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Using Search It

You can use Search It, our discovery tool, to locate books, articles, music, movies, e-books and more. The tool returns results that can be refined by:
 

  • scholarly journals

  • peer-reviewed journals

  • full text resources

  • topic

  • creation date

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To use Search It, access the Library homepage. The search bar available can be used to search the library's catalog.

Popular and Scholarly Articles

Academic Search Premier
A good place to start searching for almost any topic. 

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ProQuest Research Library

ProQuest is great for finding popular articles and scholarly articles on almost any topic.
 

ABI/INFORM

Covers more than 3,000 scholarly, trade, and general publications as well as regional and national newspapers.
 

Academic OneFile

This is a good starting place for finding journal articles on almost any topic. Full-text and/or scanned pdfs are included for many of the articles it indexes.
 

Expanded Academic ASAP

This is a good starting place for finding journal articles on almost any topic. Full-text and/or scanned pdfs are included for many of the articles it indexes.
 

Health Reference Center Academic

Includes a medical dictionary; medical directories and reference books; consumer-oriented and professional health periodicals; and pamphlets issued by health organizations.
 

CQ Researcher

CQ Researcher covers a wide range of social, economic, political, environmental and health issues of the day.
 

LexisNexis Academic

Provides online access to the full-text of documents from over 5,600 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications.
 

Business and Company Resource Center

Company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals.
 

Health and Wellness Resource Center

Health and medical information for lay research from periodicals, reference books, and pamphlet sources.
 

Applied Science and Technology

Offers information on technical and industrial aspects of chemistry since 1983.
 

Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology

Articles cover chemical substances, industrial processes, uses, fundamentals, chemical engineering processes, foods, pharmaceuticals, dyes, and fibers.
 

Knovel

Chemistry and biochemistry reference books.
 

Web of Science

Web of Science is composed of the three ISI Citation Databases, which collectively index more than 8,400 high quality, peer-review journals.
 

ABELL (Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature)

The Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature covers all aspects and periods of English and American literature.
 

American Periodical Series

Over 1,500 periodicals published in America between 1741 and 1941, covering specialized, literary, and general topics.
 

Early English Books Online

Contains images of works printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and British North America from 1473-1700.
 

JSTOR

Electronic full-text of over 550 core journals in disciplines ranging from history to business to literature to science and mathematics.
 

Literary Manuscripts

This collection houses the intimate papers and writings of some of the Victorian period's finest thinkers and artists, including: The Brontes, Joseph Conrad, John Ruskin, and Henry James.
 

Literature Resource Center

Literature Resource Center provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline.
 

MLA International Bibliography

This is the largest and most comprehensive database for literary criticism in all languages.
 

The Shakespeare Collection

Brings together general reference data, full-text scholarly periodicals, reprinted criticism, primary source material, and the complete annotated Arden Shakespeare works.
 

Twentieth Century North American Drama

Full text of 2,000 plays with search mechanisms that allow one to search by historical and social context, national heritage, gender, religion, literary movement and more.
 

American History in Video

Sources include newsreels, government and commercial films, and significant documentaries.
 

Film Literature Index

Indexes 150 film and television periodicals from 30 countries cover-to-cover and 200 other periodicals selectively for articles on film and television.
 

Theater in Video

Notable, ground-breaking productions of more than 250 of the world’s most important plays, together with more than 100 video documentaries.
 

American Film Scripts

Contains 1,009 scripts by 1,062 writers together with detailed, fielded information on the scenes, characters and people related to the scripts.
 

Encylopedia of International Media and Communications

Exhaustively explores the ways that editorial content--from journalism and scholarship to films and infomercials--is developed, presented, stored, analyzed, and regulated around the world.
 

Project MUSE

Full-text database of over 300 scholarly journals in the humanities, arts and social sciences. 
 

IEEE Electronic Library Online

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE).
 

Compendex

Contains over 8 million references and abstracts taken from over 5,000 engineering journals, conferences and technical reports dating back to 1969.

Get It is a service that checks to see if we have access to the full text of the article you are looking for.

The button helps you access the full text of articles.

When the Get It button (or the text "Get It at K-State") shows up next to an article you want, click on it. If we have access to the full text you will see a linked tab that says "View It." Just follow the trail to get to the article.

How to Find Full Text

Find a citation or abstract? Try searching E-Journals to see if it may be available in full-text format in another database.
 

Plug in as much of the information as you have, and the Citation Linker will search through our journals and databases to find the full text.
 

Still can't find it? Send all of the citation information information in this short form and the library will try to find it through Interlibrary Loan. 
 

Interlibrary Loan requests can take 2-5 days for electronically received copies (typically articles, chapters, or sections from books 50 pages and under) and 3-10 days for books, videos, and anything else we get through the mail.
 

Sorry, we are unable to borrow textbooks through interlibrary loan.

Questions? Please contact

Katherine Jones

Library Director

kathjones@ksu.edu

785.826.2636

111F Technology Center

Thank you! We will get back to you soon!

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