Description: This collection of many hard-to-find primary sources consists of works about the Americas published not only in the United States but from across the globe. Based on Joseph Sabin’s Bibliotheca Americana, it contains more than 29,000 titles with information about North, Central and South America, the Arctic and Antarctica and the West Indies. Content: All full-text.
Publisher: Gale.
Coverage: 1500 - 1926.
Paid for by Washburn University Libraries.
Description: Online access to 515 leading international peer-reviewed journals including high-impact research journals published on behalf of 245 scholarly and professional societies. Covers a wide range of subject areas, including business, humanities, social science, and science, technology, and medicine.
Content: All full-text.
Publisher: SAGE Publications.
Coverage: 1999 - present.
Paid for by Washburn University Libraries.
ScienceDirect: College Edition: Social & Behavioral Sciences
Description: Contains worldwide coverage of science, medicine, and technology. Includes coverage of over 2,500 journals as well as e-books, reference works, and handbooks.
Content: Citations, abstracts, some full-text (full-text is often by pay-per-view).
Publisher: Elsevier.
Coverage: To the present with many years of back files.
Paid for by Washburn University Libraries.
Description: A full text database for elementary school research and reading designed especially for youth in grades K-6. Searches across the following EBSCO databases: Middle Search Plus, Newspaper Source, Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, TOPIC Search, and Primary Search. See individual database descriptions for content and coverage.
Content: N/A.
Publisher: N/A.
Coverage: N/A.
Paid for by Washburn University Libraries.
17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers
Description: The pamphlets, proclamations, newsbooks and newspapers gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817) represent the largest single collection of 17th and 18th century English news media available from the British Library. The present digital collection, that helps chart the development of the concept of 'news' and 'newspapers' and the "free press", totals almost 1 million pages and contains approximately 1,270 titles from England, Ireland, Scotland and a handful of papers from British colonies in the Americas and Asia.
Content: All full-text
Publisher: Gale.
Coverage: 1603-early 1800's.
Paid for by Washburn University Libraries.
Description: Access to a wide assortment of English-language journals on all social science topics including anthropology, criminology, economics, gender studies, psychology, social work, sociology, and others.
Content: Citations, abstracts, with selected full-text after 1993.
Publisher: H.W. Wilson.
Coverage: 1983 - present with selected full-text after 1993.
Paid for by Washburn University Libraries.
Description: Contains indexing for social work and other related journals on topics such as homelessness, AIDS, child and family welfare, aging, substance abuse, legislation, community organization, and more.
Content: Citations and abstracts.
Publisher: National Association of Social Workers.
Coverage: 1977 - June 2008.
Paid for by Washburn University Libraries.
Description: Comprehensive bibliographic database covering sports, physical fitness, exercise, sports medicine, physical education, kinesiology, training, disabled persons, drugs, physical therapy, rehabilitation, nutrition, sport psychology, and more. Contains references to articles, books, and over 20,000 dissertations.
Content: Mostly citations and abstracts with some full-text available through links.
Publisher: EBSCO.
Coverage: 1800 - present.
Paid for by Washburn University Libraries.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Description: Authoritative entries on all topics involving ethics, science, religion, politics, and more.
Content: All full-text.
Publisher: Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University.
Coverage: 1997 - present.
Free resource.
Description: The Student Research Center (SRC) is EBSCO's interface designed for students in grades 6-12. SRC provides students in secondary schools with the most appropriate research tools to easily obtain the information that they need from their EBSCO databases. Students can easily pre-determine which content sources (e.g., Magazines, Newspapers, Biographies, Country Reports, Film & Video) will be included with their search. They can also search their databases by topic heading, make use of an online dictionary and encyclopedia.
Content: This is a gateway to other databases.
Publisher:EBSCO.
Coverage: Varies.
Paid for by Washburn University Libraries.
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