IDS 804: Information Literacy (Hartman)

The federal government’s open data site, data.gov contains over 200,000 datasets submitted by various federal, state, county, and municipal entities.

Govinfo (formerly known as FDSYS, The Federal Digital System) provides free online access to official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government.

SAGE Stats features statistical data series created from more than 200,000 government and non-government datasets, covering popular topics of research interest for U.S. states, counties, cities, metropolitan areas, and ZIP codes.By harmonizing carefully-vetted data from multiple sources into the same format– allowing quick downloads, comparisons, and visualizations–SAGE Stats provides power and context for researchers at all levels.

*Funded by the State Library of Kansas. To access this resource, you will need a Kansas Library eCard. To register for an eCard, visit the Learning Commons Desk at Forsyth Library, contact Crystal Hutchinson (phone: 785-628-4645; email: cbhutchinson@fhsu.edu) or register at any public library in the state of Kansas.

*China: Faculty VPN Required.

Search the collections of over 10,000 libraries worldwide, and request them via Interlibrary Loan. Click on the title of the item you want, then click "Order via Forsyth Library ILL" to log in to ILLiad and request it.*China: Limited Access.

This is a full-text news resource offering coverage of over 8,200 local, regional, national and international sources from over 200 countries. Browse replicas of popular local newspapers' like the Topeka Capital Journal and Kansas City Star, with full-color layouts of all news articles, graphics, advertisements, classifieds, weather reports, box scores, puzzles, cartoons and more. Available as soon as print editions.

News, information and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators with archive coverage from 1989 forward. For off-campus access you must create a personal account at the Chronicle website. Click on the Log-in link and choose "Create an Account Now". Enter and confirm your FHSU e-mail address and then follow the steps on the account set-up page.

*China: Limited Access.

Included are journals, magazines, and newspapers from ethnic and minority presses, from 1959-present. Ethnicities include: African American/Caribbean/African; Arab/Middle Eastern; Asian/Pacific Islander; European/Eastern European; Hispanic; Jewish; Native People.

Offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together a variety of specially selected, relevant sources for analysis of these issues. Rich multimedia - including podcasts, video, and interactive graphs - enhance each portal.

Students, faculty and staff now have access to the full content of the NYT.com and NYT mobile apps. Activate your free pass and create an account by going to
NYT Edupass . You must use your FHSU e-mail address to create an account.
***Accounts are active for 364 days. If your account has expired use the same NYT Edupass link and log-in at that page to reactivate your account.***

*China: Limited Access.

Incorporates coverage of more than 80 regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

*China: Limited Access.

Streaming video of over 41,000 full length films and more than 316,000 clips available 24/7...subject coverage includes Business and Economics, Science and Mathematics, Humanities and Social Sciences, Health and Medicine, and Archival Films and Newsreels.

*China: Limited Access. Some content may be blocked.

BioMed Central's portfolio of 206 journals includes general titles BMC Biology and BMC Medicine alongside specialist journals (e.g. BMC Bioinformatics, Malaria Journal) that focus on particular disciplines . All the research published by BioMed Central's journals is open access, but BioMed Central also provides access to various additional products and services that require a subscription.

CORE’s mission is to aggregate all open access research outputs from repositories and journals worldwide and make them available to the public. Offers seamless access to millions of open access research papers.

The federal government’s open data site, data.gov contains over 200,000 datasets submitted by various federal, state, county, and municipal entities.

Access to free journals that are open to everyone in multiple disciplines.

Govinfo (formerly known as FDSYS, The Federal Digital System) provides free online access to official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government.

Published by the Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), the Federal Register is the official daily publication for rules, proposed rules, and notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as executive orders and other presidential documents.

With PQDT Open, you can read the full text of open access dissertations and theses free of charge.*China: Limited Access.

Full-text subset of PubMed. This database is the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of journal literature, covering multiple topics in medicine, nursing, psychology, psychiatry, psycho-pharmacology and more. It contains over a half million full-text, peer-reviewed articles.