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Search the ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏÍø Library research databases for quality scholarly/peer-reviewed articles, reference materials, news articles, images, and much more. Each database holds different types of information related to specific subjects and in various formats, including journals, magazines, articles, eBooks and more!

Main ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏÍø Databases

The databases below cover many different topics and can be useful to almost any discipline. They are subscribed to by the ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏÍø Library and access requires the ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏÍø student/employee single sign-on.

Reference Database

The Credo Reference database includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, fact books, almanacs, biographies, and other reference resources. Note: available in library search.

Article Databases

EBSCOhost is an academic resource providing full-text newspapers, magazines, case studies, images, and scholarly/peer-reviewed journal articles covering major areas of research. Note: available in library search.

Current article databases include
  • Academic Search Premier
  • Applied Science & Technology
  • Associate Programs Source
  • Biomedical Reference Collection
  • Business Source Elite
  • CINAHL
  • Health Source: Nursing/Academic
  • Regional Business News

Current Issues Database

The Issues and Controversies databaselooks critically at crucial issues we face today, exploring the multiple faces of hot topics. Issues and Controversies offers original in-depth articles made to inspire thought-provoking debates. Note: unavailable in Library Search.

Academic Videos

Kanopyis a video platform similar to YouTube and Netflix, providing a large selection of academic movies, documentaries, and shows. Note: some Kanopy titles appear in Library Search.

Note: KCLS also provides access to 5 Kanopy titles per month as well. 

Video Resources 

Expert-led courses and videos on tech-related topics. Note: unavailable in Library Search.

Online Newspaper

Students and employees at ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏÍø have complete access to The New York Times.

³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏÍø the NYT EDU website below and create an account using your ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏÍø email to get full access. If you already have an account with your ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏÍø email, you may login with it to update access. Note: unavailable in Library Search.

Article Database

ProQuest is an academic resource providing full-text newspapers, magazines, case studies, images and scholarly/peer-reviewed journal articles covering major areas of research. Note: available in Library Search.

 

Specialized ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏÍø Databases

The databases below cover specialized topics and are useful to specific disciplines. They are subscribed to by the ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏÍø Library and access requires the ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏÍø student/employee single sign-on.

Automotive Service Information

Both ALLDATA and Mitchell1 Prodemand provide articles, repair data, and other information related to automotive services. As of August 2021, the college also provides access to Mitchell1's TruckSeries package. Note: ALLDATA is only accessible on campus. All of these databases are unavailable in Library Search.

Recommended Programs

Automotive; Diesel

Image and Art Database

The Artstor digital libraryincludes more than 1.9 million high-quality images from many cultures, ranging from paintings to photography to other fine art and architectural mediums. Note: available in Library Search.

Recommended Programs

Applied Design; Architectural Technology; Digital Gaming & Media; Mechanical Design

Article Database

Provides access to Harvard Business Review and other business journals. Note: available in Library Search.

Recommended Programs

Business, Human Resources

Article Database

The CINAHL academic database platform provides access to key journals, evidence-based care sheets, and quick lessons for nursing and allied health professions. Note: CINAHL is available through EBSCOhost, and therefore also available in Library Search.

Recommended Programs

Allied Health; Nursing; Public Health

Streaming Video Database

The Ed.Flicks video database features Early Childhood Education video collection. Provided by ChildCareExchange, thesevideos are accessible on-campus and off-campus. Note: unavailable in Library Search.

Recommended Programs

Early Childhood Education

Article Database

The ScienceDirect database offers full-text scholarly/peer-reviewed journal articles across the physical, life, health and social sciences. All articles are peer-reviewed, and ScienceDirect also includes open access journals. Note: available in Library Search.

Recommended Programs

Biology DTA/MRP; Dental Assistant; Dental Hygiene; Environmental Horticulture; Fitness Specialist/Personal Trainer; Nursing; Occupational Therapy Assistant; Physical Therapist Assistant; Pre-Nursing DTA/MRP; Public Health

Ebook Database

This collection includes automotive, chemistry, material science, computers, engineering, science, software development, and more. Skillsoft Books was previously Books24x7. Note: unavailable in Library Search.

Recommended Programs

Engineering & Manufacturing; IT; Business

 

Public Library Databases

History

In August 2018, KCLS and ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏÍø formalized a partnership to integrate all ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏÍø student and employee accounts with KCLS's digital collections. Students and employees can gain access to electronic resources and databases by using their ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏÍø account information (without having to register a separate library card through KCLS).

Accessing the Databases

The King County Library System (KCLS) provides access to a wide variety of databases for any of its cardholders. KCLS databases may provide additional help as resources during academic research. Many of them require a library card, available for free through your KCLS branch, to access.

Please email us if you have questions or comments about these databases.

To start accessing electronic resources today, follow these steps:

  1. Go to the page. Do NOT click the Log In button in the top right.
  2. Scroll to the database you are looking for, such as Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, and click on the database title.
  3. You should be prompted to login.

