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  • Contains full text content from publications of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists and some regional geological surveys. This online subscription is provided through the AAPG Foundation Digital Products Fund, by an endowment established by Kansas alumni William L. Fisher, M.S. 1958, Ph.D. 1961, and Marilee B. Fisher, B.S. 1958.

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  • Contains editorially-reviewed abstracts of the international literature of conservation and heritage management.

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  • Provides abstracts of articles on business and management from U.S. and international professional publications, academic journals, and trade magazines, and regional business publications. This also includes access to ABI/INFORM Dateline, Global, Trade & Industry, and Archive.

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  • Contains peer-reviewed, full-text articles in the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects.

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  • Contains full-text peer reviewed journal articles as well as newspapers, blogs, wire services, and general interest periodicals from across all academic disciplines. 

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  • Contains a very large collection of the Alexander Street Press streaming video, including topics in history, art, international studies, dance, theater, and more.

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  • Features thousands of U.S. and global news sources, including wire services, popular magazines, newspapers, and much more.  

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  • Engineering handbooks and reference materials from McGraw-Hill.

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  • This curricular resource for pharmacy education includes curriculum topics, organ systems, textbooks, drug monographs, lab tests, calculators, videos, case studies, and more. Mobile access requires a personal profile username and password.

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  • Due to budget constraints, this resource has been cancelled and will be unavailable after October 16, 2017.

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  • Contains bibliographic information, abstracts, reviews, and full-text for articles published in ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) periodicals and proceedings.

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  • Provides online full-text access to journals published by the American Chemical Society contained in two databases: ACS Web Editions and ACS Journal Archives.

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  • Search the full text of publications of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) from 1997 to the present. 

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  • One of the most important current bibliographies for the study of Africa. Its geographical scope is continent-wide, listing monographs, articles, and chapters within edited works. Its subject scope is principally in the social and environmental studies, development studies, the humanities and the arts. The medical, biological and natural sciences are only selectively covered. It lists resources published in English, French, Portuguese, Italian, German, Kiswahili, Spanish, and Afrikaans.

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  • Includes a collection of 50 separate databases that provide extensive coverage documenting research and publication by and about Africa and Africans. Contains news sources, scholarly articles, monographs, research reports, theses, and grey literature. For a listing of the databases included in each of these modules, as well as searching tips, see the LibGuide Africa-Wide Information (formerly, Africa-Wide NIPAD).

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  • A free online source that includes two databases: African Women Bibliographic Database and Africana Periodical Literature Bibliographic Database. The former has citations for English language articles, monographs, conference papers, theses, etc. published since 1986. The latter provides access to nearly 50,000 English language citations to articles published in 450 journals since the mid-19th century. 

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  • Search the full text of eight African American newspapers with coverage from 1827 to 1902.  

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  • Search the full text of over 270 African American newspapers with coverage from 1827 to 1998. Provides access to primary sources for researchers across African and African American studies; political science; ethnic studies; diaspora studies; women's studies; and cultural, literary and social history

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  • African Development Indicators (ADI) is the most detailed collection of data on Africa, containing over 1,600 indicators, covering 53 African countries and spanning the period 1961 to 2008. Data include social, economic, financial, natural resources, infrastructure, governance, partnership, and environmental indicators. For additional World Bank resources, please click here.

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  • Includes online access to the content of over 430 journals published in 35 African countries. These journals cover the full range of academic disciplines, with strong sections on medicine and health, agriculture, pure and applied sciences, environmental studies, and over two dozen interdisciplinary journals pertaining to African studies generally. Includes journals published primarily in English and French. User authentication with user name and password are required to enter the site.

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  • Includes citations to material acquired by the National Agricultural Library and cooperating institutions and is the most comprehensive source of bibliographic information covering U.S. agricultural and life sciences.

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  • This aggregated database provides access to all of KU’s Alexander Street Press collections.  Video, audio, and text covering a wide variety of subject matters are included.  In addition to contemporary sources, this database contains significant amounts of primary sources. 

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  • Reproduces in electronic format the 14 volumes of the All-Russia Population Census--the first census in the Russian Federation--which took place on October 9-16, 2002. Census data and text are available in both Russian and in English translations.

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  • Provides easy access to the latest news from and about Africa, with over 700 news stories posted daily for all areas of the African continent. Also available is a 400,000-item searchable archive dating 1997 to the present. Coverage includes the contents of 127 currently published African newspapers, as well as news feeds from 330 additional African and international news organizations. AllAfrica.com is generally considered to be the best source for current news on Africa.

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  • Indexes the last twenty years of North America's alternative press, with citations drawn from alternative, radical, and leftist publications. 

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  • Indexes the alternative press in North America, with citations from alternative, radical, and leftist publications. Coverage is from 1969 to 1990.

