Dodge City Public Library
Dodge City Public Library
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1001 N 2nd Ave * Dodge City, KS 67801
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  • Auto Repair Reference Center: Use this database for illustrated instructions on how to repair almost any car, truck, or van. You may need your library card.
Kansas Library Card Databases
If links below do not work, try accessing the databases through the KLC website.
Search most databases at once:  

Best for Kids

capitol Encyclopedia of Animals: Help your students discover the wild world of animals through this Encyclopedia of Animals.
capitol Primary Search: Full text for more than 70 popular, elementary school magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles).
capitol Middle Search Plus: Full text for more than 140 popular, middle school magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles).
capitol MAS Ultra: School Edition: Comprehensive database, designed specifically for high school libraries, contains full text for more than 500 popular, high school magazines.
capitol WorldBook Encyclopedia: entire 22 volume print edition plus multimedia, interactive atlas, dictionary
capitol World Book Kids: Designed especially for younger users, English-language learners, and reluctant readers. Offers simple navigation, easy-to-read content and a graphical design.

General Information

Magazines & Journals

capitol Academic OneFile: Science, Technology and Medicine, the humanities and more. For academics and students, undergraduate and postgraduate.
capitol General OneFile: covers all academic areas, full text
capitol Expanded Academic ASAP, 1980-present: covers all academic areas, full text

Newspapers

capitol Custom Newspapers: full text from over 150 worldwide newspapers
capitol Newspaper Source: Cover-to-cover full text for 35 U.S. and international newspapers.

Encyclopedia

capitol WorldBook Encyclopedia: entire 22 volume print edition plus multimedia, interactive atlas, dictionary.
capitol WorldBook Advanced: For secondary and college students, integrates primary and secondary source databases in a single search.

Books

capitol Kansas Library Catalog (KLC): search holdings of 900 Kansas libraries
capitol Talking Book Catalog: Books, magazines and other materials available to qualified patrons through the Talking Books program
capitol Audio books, Music & More: You can browse and search hundreds of great titles and download them to your computer, transfer them to a portable device, or burn onto a CD for your reading and listening pleasure anywhere, anytime.
capitol WorldCat (OCLC): catalog of library holdings worldwide, over 96 million books and other materials

Virtual Reference Library

capitol E-books, including science, health, history, and culture

Specialized Information

capitol NoveList: Find more to read based on what you already know and like.
capitol Chilton's Auto Repair: Quick online access to repair, maintenance and service information on the most popular cars, trucks, vans and SUVs on the road today.
capitol HeritageQuest: search US federal censuses 1970-1930, family & local histories, tax lists, city directories, probate records
capitol Literature Resource Center: covering over 130,000 writers
capitol ERIC: Educational Resource Information Center, provides access to education literature and resources.
capitol Professional Development Collection: Comprehensive collection of full text education journals.
capitol TOPICsearch: Current events database of social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms including controversial opinions and viewpoints.

Health/Medical Information

capitol Health & Wellness Resource Center, 1980 – present: consumer & alternative health information
capitol Health Reference Center Academic, 1980 – present: full text of nursing & allied health journals
capitol Nursing & Allied Health Source, 1986- present: full text of nursing, allied health, alternative & complementary medicine
capitol Health Source - Consumer Edition: A rich collection of consumer health information.
capitol Kansas Health Online: Tools to compare hospitals, find doctors and information about healthy lifestyles to help you make healthy choices.

Business & Technology

capitol Business & Company Resource Center: company & industry information
capitol Business & Company Profiles: Over 200,000 combined directory listings including the Graham & Whiteside international company directories.
capitol Computer Database: news & reviews of hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communication and technology applications

En Espanol

capitol Informe, 1994 – present: articles from Spanish & bilingual magazines & newspapers
capitol WorldBook Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos: La Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos está organizada de modo que los estudiantes puedan encontrar información rápida y fácilmente. Pulse en la primera letra del título del artículo para ver el artículo.

Do some Research!

Free quality web sites with full text articles
  • Directory of Open Access Journals: From Lund University,This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. They aim to cover all subjects and languages. There are now over 2000 journals in the directory.
  • Intute: Engineering e-journals search engine: Searches the contents of over 250 free full text journals in Engineering, mathematics, and computing.
  • FindArticles.com: FindArticles gives you free access to millions of articles from thousands of top publications in various industries and general interest.
  • Free Medical Journals: Allows access to full text articles from medical journals that are free now and those that are free 1-6 months after publication.
  • Google Scholar: Enables you to search scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, and books.
  • HighWire Press: From Stanford University, HighWire provides more than 1.3 million full text, peer-reviewed articles from 900-plus journals.
  • PubMed Central: NIH's free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature (with free, full text articles from over 200 journals).
  • Public Library of Science:PLoS publishes peer-reviewed, open access scientific and medical journals. All PLoS articles are immediately freely accessible online and can be redistributed and reused according to the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.

 

 
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