Research Databases
Education
Search the LWTech Library Learning Commons 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!
Library supported databases are available on and off campus, unless otherwise noted. You can begin searching most databases using Library Search. The library search interface is also called Primo. Items unavailable in Library Search are noted in the descriptions below.
On This Page
- The research databases to which the library subscribes.
- Selected open access/public domain databases.
- Open access/public domain databases available through Library Search
- Information about public library database offerings.
Note: descriptions about databases are taken directly from the publishers, adapted for this page with minor grammatical edits. For more information and in-depth descriptions, visit the database or publisher websites.
Questions?
Do you have suggestions for additional open access databases?
Please e-mail your librarians with your requests.
Would you like to learn more about the databases?
Watch YouTube tutorial where LWTech librarian, Greg Bem explains basics on searching
databases.
Restricted to LWTech - Article Databases
The following databases are subscribed to by the LWTech library. Accessing these requires a student/employee ID number.
Note: These databases cannot be viewed using the "Visitors" Wi-Fi on the LWTech campus. You must log into the standard LWTech Wi-Fi to access on campus using your LWTech credentials.
Automotive Databases
Both ALLDATA and Mitchell 1 provide articles and other information related to automotive services. As of August 2021, the college provides access to Mitchell 1's TruckWorks Plus package. Note: ALLDATA is only accessible on campus.
Recommended Programs
Automotive
Image and Art Database
The Artstor digital library includes 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
Academic Core; Applied Design; Architectural Technology; Digital Gaming & Media; Mechanical Design; Multimedia Design & Production
Article Databases
The CINAHL academic database platform provides access to key journals, evidence-based care sheets, and quick lessons for nursing and allied health professions. CINAHL is available through EBSCOhost.
Recommended Programs
Allied Health; Nursing; Public Health
Article Databases
The Cochrane Library academic database platform provides access to "different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making."
Recommended Programs
Allied Health; Nursing; Public Health
Reference Database
The Credo Reference database includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, fact books, almanacs, biographies, and other reference resources. Note: available in library search.
Recommended Programs
All
Article Databases
The 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, CINAHL, Health Source: Nursing/Academic, and AHFS Consumer Medication Information.
Recommended Programs
All
Current Issues Database
The Issues and Controversies database looks 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.
Recommended Programs
Business DTA/MRP; Computer Science DTA/MRP; High School Programs; Nursing; Public Health; Social and Human Services
Health Reference Database
The Health Reference Center database has up-to-date information on the complete range of healthcare topics. Contains full-text sources and videos demonstrating medical procedures and live surgeries to ensure comprehensive answers to health care questions. Note: unavailable in Library Search.
Recommended Programs
Dental Assistant; Dental Hygiene; Fitness Specialist/Personal Trainer; Medical Assisting; Medical Billing and Coding Professional; Nursing; Occupational Therapy Assistant; Physical Therapist Assistant; Pre-Nursing DTA/MR; Public Health; Social and Human Services
Online Newspaper
Students and employees at LWTech have complete access to The New York Times. Visit their website and create an account using your college email to get full access.
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.
Recommended Programs
All
Physical, Life, and Health Sciences
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: some journals included in ScienceDirect contain open access articles. 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
Restricted to LWTech - Streaming Video Databases
The Ed.Flicks video database features Early Childhood Education video collection. Provided by ChildCareExchange, these videos are accessible on-campus and off-campus.
Recommended Programs
Early Childhood Education
Kanopy is a video platform similar to YouTube and Netflix, providing a large selection of academic movies, documentaries, and shows. Some Kanopy titles appear in Library Search.
Note: KCLS also provides access to 5 Kanopy titles per month as well. Learn how to log in to KCLS to find Kanopy in our instructional video.
Recommended Programs
Academic Core; Applied Design; Architectural Technology; Digital Gaming & Media; Mechanical Design; Multimedia Design & Production
Open Databases in Library Search
In addition to those open access and public domain databases listed above, the following table includes a list of all the open access databases available directly through the Library Search platform. Specifically, these databases are integrated through the Primo Central Index technology. This list was last updated in October, 2018.
Note on descriptions in these lists
Descriptions used above were taken from the database websites, or from Ex Libris,
the company that built and manages Library Search.
