Find Articles and Research Databases
Use the databases listed below to find articles from magazines, journals and other publications.
Online books can be accessed through NetLibrary.
Databases are restricted to use by KVCC students, faculty and staff.
Jump to databases by topic:
General Information Databases [back to top]
- Academic OneFile (InfoTrac): Thousands of full-text articles, with extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine (including 285 surgery videos), social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects.
- Gale Virtual Reference Library (InfoTrac): GVRL is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research in business, environment, history, medicine, nation & world, and science.
- General OneFile (InfoTrac): Thousands of magazine and newspaper articles on a wide range of subject areas. Most articles are full-text; many include graphics and images.
- OmniSelect Plus (WilsonWeb): Thousands of articles in all subject areas; all articles have full-text; many have graphics and images.
- ProQuest Research Library: Thousands of articles in all subject areas; many include full-text, graphics and images. ProQuest Tutorial
- World Almanacs (FirstSearch): Full text of Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, The World Almanac for Kids, The World Almanac of the U. S. A., The World Almanac of U. S. Politics.
Arts [back to top]
- CAMIO - Catalog of Art Museum Images Online (FirstSearch): A premiere resource of works of art from around the world contributed and described by leading museums. High-quality art images are rights-cleared for educational use. Every work in CAMIO is represented by at least one high-resolution image and a description. Many have additional views of the work, sound, video and curatorial notes
- SIRS Renaissance (ProQuest): Full text articles on architecture and design, culture, literature, multimedia, music, performing arts, philosophy and religion, and visual arts. Time lines and images are included, with lots of links to related articles.
- Naxos Music Library: Extensive collection of online classical music recordings. Also includes wide variety of jazz, world, folk and Chinese music. (Headphones or speakers required to hear audio.)
Automotive [back to top]
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AllData Online: Automotive diagnostic and repair information.
Note: Not available off campus due to licensing restrictions. - ChiltonLibrary.com: Authoritative automotive repair information available to car owners.
- Mitchell OnDemand: Automotive diagnostic and repair information.
Note: Not available off campus due to licensing restrictions.
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Books/Authors & Reading Advice [back to top]
- Books & Authors (InfoTrac): Thousands of recommended titles and plot summaries, plus awards information, all to help users uncover new reading, find long-remembered favorites, and discover award-winning titles. Search by genre, subject, author, title, series, and more.
- Gale's Literary Index: Use this instead of our Contemporary Authors blue print index, located in our literature reference section. GLI provides access to author and title listings of literature sources that contain criticism of authors' works and biographical articles.
- Michigan Authors & Illustrators: Search by keyword, author, title, genre or award. Author profiles include a list of works.
- NetLibrary Electronic Books Collection: Over 20,000 electronic books with full-text online. PowerPoint Tutorial
- NoveList (Ebsco): Helps to find the next best fiction book to read. Search by author, title, series, plots, or even books like the one you just finished. Browse lists of award winners, lists of genres, and lists based on age. Create and save lists of your own favorites. Find book discussion guides and more.
- Salem Press Literature:
Barbara Kingsolver - Critical Insights: "Brings together a set of materials to serve both as an introduction to Barbara Kingsolver's writings, and as a guide to scholarly reading of her work." - WorldCat: The world's largest online catalog of books and magazines. Includes a description of the item and which libraries own the item.
Business [back to top]
- Business and Company Resource Center (InfoTrac): Search this database to find detailed company and industry news and information including company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies, and periodicals.
- General Business File ASAP (InfoTrac): Broker research reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals and company directory listings with full text and images.
Career Information [back to top]
- Bridges: Information on careers, including self-assessment tools.
- ProQuest Career and Technical Education: Vocational and technical periodicals; many articles contain full-text and images.
Computers & Technology [back to top]
- Computer Database (InfoTrac): Computer-related product introductions, news and reviews of hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications and the application of technology.
Current Issues [back to top]
- Congressional Digest Debates Online: Analysis of social and controversial issues as published in three magazines: Congressional Digest, Supreme Court Debates and International Debates - Pro and Con.
- CQ Researcher: Original, In-depth, non-biased coverage and analysis of political and social issues, including health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy. Each issue covers a single topic.
- CQ Weekly: Complete source for coverage of the Congress: status of bills, votes and amendments, floor and committee activity, backroom maneuvering and more.
- Current Issues: Reference Shelf Plus: Articles selected from key publications in social, scientific, health, political, and global issues.
- Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center (InfoTrac): Information on social issues, including viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, links to web sites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.
Education [back to top]
- ERIC: Education Resources Information Center (FirstSearch): Magazine and journal articles, plus other types of documents, on education topics; some include full text, graphics and images.
- Educator's Reference Complete (InfoTrac): Journals for education students and teaching professionals; many include full text, graphics and images.
Electronic Books [back to top]
- NetLibrary Electronic Books Collection: Over 20,000 electronic books with full-text online.
Genealogy [back to top]
- Heritage Quest (ProQuest): Combines digital, searchable images of U.S. Federal Census records with 22,000 titles from the digitized version of the UMI® Genealogy & Local History collection and other valuable content including Freedman's Bank records, PERSI, the Revolutionary War Era Pension & Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, and the LexisNexis® U.S. Serial Set. It is mostly full text.
Health Sciences / Dental Hygiene / Nursing [back to top]
- ArticleFirst (FirstSearch): Although a general database, ArticleFirst contains many Dental Hygiene articles and abstracts. If you do not find full-text articles, set ArticleFirst search option to "Limit Availability to Subscriptions held by my Library" to locate references to articles in KVCC print journals.
