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Search the LWTech 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 LWTech Databases

The databases below cover many different topics and can be useful to almost any discipline. They are subscribed to by the LWTech Library and access requires the LWTech 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.

Access Credo Reference

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

Access EBSCOhost

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.

Access Issues and Controversies

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.

Access Kanopy

Video Resources

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

Access LinkedIn Learning

Online Newspaper

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

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

Access The New York Times

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.

Access ProQuest

Specialized LWTech Databases

The databases below cover specialized topics and are useful to specific disciplines. They are subscribed to by the LWTech Library and access requires the LWTech 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

Access ALLDATA

Access Mitchell1 Prodemand

Access Mitchell1 TruckSeries

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

Access Artstor

Article Database

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

Recommended Programs

Business, Human Resources

Access Business Source Elite

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

Access CINAHL

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

Access Ed.Flicks

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

Access ScienceDirect

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

Access Skillsoft

Public Library Databases

History

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).

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:

Go to the KCLS Databases page. Do NOT click the Log In button in the top right.
Scroll to the database you are looking for, such as Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, and click on the database title.
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.

Watch the video on how to use your LWTech KCLS student account.

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 LWTech 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 KCLS online library card application.

Public & Open Databases

The LWTech 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.

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

“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.
Taylor & Francis Online
- 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 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.

This ebook collection by the National Center for Biotechnology Information includes life science, social science, healthcare, and more.

ScienceDirect's Science Topics 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."

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.

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

Washington Rural Heritage 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 LWTech library. Accessing these requires a student/employee ID number.