BRAGE
Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) Technical Reports
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
EconPapers
Google News Archive
HathiTrust Digital Library
Humanities Digital Library Open Access Scholarly Books
JSTOR Open Access Books and Journals
Karger Open Access Journals
MIT Press Direct Open Access
Norden Publications
Norwegian Open Research Archives (NORA)
O'Reilly Open Books
Open Knowledge Repository
Open Library of Humanities
Open Research Library (Knowledge Unlatched)
Open SUNY
Open Textbook Library
OpenStax Digital Textbooks
Oxford Journals Open Access
PoPuPS: Portail de Publication de Periodiques Scientifiques
Project Gutenberg
Project Muse
Purdue University Press Open Access Journals
Taylor & Francis Open Journals
Nature Open
PAGEPress
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
PubMed
Note: not all sources in PubMed are free; please use interlibrary loan (ILL) via the Request an Article form to gain access.
SCOAP3
SPIE
World Scientific Open Access Journals
Unrestricted and Open Databases - Not in Library Search
The LWTech library recommends the following databases as additional places to discovery information and conduct research. Some of thee databases include openly licensed articles. These databases are not integrated into Library Search.
“Far more than a search engine, the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) portal provides innovative ways to search and scan through the united collection of millions of items, including by timeline, map, virtual bookshelf, format, subject, and partner.”
Education Resouces Information Center (ERIC)
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.
ScholarWorks - Journal of Early Childhood Scholarship & Innovative Practice
Open access repository of early childhood research published by the University of Montana.
Digital Commons - Pre-Elementary, Early Childhood, Kindergarten Teacher Education Commons
Pre-Elementary, Early Childhood, Kindergarten Teacher Education | Open Access Articles | Digital Commons Network™
Open access journal article repository related to early childhood education.
Norden Publications
Open access publications from the Nordic Council of Ministers, the Nordic Council, and associated organizations.
Taylor & Francis Online
Open access journal articles on early childhood education.
A simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines on Google Scholar and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.
Library of Congress Collections of Historical Content
Records in this collections represent various collections available online through American Memory, Global Gateway, and elsewhere on the Library of Congress website.
Library of Congress Photos
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.
Library of Congress Posters
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.
Library of Congress Printed Ephemera Selections
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.
Library of Congress Selected Digitized Books
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) Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law, 2) Gun Regulation & Legislation in America, and 3) Civil Rights and Social Justice. Note: access available on campus only.
Smithsonian Research Online 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.
Taylor and Francis contains a collection of open access journals covering research of many disciplines.
If the LWTech library does not have access to a certain resource, you can attempt to find the resource through the WorldCat catalog. Visit the LWTech WorldCat portal to explore what the world has to offer!
Public Library Databases
In August, 2018, KCLS and LWTech formalized a partnership to integrate all LWTech student and employee accounts with KCLS's digital collections. Students and employees can gain access to electronic resources and databases by using their LWTech account information (without having to register a separate library card through KCLS).
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, go to the KCLS Studet Portal:
Use the following format for getting access to these databases immediately:
Approximately 74,000 LWTech eBooks, or electronic books, can be read across multiple devices. Individual eBooks can be accessed with an online connection, and select databases allow downloads for future offline access. LWTech's eBook collection can support student research as well as personal reading needs.
eBook Collections
You can discover eBooks owned by the LWTech library via Library Search or using the links below. Librarians can assist you in finding additional eBooks freely available. For more information on how to find eBooks or how to use the various databases, please contact an LWTech librarian, or watch our three YouTube video tutorials (recorded in Fall 2017).
Skillsoft Books
This collection includes automotive, chemistry, material science, computers, engineering, health, science, software development, and more. Skillsoft Books was previously Books24x7.
Ebook Central
This collection includes accounting, career development, computers, criminology, medicine, culinary arts, history, human resources, nursing, project management, and more. Ebook Central replaced ebrary in April, 2017.
Credo Reference
A multidisciplinary reference eBooks database, Credo’s specific focuses include Business, Science, Health, and Psychology.
EBSCOhost eBook Collection
This collection includes biographies, education, engineering & technology, history, mathematics, psychology, social studies and more.
NCBI’s Bookshelf
This collection includes life science, social science, healthcare, and more