Academic Source Ultimate (EBSCO product licensed by Southwestern College)
Academic Search Ultimate boasts an extensive collection of 9,982 active full-text journals, a significant portion of which undergo peer review and are featured in prominent citation indexes. It covers a wide range of subject areas offering thousands of international journals to provide global context to research as well as videos to support and enhance the research experience.
Academic OneFile (Gale product licensed by Southwestern College)
Peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources for a variety of topics.
AccessMedicine (Access provided by Southwestern College)
AccessMedicine is an online medical resource that provides students, faculty, and healthcare professionals with access to leading textbooks, multimedia, diagnostic tools, drug information, self-assessment quizzes, and case studies. It includes trusted titles like Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment, and many more. AccessMedicine supports medical learning, clinical decision-making, and exam preparation with up-to-date, evidence-based content.
Agricola (State Library of Kansas)
Agriculture focus with records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library, coverage dates back to 1970 with citations for journal articles, monographs, theses, patents, software, audiovisual materials and technical reports related to agriculture.
Alternative HealthWatch (State Library of Kansas)
Focus on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It offers full text articles for more than 180 international, and often peer-reviewed journals and reports. In addition, there are hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts. Provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine. This database features indexing and abstracts going back as far as 1984, and full text going back as far as 1990.
APA PsycINFO (Licensed by Southwestern College)
This database is the world's largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health. Produced by the American Psychological Association, it is an indispensable tool for the discovery of global scholarly research. Vendor: EBSCO
Applied Sciences & Technology Abstracts (H.W. Wilson) (State Library of Kansas)
H. W. Wilson databases cover a wide variety of subject areas including art, education, engineering, humanities, social sciences and more.
Art Full Text (State Library of Kansas)
The database covers fine, decorative and commercial art, folk art, photography, film, and architecture, and also includes a database-specific thesaurus. Comprehensive resource for art information featuring full-text articles from more than 300 periodicals dating back to 1995, indexing and abstracting of over 600 periodicals dating as far back as 1984 and indexing and abstracting of over 13,000 art dissertations. Indexing of almost 200,000 art reproductions provides examples of styles and art movements, including works by emerging artists.
Auto Repair Source (State Library of Kansas)
Designed for touch-enabled devices such as laptops and tablets, Auto Repair Source offers a user-friendly search experience and access to a wealth of information to help users diagnose, repair and maintain today's complex vehicles. All content comes from the Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) and includes step-by-step DIY auto repair information, diagrams, maintenance schedules, parts and labor estimates, service bulletins and recalls. Diagrams and images can be easily magnified and printed.
Easy to browse resources with features on most studied authors, works and characters, tips on how to write.
Britannica Academic (State Library of Kansas)
Encyclopedia for general research, community college and four-year college students.
Britannica Moderna (Britannica Academic en Espanol) (State Library of Kansas)
Business Insights (Gale product licensed by Southwestern College)
Business Source Ultimate (EBSCO product licensed by Southwestern College)
Business Source Ultimate offers access to 3,512 active full-text journals, including many peer-reviewed publications. It spans various business topics, from current trends to historical information and global perspectives. It provides researchers with essential business journals such as Harvard Business Review, Forbes, and MIS Quarterly, plus business videos from top providers.
Communications and Mass Media (Gale OneFile)
Gale OneFile: Communications and Mass Media brings together information found in hundreds of journals. Articles cover all aspects of the communications field, including advertising, public relations, linguistics, and literature, meet the needs of researchers.
Computer Source: Consumer Edition (State Library of Kansas)
Provides the latest information and current trends in high technology with full text for 300 publications plus abstracts for nearly 450 publications.
Consumer Health Complete (State LIbrary of Kansas)
Simple interface with trending topics and ability to search for specific health information.
Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts: Volume I (State Library of Kansas)
Searchable collection containing real transcripts of counseling and therapy sessions and first-person narratives illuminating the experience of mental illness and treatment, as well as reference works to contextualize the primary material.
Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts: Volume II (State Library of Kansas)
Provides a deep look into the client-therapist office, allowing readers to follow the progress and setbacks of clients over the course of multiple therapy sessions with diverse set of clients, a wide range of presenting issues, and multiple therapeutic approaches; content was recorded in 2012 or later, features contemporary issues and up-to-date therapeutic approaches.
Counseling and Therapy in Video (State Library of Kansas)
Curated, discipline-focused, primary-source collections, websites, and streaming media for learning and research.
