Academic OneFile     Full Text     Multidisciplinary     Gale
Peer-reviewed, full-text articles from leading journals and reference sources. Covers the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Includes podcasts and transcripts from NPR, CNN and the CBC plus full-text New York Times content from 1995 to present. Updated daily.
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Academic Search Elite     Full Text     Multidisciplinary     EBSCOhost
Multidisciplinary with full text for more than 2,100 journals, including over 1,700 peer-reviewed titles covering virtually every area of academic study with backfiles as far back as 1985.

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AccessScience     Full Text     Science
Science database with full text articles from the Encyclopedia of Science & Technology plus full text biographical information, news articles, and science dictionary.
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Alt HealthWatch     Full Text     Health     EBSCOhost
Alternative health database with full text for more than 180 complementary and alternative medicine journals, reports, proceedings and newsletters plus hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, etc. Full text coverage dates back to 1990.
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Applied Science & Technology Full Text    Full Text    Science    WilsonWeb
Wilson's full text science and technology database - Select 'Applied Science & Technology (AST)' from the pull-down menu under 'Subject Area' - Includes articles from 175 journals covering a wide variety of applied science specialties.
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Art Full Text     Full Text     Fine Arts/Humanities     WilsonWeb
Wilson's full text art database - Select 'Art (ART)' from the pull-down menu under 'Subject Area' - Articles from some 160 journals. International coverage, new artists, exhibition reviews, criticism, etc...
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AtoZ Maps     Images    World Trade Press
The world’s largest subscription-based database of proprietary, royalty-free world, continent, country, and state maps.

Biography Resource Center     Full Text     Multidisciplinary     Gale
Award-winning biographies with related full-text articles, as well as tens of thousands of images and links to vetted websites. Search for people throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas plus full text articles from nearly 300 renowned biographical magazines.
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Biological & Agricultural Full Text     Full Text     Science     WilsonWeb
Wilson's full text biological & agricultural database - Select 'Biological & Agricultural (BA)' from the pull-down menu under 'Subject Area' - Nearly 90 journals ranging from popular to professional with about a 45 percent of the focus on agriculture.
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Books in Print Professional (with reviews)     Full Text     Multidisciplinary
In-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming book, audio, & video titles featuring full-text previews and reviews of titles - reviews are from CHOICE, Library Journal, School Library Journal, Research & Reference Book News, University Press Book News, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, Booklist, Quill & Quire, Horn Book Guide, Horn Book Magazine, and more. Includes cover images, author biographies, annotations, etc.

Business Full Text     Full Text     Business     WilsonWeb
Wilson's business full text database - Select 'Business (BUS)' from the pull-down menu under 'Subject Area' - Over 410 publications covering a wide range of specialties.
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Business Source Elite     Full Text     Business     EBSCOhost
Full text from scholarly business, management and economics journals covering such topics as accounting, banking, finance, international business, marketing, sales, etc. for over 1,000 business publications with information dating back to 1985. Includes 10,100 substantial company profiles from Datamonitor.
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Consumer Health Complete     Full Text     Health     EBSCOhost
Provides convenient access to easily understandable health and medical information. Consumers can search and browse within medical encyclopedias, popular reference books and magazine articles.
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CQ Researcher     Full Text     Multidisciplinary    

Full text, comprehensive reports and analysis on issues shaping our world with statistics, chronologies, bibliographies, and more.
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Credo Reference     Full Text     Multidisciplinary
Contains all types of reference books - dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri, and books of quotations plus subject-specific titles covering everything from the arts to accountancy and law to literature. Provides quick definitions/explanations and in-depth coverage.

Criminal Justice Periodicals Index     Full Text     Social Science     Proquest
Covers all areas of criminal justice. Includes abstracting/indexing for 240 journals with over 80 in full text.
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EBSCO Animals     Full Text     Science     EBSCOhost
Provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals.  Consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals.
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EBSCOhost Databases     Full Text     Multidisciplinary Gateway
All the RFK Library databases offered through the EBSCOhost gateway.
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Education Full Text     Full Text     Education     WilsonWeb
Wilson's education full text database - Select 'Education (EDU)' from the pull down menu under 'Subject Area' - Over 350 journals including the Chronicle of Higher Education back to January 2000.
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Encyclopedia Britannica     Full Text     Multidisciplinary
Encyclopedia articles plus a dictionary, a thesaurus and an Internet guide.
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ERIC     Education     U.S. Department of Education
Bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials and, if available, includes links to full text.

