YOU NO LONGER NEED A KANSAS STATE LIBRARY CARD TO ACCESS THE DATABASES INSIDE THE STATE.  DETERMINE FROM THE LIST BELOW WHICH DATABASE YOU WANT TO USE, CLICK ON THE PICTURE TO GO TO THE KANSAS STATE LIBRARY, THEN CLICK ON “EXPLORE OUR RESOURCES.” 

ProQuest Nursing Journals™ provides abstracting and indexing for more than 430 titles—with over 390 titles in full text—from 1986 forward. This unique database offers complete information from leading nursing and related publications and gives users access to charts, diagrams, graphs, tables, photos, and other graphical elements essential in medical research.

Custom Newspapers is an extraordinary web based collection of newspapers from around the U.S. and the world. Providing full-text articles from a comprehensive list of newspapers — which will soon include 96 daily Gannett newspapers, Custom Newspapers is the one-stop online source library users turn to for the day’s news.

HeritageQuest Online presents a varied and in depth set of data for genealogists and historians. It is designed to help amateur and professional genealogists, local historians, and public library patrons to search and use data from the 1790-1930 U.S. Federal Censuses, the full text of more than 20,000 family and local histories, a subject index of 6,300 local history and genealogy periodicals through PERSI, and a database of Revolutionary War pension and bounty-land warrant files.

LiteratureResourceCenter (LRC) is an invaluable electronic library for you, the student of literature. It offers a wealth of information that includes criticism, biographies, bibliographies, work overviews and explications, Web sites, periodical articles, compare and contrast pages, full-text author’s works, and reading lists.

NetLibrary is one of the most versatile eContent providers for libraries and publishers today. It supports the most content from leading publishers, the most types of media — including eBooks and eAudiobooks — the widest audience of users and the most types of libraries.

NetTrekker is a revolutionary internet search engine created just for students, teachers, librarians, and parents. NetTrekker transforms the wealth of valuable educational material on the internet into an organized and easy-to-use resource for grades K-12. The information is safe, relevant and educator-selected. 

HomeworkKansas is an exciting online tutoring service featuring expert tutors from across the country. Students connect to tutors for one-to-one homework help sessions in an Online Classroom. The service is free for all students grades 4 through 12.  Library card numbers are no longer required to log on.

SIRS Discoverer® is an award-winning database designed with the young researcher in mind. Articles and graphics from more than 1,600 U.S. and international magazines, newspapers and U.S. government documents are carefully selected for their educational content, interest and level of readability.

Blue Skyways is a shared information service for the Kansas library community. It is intended to helpKansas libraries serve as vital information utilities for their communities.

Since 1917, World Book, Inc., has set the standard for providing accuracy, objectivity, and reliability in research materials for both children and adults. This e-encyclopedia contains a wealth of reference sources and research materials and presents them in an extremely user friendly format.

InfoTrac is your one stop site with links to more than 20 online databases and references. If you can’t find the database you need somewhere else, you’ll probably find it here.