Credo Reference (Infobase product licensed by Southwestern College)
Reference ebooks on multiple subjects as well as gadgets to help pronounce a word, solve a crossword, convert measurements, and more.
Education Source (EBSCO product licensed by Southwestern College)
Education Source is a valuable full-text database covering all levels of education research and specialties such as multilingual education, health education and testing.
Educator’s Reference Complete (Gale product licensed by Southwestern College)
Gale OneFile: Educator's Reference Complete seeks to provide full text for titles in the ERIC database and covers multiple levels of education from preschool to college, and every educational specialty—such as technology, bilingual education, health education, and testing. It also provides insight on issues in administration, funding, and policy.
Environmental Studies (Gale in Context)
Gale In Context: Environmental Studies provides users with comprehensive information regarding today's environmental issues, empowering learners to critically analyze and understand important topics that affect people around the world. The database is updated daily with relevant content integrating case studies, news, reference materials, academic journals, videos, and more on subjects such as climate change, food security, soil ecology, and tourism. ReadSpeaker and on-demand article translation accommodates diverse backgrounds. Citation tools for formatting into MLA, APA, and Chicago style are integrated directly into the user's workflow and can be easily imported from single or multiple documents to services like EasyBib or NoodleTools.
ERIC (Access provided through the State Library of Kansas)
Alternate Name(s) Education Resource Information Center
ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center, provides access to education literature and research. The database provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. Content includes journal articles, research reports, curriculum and teaching guides, conference papers, dissertations and theses, and books dating back to 1966.
Explora Community & Technical College (State Library of Kansas)
Simple interface to search a multiple databases covering many topics.
Education Abstracts (H.W. Wilson) (State Library of Kansas)
H. W. Wilson databases cover a wide variety of subject areas including art, education, engineering, humanities, social sciences and more.
Ferguson's Career Guidance Center (State Library of Kansas)
Ferguson's Career Guidance Center is an online resource that provides detailed career profiles, industry overviews, job-hunting and workplace skills, and education planning tools. It’s designed to help students and job seekers explore career options and prepare for success in today’s job market.
Fuente Academica (State Library of Kansas)
Busque revistas de America Latina, Portugal y Espana que cubran muchos temas, incluidos agricultura, economia e historia.
Gale Academic OneFile (Gale product licensed by Southwestern College)
Gale Academic OneFile is a leading database with millions of articles from over 19,000 scholarly journals, plus multimedia from NPR, CNN, and BBC. It covers key subjects like biology, history, and marketing, with content in PDF and HTML formats. Designed for undergraduate researchers, it allows browsing by discipline and includes peer-reviewed sources indexed in Google Scholar.
Gale OneFile: News (Gale product licensed by Southwestern College)
Today’s headlines – a one-stop source for the day’s news and searchable archives. You can customize your online newspaper database features including search options. With Newsstand, you can search a collection of more than 1,000 newspapers, then select your own screen appearance, search options and results format.
Gale General OneFile (Gale product licensed by Southwestern College)
Gale's largest general-interest periodical source, General OneFile allows researchers to find the information they want quickly. With intuitive searching that mirrors Internet searches, users can easily tap into sources that are guaranteed for quality. Most content in Gale General OneFile is full-text with no embargo and recommended by Bowker's Magazines for Libraries and includes reference, newspaper, and audio content that complements the resource's robust collection of magazines and journals.
Genealogy Connect (State Library of Kansas)
GreenFILE (State Library of Kansas)
Well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment, scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling.
Google Scholar is a great tool for getting a broad view of what’s been published on a topic—including research that may not be in our library’s databases. It’s perfect for discovery and finding open access articles, but never pay for an article—if you hit a paywall, just contact a librarian and we’ll get it for you, fast and free.
To get the most out of Google Scholar, connect it to our library in your own browser settings:
Go to scholar.google.com
Click the ☰ menu (top left) > Settings > Library Links
Type Southwestern College and check the box next to it
Click Save
This will show links to full-text articles that the library subscribes to—right in your search results.
Questions? Email Emily at emily.hedges@sckans.edu
Health Reference Center (State Library of Kansas)
Simple interface to search with trending topics, reference center, videos and illustrations relating to health and medicine.
