Databases Listed Alphabetically

• Academic Search Premier

  4,500+ full-text publications covering most academic subjects

• AccessScience

  Full-text of McGraw-Hill Enyclopedia of Science

• African American Song

  Streaming audio and liner notes for more than 16,000 African-American songs; genres include blues, jazz, gospel, ragtime, and more

• America: History and Life

  Citations and abstracts in American and Canadian history and culture

• American Chemical Society (ACS) Publications

  Chemistry journals from the American Chemical Society in full-text

• American National Biography Online

  Biographies of 17,000+ deceased Americans

• American Song

  Streaming audio and liner notes for more than 14,000 American songs; genres include folk, rock, jazz, zydeco, bluegrass and more

• Annual Reviews

  Summary and synthesis of research in biology, chemistry, psychology, sociology

• AnthroSource

  Anthropology journals in full-text from American Anthropological Association

• Art Abstracts

  Citations and abstracts for 450+ art publications

• ArticleFirst

  Citations and abstracts covering most academic subjects; limited full-text

• Asia Studies Full-Text Online

  Full-text reports on 55 Asian countries, covering business, government, economics, social issues, and the environment

• ATLA Religion with ATLASerials

  Covers religion with citations, abstracts and some full-text

• Biological Abstracts

  Covers biology/life sciences with citations, abstracts and links to full-text

• Black Thought and Culture

  100,000 pages of books, articles, essays, speeches and other texts written by African-Americans

• Books In Print

  Book reviews and publication information for books currently in print

• Business Source Premier

  2,900+ full-text publications covering business and economics, plus company profiles

• CARLI Digital Collections

  Collections of tens of thousands of digitized images, historical documents and more from Illinois academic libraries

• Chicago Tribune (Current)

  Full-text of current issues of the newspaper, 1986-present

• Chicago Tribune (Historical)

  Full-text archive of the newspaper, 1849-1985

• Choice Reviews Online

  Reviews of books and other publications for an academic audience

• Chronicle of Higher Education

  Higher education news, features and commentary in full-text

• Clase and Periodica

  Citations for 2,600+ scholarly journals published in Latin America

• Classical Music Library

  Streaming audio and liner notes for more than 50,000 classical music recordings

• CollegeSource Online

  Full-text of college catalogs

• Communication & Mass Media Complete

  600+ full-text journals covering communication and mass media

• Contemporary Women's Issues

  Citations and some full-text on women and gender worldwide

• Contemporary World Music

  Streaming audio and liner notes for more than 9,000 songs from contemporary artists from around the globe; genres include reggae, Tejano, Afropop, Bollywood, flamenco and more

• CQ Researcher

  Full-text of publication covering controversial contemporary issues in depth

• CQ Weekly

  Full-text of news publication covering government and politics

• Credo Reference

  100 encyclopedias, dictionaries and other reference works covering many academic subjects

• Credo Reference: Bridgeman Art Library Archive

  Collection of art images via Credo Reference

• EBSCO Animals

  Full-text of the Encyclopedia of Animals

• EBSCOHost Electronic Journals Service

  Indexes and provides links to academic journals available on the internet, some in full-text

• Ed/ITLib Educational & Information Technology Digital Library

  Full-text academic journals on information technology in education

• Education: Professional Development Collection

  Full-text of 520 academic and professional journals covering education

• Encyclopedia Britannica

  Full-text of the general encyclopedia

• Encyclopedia of Biodiversity

  Full-text of the Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, via ScienceDirect

• ERIC (U.S. Department of Education version)

  U.S. government's index to 1.2 million citations for articles on education

• ERIC (EBSCOHost version)

  Education citations, abstracts, and full-text

• Facts.com

  U.S. and world news digest, 1940-present

• Financial Accounting Research System (FARS)

  Accounting; available on the campus network only: Start...Network Programs...Financial Accounting Research System

• Gale Virtual Reference Library

  Encyclopedias, dictionaries and other reference works covering many academic subjects

• GPO

  Citations for government documents, with links to government documents online

• Handbook of Psychology

  Full-text of psychology reference work

• HarpWeek (historical Harper's Weekly Magazine)

  Harper's Weekly magazine, 1857-1912, covering general topics during the Civil War, Progressive Era and Gilded Age

