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General Databases

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EbscoHost - is a rich collection of general and specialized databases, all including at least some full text. Specialized databases focus on medicine, business, and education among other topics.

Elsevier ScienceDirect Journal Collection - provides access to the full-text of a selection of Elsevier's premier journals back to 1998 in the areas of life sciences, medicine, social sciences, business and management, computer and information science, linguistics, and urban planning. Citation and abstracts are available for earlier issues of the journals where full text is not provided.

FirstSearch - is a collection of databases covering a range of subjects. It includes both general databases like WilsonSelectPlus (which contains only full-text articles) as well as special databases focused on education and medicine and those that catalog special types of materials like government documents and conference papers.

Expanded Academic ASAP - is a strong, general periodical database that includes both full text articles and citations in the arts, humanities, science and technology. Expanded Academic ASAP's subject search offers users a distinct search strategy.

History Resource Center U.S. - This database provides access to original documents, reference sources and more than 110 full-text journals covering American history from the pre-colonial period through the present day. This database has a two-simultaneous-user limit. If you cannot access the database at a given time, try back later. Please remember to log out so others may use it.

Lexis-Nexis Academic - is a news-oriented full-text database that also includes special subject areas of business and law as well as general reference resources. Among its special features are transcripts of broadcast news programming and foreign newspaper stories. The legal database provides quick access to both federal and state statuatory law, case law and patent searching.

Liebert E-Journals Online - collection contains more than 60 different electronic journals, primarily in health-related fields. Subject matter ranges from alternative therapies to viral immunology. Users may search by keyword or jump directly to the journal of interest and look through the tables of contents of particular issues.

Literary Reference Center - This comprehensive database gives users access to original literary works, both classic and contemporary; literary criticism for academic journals and e-book versions of significant critical works; plot summaries; biographical information; a literary timeline; and a dictionary of literary terms.

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center - takes Greenhaven Press's social issues series Opposing Viewpoints, At Issue and Current Controversies and supplements them in an online form by adding primary sources, statistics, related articles, multimedia and web links to provide users with the full context of a topic.

Sage Journals Online - provides access to the full text of many Sage's journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine.

Science Resource Center - More than 200 magazines and academic journals, as well as special encyclopedia articles, experiments, biographies, illustrations and web links are gathered together in this database.

Electronic Newspapers, Magazines and Journals

Chicago Tribune and Chicago Tribune Historical Archive - The Chicago Tribune is available in full text. Front page coverage goes back through 1900. Major stories coverage dates back to the 1920s.

Chronicle of Higher Education - The Chronicle is the academic world's news central and the online edition includes all the material from the print edition as well as a section dedicated to community colleges.

CQ Researcher Online - Issued by Congressional Quarterly, CQ Researcher offers balanced examinations of a single controversial topic in each weekly issue. Topics can include anything from government secrecy to teen sex.

Illinois Periodicals Online - Online access to nine magazines about Illinois: Illinois Country Living, Illinois Heritage, Illinois History, Illinois History Teacher, Illinois Issues, Illinois Libraries, Illinois Municipal Review, Illinois Parks & Recreation, OutdoorIllinois

Historical New York Times - The New York Times database provides users with access to the United States unofficial newspaper of record from 2005 back to 1851 in a fully searchable format.

Electronic Books and Reference Resources

AccessScience Science Encyclopedia - AccessScience is the McGraw-Hill online Encyclopedia of Science & Technology. It includes biographical information about famous scientists and mathematicians as well as bibliographies, study guides, science news, and links to science sites on the web.

American National Biography - The ANB is a collection of more than 18,000 biographical profiles of people who have influenced the culture and history of the United States. It includes cross-references and bibliographies.

Books in Print - Books-in-Print is the electronic version of the standard reference source for determining what books are currently available from publishers. In addition, the electronic version features book reviews, biographical information on authors, contact information about publishers, bestseller and award lists, and essays about literature that appeared in different years.