Health and Wellness (Gale) (Provided by Southwestern College)
Gale Health and Wellness is a comprehensive consumer health database offering access to authoritative information on the full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information to in-depth coverage of alternative medical practices. Features include topic portals with curated content on diseases and conditions; drugs; diagnostics and tests; and therapies, treatments, and surgeries; as well as a broad collection of premier full-text reference works, including Gale exclusives such as The Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, The Gale Encyclopedia of Surgery and Medical Tests, and The Gale Encyclopedia of Diets. Vendor: Gale
Health and Medicine (Gale OneFile) (Provided by Southwestern College)
Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine contains up-to-date information on the complete range of health care topics. With embargo-free, full-text periodicals, reference books, pamphlets, and hundreds of videos demonstrating medical procedures and live surgeries, Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine ensures that researchers get current, scholarly, comprehensive answers to health-related questions.
Health Source: Consumer Edition (State Library of Kansas)
Database on health topics including medical sciences, food and nutrition science, childcare, sports medicine and general health.
Health Source: Nursing & Academic (State Library of Kansas)
Provides scholarly full test journals for many medical disciplines, includes the AHFS Consumer Medication Information which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets for more than 4,700 brand names.
HeritageQuest (State Library of Kansas)
Genealogical sources with primary sources, local and family histories and finding aids.
History Reference Source (State Library of Kansas)
Interface to search history specific content.
Informe Academico (Gale OneFile)
Gale OneFile: Informe Académico meets the research needs of Spanish-speaking users with a wide range of full-text Spanish- and Portuguese-language scholarly journals and magazines both from and about Latin America. The database provides quality reference material—not not simply translations of English-language materials—on a powerful, easy-to-use interface configured for Spanish-speaking users, allowing researchers to analyze topics and conduct research in Spanish.
Issues & Controversies (State Library of Kansas)
Current topics with articles from multiple viewpoints, easy to navigate to popular topics and search for subjects.
LegalTrac (Gale OneFile) (Subscription provided by Southwestern College)
Gale OneFile: LegalTrac provides indexing for major law reviews, legal newspapers, specialty publications, Bar Association journals, and international legal journals, including titles in full text. The American Association of Law Libraries not only endorses LegalTrac-its special advisory committee selects, reviews, and enhances the content of this resource. The database offers coverage of federal and state cases, laws and regulations, legal practice and taxation, as well as British Commonwealth, European Union, and international law.
Literary Index (Gale) (Subscription provided by Southwestern College)
Search this digital master index to find coverage of authors and works in products published by Gale.
Literature Resource Center (Gale) (Subscription provided by Southwestern College)
Gale Literature Resource Center provides researchers with unbounding literary resources to support their own literary responses, literary analysis, and thesis statements through a diversity of scholars and critics that ensure all views and interpretations are represented. The database features primary works in a variety of genres, up-to-date analysis, biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism, and reviews that encourage interdisciplinary approaches, information literacy, and the development of critical thinking skills. Vendor: Gale
Mango Languages (State Library of Kansas)
MasterFILE Premier (State Library of Kansas)
Provides full text articles covering virtually every subject area of general interest, also contains full text for reference books and primary source documents, as well as an images of over 592,000 photos, maps & flags.
MedicaLatina (State Library of Kansas)
Coleccion unica de informacion medica de editorial America Latina y Espana.
MedLine (State Library of Kansas)
Authoritative information from National Library of Medicine covering medical, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, clinical sciences, and much more.
Medline Espanol (National Library of Medicine)
Informacion autorizada de la Biblioteca Nacional de Medicina que cubre medicina, enfermeria, odontolgia, medicini veterinaria, el sistema de atencion medica, ciencias clinicas y mucho mas.
Military & Government Collection (State Library of Kansas)
Current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content.
Access more than 8 million records covering all aspects of agriculture and related disciplines. This site will return results from the Catalog and Articles database (AGRICOLA), PubAg, and the NAL Digital Collections (NALDC). Or you can limit your SEARCH to PubAg by selecting it at the top of the advanced search form.
Gale OneFile: News is a full-text newspaper resource providing access to major U.S. regional, local, and national newspapers, as well as leading titles from around the world. It also includes thousands of images, radio and TV broadcasts and transcripts.
Newspaper Source Plus (State Library of Kansas)
Includes full-text newspapers, providing more than 35 million full-text articles; features more than 857,000 television and radio news transcripts.
NoveList Plus (State Library of Kansas)
Search for books and authors to learn more and discover similar books and authors based on a variety of aspects like genre, mood and style. A useful reader's advisory tool for librarians and library staff.