• HealthSource: Consumer Edition

  Consumer health, including full-text of magazines, reference books and pamphlets

• HealthSource: Nursing/Academic Edition

  Medicine and health for an academic audience, including 550+ scholarly journals in full-text

• IEEE Electronic Library

  Computer science and information technology publications of the IEEE; citations and some full-text

• Historical Statistics of the United States

  Historical statistics on population, labor, economics, and government

• Illinois Sanborn Insurance Maps

  Highly detailed historical maps of cities in Illinois

• Iter

  Citations for publications related to the Middle Ages and Renaissance

• JSTOR

  Full-text of scholarly journals covering most academic subjects

• Lexis-Nexis

  Global news in full-text, company information, business and industry news, legal sources, and more

• Literature Resource Center

  Critical and biographical information about writers; some full-text

• MAS Ultra--School Edition

  Database for educators including the full-text of 500+ popular magazines and reference works suitable for a high school audience

• MathSciNet

  Citations, abstracts and reviews of mathematical literature

• MEDLINE

  Citations and some full-text in medicine, nursing and dentistry

• Mental Measurements Yearbook

  Full-text of publications describing and analyzing over 2,000 testing instruments

• Merck Manual: Home Edition

  Full-text of encyclopedic guide to medical conditions

• Military & Government Collection

  Citations and some full-text of journals, pamphlets, and other publications covering the military and related topics

• MLA

  Covers literature, languages, linguistics and folklore; includes citations and some links to full-text

• NetLibrary

  Thousands of electronic books on most academic subjects, along with classic literature and more

• The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics

  1800+ expert-written articles on economics

• New York Times (Current)

  HTML full-text of current issues of the newspaper, 1980-present

• New York Times (Historical)

  Full-text archive of the newspaper, 1849-1985, including PDF page images of all issues

• Newspaper Source

  Full-text of nearly 300 national and regional newspapers, plus television and radio news transcripts

• Oxford English Dictionary

  Full-text of the etymological dictionary, with new entries added regularly

• PapersFirst

  Citations for papers presented at academic conferences

• PrimarySearch

  Database for educators including the full-text of nearly 70 magazines suitable for a primary school audience

• Proceedings

  Proceedings of academic conferences, including lists of papers presented at academic conferences

• ProjectMuse

  300+ humanities, arts, and social sciences journals in full-text

• PsycInfo

  Covers psychology with citations and some full-text

• PubMed

  U.S. government medicine database, including citations and links to some full-text

• PubMed Central

  Full-text U.S. government archive of medicine and life sciences journals

• Regional Business News

  Full-text and citations for regional and metropolitan business publications

• Resources for College Libraries

  Reviews of selected core titles for academic libraries

• RMA eStatement Studies

  Financial ratio benchmarks drawn from the financial statements of companies in over 740 industries

• Sage eReference

  More than fifty reference encyclopedias covering a wide range of academic subjects

• Saskia Art Images Collection

  Contains 30,000 digital images of paintings, sculpture and architecture, as well as archaeological sites.

• ScienceDirect

  Full-text and citations in biological and medical sciences, business and economics; select "Subscribed journals" next to "Source" for library subscriptions

• SciFinderScholar

  Citations and data from American Chemical Society; available on the campus network only: Start...Network Programs...SciFinder Scholar

• Smithsonian Global Sound

  Streaming audio and liner notes for tens of thousands of folk, traditional, classical, and popular music recordings from around the globe; includes complete Smithsonian Folkways collection

• SocIndex

  Full-text of 500+ sociology journals (1908-present), plus books and conference papers

• STAT-USA

  Business, trade and commerce information from the U.S. Department of Commerce

• TitleSource III

  Book reviews and publication information

• ValueLine Investment Survey

  Full-text current stock and investment information

• Wall Street Journal

  Full-text of the newspaper's business, financial and general news coverage, 1984-present

• Ward's Business Directory of U.S. Public and Private Companies

  Sales, market share, and company information for U.S. companies

• Wiley Interscience

  Science and medicine journals in full-text

• World Almanac

  Funk & Wagnall's New Encyclopedia and four almanacs

• WorldCat

  Worldwide catalog of library holdings

• Women and Social Movements

  American women's history, 1600-2000; includes primary source materials (pamphlets, photos, audio recordings, etc)

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