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This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.    




Developed with the guidance of African American librarians and subject specialists, The African American Experience is the widest ranging and easiest-to-use online database collection on African American history and culture.                  


​American History in Video People who witness notable historic moments, either in real time
or on film, remember forever how they felt at the time. Now you can experience
these and tens of thousands of other historical moments in the same visceral
way, with American History in Video. The early newsreels, including the
complete series of United Newsreel and Universal Newsreel capture history as it
was made and reported to viewers of the time. The collection also contains
award-winning documentaries, featuring dramatic reenactments and engaging
analysis from prominent scholars and experts, that bring history alive for
students and give library patrons hundreds of educational video titles they can
view at home or in the classroom.



The American Indian Experience is a digital resource that illuminates the histories and contemporary cultures of the Native peoples of North America.





The landmark American National Biographyoffers portraits of more than 18,700 men & women — from all eras and walks of life — whose lives have shaped the nation.




​​ARTstor has collections of over 1.5 million digital images and associated data in the arts, architecture, humanities and sciences that can be used for noncommercial and scholarly, non-profit educational use. Images are international in scope and coverage includes a wide variety of civilizations, time-periods and media. The images are drawn from different sources, such as museums, archaeological teams, photo archives, slide collections, and art reference publishers. Detailed information on the numerous collections that comprise ARTstor is available.​​





This database contains do-it-yourself repair and maintenance information on most major manufacturers of domestic and imported vehicles. New repair procedures, TSBs and updates are added to the product on a regular basis. All of the content has been created by ASE certified technicians.​                  
 




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Black Studies in Video is a signature
Alexander Street Press collection featuring award-winning documentaries,
newsreels, interviews and archival footage surveying the evolution of black
culture in the United States. In partnership with California Newsreel, the
database provides unique access to their African American Classics collection,
and includes films covering history, politics, art and culture, family
structure, social and economic pressures, and gender relations​. 
                          


Bureau of Transportation
Statistics
The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) was
established as a statistical agency in 1992. The Intermodal Surface Tra​nsportation Efficiency
Act (ISTEA)
of 1991 created BTS to administer data
collection, analysis, and reporting and to ensure the most cost-effective use
of transportation-monitoring resources. BTS brings a greater degree of
coordination, comparability, and quality standards to transportation data, 
      

      



​​​This business database provides full text for over 1,000 business publications. The rich collection of titles in Business Source Elite provides information dating back to 1985. More than 10,100 substantial company profiles from Datamonitor are also included. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.








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CAMIO is OCLC’s Catalog of Art Museum Images Online, a growing online collection documenting works of art from around the world, representing the collections of prominent museums. CAMIO highlights the creative output of cultures around the world, from prehistoric to contemporary times, and covering the complete range of expressive forms.






A selection of digital collections including 30,000 digital images of paintings, sculpture and architecture, images from many important collections, Sanborn Insurance maps, and more.




The Chicago Defender is a Chicago-based weekly newspaper founded in 1905 by an African American for primarily African-American readers.                     
The Chicago Tribune is a major daily newspaper based in Chicago owned by the Tribune Publishing Company.                      

  

      




The Chicago Tribune is a major daily newspaper based in Chicago owned by the Tribune Publishing Company.



This is the web edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education, the premier publication for news, articles and information for college and university faculty members and administrators.



This valuable resource provides full text for over 550 of nursing and allied health journals indexed in the CINAHL database, many of which contain no embargo. Nurses, allied health professionals, researchers, nurse educators and students consider this database an essential research tool providing full-text coverage dating back to 1981.​





​Consumer Health Complete is a comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content. It is designed to support patients’ information needs and foster an overall understanding of health-related topics. Consumer Health Complete provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. In addition, Consumer Health Complete includes the Clinical Reference System and the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which provides access to up-to-date, concise and clinically relevant drug monographs. The database is updated on a weekly basis.​




Covers controversial issues of the day with complete summaries, insight into many sides of the issues, and bibliographies.This resource includes access to the full text of all articles published since 1983.




Criminal Justice and Public Safety in Video includes
hundreds of hours of video for professionals and students in criminal justice
and public safety. Documentaries and interviews provide personal field
experiences as well as insight into the function and controversies of the
justice system. Students will benefit from invaluable training videos that
demonstrate how to respond to potentially-dangerous situations, all from the
safety of the classroom. Featuring titles by In the Line of Duty, BBC, and
A&E Television, Criminal Justice & Public Safety in Video provides an
authoritative resource for both students and experts
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This 100% full-text database offers the content of Current Biography in searchable, electronic format. Readers can find accurate, up-to-date biographies, draw from newspaper and magazine articles, as well as from books. The views of the subject are offered, along with the commentaries of journalists and colleagues.​



 




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​​Search and view the
full text of eBooks.




​Link to search page with
all EBSCO database modules pre-selected.


The premier full-text information
resource for energy industry research & practice.
                  