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  • Educational science and history DVDs....plus the BBC Shakespeare Collection and other

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  • This database provides access to Kansas titles from African American newspapers, 1827-1998 and another thirteen papers.  Content covers from 1851 to 1909 and includes the Emporia Gazette.

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  • Indexes and abstracts the world's scholarly literature in the history of the United States and Canada from prehistoric times to the present. 

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  • Covers North American scholarship on East-Central Europe, Russia, and the former Soviet Union. Contains bibliographic records for journal articles, books and book chapters, book reviews, dissertations, online resources, and selected government publications.

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  • Contains indexed, searchable information on over 4 million soldiers and thousands of battles, together with 15,000 photographs. 

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  • Presents a collection of American Civil War letters, diaries, memoirs and biographies written between 1855 and 1875, including material that was previously unpublished. Covers the military, social, economic, and political aspects of the war.

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  • This freely accessible database includes nearly 100,000 dissertations from 1933 through 1955, which represents the only comprehensive record of dissertations accepted by U.S. universities during that period.

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  • This collection contains commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries covering all aspects of American history.

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  • Search sources from the Edward E. Ayer Collection at the Newberry Library dating from the 1500s through the 1990s.  Materials range from maps to manuscripts to newspapers and cover all of North America. 

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  • Access scholarly biographies of deceased Americans of significant historical importance. (Restricted to 5 simultaneous users.)

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  • Digitized images of the pages of over 1,100 American magazines and journals published from 1741 through 1940.

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  • Covers foreign reactions to America’s racial struggles in the mid-20th century, including segregation, race riots, arts and literature, Brown v. Board of Education, the Civil Rights Movement, the Black Panthers, Martin Luther King, Jr. and more.

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  • Search or browse U.S. congressional materials originating from 1789 and covering through 1838, including 1st Congress, 1st Session through 25th Congress, 2nd Session.

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  • This digital collection of primary sources from the Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana at the Newberry Library contains over 300 manuscripts, broadsides, maps, and rare printed works. Material in the collection ranges from 1722 to 1939, with the majority covering 1830 to 1839.

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  • Corresponds to the printed L'Annee Philologique, the international critical and analytical bibliography of ancient Greek and Latin languages and literatures and classical studies. This electronic version covers from 1924 to 2011. 

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  • Due to budget constraints and an increase in cost of more than 300% from the publisher, the KU Libraries can no longer afford to provide access to the complete Annual Reviews Collection, therefore the Libraries will only provide access to these titles effective January 1, 2018.  These titles can be accessed by searching the library catalog by journal title.

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  • A combination of the Anthropological Index Online and Anthropological Literature, this resource indexes bibliographic materials covering the fields of anthropology, archeology, and related disciplines. 

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  • Search the publications of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), including articles, books, and newsletters. 

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  • Over 2000 titles are included in the Chinese ebooks and eReference databases. The introductory guide with the Viewer information can be accessed from the main page top right corner "Help" link.

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  • Traces the rise of apartheid from a global perspective, its effects on South Africa and the world, the defiance and revolutions that weakened it and its eventual collapse.

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  • Indexing and abstracts from 1983 to the present for nearly 800 core English-language, scientific and technical publications.

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  • Chronicles the Arab-Israeli conflict from 1917-1970. This resource contains primary source documents that chronicle the politics, wars, administration and diplomacy surrounding the Palestine Mandate and the Arab-Israeli conflict.

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  • This resource has ceased.

    Alternative resources include Avery index to architectural periodicals.

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  • A directory that describes collections of primary source material housed in thousands of repositories across the United States, the United Kingdom, and Ireland.

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  • Detailed archival collection descriptions concerning historical documents, personal papers, family histories, and other archival materials.

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  • Contains primary sources on social, political, health, and legal issues impacting LGBTQ communities around the world with content from newsletters, organisational papers, government documents, manuscripts, pamphlets, and other types of records that sheds light on the gay rights movement, activism, and the HIV/AIDS crisis.

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  • Contains indexing and abstracting dating from 1984 for more than 600 periodicals and 13,000 dissertations on the subjects of art, architecture, urban planning, and design.  Journals are primarily but not exclusively English-language.  The full-text articles are from over 300 journals dating from 1995.  It also indexes nearly 200,000 art reproductions that appear as illustrations for articles or advertisements.  When combined with Art Index Retrospective coverage extends to 1929.

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  • Access to this collection is available through History of Art Department Visual Resources.

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  • Art Index Retrospective provides citation indexing of fine art, decorative art, and commercial art journals, yearbooks and museum publications from 1929-1984. Uses English-language searching to cover periodicals published in English, French, Italian, German, Dutch, and Swedish. 