CARLI Digital Collections - Several digitized image collections, including the Saskia Digital Image Archive (see below), provided by or to CARLI library consortia members. These collections vary widely in content, including everything from images of the Chicago's Century of Progress World's Fair in 1933-34 and Chicago Urban League materials to a Pueblo pottery collection and other Native American art, a collection of 20th century popular public-domain songs, Pullman car drawings, and a Broadway designer's work.

Credo Reference Center - 100 online reference resources from many of world's leading publishers providing information in fields ranging from business to art to foreign language to science. Resources include dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauruses, directories, field guides, and quotation dictionaries.

Encyclopedia Britannica - This version of Britannica offer users all the depth of coverage and scholarly quality of this renowned encyclopedia in an online format.

Encyclopedia of the Cold War - This online ABC-Clio encyclopedia provides access to the 5-volume resource that most comprehensively documents the most significant conflict of the latter half of the twentieth century. It includes primary documents as well as drawing from the archives of East Germany, China and Russia.

Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History - The online version of this 5-volume set and supplement covers all aspects of the African-American experience from 1619 through today. More than 2,300 articles examine the history and present-day situation of African-Americans.

Encyclopedia of Philosophy - The online version of the updated edition of this reference standard contains more than 2,100 entries ranging in subject from Buddhist philosophy to the Holocaust to biomedical ethics. The second edition also features 1,000 biographical entries on major figures in philosophical thought throughout history.

Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer - This electronic version of the 2-volume print original covers 120 cancers in depth, as well as both traditional and alternative treatments, drugs, diagnostic procedures and side effects.

Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine - The online version of the 3rd edition of the 5-volume encyclopedia includes information on more than 1,600 medical concepts and conditions, including causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatments, and procedures.

Global Road Warrior - This resource provides detailed geographical information on all of the nations of the world, including demographic data, climate, culture (including stereotypes), financial, security, communication, technology, medical, and extensive travellers' information. While some of the material is drawn from such sources as the CIA Fact Book, much is proprietary.

HarpWeek--Harper's Weekly 1857-1877 Issues Online - The online version of Harper’s Weekly magazine from the years 1857-1877. This digitized version of the popular magazine provides access to original news and cultural coverage of one of the most volatile periods in U.S. history.

Illinois Sanborn Maps, 1867 - 1970 - Sanborn maps are large-scale maps of cities and towns drawn at a scale of 50 feet to an inch. Created to assist fire insurance companies in assessing the risks related to particular properties, the maps chart the development of urban areas over time. The plans include detailed information about each building as well as street names and details, property boundaries, building use, and house and block numbers.

NetLibrary Online Book Collection - NetLibrary is a collection of electronic books on a range of subjects. These works can be browsed online and actually checked out so that the user can have short-term exclusive access to them, as they would with a regular library book.

OxfordArtOnline - is the online version of the revised 38 volume Grove Dictionary of Art as well as The Oxford Companion to Western Art, The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.. It provides articles on artists and art subjects, art news, and links to a vast array of images.

Oxford English Dictionary - The online version of the standard reference source for the development and usage of words in the English language.

OxfordMusicOnline - is the online version of the revised Grove Dictionary of Music (which includes the New Grove Dictionary of Opera) as well as The Oxford Dictionary of Music and The Oxford Companion of Music.

Sage e-Reference Center - This online reference collection includes 62 special subject encyclopedias in the health and social sciences, communication and management. Several focus on aspects of criminal justice.

Saskia Digital Archive - a collection of more than 30,000 high resolution, digital images of art and architectural masterpieces as well as some archaelogical sites available for educational uses. The collection also provides descriptive information about the images from several major art history texts in which the images appear, such as Gardner's Art Through the Ages, 12th ed. and Understanding Art, 7th ed.

Science Resource Center - More than 200 magazines and academic journals, as well as subject-specific reference encyclopedias, experiments, biographies, illustrations and web links are gathered together in this database.

Testing & Education Reference Center - This database contains practice exams and electronic versions of review guides for GED and college entrance tests, including the NCLEX, as well as licensing and professional exams for many fields, including real estate and firefighting. In addition it provides access to scholarship and financial aid information, college success guides, and a variety of other educational tools.

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Created January 23, 2006
Revised October 22, 2008