Designed
for energy industry professionals and researchers of all types, Energy & Power Source is the premier dedicated
collection of energy and power industry-related content available today.
                  

      




 

ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center,
provides access to education literature and resources. The database contains
more than 1.3 million records and provides access to information from journals
included in the Current Index of Journals in Education andResources in Education Index.​
 




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This database provides the most comprehensive coverage of research, policy and practice literature in the fields of Family Science, Human Ecology, Human Development and Social Welfare. It covers popular issues and meets the requirements of professionals in all fields of social work, social science and family practice​. 



​​This database provides
over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.​
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Gale Virtual Reference
Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for
multidisciplinary research. 


This tool combines the Women’s Studies International and Men’s Studies databases with the coverage of sexual diversity issues. ​                    




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.​
                                                                                                            




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Articles from Harper’s historical archive dating back to the second half of the nineteenth century.


Health and Society in Video defines and
explores today’s latest medical progress in health and wellness issues and
their impact on society–with hundreds of premium documentaries, profiles,
reports, and interviews.
                       


This database is the richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide, providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source: Consumer Edition provides access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines.



This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features the AHFS Consumer Medication Information, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.​​




A standard source for historical statistical of the United States, this resource expands on Historical Statistics of the United States from the U.S. Bureau of the Census. Topics ranging from migration and health to crime and the Confederate States of America are each placed in historical context by a recognized expert in the field. Data is downloadable in Excel, CSV or ZIP formats.

History of Science, Technology and Medicine reflects the influences these fields have had on society and culture throughout time, from prehistory to the present. Updated on a monthly basis, this essential database includes records of journal articles, conference proceedings, books, dissertations, serials, maps and other related materials.     

     

      




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Fire insurance maps of Illinois cities for the time period of 1867 – 1970. 



 

Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library offering free universal access to books, movies & music, as well as 388 billion archived web pages.







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Academic journals in the humanities. This database has the full text from over 250 journals in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Specific disciplines covered include history, political science, sociology, art, art history, language and literature.




      




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Comprehensive, informative, and now even easier to use, The Latino American Experience is the latest version of the first-ever database dedicated to the history and culture of Latinos—the largest, fastest growing minority group in the United States.



Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) indexes more than 560 core journals, nearly 50 priority journals, and nearly 125 selective journals; 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.​





This unique resource is essential for keeping pace with all of the latest trends in the evolving field of library studies. Developed by librarians with librarians in mind, this database provides cover-to-cover full-text articles from select publications, along with indexing and abstracts of periodicals, state journals, conference proceedings, books and much more.     

Lit2Go is a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format. An abstract, citation, playing time, and word count are given for each of the passages. Many of the passages also have a related reading strategy identified. Each reading passage can also be downloaded as a PDF and printed for use as a read-along or as supplemental reading material for your classroom.



Literature Resource Center is comprised of content from journal articles and traditional reference sources including Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary Authors, and Contemporary Literary Criticism. There are over 400,000 full-text articles from 250 academic journals, as well as thousands of critical essays, work overviews, plot summaries and explications, author biographies, and links to authoritative content-related Web sites. Other features include a student guide to conducting literary research, an interactive literary historical timeline, and Merriam-Webster’s Encyclopedia of Literature.

 




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Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full text for nearly 500 popular, high school magazines. MAS Ultra – School Edition also provides more than 360 full text reference books, 85,670 biographies, over 107,000 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of over 510,000 photos, maps & flags, color PDFs and expanded full text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines.​



Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals with full-text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 592,000 photos, maps & flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOHost. 




MathSciNet is an electronic publication offering access to a carefully maintained and easily searchable database of reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for much of the mathematical sciences literature. Over 100,000 new items are added each year, most of them classified according to the Mathematics Subject Classification. Bibliographic data from retrodigitized articles dates back to the early 1800s. Reference lists are collected and matched internally from approximately 550 journals, and citation data for journals, authors, articles and reviews is provided.  This web of citations allows users to track the history and influence of research publications in the mathematical sciences.                                                         


The MeSH Browser is an online vocabulary look-up aid available for use with MeSH® (Medical Subject Headings). It is designed to help quickly locate descriptors of possible interest and to show the hierarchy in which descriptors of interest appear. Virtually complete MeSH records are available, including the scope notes, annotations, entry vocabulary, history notes, allowable qualifiers, etc. The browser does not link directly to any MEDLINE or other database retrieval system and thus is not a substitute for the PUBMED system.


This database provides an index to journal and newspaper articles, books, research and scholarly discourse on the culture and politcs of the Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa. A valuable resource for a variety of disciplines, Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies (MECAS) combines sources from these databases: School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS) Library Catalogue (1900-present), Middle East Bibliography (1946-2001), Middle East Book Bibliographies, Theses & Dissertations and MECAS Citations Database.      

     



Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. The Military & Government Collectionprovides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for more than 400 titles.

