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Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window Comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 11,000 full-text periodicals.
ProQuest Research Library This link opens in a new window Research Library provides access to full-text journals across a wide range of subject areas, including business, education, literature, political science, and psychology with 2,600 active Research Library sources-- over 1,700 are available in full text. Over 1,600, in full image. Coverage 1971 to the present.
Gale Academic OneFile This link opens in a new window Provides millions of articles from over 17,000 scholarly journals and other authoritative sources—including thousands of podcasts and transcripts from NPR and CNN as well as videos from BBC Worldwide Learning.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window JSTOR offers full-text journal coverage in the social sciences and humanities. Examples of disciplines covered are: history, economics, Asian studies, classics, archaeology. African, Latin American, Slavic, Middle Eastern studies, the literary cultures of many different countries. The lag time in publication ranges from 3 and 5 years. Updated in an ongoing basis.
CQ Researcher This link opens in a new window Explores a single hot issue in the news in depth each week. Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education and science and technology. There are 44 reports produced each year including four expanded reports. Updated weekly.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window The ScienceDirect platform provides access to high-quality, peer-reviewed journal articles and ebooks from Elsevier. The library subscribes to three ScienceDirect College Edition journal collections: Social and Behavioral Science Journals Collection containing 435 full-text peer reviewed journals, Health & Life Sciences Journals Collection containing 1050 full-text peer reviewed journals and Physical Sciences Journals Collection containing 730 full-text peer reviewed journals. In addition the library provides access to over 7,000 Elsevier ebooks. Journal coverage 1995 - Current

Film & Video

Films on Demand This link opens in a new window Films on Demand includes over 30,000 streamed videos from Films for the Humanities & Sciences, ABC News, NBC News, PBS, BBC, National Geographic, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, Bill Moyers, Shopware, The Open University, A&E, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Fred Friendly Seminars, Cambridge Educational, and many more. Create a personal account to save to Playlists or Favorites. Links to individual videos or segments can be emailed or posted in D2L.
Academic Video Online This link opens in a new window Alexander Street Press's Academic Video Online delivers more than 62,000 titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more. More than 17,000 titles are exclusive to Alexander Street.
Docuseek2 Complete Collection Includes over 1,500 issues-based documentaries from leading film producers and distributors, including Bullfrog Films, Icarus Films, the BBC, the National Film Board of Canada, CBC, Television Trust for the Environment, MediaStorm, Terra Nova Films, KimStim, and Scorpion TV, and other independent filmmakers from around the world.
Kanopy Streaming Service This link opens in a new window Provides access to over 10,000 videos from major educational film producers and distributors in a wide variety of subject areas. Collections include the Criterion Collection, PBS, BBC Active, California Newsreel, Green Planet Films, First Run Features, Kino Lorber Edu, Learning Zone Express, Media Education Foundation, Symptom Media, and PsychoTherapy.net.
Feature Films for Education This link opens in a new window Offers hundreds of classic and recent blockbuster films from 20th Century Fox. The extensive collection includes recent releases like Hidden Figures, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, 12 Years a Slave, and The Revenant, as well as classic films featuring Clark Gable, John Wayne, Rock Hudson, Gregory Peck, and Ava Gardner.
Swank Digital Campus This link opens in a new window Swank Digital Campus provides access to course assigned streaming feature films. Films can be shown in classes only, not for public viewings.

Ebooks & Audiobooks

Rohrbach Library Catalog This link opens in a new window The library catalog allows you to search all the library's ebook collections at once.
EBSCO eBooks This link opens in a new window Provides access to over 140,000 eBooks including reference works, scholarly books, and literature and fiction.
ProQuest eBooks This link opens in a new window ProQuest's Ebook Central provides access to over 170,000 academic ebook titles representing approximately 150 publishers. The collection was formerly know as ebrary's Academic Complete.
JSTOR eBooks This link opens in a new window Books at JSTOR offers approximately 50,000 ebooks from renowned scholarly publishers, integrated with journals and primary sources on JSTOR's easy-to-use platform.
Sage Knowledge This link opens in a new window Includes access to over 5,000 Sage scholarly monographs, reference works, professional development titles, and textbooks.
OverDrive Digital Library This link opens in a new window The OverDrive Digital Library is a custom collection of ebooks and audiobooks available to the Kutztown University community.
To learn more about using OverDrive, visit the Getting Started site.

