Books
Kansas Library Catalog - We’ll get it for you on interlibrary loan. Just e-mail or give us the information on the book or article you need.
College and Career
Fastweb - Free scholarship and college searches, financial aid tools.
Databases
Credo Reference - Use this resource to find encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies, quotations, bilingual dictionaries, and measurement conversions.
FindArticles - This website allows you to search millions of articles from leading academic and general interest publications.
Firstsearch - Use the Worldcat database for books.
Gale Databases - a major periodicals and newspaper database. Spanish offered.
Lexis/Nexis Academic Universe (Campus Use Only) - Over 3,000 sources including magazines, journals, and newspapers, most full-text. This is the one the lawyers and newspaper writers use.
ProQuest (Campus use only) - 150 magazines, journals, newspapers, 1986 to present.
e-Books
Please be aware: The Graham Library is not responsible for the content on any of the sites listed below, and does not endorse any additional sites which these sites may link to. Some of the websites listed below may include advertisements. Sites last added Nov. 12, 2009; links last checked Nov. 12, 2009.
Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts - searchable database of ~14,000 public domain works (literature, philosophy, etc.) (Infomotions/Eric Lease Morgan)
African American Women Writers of the 19th Century - digitized works (New York Public Library Digital Schomburg)
American Verse Project - American poetry volumes published before 1920 (U. Michigan)
Bartleby.com - great books online, including fiction and reference
Beowulf in Cyberspace - Old English facsimiles facing modern text translation (Benjamin Slade)
Bibles, Multilingual - (ARTFL Project, U. Chicago) (only title keywords in search, example: "King James")
British Women Romantic Poets, 1789-1832 - electronic texts (U. California, Davis)
Classic Bookshelf - "classic" works (by authors like Dickens, Twain, etc.); customize your reading interface (colors, font, size, etc.) (only authors in search)
Classic Reader - books, plays, and short stories from Shakespeare, Dickens, Austen, and more
Collected Works of Shakespeare (U. Sydney, Australia)
Digital Dante - several English translations, with original Italian (Columbia U.)
Digital Scriptorium - multilingual medieval and renaissance manuscripts (Columbia U. Libraries)
Electronic Books - index of sites, grouped by broad topics (U. Texas)
E-Scholarship Editions - books from academic presses, over 500 available to public in full text
featherproof Books - Free Mini-Books - includes short-story-length mini-books and short excerpts of longer works, free for download (and origami-folding!)
Folklore and Mythology Online - full-text folklore and mythology (multicultural; translated) (D. L. Ashliman, U. Pittsburgh)
Full Books Online - organized by title
Google Books - to search only complete electronic books, do an Advanced Search and choose "Full view only"
Internet Classics Archive - mostly Greco-Roman classics, some Persian and Chinese authors (MIT)
Internet Medieval Sourcebook - books, papers, etc. from medieval history and about medieval study (Fordham U., Center for Medieval Studies)
James Fenimore Cooper - texts online (James Fenimore Cooper Society, hosted by SUNY)
The Making of America - books and articles from American history, antebellum period through Reconstruction (U. Michigan)
The Online Book Page - index of sites with free online books; lists available by specialty (Foreign Languages, Agriculture, etc.) (U. Pennsylvania)
Page by Page Books - classic books, stories, speeches, etc. available online
Turning The Pages - great books online (British Library)
William Blake Archive (Library of Congress & UNC Chapel Hill)
World of Dante - with searchable Italian text, English translation, maps, and more (U. Virginia)
Encylopedia
Encyclopedia.com - online encyclopedia available to all.
Medical e-Library
Sites last added Feb. 19, 2009; links last checked Feb. 20, 2009.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
MedFusion - an information partnership of medical societies
Medline Plus (English) - (Spanish)
NOAH: New York Online Access to Health
Search Engines
Ask - allows users to find online information by asking a question, entering a phrase, or giving a key word.
Gigablast - A powerful, new search engine that does real time indexing.
Google - Search the Internet with the best search engine.
Kartoo - metasearch tool with visual display.
Scout Report Archives - Searches the deep web.
Snap - Search engine using click-stream information from a network of Internet users to improve relevancy.
Vivisimo - "Clustering" search engine tool.
Yahoo! - helps users find information, news, images, video, products, local services, and answers from around the world.
State and National Information
Blue Skyways of Kansas - Kansas community, education, government and library information.
USA.gov - Official web site for searching United States government web sites.
IRS Tax Forms - The forms you need straight from the IRS.
Library of Congress - Check out their special displays and photo archive collections, links to U.S. history and government. 450 languages in the book catalog.
Streaming Video
Site last added Mar. 18, 2009; link last checked Mar 19, 2009.
American History in Video - American History in Video provides the largest and richest collection of video available online for the study of American history, with 2,000 hours and more than 5,000 titles. The collection allows students and researchers to analyze historical events, and the presentation of historical events over time, through commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries. This release includes over 1260 titles, equaling approximately 420 hours.
Write that paper right!
Owens Library - How to cite your web site in a research paper in the different styles: APA, Chicago, MLA, etc.
Merriam-Webster Dictionary and Thesaurus - Word of the day and other fun stuff.