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  • Citations and abstracts for 20th and 21st century art and artists plus photography since its invention in 1839; covers journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, PhD dissertations, and exhibition reviews; coverage from 1974.

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  • A research portal that provides enhanced ways and methods to search literary collections from Gale.

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  • A research portal that provides enhanced ways and methods to search numerous primary source collections from Gale.

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  • Consists of nearly 2000 texts, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing. The eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries are equally represented, with a smaller selection of seventeenth century texts as well as some medieval and Renaissance texts. Genres include novels, verse, theater, journalism, essays, correspondence, and treatises. Subjects include literary criticism, biology, history, economics, and philosophy.

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  • Artifex Press is a publisher of digital catalogues raisonnés. Combining the rigors of art historical research with the flexibility of digital publishing Artifex Press catalogues provide the most up to date and accurate information on artists and their work. Currently there are catalogues available for Agnes Martin, Chuck Close, Jim Dine, Tim Hawkinson and James Siena. 2017 will also see Sol LeWitt Wall Drawings and Lucas Samaras Boxes release in the Fall. Forthcoming are over 20 catalogues that include artists Carl Andre, Frank Stella, Tara Donovan, Robert Irwin, Lee Ufan and Bosco Sodi to name a few.

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  • The online version of Arts and Humanities Citation Index has been incorporated into the Web of Science database.

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  • Arts:Search consists of four databases: Design Abstracts Retrospective (DAR), Arts + Architecture ProFILES, Arts: Search Research Guides, Review, and Research Sources: THE POSTER. Design Abstracts Retrospective is an ongoing abstracting and indexing service that aims to cover many of the most important design and applied arts journals published during the twentieth century. Arts + Architecture ProFILES is a dictionary of modern designers, artists and architects whose work is discussed in the journals covered by DAR. Arts:Search Reseach Guides contains other internet sources of biographical information and digitized journals. ReVIEW is an ongoing project to digitize many of the most important decorative and fine arts journals published in Europe and the USA during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.  Research Sources: THE POSTER contains extensive information on poster design, including a number of digitized books on the subject from the 1890s-1920s.

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  • Upcoming feature changes to ARTstor may require you to save some of your work in the Artstor Digital Library before June 1, 2017 (see details).  Please contact support@artstor.org with questions.

    Provides more than one million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences with an accessible suite of software tools for teaching and research. Available features include: searching, browsing, and organizing images, adding images, presenting images, and integrating with courseware. For detailed information about content and usage, see ARTstor Help and Tutorials. For professor account details, contact acqrs@ku.edu.

    You will need to register and create a personal account on the ARTStor site.

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  • Collection of electronic pre-prints, and e-print service, in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science and computer science.

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  • A free database that succeeds the printed abstracts journal of the African Studies Centre, Leiden, since 1968 first as Documentatieblad, then as African Studies Abstracts (Z3501 .L37 Watson Library Reference). Indexes approximately 350 journals in African studies. Abstracts are 1-2 paragraphs in length and very useful for subject analysis.

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  • Indexes the large body of technical literature and journals published by the American Society of Civil Engineers.

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  • Information on over 270,000 artists; information varies in depth, but may include biographical, book, and periodical references, auction records, museums that own artwork, and images.

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  • The ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) Digital Collection indexes the Society's technical literature and the full text of the ASME Transaction Journals from 2000 to the present and ASME Conference Proceedings from 2008 to the present.

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  • Access over 180 years of the photographs, sound bites, and graphics from the archives of the Associated Press.

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  • News Features & Internal Communication:  The news features, dating from 1940, include news analysis, human interest stories, and entertainment and sports reporting.

    Bureau Collection: This collection offers access to records from the AP's Atlanta, Austin, Birmingham, Chicago, Dallas, Miami, New Orleans, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh bureaus, dating from 1931 to 2004.

    European Bureaus Collection provides records from 1952 to 2000 (date spans vary by country)

    Washington, D.C. Bureaus Collection: Washington D.C Bureau provides access to records covering the years 1915-1930, 1952-2009.

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  • Provides access to active ASTM (American Society for Testing and Materials) Standards, and the ASTM Digital Library, which includes full-text access to symposia and special technical publications. Click "Yes, I agree with the License" to access the database.

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  • Indexes religious studies periodicals, essays in multi-author works, reviews in religion, research in ministry, and includes the Methodist Reviews Index.

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  • Search the full text of the South's largest African American newspaper.

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  • Authoritative information on hundreds of thousands of creative and critical Australian literature works with coverage from 1780 to the present. Selected critical articles and creative writing are in full text.

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  • Indexing and abstracts for journal articles on architecture and design, archaeology, city planning, interior design, landscape architecture, and historic preservation. Indexing for 284 current journals and 3,075 retrospective journals. Coverage from the 1930s to the present with selective coverage dating back to the 1740s.

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