ERIC     Education     EBSCOhost
Abstracting/indexing to education journals included in Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index - with linked access to more than 317,000 full-text documents dating back to 1966.  ALL ED# articles up through June 2006 are available on microfiche in the RFK library.
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Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia Full Text   Multidisc.   EBSCOhost
Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas plus images and brief biographies.
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Gale Databases     Full Text     Multidisciplinary Gateway    
RFK Library databases offered through the Gale Group gateway - Academic OneFile, Biography Resource Center, General OneFile, Health and Wellness Resource Center, Literature Resource Center and Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center.

General OneFile     Full Text     Multidisciplinary     Gale
News and periodical articles covering business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social sciences, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images.
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General Science Full Text     Full Text     Science     WilsonWeb
Wilson's full text database - Select 'General Science (GS)' from the pull-down menu under 'Subject Area' - Nearly 100 journals designed for students and non-specialists.
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Global Road Warrior     Full Text     Multidisciplinary     World Trade Press
The ultimate guide to the world with information on 175 countries.

GreenFILE    Full Text     Environment     EBSCOhost
Offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.

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Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia    Full Text     Multidisciplinary    
Provided courtesy of the West Virginia Library Commission’s WV Info Depot. Articles, research starters, world newspapers, lesson plans, and much more.

Health & Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module    Full Text     Health     Gale
Contains nearly 400 health/medical journals, hundreds of pamphlets, over 700 health-related videos and articles from 2,200 general interest publications in addition to a broad collection of Gale reference titles.
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Health Source – Consumer Edition     Full Text     Health     EBSCOhost
Provides consumer health information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Accesses nearly 80 full text consumer health magazines.
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Health Source – Nursing/Academic Edition     Full Text     Health     EBSCOhost
Provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also features the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide.
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Humanities Full Text     Full Text     Fine Arts/Humanities     WilsonWeb
Wilson's humanities full text database - Select 'Humanities (HUM)' from the pull-down menu under 'Subject Area' - Nearly 250 journals covering a full range of subjects.
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Index to Legal Periodicals Full Text      Full Text      Social Science      WilsonWeb
Wilson's legal full text database - Select 'Legal (ILP)' from the pull down menu under 'Subject Area' - Nearly 270 periodicals, many peer-reviewed.
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JSTOR - Language & Literature     Full Text     Literature     JSTOR
The 58 titles in this collection span the literary cultures of many countries, containing articles in several languages, including Arabic, Italian, and German. Developed with the help of the Modern Language Association, the collection includes PMLA and a range of journals in the diverse fields of literary criticism that have emerged in the last thirty years.

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LearningExpressLibrary     Full Text     Multidisciplinary
(Practice Tests/Tutorial Courses/Writing Improvement)
Provided courtesy of the West Virginia Library Commission’s WV Info Depot. Offers study guides, e-books, and practice tests for major standardized exams like the GRE, Praxis, ASVAB and many others. New users click HERE to register. Returning users click HERE.
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Library Catalog (MARLO)     Multidisciplinary
Robert F. Kidd Library's online catalog for finding books, videos, DVDs, journals and other materials housed in the library.

Library Literature & Information Science Full Text    Full Text    Literature    WilsonWeb
Wilson's library and information full text database - Select 'Library & Information Science (LIB)' from the pull-down menu under 'Subject Area' - Over 155 journals as far back as 1997.
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Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA)     EBSCOhost
Indexes more than 500 core journals, more than 50 priority journals, and 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings covering librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.

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Library Literature & Information Science Full Text    Full Text    Literature    WilsonWeb
Wilson's library and information full text database - Select 'Library & Information Science (LIB)' from the pull-down menu under 'Subject Area' - Over 155 journals as far back as 1997.
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Literature Resource Center - LRC     Full Text     Literature     Gale
Up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world plus links to authoritative related web sites and much more. Also has both LitFinder and MLA International Bibliography integrated into the database.
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LitFinder     Full Text     Literature     Gale
Contains over 150,000 full-text poems and 800,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays with biographies, explanations, overviews and images.
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MasterFILE Premier     Full Text     Multidisciplinary     EBSCOhost
Multidisciplinary with full text for over 1,750 periodicals.  Also includes nearly 500 full text reference books, over 164,474 primary source documents and an Image collection of over 453,000 photos, maps and flags.
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MEDLINE     Health     EBSCOhost
Abstracting/indexing for over 4,800 current, biomedical journals (some linked to full text).  Covers medicine, nursing, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and other related topics.
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MLA International Bibliography     Full Text     Multidisciplinary     Gale
Contains all the entries in the print issues from 1926 to the present. Includes the Directory of Periodicals and the MLA Bibliography names and subject thesauri.

