Card Link: Students may access the KanFind databases via the State Library Webpage and the Kan-Ed databases via this link.

Kansas Library Catalog: A catalog listing the book and periodical title holdings of many Kansas libraries, academic, public, and school.

Kansas Virtual Library: Please use your Kansas Library Card to log onto The Kansas Virtual Library. This is a new  library database of digital audiobooks and music that can be downloaded to your computer or your ipod. If you have a Kansas City Kansas Library or Johnson County Library Card you may use it to access online materials as well.

LexisNexis Academic Universe: Contains full-text information on a variety of subject databases in the areas of business, medicine, and law. This database also contains a substantial newspaper database that searches specialized news sources such as news transcripts, wires and legal and university newspaper sources. Access from campus location | Access from non-campus location

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA)
The LISTA database is a free resource to anyone interested in libraries and information management. This world-class bibliographic database provides coverage on subjects such as librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Delivered via the EBSCOhost platform, LISTA indexes more than 600 periodicals plus books, research reports, and proceedings. With coverage dating back to the mid-1960s, it is the oldest continuously produced database covering the field of information science.

Mental Measurements Yearbook
Mental Measurements Yearbook, produced by the Buros Institute, contains full-text information about and reviews of all English-language standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas as included in the printed Mental Measurements Yearbooks. This database product contains data from Yearbooks 9 through 15. After Login, select MMYB and go to main search page.

Multicultural Press Reference Library
A reference library of multicultural biography resources online: This database includes the Reference Library of Native North America; Reference Library of American Men and Reference Library of Black America. Please contact the library for login password information.

SIRS Discoverer Deluxe: A reference database for children in grades 1 through 9, with full-text articles and graphics. This database is useful to students enrolled in education courses.

Additional Resources:

The following sites are available to Ottawa University faculty and staff. Please contact a librarian or an on-site representative for access IDs and password access to:

The Chronicle of Higher Education
The New York Times
The Ottawa Herald
Thomas Registry of American Manufacturers

DOE Information Bridge (Department of Energy): http://www.osti.gov/bridge/   (free to the public) Provides full-text and bibliographic recprds to Department of Energy(DOE) research and development reports. Subjects included in the database are: Biology, Physics, Chemistry, Materials, Environmental Science, Renewable Energy and Computer Science.