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Alumni

Do you want to continue your intellectual explorations after graduation?  Alumni can retain access to some of the online databases that they used as students.  While licensing restrictions do not allow access to all of the online resources that are available to current students,  the KSL Alumni Online library provides access to a suite of research databases across many subject areas.

To obtain access to the KSL Online Library fill out the online registration form through the Alumni Office.  After registration information is shared with publishers (up to 48 weekday business hours), KSL will provide you a username and password that allows you to use the online resources from the convenience of your home or anywhere you have an Internet connection.

Alumni

KSL Alumni Online Library provides access to the following databases

  • Academic Search Alumni Edition.  Multidisciplinary. Full text from 3,000+ journals and article abstracts from 8,000+.
  • Business Source Alumni Edition.  1,530 full text business magazines and journals, of which 770 are peer-reviewed.
  • CINAHL.  Authoritative resource for nursing & allied health. Covers abstracts of 3,000+ journals.
  • Environment Index.  Abstracts of articles from 1,700+ journals dating back to the 1940s.
  • Humanities Int’l.  Abstracts of 2,000+ journals in all areas of humanities.
  • JSTOR.  Full text of 1,300+ journals from their first issue to the early 2000s. Titles are from  humanities, arts, social sciences, business & management and sciences.
  • Liebert Online.  Full text of journals & books in biomedical/biotechnology/life sciences, medicine, nursing and surgery.
  • MIT Cognet.  Full text of journals and books related to the brain and cognitive science.
  • ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health.  Full text of 470 journals in nursing & allied health. Designed for researchers in healthcare as well as in nursing and allied health academic programs.
  • Social Sciences Full Text.  Full text of articles from hundreds of top journals in social sciences and related fields.

Help When You Need It!

You are not on your own when it comes to using these resources. You also can draw on expert reference assistance to help you navigate the selected databases. Reference librarians can talk to you via email, instant messaging, phone, visits, or LiveChat service to get you started using the alumni databases.

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Speaker Graphic Testimonials

Valuable tools to do research on business information, history, leisure topics, science and technology advancements. It is convenient and available any time, anywhere - Wong ('85)

This service has allowed me to remain up to date on the latest thinking in business and has kept me linked to the University in a fashion that no other alumni service has - Franklin ('01)

Primary draw for me of the KSL Alum membership is access to full-text journals (as many as possible!). Without a university affiliation, it's exorbitantly expensive to keep up with the journals in my field - Frost ('08)

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