Once you attempt to access the resource, please login using the appropriate format below.

Student Login Information

Login: LWTs-first.last (This is case sensitive! Do not use capital letters in your name.)

PIN: last 4 characters of the above login

Example:

Login: LWTs-katherine.kelley
PIN: lley
 

Faculty/Staff Login Information

Login: ELWTfirst.last
PIN: last 4 characters of the above login

Example:

Login: ELWTjohn.cho
PIN: .cho
 

Note: your login cannot be used with the "My KCLS" login at the top of the KCLS website.

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Recommended Databases

The following databases are recommended by KCLS librarians:

  • America's News
  • BookFlix
  • Chilton's
  • Data Axle/aka Reference USA
  • Gale Business: Entrepreneurship
  • Gale Opposing Viewpoints
  • Hoopla
  • Kanopy
  • Mango Languages
  • NYT and NYT Historical
  • Novelist
  • Overdrive/Libby App
  • Press Reader

Get a Library Card

While ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏÍø students and employees have access to KCLS's databases, everyone can sign up for a library card to get access to all the services KCLS provides, including borrowing physical books and other items. Applying for a card can be completed through .

Public & Open Databases

The ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏÍø library recommends the following databases as additional places to discovery information and conduct research. Some of these databases include openly licensed articles. Only those databases marked as such are available in Library Search as of October 2018.

Descriptions used below were taken from the database websites, or from Ex Libris, the company that built and manages Library Search.

These databases are available in Library Search.

    • Note: not all sources in PubMed are free; please use interlibrary loan (ILL) via the to gain access.

“Far more than a search engine, the innovative ways to search and scan through the united collection of millions of items, including by timeline, map, virtual bookshelf, format, subject, and partner.â€

    • Education research found in jounal articles, books, and grey literature. Includes original research of empirical or data analyses, literature reviews, methodological works, presentations or critiques of theories, or logical models that can guide practice.
    • Open access repository of early childhood research published by the University of Montana.
    • Pre-Elementary, Early Childhood, Kindergarten Teacher Education | Open Access Articles | Digital Commons Networkâ„¢
    • Open access journal article repository related to early childhood education.
    • Open access journal articles on early childhood education.

These databases are available in Library Search.

A simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.

    • Records in this collections represent various collections available online through American Memory, Global Gateway, and elsewhere on the Library of Congress website.
    • This collection offers many collections of photographs including Washington as It Was: Photographs by Theodor Horydczak, 1923-1959; Architecture and Interior Design for 20th Century America: Photographs by Samuel Gottscho and William Schleisner, 1935-1955; "Suffering Under a Great Injustice": Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar; Taking the Long View: Panoramic Photographs, 1851-1991; Glass negatives from the Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright; Selected civil war photographs, 1861-1865; Lomax Collection of Photographs Depicting Folk Musicians, and more.
    • This collection the Library's By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943 and World War I poster collection. The former offers posters produced by various branches of the Work Projects Administration.
    • This collection offers An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera containing primary source items dating from the seventeenth century to the present and covers key events and eras in American history. It offers a variety of posters, notices, advertisements, proclamations, leaflets, propaganda, manifestos, and business cards.
    • This collection offers selected digitized books available in many separate collections within American Memory and some individual books that are not part of American Memory. Two collections included are American Notes: Travels in America, 1750-1920 comprised of narratives by Americans and foreign visitors recounting their travels in the colonies and the United States and the Kraus Francis Drake Collection consisting of primary and secondary materials concerning Sir Francis Drake.

This company has two databases free to the public: 1) , 2) , and 3) . Note: access available on campus only.

This ebook collection by the includes life science, social science, healthcare, and more.

contain "concept definitions and subject overviews for researchers who want to expand their knowledge about scholarly and technical terms. Each synopsis provides a series of short, authoritative, excerpts from highly relevant book chapters written by subject matter experts in the field. These topic summaries are derived from Elsevier encyclopedias, reference works and books."

is a set of services to the research community both within and outside the Smithsonian Institution. Managed by the Smithsonian Institution Libraries, the program assists in capturing the research output of Smithsonian scholars and making it available to Institutional management as well as scientists and historians world-wide.

contains a collection of open access journals covering research of many disciplines.

brings together over 600,000 pages from Washington’s earliest Territorial newspapers to the present day.

is a community memory project headquartered at the Washington State Library, a division of the Office of the Secretary of State. The project brings together unique local history materials from libraries, museums, and private collections of citizens across Washington State.

 

Databases by Subject

Browse available databases by subject/program. The listed databases are subscribed to by the ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏÍø library. Accessing these requires a student/employee ID number.

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To access articles in PTJ: Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Journal from 2021 onwards, log into KCLS's database using the information below.

Login: LWTs-first.last
PIN: last 4 characters of the above login

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The following is a list of all databases recommended by and available through the ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏÍø library. The list is in alphabetical order.