Nursing & Allied Health Premium (State Library of Kansas)
Nursing research, clinical skills development, curriculum and training support.
Nursing and Mental Health in Video (State Library of Kansas)
Training resources for medical professionals to understand, assess and manage mental health issues that often present themselves alongside physical conditions.
Nursing Education in Video, third edition (State Library of Kansas)
Up-to-date collection of demonstration and training videos designed to help students improve their clinical skills.
Opposing Viewpoints (Gale in Context)
Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints is the premier online resource covering today's hottest social issues, from capital punishment to immigration to marijuana. This cross-curricular resource supports science, social studies, current events, and language arts classes. Informed, differing views help learners develop critical-thinking skills and draw their own conclusions. Opposing Viewpoints is a rich resource for debaters and includes viewpoints, reference articles, infographics, news, images, video, audio, and more. A category on the National Debate Topic provides quick and easy access to content on frequently studied and discussed issues. Periodical content covers current events, news and commentary, economics, environmental issues, political science, and more. Vendor: Gale
Professional Development Collection (State Library of Kansas)
Designed for professional educators, provides a specialized collection of nearly 520 high quality education journal and more than 200 educational reports.
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: The Humanities and Social Sciences Collection (Proquest product licensed by Southwestern College)
Dissertations and theses published in the humanities and social sciences from around the world.
ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Premium (State Library of Kansas)
ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Premium is a comprehensive database that supports the study and practice of nursing and allied health professions. It provides access to scholarly journals, trade publications, videos, dissertations, and evidence-based resources. Topics include nursing, physical therapy, radiography, nutrition, and more. This resource is ideal for students, educators, and healthcare professionals seeking reliable, up-to-date information.
APA PsycINFO (Licensed by Southwestern College)
This database is the world's largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health. Produced by the American Psychological Association, it is an indispensable tool for the discovery of global scholarly research. Vendor: EBSCO
Psychological & Behavioral Sciences Collection (State Library of Kansas)
Comprehensive database covering information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods. This is the world's largest full text psychology database offering full text coverage for nearly 400 journals.
Psychological Experiments Online (State Library of Kansas)
Multimedia collection on the most important psychological experiments of the 20th and 21st centuries, for students and scholars.
Read It! (State Library of Kansas)
Read It!™ is a database from EBSCO designed to help English language learners, ESL students, and striving readers build reading and research skills.
Regional Business News (State Library of Kansas)
Provides full-text access to more than 80 regional and local business publications across the United States. It includes newspapers, magazines, and newswires that cover business developments, economic trends, and local market activity, often with a focus on smaller markets and metropolitan areas not covered by national news outlets. This makes it especially useful for researchers looking into regional economies, local industries, or company profiles.
Religion & Philosophy Collection (State Library of Kansas)
Extensive coverage of such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy.
An all-in-one resource for social science researchers and students to access statistics relevant to their areas of study. This replaces both SAGE Statistics and US Political Statistics.
Access academic and reference resources plus books on government, politics, history and current affairs.
Small Business Source (State Library of Kansas)
Review start-up information and topics like business plans, going green, management, with access to Nolo business guides.
Social Work Online (State Library of Kansas)
Pairs recently published social work textbooks with compelling documentaries, clinical demonstration videos and lectures.
SPORTDiscus (EBSCO product licensed by Southwestern College)
SPORTDiscus is the leading bibliographic database for sports and sports medicine research. It includes records from leading sports medicine journals, books, dissertations and more.
Teacher Reference Center (State LIbrary of Kansas)
Indexing and abstracts for 280 of the most popular teacher and administrator periodicals.
Today's Science (State Library of Kansas)
Easy to search with featured articles and resources, videos and conversations with scientists.
TOPICsearch (State Library of Kansas)
Diverse sources including international and regional newspapers.
U.S. Newsstream (State Library of Kansas)
Search the most recent premium U.S. news content and archives into the 1980s featuring top newspapers, newswires, blogs and news sites in active full-text format.
Vocational & Career Collection (State Library of Kansas)
Collection provides full text coverage for nearly 340 trade and industry-related periodicals.
World News Digest (State Library of Kansas)
Stay up to date or perform research on the events that shape our world accessing accurate, unbiased information that is clear, concise, and written for swift retrieval of the most important details.
Easily find and get resources available in libraries worldwide through a single search.
Powerful interface for searching WorldCat, researchers and library staff can find and select resources in thousands of library collections with WorldCat record information.