Naxos Music Library     Audio     Fine Arts   

Online collection of over 500,000 tracks of Classical, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music.

NetLibrary eBooks     Full Text     Multidisciplinary
Access to RFK library’s collection of over 29,800 eBooks (electronic books).
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NewsBank Access World News     Full Text     Multidisciplinary
[Selected WV Newspapers] Electronic editions of Charleston Daily Mail, Charleston Gazette, Dominion Post, Herald-Dispatch, and several news magazines.  Provided courtesy of the West Virginia Library Commission’s WV Info Depot.

Newspaper Archive     Full Text     Multidisciplinary    
Provided courtesy of the West Virginia Library Commission’s WV Info Depot. Contains tens of millions of searchable newspaper pages from 4,026 newspapers dating as far back as the 1700s.

Newspaper Source     Full Text     Multidisciplinary     EBSCOhost
Cover-to-cover full text for nearly 35 national U.S. and international newspapers and select full-text to more than 375 U.S. regional newspapers.  Plus full text television & radio news transcripts from ABC News, CBS News, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, NPR, etc.
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Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center     Full Text     Social Science     Gale
Information on today's hottest social issues featuring viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to websites. Includes Lexile reading levels for periodicals.
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Points of View Reference Center     Full Text     Social Science   EBSCOhost
Multidisciplinary - provides essays that present multiple sides of 200 controversial topics. Also offers guides to debate, developing arguments and writing position papers.
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Primary Search     Full Text     Multidisciplinary/Juvenile     EBSCOhost
Multidisciplinary juvenile database with popular full text magazines for elementary school research. Full text articles are assigned reading level indicators (Lexiles).
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PubMed Central     Full Text     Health
PubMed Central (PMC) is the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.

Readers’ Guide Full Text     Full Text     Multidisciplinary     WilsonWeb
Wilson's Readers’ Guide full text database - Select 'Readers' Guide (Current Events) (RDG)' from the pull-down menu under 'Subject Area' - Articles from some 215 journals, many of them peer-reviewed.
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Regional Business News     Full Text     Business     EBSCOhost
Full text regional business publications including journals, newspapers and newswires covering metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
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Searchasaurus     Full Text     Multidisciplinary/Education/Juvenile     EBSCOhost
A colorful, easy-to-use search interface for elementary and middle school students. Includes the Encyclopedia of Animals, Funk & Wagnall's New Encyclopedia, the American Heritage Children's Dictionary, 3rd ed., and an Image Collection of over 235,000 images covering history, politics, animals, topical news, science, maps and flags.
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Serials Directory     Bibliographic     EBSCOhost
Up-to-date bibliographic information and pricing structures for magazines, journals, newspapers, and other serials plus contact information on publishers.  (This is not an index to articles.)

Social Science Full Text     Full Text     Social Science     WilsonWeb
Wilson's social science full text database - Select 'Social Science (SS)' from the pull-down menu under 'Subject Area' – Contains articles from some 215 journals covering the latest concepts, trend, opinions, theories, and methods from both applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences.
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Teacher Reference Center (TRC)     Education     EBSCOhost
Index of over 260 titles from the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals, periodicals, and books. Provides coverage on key education topics such as Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, Science & Mathematics, and more for K-12 Teachers and Librarians.

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TEAS (Unofficial Online Course for the TEAS Exam)
Provides free unofficial review materials for a variety of exams through Test Prep Review and TEAS (Test of Essential Academic Skills).

Test Preparation (LearningExpressLibrary)     Full Text     Multidisciplinary
(Practice Tests/Tutorial Courses/Writing Improvement)
Provided courtesy of the West Virginia Library Commission’s WV Info Depot. Offers study guides, e-books, and practice tests for major standardized exams like the GRE, Praxis, ASVAB and many others. New users click HERE to register. Returning users click HERE.
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TOPICsearch     Full Text     Multidisciplinary     EBSCOhost
Contains full text from diverse sources including international and regional newspapers, periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, and government information. Covers social, political and economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms.
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WV Info Depot     Full Text     Multidisciplinary Gateway    
Databases available from the West Virginia Library Commission including Learning Express Library and Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia.  Call 304-462-4109 or ext. 6160 for log on information.