Database Descriptions

Academic Search Premier: Multi-disciplinary database providing full text for nearly 4,650 journals, many peer-reviewed.
Agricola: Maintained by the National Library of Agriculture, this database provides citations for journal articles and other sources relating to all aspects of agriculture. There are over 2.5 million citations with coverage dating back to 1970.
America's Newspapers: Contains full-text articles from local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers, including Lexington-Herald Leader, Louisville Courier-Journal, New York Times, Washington Post and many more..
Britannica Online: Online version of Encyclopedia Britannica.
Business Source Premier: This business research database contains full text for 8,800 business journals.
Chronicle of Higher Education, The: Current and backfile of the number one news source of college and university faculty and administrators.
CINAHL with Full Text: CINAHL with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 520 journals indexed in CINAHL. Coverage dates back to 1982.
Courier-Journal: Full-text coverage of The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) dating back to 1999.
EBSCOhost: The direct link to EBSCOhost for those users who cannot link to the library's proxy server. A userid and password from EBSCO must be used to access the databases. Contact the library.
ERIC: The Educational Resource Information Center, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, provides full text of ERIC Digests and abstracts from over 1,000 education journals.
Funk & Wagnalls New World Enclyclopedia: Over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subjects.
GreenFILE: Provides well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment.
Health Source - Consumer Edition: Provides consumer health information on a variety of health topics with access to the full text of over 150 journals.
Hoover's: Provides comprehensive up-to-date information, data and news for 12 million companies and 40,000 industries.
Lexington Herald-Leader: Full-text coverage dating back to April 25, 1983.
LexisNexis
Provides access to government, news, business and legal information.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts: LISTA indexes journals and other resources in librarianship and information management. Coverage dates to the mid-1960s.
MAS Ultra - School Edition: This database is designed specifically for high school libraries and contains journals, pamphlets, reference sources, and an image collection.
Master FILE Premier: This multidisciplinary database provides full text of reference publications and an image collection. It is designed for public libraries.
MEDLINE: Created and maintained by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE is the authoritative database for the medical field.
Middle Search Plus: Provides full text for magazines at the middle and junior high level. Also includes an image collection.
NetLibrary: A collection of over 38,000 full-text books.
New York Times: Current and backfiles to 2000.
Newspaper Source: Provides selected full text for international, national and regional newspapers. Also includes television and radio news transcripts.
Primary Search: Provides full text magazines for elementary school research.
PsycINFO: Produced by the American Psychological Association, this database has over 2 million citations for articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations in psychology and related fields. Most of the covered material is peer reviewed. Journal coverage dates back to 1887.
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection: Provides nearly 575 full text publications, 550 of which are peer reviewed, in the areas of behavioral characteristics, psychiatry and psychology.
Regional Business News: Provides full text coverage for regional business publications such as business journals, newspapers, and newswires.
Salem Health: Online access to Magill's Medical Guide.
Security Management Practices: A dozen new reports every month covering topics like deploying network security appliances, using biometric technologies for network and physical security, managing organizational risk, planning for disruptions, securing the enterprise network and so much more.
Sociological Collection: Provides coverage in all areas of sociology with 500 full text journals, most of which are peer reviewed.
SPORTDiscus: From the Sport Information Resource Centre, SPORTDiscus offers coverage of sport, fitness, and related topics with over 650,000 bibliographic records.
Teacher Reference Center: Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 270 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.
TOPICsearch: Current events database for popular topics to be discussed in classrooms.
WorldCat: Catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide.