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Databases A to Z

A

Academic Search Premier
This database offers full text of articles from a wide range of academic areas including business, social sciences, humanities, general academic, general science, and education. It features full text for over 4,500 journals with many dating back to 1990, abstracts and indexing for over 8,000 periodicals and scholarly journals, over 3,600 of them peer-reviewed journals.
Subject areas: All

ACS Journals
American Chemical Society journals and journal archives provide immediate access to all titles published by ACS from 1879 to the current issues. Use this database to find the highest quality articles in chemistry and related fields.
Subject area: Sciences

ADFLIP
This database allows you to search and print print advertisements from 1940 to the present. Search by category, decade, or year. Ask librarian for user name and password. Database allows only one user at a time. Images on this site are protected by copyright. See this link http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html for explanation of "fair use" for educational purposes.
Subject areas: Business & Economics, Speech & Communication

African-American Poetry, 1760-1900 (CD-ROM available at library reference desk)
Includes the poems of such well known figures, and many lesser-known poets whose works may be found only in anthologies or in private libraries. Covers a wide range of topics from slavery to abolition, to love and death.
Subject area: Languages & Literature

Agricola
Over 2200 sources with detailed abstracts relating to all aspects of agriculture, forestry, environmental pollution and animal science. Dates covered are 1970 to the present.
Subject area: Sciences

America: History & Life
This is an index to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Published since 1964, the database comprises almost 400,000 bibliographic entries. Limited to six simultaneous users.
Subject area: Humanities

American Periodical Series Online
Over 1,100 periodicals that first began publishing between 1740 and 1900, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, and many other historically-significant periodicals.
Subject areas: Humanities, Languages & Literature

L'Année Philologique
Guide to articles, essays, and conference papers on subjects from the Classical time period. Includes references to articles in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish. Searches may be limited to one or more of these languages.
Subject areas: Humanities, Languages & Literature

AnthroSource
Developed by the American Anthropological Association (AAA), AnthroSource brings 100 years of anthropological material online, including current issues for 15 of the AAA's most critical peer-reviewed publications (including American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Anthropology and Education Quarterly, and Medical Anthropology Quarterly) and an electronic archive of all AAA journals.
Subject areas: Social Sciences

Applied Science & Technology
Covers over 700 English language scientific and technical publications from around the world. This database provides information on management, careers and employment, and financial trends in scientific and technological fields. Coverage is from 1983 to the present.
Subject area: Sciences

ArchiveGrid
Online access to nearly a million descriptions of archival collections owned by thousands of libraries, museums, historical societies and archives worldwide. ArchiveGrid is an important destination for searching for historical documents, personal papers and family histories held in archives.
Subject area: All

Art Abstracts
This database provides comprehensive indexing and abstracts for 377 leading international publications pertaining to a variety of art types. This bibliographic database indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals.
Subject area: Fine Arts

Arts & Humanities Search
Indexes articles, bibliographies, editorials, letters, and reviews in more than 1,300 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals.
Subject areas: Fine Arts, Humanities

ARTstor
ARTstor is a non-profit digital library with a collection of approximately 500,000 images covering art, architecture and archeology. ARTstor's software tools enable viewing and analyzing images through zooming and panning, saving groups of images online for personal or shared uses, and creating and delivering presentations both online and offline.
Subject area: Fine Arts

Augustana Music Collection Holdings
A database of the Augustana College Music Department collection of recordings on CD and vinyl.
Subject area: Fine Arts

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BAS (Biblical Archaeology Society) Online Archive
A full text database covering publications of the Biblical Archaeology Society, including the Biblical Archaeology Review (1975-present), and numerous conference proceedings.
Subject area: Humanities

Bibliography of Asian Studies
References western-language articles and book chapters published since 1971 about all parts of Asia.
Subject areas: Humanities, Social Sciences

Bibliography of the History of Art
BHA is the most comprehensive art bibliography available worldwide, covering European and American visual arts from late antiquity to the present. This database indexes and abstracts art-related books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealers' catalogs, and articles.

BioDigest
Has detailed abstracts written in a non-technical style for students. BioDigest covers 1989 to the present. Limited to one simultaneous user.
Subject area: Sciences

BioOne 
A scholarly resource primarily for bioscience fields, this is a full text, pdf database of 86 scientific society journals from 1999 to the present.
Subject area: Sciences

Business Source Elite
This database provides full text from nearly 930 journals covering business, management, economics, banking, finance, accounting and much more. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 1,570 journals. This database contains popular business publications and scholarly, peer reviewed journals. Also included is Wall Street Words, a dictionary of financial terms, linked directly to words within the citations and full text and a Company Directory from Dun & Bradstreet. DataMonitor provides company profiles, including business locations, key products, biographies of notable employees, and an outlook profile for the future.
Subject area: Business & Economics

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Census.gov
An internet resource that acts as a gateway to statistical information collected by the Census bureau and other government agencies. Includes national, state, county and metropolitan information on housing, employment, and social demographics.

Chemical Abstracts
Provides abstracts for more than 8000 scientific journals, primarily on chemistry but including the chemical aspects of the other natural sciences. This database is available from 5 p.m. to 5 a.m. during the week and expanded hours on the weekend. To get log-in information, contact Connie Ghinazzi, Natural Sciences Librarian.
Subject area: Sciences

Children's Literature Comprehensive Database
The Children's Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD) provides access to records for over 1,200,000 children's books (from baby board books to nonfiction and novels for young adults), more than 300,000 reviews, and information on prizes and awards that the books have won.
Subject areas: Education, Languages & Literature

CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied health Literature)
Provides access to over 2900 journals in nursing, allied health, biomedical and consumer health. Index includes citations for more than 1,000,000 records dating back to 1981.
Subject area: Sciences

Clase & Periodica
A database of 2,600 scholarly journals from 24 different countries of Latin America and the Caribbean and published in Spanish, Portuguese, French, and English. These journals specialize in science, technology, the social sciences, and the humanities.
Subject areas: Humanities, Languages & Literature, Social Sciences

ComAbstracts
A comprehensive database of articles and books in human communication studies, this database offers indexing to over 125 journals. Search by keyword, phrase, or author. Citations and abstracts, not full text, are provided. We may have the journal in full text in another database or in hard copy.
Subject area: Speech & Communication

Communication & Mass Media Complete
This database provides an invaluable resource for students, researchers, and educators interested in any and all aspects of communication and mass media. The database offers full text for over 200 titles and contains citation coverage for additional sources.
Subject area: Speech & Communication

Community Resources On-Line
The "Iowa 2-1-1 Information and Referral Database" allows you to select a state (Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, South Dakota, or Wisconsin), county, even city to search for particular social service agencies and organizations.
Subject area: Social Sciences

Credo Reference
This is an online reference library that provides unlimited and remote simultaneous access to current, integrated, full-text content from a selection of over 200 reference books from 55 publishers with over 2 million entries. Credo includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations, a range of subject-specific titles covering everything from health to technology and science to law, not to mention the Bridgeman Art Library with over 16,000 art images. Credo also recently imported an interactive world atlas and a critically acclaimed Concept Map.

CQ Global Researcher
Modeled after the award-winning CQ Researcher, CQ Global Researcher provides readers with definitive, in-depth coverage of global affairs from a number of international viewpoints.  By exposing readers to a wide range of viewpoints CQ Global Researcher provides a comprehensive snapshot of today's most pressing issues.
Subject area: Social Sciences

CQ Researcher
Provides original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues in the news. CQ Researcher offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the U.S. economy.
Subject area: Social Sciences

CQ Weekly
CQ Weekly is known as the pre-eminent resource for Congress-watchers who need non-partisan information on Capitol Hill. CQ Weekly includes access to the full text of all articles published since 1983.
Subject area: Social Sciences

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Database of African American Poetry, 1760-1900 (CD-ROM available at the library reference desk)
Includes the poems of such well known figures, and many lesser-known poets whose works may be found only in anthologies or in private libraries. Covers a wide range of topics from slavery to abolition, to love and death.
Subject area: Languages & Literature

Diaries (see North American Women's Letters and Diaries Colonial-1950 )

Dictionary of National Biography (see Oxford DNB Online)

Dissertation Abstracts Online
Covers dissertations accepted at accredited US institutions since 1861.

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EconLit
Provides citations for dissertations and articles relating to economics in more than 620 collective volumes per year.
Subject area: Business & Economics

Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare (see Shakespeare)

Encyclopaedia of Islam
The most important and comprehensive reference resource on Islam, in an electronic edition. NOTE: If your computer does not display all of the characters correctly, you may need to download a special font. Click "Fonts" on the encyclopedia's main page for downloading instructions. Limited to three simultaneous users.

Encyclopedia Britannica
EB Online includes the complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and the Britannica Book of the Year. Through this service, you can find more than 72,000 articles, updated and revised by EB editors and contributors; over 10,000 illustrations, including photographs, drawings, maps, and flags; and more than 75,000 definitions--including pronunciation guides and word histories--from Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary.

Encyclopedia of Life Sciences
This database provides full text for over 4100 peer-reviewed articles with illustrations on the current theory, practice and understanding of basic and applied aspects of the life sciences, with particular emphasis on cell and molecular biology and its relevance to medicine. It is frequently updated.
Subject area: Sciences

Environment Complete
Environment Complete offers deep coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more. Environment Complete contains more than 1,500 domestic and international titles going back to the 1940s as well as more than 100 monographs. The database also contains full text for more than 600 journals.
Subject area: Sciences

ERIC
This database contains more than 850,000 annotated references to non-journal material issued in the monthly RIE and to journal articles issued in the monthly Current Index to Journals in Education.
Subject area: Education

Essay & General Literature Index
Provides access to over 65,000 essays found in over 5,300 printed anthologies and collections published in the United States, Great Britain and Canada from 1985 to present. Focuses on humanities and social sciences literature.
Subject area: Languages & Literature

Europa World
Europa World is the online version of the Europa World Year Book, the indispensable source of information on world-wide affairs. The year book is renowned as one of the world's leading reference works, covering political and economic information in over 250 countries and territories, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe.
Subject area: Social Sciences

F

Family and Society Studies Worldwide
A comprehensive source of valuable research literature in the fields of anthropology, sociology, psychology, demography, health sciences, education, economics, law, history, and social work. This resource currently provides access to over 630,000 citations and abstracts from over 2,000 professional journals, books, popular literature resources, and other sources. Limited to one user at a time.
Subject area: Social Sciences

Find it Illinois
The web portal for the Illinois State Government. It includes links to over 20,000 web pages published by the various agencies of the Illinois State Government.
Subject area: Social Sciences

FirstGov.gov
A web portal for the United States Federal Government. FirstGov is intended to be the first resource to find any government information on the Internet, with topics ranging from business and economy to money and benefits to science and technology.
Subject area: Social Sciences

G

Gallup Brain
Gallup Brain features the full text of every Gallup Poll conducted in the United States since 1935.
Subject area: Social Sciences

Gender Studies
Gender Studies Database combines the popular Women’s Studies International and Men’s Studies databases with the coverage of sexual diversity issues. GSD covers the full spectrum of gender-engaged scholarship inside and outside academia. This database includes more than 745,000 records with coverage spanning from 1972 and earlier to present.
Subject area: Social Sciences

General Science Abstracts
Designed for students and non-specialists, GenSciAbs offers indexing and abstracts for 265 of the leading science journals and magazines from the US and Great Britain. Topics covered include: Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Earth Science, Health & Medicine, and Zoology. General Science Abstracts database contains indexing from the present back to 1984.
Subject area: Sciences

GEOBase
This database covers over 2,000 international journals on geography, geology, ecology, and related disciplines from 1980 to the present.
Subject area: Sciences

GeoRef 
Produced by the American Geological Institute, this database is the comprehensive geoscience database containing over 2.8 million bibliographic records from more than 3000 journals. GeoRef provides coverage for North America from 1785 to the present and geology from the rest of the world from 1993 to the present.
Subject area: Sciences

GreenFILE 
GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records.
Subject area: Sciences

H

Handbook of Latin American Studies
A bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities. Each year, more than 130 academics from around the world choose over 5,000 works for inclusion in the Handbook.
Subject areas: Humanities, Language & Literature, Social Sciences

HarpWeek
This database enables you to directly experience the richness and historical significance of Harper’s Weekly, America's leading 19th century illustrated newspaper. Coverage extends from 1857-1912. Full text of the magazine from the Civil War era, Reconstruction, and the Gilded Age is available.
Subject area: Humanities

HAPI (Hispanic American Periodicals Index)
A source for over 275,000 journal article citations about Central America, South America, the Caribbean, Mexico, Brazil, and Hispanics/Latinos in the United States.  HAPI currently provides over 60,000 links to the full text of articles appearing in more than 600 key social science and humanities journals published throughout the world.
Subject areas: Humanities, Language & Literature, Social Sciences

Health Source: Consumer Edition
This database is the richest collection of consumer health information including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health.
Subject area: Sciences

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition offers searchable full text in over 550 scholarly journals focusing on the medical sciences, psychology, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine, health care law and general health. Full text articles date back to 1975.
Subject area: Sciences

Historical Abstracts
An index to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada which are covered in America: History and Life). Published since 1954 this database comprises over half a million entries. (For information on subjects from the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700), try ITER.) Limited to six simultaneous users.
Subject area: Humanities

Historical New York Times
The Historical New York Times offers full text and image coverage of the newspaper from 1851 to 2004. For access to more recent NYT articles, use LexisNexis (covers 1980-present).
Subject area: Humanities

Humanities Abstracts
Includes articles, book reviews, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction, reviews of plays, operas, ballets, dance, musicals, movies, and television and radio programs from more than 570 periodicals. Indexing dates back to 1984, and abstracts start in 1994.
Subject areas: Fine Arts, Humanities, Languages & Literature

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IDIOM (Links to CD-ROM)
Indexes and tables of contents to over 7,000 of the most important monographic texts in the humanities and social sciences from 1922-1994.
Subject areas: Humanities, Social Sciences

In the First Person
Provides in-depth indexing of more than 3,350 collections of personal narratives in English from around the world, including 20,500 months of diary entries, 63,000 letter entries, and 17,000 oral history entries. (About 25% of the material in this database is copyright-protected and cannot be accessed for free. Use the “Search Documents” advanced search to limit to free products only.)
Subject areas: Humanities, Social Sciences

ITER
Meaning 'a journey' or 'a path' in Latin, ITER is a non-profit research project with partners in Toronto, Canada (the headquarters), New York City, and Tempe, Arizona. The goal of ITER is to increase access to all published materials pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700), through the creation of online bibliographic databases.
Subject areas: Humanities, Languages & Literature

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JSTOR Journal Archive
Stores over one thousand scholarly journals in full-text format from the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.  Journals can be searched by title or subject, individually or in groups.  For each journal, articles from the first volume through to two to five years before today’s date are available. Here's why.
Subject areas: All

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LexisNexis Academic Universe
Provides access to current information in law and business, and to the full text of major newspapers from around the world. Search for book reviews and articles on writers and trends in the literary world. LexisNexis also includes publications in other languages.
Subject areas: All

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA)
LISTA indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.
Subject area: Social Sciences

Literature Resource Center
Literature Resource Center provides access to more than 38,000 full text critical literary analyses, 122,000 biographies of authors from every age and literary discipline, and in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors.
Subject area: Humanities, Languages and Literature

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Making of America
This digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction covers subjects in education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The collection currently contains approximately 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints. Making of America is a collaborative effort between Cornell University and the University of Michigan and houses primary source material from both institutions.

MathSciNet
MathSciNet, a database of reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for much of the mathematical sciences literature, contains over 2 million items and over 700,000 direct links to original articles.
Subject area: Sciences

MEDLINE
Medline indexes over 19,000 journals published internationally and includes over 15 million records covering all aspects of medicine, dentistry and nursing. Produced by the National Library of Medicine, Medline includes citations from 1950 to the present.
Subject area: Sciences

MLA Bibliography 
Produced by the Modern Language Association, this bibliography dates back to the 1920s and contains over 2.2 million citations. Coverage is international and subjects include literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing.
Subject areas: Humanities, Languages & Literature

MLA Directory of Periodicals
The MLA Directory of Periodicals offers detailed information on over 7,100 journals, with 4,400 currently indexed in the MLA Bibliography. The detailed entries include editorial contact information, as well as frequency, circulation, subscription prices and submission guidelines.

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Newspaper Archive
Newspaper Archive is the largest historical newspaper database online and contains tens of millions of newspaper pages from 1753 to present. Every newspaper in the archive is fully searchable by keyword and date. The site adds about 2.5 million new pages each month.
Subject area: Humanities

Newspaper Source
This database provides selected full text for 143 U.S. and international newspapers. This collection offers full text from major U.S. newspapers including: The Christian Science Monitor, The New York Daily News, The Chicago Tribune, The Miami Herald, and The San Jose Mercury News. International coverage includes The News (Mexico), and The Hong Kong Standard, and much more. This database is updated daily.
Subject area: All

New Testament Abstracts
New Testament Abstracts Online is a product of a partnership between ATLA and the Weston Jesuit School of Theology. The database has become an indispensable research and bibliographic aid for scholars, librarians, clergy and students of the New Testament and its historical milieu. The database contains more than 38,000 article abstracts, 1,200 review abstracts, 13,500 book abstracts, and 50 software abstracts.
Subject area: Humanities

North American Women's Letters and Diaries, Colonial Period -- 1950
North American Women's Letters and Diaries includes the immediate experiences of 1,325 women and 150,000 pages of diaries and letters. The collection includes biographies and an extensive annotated bibliography of the sources in the database. 
Subject areas: Humanities, Languages & Literature

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Old Testament Abstracts
This database features indexing and abstracts for journal articles, monographs, multi-author works, and software related to Old Testament studies. Content from over 450 journals is covered. All abstracts are in English, regardless of the language of the original work. Topics covered include antiquities, archaeology, biblical theology, philology and much more. Coverage in the database dates back to 1978.
Subject area: Humanities

Oxford Art Online
Oxford Art Online presents the entire text of The Dictionary of Art (published in 1996), updated and fully-indexed, searchable and browsable, with over 45,000 articles and more than 40,000 links to important art images in galleries and museums around the world.
Subject area: Fine Arts

Oxford Music Online (2nd Edition)
The standard and most comprehensive music encyclopedia in an electronic form. Covered subjects include music history, theory and practice, terminology, and biography among others. Non-Western and popular music are covered as well.
Subject area: Fine Arts

Oxford English Dictionary
The electronic version of the print dictionary. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.
Subject area: Languages & Literature

Oxford Language Dictionaries
The OLDO is your gateway to unabridged bilingual dictionaries in French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian and Chinese, soon expanding to include Japanese and Polish. Includes usage examples and illustrative phrases, grammar guidance, click-through verb tables and pronunciation charts, explanations of grammatical terms, and contextualized language reference help, including notes on life and culture. Finally, a key feature is the native speaker audio pronunciation, allowing you to hear how words actually sound.
Subject area: Languages & Literature

P

PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service) International
Contains references to more than 553,300 journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, conference reports, publications of international agencies, and more, dating from 1972 to the present. Materials from over 150 countries are included, on subjects such as campaign funding, disaster relief, free speech, political persecution, and many other topics of public interest.
Subject area: Social Sciences

Perseus 
The Perseus Project is an evolving digital library of resources for the study of the ancient world and beyond. It consists of a large, heterogeneous collection of materials, textual and visual, on the Archaic and Classical Greek world.
Subject area: Humanities

Political Science Complete
Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,900 titles and full text for more than 500 publications, including top-ranked scholarly journals, recent reference works, and professional conference papers. Its coverage consists of a wide range of topics such as law and legislation, comparative politics, political theory, international relations, humanitarian issues and non-governmental organizations. PSC’s focus is worldwide, reflecting the globalization of contemporary political discourse.
Subject area: Social Sciences

PrairieCat 
The online catalog for libraries in the Prairie Area Library System, including many public libraries in the Quad Cities. Database records feature current circulation status of materials.

PRISMA
PRISMA (Publicaciones y Revistas Sociales y Humanísticas) is a comprehensive reference resource providing full-text scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities for the interdisciplinary academic study of Hispanic and Latin America, and the Caribbean Basin. PRISMA features Spanish, Portuguese and English language content. Articles examine all aspects of Hispanic Studies, from research on indigenous cultures past and present to current economic indicators, politics and society, and Hispanic theatre. Coverage includes Anthropology, Business and Economics, History, Literature, Political Science and Sociology.
Subject areas: Humanities, Languages & Literature, Social Sciences

Professional Development Collection
The Professional Development Collection provides a highly specialized collection of electronic information for professional educators. It includes abstract and index coverage for over 595 professional development titles and searchable full text for 516 journals covering the most current topics in the field of education.
Subject area: Education

Project MUSE
Project MUSE is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers, providing 100% full-text, online access to over 400 prestigious humanities and social sciences journals.
Subject area: All

PROLA
Physical Review Online Archive (PROLA) from the American Physical Society provides full text, fully searchable archive for physics. It includes Physical Review Letters from 1958-2004, Physical Review Series I-III A-E from 1893-2004, Review of Modern Physics from 1929-2004, and Physical Review Special Topics. Current subscriptions to Review of Modern Physics can be reached by selecting title in PROLA.
Subject area: Sciences

PsycINFO
Contains over two million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines. Journal coverage, which dates back to the 1887, includes international material selected from more than 2,100 periodicals in over 25 languages.
Subject areas: Social Sciences, Speech & Communication

PubMed
Managed by the National Library of Medicine(NLM), PubMed web page provides MedLine database information, plus out-of-scope citations on general science and chemistry topics. Two searchable subsets of PubMed are particularly useful. PubMedCentral, or PMC, is the fulltext subset to the PubMed site. The second is the Books option, which allows you to search by keyword in 62 current biomedical textbooks covering all major fields of medicine.
Subject area: Sciences

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Regional Business News
This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis.
Subject area: Business & Economics

Religion Index (ATLA)
A database containing citations and full text to more than 1100 international journals, essays, and publications in religion and related fields. Also annually indexes more than 14,500 book reviews from over 450 international journals (including New York Review of Books and Times Literary Supplement) in religion and related fields.
Subject area: Humanities

RILA
Though it covers a relatively short period of published literature, 1975-1989, this is still a powerful art history resource. RILA indexes books, articles, conference proceedings, collected works, dissertations, exhibit catalogs, and museum publications on Western art from the 4th century on. The database contains nearly 135,000 records covering both English language and Foreign language sources.
Subject area: Fine Arts

RILM Abstracts
An international bibliography of scholarly writings on music as well as music-related disciplines. Dating from 1967 through the present, this database offers indexing of sources published in over 140 languages.
Subject area: Fine Arts

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Sanborn Maps, 1867-1970
This resource provides access to large-scale maps of Illinois towns and cities. Users can manipulate the maps, magnify and zoom in on specific sections, and layer maps from different years. Other features shown include pipelines, railroads, wells, dumps, and heavy machinery.
Subject area: Sciences

Saskia Digital Art Images
This collection contains 30,000 digital images of paintings, sculpture and architecture, including images from many important collections: the Prado, the Kunsthistorisches Museum, the Uffizi, and the Louvre as well as archaeological sites in Greece, Italy, Turkey and Egypt. The images are displayed in both high resolution and thumbnail format. Additionally, the descriptive data about the images includes references to the occurrences of these images in 19 major art history texts. Access to Saskia is provided by the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI). More information about the Saskia collection may be found at http://www.saskia.com/
Subject area: Fine Arts

ScienceDirect COLLEGE EDITION
There are two Science Direct College Edition databases. The Physical Sciences and Health and Life Sciences sets are comprised of 1500 journals with full text access beginning in 1995 through the current edition. Both databases are searched simultaneously.To see only the full text articles, change All Journals to Subscribed Journals in the Source search box.
Subject area: Sciences

Scientific American Online Archive
Scientific American Archive Online contains the entire editorial content of Scientific American with all special issues from January 1993 through to the present.
Subject area: Sciences

Shakespeare (CD-ROM available at library reference desk)
Full-text of eleven major editions from William Shakespeare's works from the First Folio of 1623 to the Cambridge edition of 1863-6, twenty eight separate contemporary printings of individual plays and poems, selected apocrypha and related works, and more than one hundred adaptations, sequels and burlesques from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries.
Subject area: Languages & Literature

Social and Cultural History: Letters and Diaries Online
This collection of primary sources includes the following databases: Oral History Online, North American Women’s Letters and Diaries, North American Immigrant Letters and Diaries, Black Thought and Culture, Manuscript Women’s Letters and Diaries from the Antiquarian Society, American Civil War Letters and Diaries, and British and Irish Women’s Letters and Diaries.
Subject area: Humanities

Sociological Abstracts
Abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,800 serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers. Many records from key journals in sociology also include the references cited in the bibliography of the source article.
Subject area: Social Sciences

Stat Ref Health
Stat Ref Health is a collection of 38 completely searchable, full text medical textbooks. These can be used as an extension of the medical reference collection we hold in print.
Subject area: Sciences

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Ulrich's International Periodical Directory
Contains records of 240,000 magazines and journals, many with reviews. Use this database to decide whether a particular journal title is appropriate for your research. Limited to two simultaneous users.

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Wall Street Journal Online
The financial newspaper of record offering in-depth coverage of national and international finance as well as first rate coverage of hard news.
Subject area: Business & Economics

Women and Social Movements
Contains over 30,000 pages of documents from 1769 - present pertaining to women and social movements, with an additional 5,000 pages added annually. The database is organized into "document projects" which pose a question (i.e., "How Did Women Participate in the Underground Railroad?") and present a collection of documents to answer that question.
Subject areas: Humanities, Social Sciences

Women Writers Online
A product of Brown University's Women Writers Project (WWP), this online resource provides full text access to hundreds of documents and works of literature written by women, covering a period from 1400 to 1850. 
Subject area: Languages & Literature

World Almanac
Offers a fundamental reference source for students, library patrons, library reference staff, and scholars alike, and includes biographies, encyclopedia entries, facts, statistics.

WorldCat
Contains over 52 million records of various types of materials (books, videos, archival materials, etc.) cataloged by OCLC member libraries. This includes nearly every academic library in the United States and Canada, as well as many public libraries and several independent research libraries. 

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