- CINAHL (EBSCOhost): CINAHL - Authoritative journal articles for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers. Includes Pre-CINAHL with access to new journal article citations before they are fully indexed and added to CINAHL. PowerPoint Tutorial
- Health Reference Center Academic (InfoTrac): Health topics, including dental hygiene, fitness, nursing, medicine, nutrition, alcohol and drug abuse, prescription drugs, and more; many articles include full-text and images. 386 surgery videos are now included.
- Health and Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module (InfoTrac): Includes same topics as Health Reference Center Academic, but with a patient-oriented user interface; many articles include full-text and images.
- Journal of Dental Hygiene: full-text from June 2004 to present.
- Journal of Dentistry for Children: full-text from January 2002 to present.
- MEDLINE (FirstSearch): All areas of medicine, including dentistry and nursing; includes some full-text.
- PLoS Medicine: A free, peer-reviewed, open-access, online medical journal covering new research published by the Public Library of Science (PLoS). All articles have full-text.
- ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health Source: Over 250 leading full-text journals in nursing and allied health.
- Salem Press Health:
Magill's Medical Guide: "Designed for laymen and written for healthcare consumers, the Guide is a perfect mix of accessibility and depth, providing general readers with an authoritative reference source that helps bridge the gap between medical encyclopedias for professional and popular self-help guides. It is an up-to-date and easy-to-use compendium of medical information suitable for student research as well as use by general readers, including patients and caregivers." - ScienceDirect -- Health & Life Sciences: Over 1,000 full-text health and life science journals, plus many more with abstracts only. Most include articles from 1995 - present.
- SMART imagebase: Scientific & Medical ART : SMART is a collection of 20,000+ illustrations & animations depicting anatomy, physiology, surgery, diseases, conditions, trauma, embryology, histology and other health science topics. Educational use is allowed for PowerPoints, handouts, poster sessions and interactive Flash animations. PowerPoint Tutorial
History [back to top]
- HarpWeek: Harper’s Weekly 1857-1889 -- full-text and illustrations from one of America's leading 19th century illustrated newspapers.
- Issues & Controversies in American History: Balanced explanations of the most contentious issues in American history. Includes biographies, timelines, background articles, photographs, primary documents, and maps.
- Michigana: Sources in U.S. History Online (Infotrac): This digital archive documents Michigan state history. Drawn from the Sabin collection and other Gale sources, the archive provides access to a wide variety of documents: personal narratives and memoirs, pamphlets and political speeches, sermons and songs, legal treatises and children's books.
- Salem Press American History:
Milestone Documents in American History: 134 primary source documents from U.S. history with analysis.
Decades Series: Popular culture and historic events from the 1950s through 1990s; search by decade or all five decades together.
Great Lives from History: Inventors and Inventions: Features 409 essays covering 413 individual inventors (including 27 women) from all time, worldwide.
Great Lives from History: Notorious Lives: Profiles more than 600 notorious individuals from around the world.
Laws & Legal [back to top]
- LegalTrac (InfoTrac): Articles from law reviews, law journals, and legal newspapers covering Federal and State Cases, Laws & Regulations, Legal Practice, and Taxation.
Music [back to top]
- Naxos Music Library: Extensive collection of online classical music recordings. Also includes wide variety of jazz, world, folk and Chinese music. (Headphones or speakers required to hear audio.)
Newspapers [back to top]
- NewsBank America's Newspapers & The World: Newspaper articles from around the world. Full-text from Detroit News (back to 1999) and Grand Rapids Press.
- InfoTrac Newsstand: Includes access to more than 1,000 major U.S. regional, national and local newspapers as well as leading titles from around the world, all full-text.
- New York Times (InfoTrac): Search by topic in full-text articles from 1985-present.
- New York Times (InfoTrac): Browse by issue 1985-present.
- New York Times Online: free articles from the last 7 days & archives to previous issues.
- New York Times Microfilm: 1953-2003; ask for assistance at the Reference Desk. Full text 1985-present in Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center.
- ProQuest Michigan Newsstand: Full-text of selected MI newspapers.
Science [back to top]
- Nature: eJournal version of Nature; includes full-text and images June 1997 - present.
- PLoS Biology: A free, peer-reviewed, open-access, online biology journal covering new research published by the Public Library of Science (PLoS). All articles have full-text.
- ScienceDirect -- Health & Life Sciences: Over 1,000 full-text health and life science journals, plus many more with abstracts only. Most include articles from 1995 - present.
- Today's Science: Covers health, the environment, technology, life science, physical science, earth and space science, and science and society.
Test Preparation [back to top]
- LearningExpress Library: Test preparation materials and interactive practice exams; includes prep for GRE, ACT, SAT, various civil service tests and more. To help you get acquainted with the new user interface, LearningExpress has created a self-guided tour.
World Cultures & Folklore [back to top]
- American Indian Experience: Offers access to an online library, featuring more than 150 volumes of scholarship and reference content, hundreds of primary documents, and thousands of images (no journal articles) about America's Native Peoples.
- American Mosaic: The African American Experience: Features access to full-text content from more than 400 titles, 3,000 slave narratives, over 2,000 images, 5,000 primary sources, and 250 vetted web sites (no journal articles) on the black experience from its African origins to the present day.
- Culture Briefings: Covers customs, culture & the way of life in 16 countries. Contact a librarian @ 488-4380 or 373-7867 for login passwords.
- Daily Life Online: Combines 3 databases: Daily Life Through History, Daily Life America and World Folklore & Folklife. Covers daily life and customs of countries around the world throughout history, including arts, food, clothing, lifestyle, holidays, language, history, geography, and folklore of various cultures, including celebrations and rituals, religion and beliefs, holidays, music, dance, food, and more. Includes electronic books & other sources, but not journal articles.