A Guide for Writing Research Papers in APA Format
Includes a sample APA research paper and a Guide to Grammar and Writing.

Academic ASAP
Metropolitan Community Colleges Expanded Academic ASAP searchable database of periodicals.

African-American Health Care and Medical Information
Blackhealthcare.com is a culturally oriented and ethnically focused comprehensive internet-based health and medical information provider dedicated to addressing the special health problems of African-Americans.

AIDS Education Global Information System (AEGiS)
The largest HIV knowledgebase in the world. AEGiS began in the mid-1980s and has continued to be the definitive web-based reference for HIV/AIDS-related information, including a vast database of facts regarding the history, prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS...to date over 1 million files. Through a keyword-searchable knowledgebase, AEGiS offers cutting edge information via HIV/AIDS specific publications and news sources from around the world.

African American Publications: Biographies
Browseable by letter, this database contains information on notable African-Americans, from Hank Aaron to Ice-T, some with pictures.

American Indian Health Central
The American Indian Health Council is a group of American Indians dedicated to providing health information, referral, and outreach services to the American Indian community. The health section contains health education/disease prevention pages on diseases and disorders that greatly affect American Indians as well as recipes, cultural and educational information.

APA Online
Anything and everything you wanted to know about APA style formatting, from the official source.

Asian Health
Resources for cross-cultural care and prevention. Information about different Asian cultures and societies around the world. Includes health care and practices for many different Asian cultures.

Biography Reference Bank
Biography Reference Bank contains biographical information on approximately half a million people, from antiquity to the present, along with thousands of images. It contains the full text of the articles from more than 100 volumes of biographical reference books.

Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI)
Database produced by Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information. Materials in the sciences, technology, and medicine.

Career Information System (CIS)
Explore careers, schools, financial aid, etc.

CIA World Factbook
The World Factbook 2003 printed version provides a "snapshot" of the world. The online Factbook is updated regularly - generally weekly - throughout the year.

CINAHL
The CINAHL database is the database equivalent to the Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature print index. CINAHL provides access to virtually all English-language nursing journals, publications from the American Nurses' Association and the National League for Nursing, and journals from 17 allied health disciplines. The database also covers consumer health, health sciences librarianship, chiropractic, and health services administration literature.

CultureGrams Online Edition
Concise, reliable, and up-to-date country reports on 181 countries and territories and all 50 US states, including the District of Columbia. CultureGrams goes beyond mere facts and figures to deliver an insider's perspective on daily life and culture, including the history, customs, and societies of the world's people.

Encyclopædia Brittanica
Online encyclopedia includes Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, Britannica's Student Encyclopedia, and Britannica Book of the Year.

Facts.com
FACTS.com brings together complete content from the Facts On File World News Digest since 1940 and selected content from six other core reference databases to answer questions about events, issues, statistics and people of the last 60+ years. FACTS.com also delivers in-depth features on "Historic Events" drawn from the 60-year Facts On File archive.

Gideon Online
Provides access to over 300 drugs and vaccines used for the treatment of infectious and tropical diseases. Also includes four modules on Diagnosis, Epidemiology, Therapy and Microbiology.

Google Directory: Nursing Employment
Sites that offer employment services to nursing/health care workers. Includes job banks, regional databases, and resume hosters.

Grolier Online
Encylopedia Americana, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, The New Book of Knowledge, The New Book of Popular Science, Lands and Peoples. Based on the text of the Academic American Encyclopedia. Includes new and expanded articles, web links, and bibliographies. It is updated monthly.

Health Care Works! Job Bank
Health Care Works provides candidates with free resume hosting services, unlimited search and match capabilities and on-line application for targeted positions. Based in Kansas City.

Health Reference Center
Health Reference Center is a comprehensive, authoritative encyclopedic database containing more than 20,000 hyperlinked entries on today's most pressing health and social issues. It defines the causes, cures, key research, medical terms, symptoms, and treatments and trends of each field of study and explores the social impact of numerous health-related subjects. Entries are organized by topic and type, including biographies, encyclopedia entries, glossary terms, resources and organizations, social and cultural factors, tables and statistics, and tests and procedures.

HighWire: Library of the Sciences and Medicine
The journals HighWire supports correspondingly focus on science, technology, and medicine (STM). Articles may be searched by author, title or abstract keyword, or full-text keyword, with the ability to limit by date range, and to a specific journal or selected group of journals. Free full-text articles are available.

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Xplore
IEEE Xplore provides full-text access to IEEE transactions, journals, magazines and conference proceedings published since 1988 plus select content back to 1950, and all current IEEE Standards.

JSTOR
Anarchived database of articles from academic journals in many fields, especially history, sociology, political science, ethnic studies, language & literature, philosophy, mathematics, and economics.

Kansas City Public Library
Kansas City Public Library connects a diverse community to resources that inform, enrich and entertain. The library has 10 branches throughout the metro area.

LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe Home Page
Searchable legal, medical, news, public records and business information database of articles.

LGBT Health Channel
  Physician monitored information on health related topics in the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender communities.

