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From the ballets of Stravinsky to documentaries on William Forsythe and Merce Cunningham, and spanning the 1950s to today, Dance in Video offers more than 500 hours of streaming video. The collection includes ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance, as well as forerunners of the forms and the pioneers of modern concert dance.
Coverage: 1950s - present
Access: unlimited
Paid for by K-State Libraries


This free resource provides public access to data sets created by the federal government. Find descriptions of the data sets plus information on how to access and download. Data.gov includes searchable catalogs through which the user may access data in XML, Text/CSV, KML/KMX, Feeds, XLS, or ESRI Shapefile formats.
Coverage: n/a
Access: unlimited
Free resource


The MarketLine database has been updated and is now Datamonitor 360. Use this resource to locate industry and company profiles, including SWOT and Porter's five forces analyses. Country reports, based on the PESTLE framework, provide analysis of the country's political, economic, social, technological, and environmental structure.
Coverage: n/a
Access: unlimited
Paid for by K-State Libraries


A collection of more than 80,000 declassified documents, comprising more than 500,000 pages on 31 different topics dealing with national security. Researchers can browse through collections or perform key word searching on the full text of documents. Bibliographies and chronologies have been added for context and further research.
Coverage: 1945-2000
Access: unlimited
Paid for by K-State Libraries


Something of a German JSTOR, DZ publishes the full backruns of German journals in a wide variety of subjects. While KSU does not have the paid version, many of the titles are freely available under open access principles, and the search works for all journals free or not, making DZ a useful indexing tool for 19th- and early 20th-century German periodicals.
Coverage: varies by title
Users: unlimited
Free resource


This is the well-known Dissertation Abstracts database, but with full text for most dissertations written after 1996 as well as many from earlier years. Also includes some master's theses, although not nearly as comprehensively as doctoral works. Copies of dissertations not available in full text in this database may be requested via interlibrary loan and/or purchased as microfilm or as unbound copies from UMI . To search K-State dissertations only, use this link.
Coverage: indexing 1861-; full text varies by school
Users: unlimited
Paid for by K-State Libraries


Full text of theses, dissertations, and reports submitted by K-State graduate students. In most cases, papers are available by the end of the semester in which the student graduates. Coverage begins Fall 2006 for doctoral dissertations and Fall 2007 for masters papers, although some theses and dissertations are available from Fall 2004-Summer 2006.
Coverage: 2004-
Users: unlimited
Free resource


Database of maps showing the presence and extent of specific plant diseases worldwide. Covers plant diseases and pests of economic or quarantine importance.
Coverage: n/a
Users: unlimited
Paid for by K-State Libraries


Provides a combined search for Ethnic NewsWatch and Ethnic NewsWatch History which feature newspapers, magazines, and journals of ethnic and minority presses; GenderWatch which features historical and current perspectives of gender roles; and Alt-Press Watch which showcases some of the nation’s most respected and cited grassroots newspapers, magazines, and journals.
Coverage: varies
Access: unlimited
Paid for by K-State Libraries

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