Newspapers

Newsbank - Access World News This link opens in a new window This collection includes 12,000+ sources including international/national/local, 181 image editions and a variety of specialized subject specific content like business/health trade journals, broadcast transcripts, etc.
New York Times Create Account Site The Student Government Association (SGA) and Rohrbach Library provide full complimentary access to NYTimes.com, New York Times mobile apps, and New York Times in Education to Kutztown students, faculty, and staff. First create an account at the link provided using your kutztown.edu email address. Access your account at nytimes.com. Student accounts last until graduation; Faculty accounts last 4 years.
How to access:
1. Sign up for access or renew your pass* at the library's special registration link: https://library.kutztown.edu/newyorktimes
  Important information if using Chrome.
2. Once you create your account simply go to www.nytimes.com and login using your new credentials.
* - If you already have an account:
- Student passes last up until 12/31 of the year they graduate.
- Faculty/Staff - must renew their pass once every four years by visiting the library link above, click on "Already have an account?" and login.
What's Included:
Full text access to articles from 1851 - Current.
Access to NYT app
Complete details here.
New York Times, Historical This link opens in a new window Search full-text and full-image articles for the New York Times dating back to the 19th century. The collection includes digital reproductions of every page from every issue--cover to cover--in downloadable PDF files. Coverage 1851 to 2012
Washington Post Access digital edition of the Washington Post newspaper. Breaking news and analysis on politics, business, world and national events, entertainment, and more. Coverage 2005-current. Students have to create an account.
How to access:
There are two ways to access the Washington Post:
Create an account, follow these steps to create a WP account. Note: You must complete all the steps below.
Visit https://www.washingtonpost.com/subscribe/signup to sign-up with your Kutztown email address, click on Continue
Create a password
You will receive an email, click on the link to verify your account and activate your subscription.
IP access:
On-campus, the Post can be accessed directly at: https://www.washingtonpost.com/.
Remote users will need to authenticate through the library link: https://library.kutztown.edu/wapo. To ensure access to the paper both on and off campus we recommend using the library link above.

What's Included:
Access to content from 2006 - current on washingtonpost.com website
Access to WP Archive 1877 - 2005 (with account)
Access to WP app (with account)
Complete details here.
Wall Street Journal Digital Kutztown faculty, students and staff can access The Wall Street Journal Digital Edition through an academic site license provided by the Rohrbach Library. The digital edition includes US, Asia, Europe, and India editions, blogs, and 4 years of archival access. First create an account at the link provided using your kutztown.edu email address. Access your account at wsj.com. Accounts must be renewed annually.
How to access:
1. Sign up for your access at the library's registration link here: https://library.kutztown.edu/wsjdigital
2. Once you create your account simply go to wsj.com and login using your new credentials.
What's included:
Full access back 4 years.
Access to WSJ app
Complete details here.

Sign up for your free NYT,
Washington Post, and WSJ HERE

Reference & Encyclopedias

Gale Virtual Reference Library This link opens in a new window Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of hundreds of full-text encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These works fall under the subjects of Business, History, Law, Medicine, Multicultural studies, Nation and World, Religion, Science, Social Science, Technology, and more. Includes major publishers like Elsevier, Macmillan, Sage, Gale, and Oxford
Biography in Context This link opens in a new window Biography is built on a foundation of more than 600,000 biographical entries covering international figures from all time periods and areas of study. Providing coverage of the most searched and studied people, Biography includes over 5,000 portal pages on contemporary and historical figures. Reference content is offered alongside videos, audio selections, images, primary sources, and magazine and journal articles from hundreds of major periodicals and newspapers. This resource is continuously updated to ensure users have access to the latest information.
Opposing Viewpoints This link opens in a new window Provides research and background information on social issues. The database contains the essays from the Opposing Viewpoints series, complimented by statistics, primary source documents, videos, websites, and magazine and newspaper articles.
Oxford English Dictionary This link opens in a new window The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.
Sage Knowledge This link opens in a new window Includes access to over 5,000 Sage scholarly monographs, reference works, professional development titles, and textbooks.

Research Tools

Search Everything This link opens in a new window A unified, customized index of Kutztown University’s information resources. Essentially allows the researcher to search almost all of the library's databases with one search.

Research Assistance Get research help from a librarian.
A-Z List of Databases Alphabetical list of library's databases.

Rohrbach Library Catalog This link opens in a new window Search the Rohrbach Library's catalog.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window Search the scholarly literature using Google Scholar. The library's link is authenticated so it will connect to any full-text available through the library's e-journal subscriptions.
WorldCat This link opens in a new window The most comprehensive and up-to-date bibliographic resource available. Union catalog of materials held by OCLC libraries. 50,000,000+ bibliographic records for audio-visual materials, books, maps, musical scores, newspapers, periodicals and more. Updated daily. Coverage 1000 BC - present.
E-Journal Search This link opens in a new window Search library's collection of ejournals.

Interlibrary Loan Request books, articles and other materials from other libraries.
LibGuides Access Rohrbach Library's LibGuides

Endnote Web This link opens in a new window Endnote Web is a Web-based reference management tool that allows you to create a personal database of up to 10,000 references by importing citations from online databases or text files. You can organize references into folders, and quickly and easily create and format bibliographies using a wide choice of citation styles. See More Info for how to sign up.
Endnote Web is provided to Kutztown students and faculty as part of our subscription to Web of Science. If you do not have a personal Web of Science account, you can sign up for an Endnote Web account here You must this KU library authenticated link in order to create an account. Once registered, can access your Endnote Web account from on or off campus. You will need to log in via the special authenticated link at least once every twelve months in order to maintain your account.

Web of Science This link opens in a new window Provides access to the Science citation index expanded from 1975 to the present , Social sciences citation index from 1975 to the present, and Arts & humanities citation index from 1975 to the present. Continually updated. 1900 - Current

The KU Research Commons KU's Institutional Repository, it is an open access resource for showcasing Kutztown University faculty and student research to the world.