 





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​Nature Nature
Publishing Group (NPG) is a publisher of high impact scientific and medical
information in print and online. NPG publishes journals, online databases, and
services across the life, physical, chemical and applied sciences and clinical
medicine.




Newspaper Source provides cover-to-cover full text for more than 40 (U.S.) & international newspapers. The database also contains selective full text for 389 regional (U.S.) newspapers. In addition, full text television & radio news transcripts are also provided.​


Nursing Education in Video is a unique
online collection of videos created specifically for the education and training
of nurses, nursing assistants, and other healthcare workers. All of the videos
in the collection have been created with the guidance of the Medcom-Trainex
advisory board, and are regularly reviewed for accuracy, currency, and
compliance with US Federal regulations from agencies such as OSHA and CMS.
                             

    


      




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Opposing Viewpoints in Context is cross-curricular and supports science, social studies, current events, and language arts classes. Its informed, differing views present each side of an issue and help students develop information literacy, critical thinking skills, and how to draw their own valid conclusions. ​







                                

Pop Culture Universe is a research and learning resource that greatly enriches and modernizes any academic library, offering the best of traditional scholarship with the convenience of Web technology and the entertainment inherent in the subject.     

                                                                                          





Primary Search provides full text for more than 70 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990.​


Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 520 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports. Professional Development Collection is the most comprehensive collection of full text education journals in the world.​


  • ​​Project Gutenburg                                                                                                            ​​ 

​​​​Project Gutenberg
is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks.
Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and
continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today. 




The titles in ProQuest National Newspapers offer researchers thorough coverage of local, national, and international events with journalistic balance and perspective. ProQuest National Newspapers offers the most read and widely-respected papers in the U.S. 




Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection is a comprehensive database covering information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods. This is the world’s largest full text psychology database offering full text coverage for nearly 400 journals.​


PMC is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).                                                                  

 





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Customized content and practice tests in ELL Reference Center are designed to support ELLs’ English-language proficiency and comprehension in topics including literacy, researching, note-taking and academic writing. The intuitive, easy-to-use interface, as well as reference materials that are created specifically for ELL students and the educators that work with them.






This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of more than 80 regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. Click here for a complete title list. Click here for more info.​

 





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SAGE Knowledge is the ultimate social sciences digital library for
students, researchers, and faculty. Hosting more than 2,700 titles, it includes
an expansive range of SAGE eBook and eReference content, including scholarly
monographs, reference works, handbooks, series, professional development
titles, and more.​
                                      
Scientific American The site has grown into a dynamic resource that includes select articles from current and past issues, online-only features, daily news, topic-driven blogs, podcast series, and a video directory. Visitors to the site also have access to Science Jobs, the career board for professionals in the science and technology industries; Scient​ific AmericanDigital, which houses downloadable issues of the magazine from 1993 to the present; newsletters, RSS feeds and much more. ​   ​                                            



Springer eBook collection through SpringerLink offers online delivery of over 3,500 works in the scientific, medical and technical (STM) fields. Features like full text searching across the entire collection, MARC records, and usage statistics provide access to a “database” of over 600,000 searchable pages which integrate into your online public access catalog (OPAC) and give patrons an unparalleled online reference tool. 


Springer eBook collection through SpringerLink offers online delivery of Medicine ebooks.











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Teacher Reference Center provides indexing and abstracts for 280 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.





Test preparation resource to prepare for specialized tests and entrance exams. Offers the latest college and graduate entrance exams, as well as college and vocational school information.


TRB is one of six major divisions of the National
Research Council— a private, nonprofit institution that is the principal
operating agency of the National Academies in providing services to the
government, the public, and the scientific and engineering communities. TRB’s
varied activities—described below—annually engage more than 7,000 engineers,
scientists, and other transportation researchers and practitioners from the
public and private sectors and academia, all of whom contribute their expertise
in the public interest by participating on TRB committees, panels, and task
forces. The program is supported by state transportation departments, federal
agencies including the component administrations of the U.S. Department of
Transportation, and other organizations and individuals interested in the
development of transportation.
                         

      

     





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The Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP)! The CGP is the finding tool for federal publications that includes descriptive records for historical and current publications and provides direct links to those that are available online. Users can search by authoring agency, title, subject, and general key word, or click on "Advanced Search" for more options.​

 






Full-text database dealing with the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000.






Contains more than 32 million records describing items owned by libraries around the world. Each record contains library holdings. Entries include books, journals, musical scores, magazines, newspapers, manuscripts, video materials, maps, etc.                   

World History in Video is a wide-ranging collection
of critically acclaimed documentaries that allow students and researchers to
explore human history from the earliest civilizations to the late twentieth
century. The video content offered here is truly global in scope, covering
Africa and the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Oceania. Its
unparalleled geographical and chronological coverage captures longer-term and
multiple perspectives, so students can make connections across cultures and
over time, incorporating people, places, events, and artifacts from around the
world and across the centuries.​
                          

     

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