Reference, Almanacs, Encyclopedias

Covid-19 Operations

The UAS Ketchikan Campus Library is open Monday – Friday from 9:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M.

Additionally, library staff are available for research, database, and e-collections assistance by phone, email, and one-on-one Zoom conferencing. Finally, one of our staff members hosts a library-centered Discord server that students may ask to join. The server allows students to reach that staff member outside of normal business hours and gives centralized, easy-to-use access to chat, voice, video, and desktop sharing options.

Our phone number is (907) 228-4567, and our toll free phone number is (888) 550-6177. Email: ketchikan.library@alaska.edu

Description	Career Prep materials including tests and test prep materials, tutorials, and ebooks. For high school, college prep (ACT, SAT), college students (GRE, LSAT, MCAT), and more.

Description	Search open scholarly sources using artificial intelligence: narrow down your search with suggested search terms, see overviews of research on specific topics, and see connections between studies.

Description	Magazine archive of National Geographic magazine in full color. Search features include browse, advanced, image search, and term frequency searches. Citation tools, email, and document URL available. If you create an account with the virtual library there are additional features including bookmarking and saving favorite documents.

Description	A growing collection of outstanding electronic encyclopedias.

Description	The Small Business Reference Center is a comprehensive resource for small business owners and those interested in starting a business, offering full-text periodicals and reports, sample business plans, U.S. tax forms, videos and reference books. It supports small business owners in all relevant areas from planning, financing and managing a business to exit strategies. Users also have the ability to search within specific ‘Business Topics’ and ‘Business Types’ relevant to their needs.

Description	Book Collection: Nonfiction is a rich research database for school and public libraries. It contains informative abstracts and searchable full text for more than 4,100 popular nonfiction books. The database includes full text entries on core subject areas, as well as information on careers, health, sports, adventure, technology, life skills and more.

Description	Small Engine Repair Reference Center (SERRC) contains the full set of small engine repair manuals from Clymer (http://www.clymer.com/). These manuals contain thousands of accurate and concise step-by-step maintenance and repair instructions for hundreds of small engine machines and their supporting components.

Description	Search for peer-reviewed academic papers across many disciplines found in many different sources.

Description	Millions of records for books and other materials worldwide. Identify resources not available in the Alaska Library Catalog consortium in WorldCat and order through interlibrary loan.

Description	Formerly known as 'Databases for Alaskans', the Digital Pipeline is a grouping of databases for Alaskan citizens to search for information from articles and selected reference sources. Look under the subject categories, or click the link to 'List of resources by name'.

Description	Alaska's Virtual Library and Digital Archives.

Description	As a visitor to this free Internet version, you will be able to freely access the most current two years of citations and abstracts in the Dissertation Abstracts database. To search the entire database of more than 1.6 million titles, you will need to connect from a subscription institution.

Description	A database containing over 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference books published by Oxford University Press. The reference books can be browsed and searched and include the subjects art, artists, architecture, design, language dictionaries, biology, ecology, plant sciences, zoology, classics, computing, environmental sciences, economics and business, dictionaries and thesauruses, english language reference, food and drink, history, law, literature, maps, medicine, military history, mythology and folk-lore, place names, performing arts, physical sciences and mathematics, politics and social sciences, quotations, religion and philosophy, and science.

Description	Genealogy resources, including 1790-1930 US Federal Census records, genealogical book and periodical indexes, Revolutionary War records and Freedman's Bank records.

Description	This database indexes over 25,000 records. Full text for each record may be easily accessed by double clicking on the topic from the display.

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