Literary Index
Gale's Literary Index is a master index to the major literature products published by Gale. It combines and cross-references more than 143,000 author names, including pseudonyms and variant names, and listings for over 187,000 titles into one source.

LitFinder
Includes Poem Finder which contains over 85,000 full text poems and 800,000 poem citations and excerpts, international in scope and coverage is from antiquity to the present. Also includes Story Finder, which provides thousands of full text short stories plus explanations and biographies and Essay Finder which provides a unique database of full-text humanities, social sciences essays, biographies and literary criticisms.

Male Nurse Magazine
Online magazine exploring why it is that males make up only about 6% of nurses in the US, and why the profession hasn't more proactively promoted an awareness for males to become prospective future nurses.

MasterFile Elite
Multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 1,150 general reference publications with coverage dating as far back as 1984. MasterFile Elite also includes 40 full text reference books and an Image Collection of 107,000 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.

MCC LIBRARIES
Each of the Metropolitan Community Colleges has an extensive collection of library books for class work, research, and pleasure reading. In addition to books and periodicals, the libraries feature Internet access, microfilm, video and audio.

Medline
A service of the US National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health which includes articles, images, definitions and spellings of medical words, and drug information.

MOBIUS Union Catalog
MOBIUS, also known as Missouri Bibliographic Information User System, is a consortium of academic libraries with fifty member colleges and universities in the state of Missouri.

National Alliance for Hispanic Health
 The National Alliance for Hispanic Health (the Alliance) is the Nation’s oldest and largest network of Hispanic health and human services providers. Alliance members deliver quality services to over 12 million persons annually.

National Cancer Institute
Comprehensive coverage of the cancer literature from the U.S. National Cancer Institute. Coverage: 1963-present. Information on different forms of cancer, clinical trials, and research programs.

National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism: Alcohol and Alcohol Problems Science Database
The most comprehensive online resource covering all aspects of alcohol abuse and alcoholism. Produced by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), ETOH contains over 110,000 records and is accessed by both researchers and clinicians worldwide. Included in ETOH are abstracts and bibliographic references to journal articles, books, dissertation abstracts, conference papers and proceedings, reports and studies, and chapters in edited works. Updated monthly, ETOH contains research findings from the late 1960s to the present, as well as historical research literature.

National Women's Health Information Center
Free, reliable health information for women everywhere. Browse the database for resources or take a look through the Special Sections on topic areas like heart disease, disabilities and pregnancy.

NewsBank
Provides full-text articles from "Kansas City Star" and "St. Louis Post-Dispatch". Also includes state & regional stories from wire services and other Missouri newspapers.
Kansas City Star 1991-current
News Missouri 1997-current
St. Louis Post-Dispatch 1988-current

NIH Senior Health
NIHSeniorHealth makes aging-related health information easily accessible for family members and friends seeking reliable, easy to understand online health information. Features authoritative and up-to-date health information from Institutes and Centers at National Institute of Health.

Occupational Outlook Handbook
The Occupational Outlook Handbook is a nationally recognized source of career information, designed to provide valuable assistance to individuals making decisions about their future work lives. Revised every two years, the Handbook describes what workers do on the job, working conditions, the training and education needed, earnings, and expected job prospects in a wide range of occupations.

OmniFile Full Text Mega
Biography reference bank covers 450,000 people from antiquity to today. View biographical profiles, feature articles, interviews, essays, book reviews, performance reviews, speeches, or obituaries.

Online Catalog Wilo
Western InterLibrary Organization - a MOBIUS Library Catalog searching:
Avila University - Rockhurst University - William Jewell College
Blue River - Longview - Maple Woods - Penn Valley
Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary - Saint Paul School of Theology

Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance
This is a large religious web site which promotes religious diversity as a positive cultural value. The site contains 2,471 essays and menus. It does not promote any one religious belief, instead it tries to explain the full range of religious belief in North America, from Asatru to Christianity to Zoroastrianism. It also reports on controversial religious topics, from abortion access to equal rights and protections for homosexuals and bisexuals. It tries to explain all sides to each topic fairly and objectively.

OVID: Essential Nursing Collection
Click Journals@Ovid Full Text to start searching journals. One of the largest single-database aggregations of 100% searchable scientific, technical and medical full text journals in the world.

Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL): Using APA Format
Formatting, reference citing, and examples of how to write a paper in APA format.

Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Health and Wellness (RRTC)
Funded by the National Institute for Disability and Rehabilitation Research at the U.S. Department of Education, the RRTC conducts research studies and training projects that are targeted towards people living with disabilities, their families, friends, healthcare providers, and policymakers.

TOXNET and TOXLINE
System of full-text and bibliographic databases oriented to toxicology and related areas. Includes Toxline that has citations dealing with the toxicological, pharmacological, biochemical and physiological effects of drugs and other chemicals.

TransGenderCare
Archive of health information for transgendered patients by the Tampa Gender Identity Program. Includes a section on "What is Gender and Who is Transgendered?" and articles about transgender health issues.

World Atlas Interactive Political Map
Clickable, printable maps of continents, regions, countries, states and provinces.