Library

Online Databases

	Encyclopedia Britannica includes the complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and the Britannica Book of the Year.
CARLI Digital Collections	CARLI Digital Collections The CARLI Digital Collections was established in 2006 as a repository for digital content licensed or created by the member libraries of the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI).
Chronicle of Higher Education	The Chronicle of Higher Education Online is a source of news and information for college and university faculty and administration.
	Proquest Digital Dissertations and Theses is the single, central, authoritative resource for full text information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses. Choose Proquest Direct and select - ProQuest Dissertations and Theses - Full Text
	EBSCO HOST includes databases providing a variety of scholarly, full-text/full-image materials including the following: Academic Search Premier Business Source Premier CINAHL Plus with Full Text Communication and Mass Media Complete EBSCO Animals Education Research Complete ERIC Film & Television Literature Index Funk & Wagnell’s New World Encyclopedia Health Source – Consumer Edition Health Source – Nursing/Academic Edition with Lexi-PAL Drug Guide Humanities International Complete MAS Ultra-School Edition MEDLINE with Full Text Military and Government Collection MLA International Bibliography Newspaper Source Primary Search Professional Development Collection PsycARTICLES PsycINFO Regional Business News Short Story Index SocINDEX with Full Text For a fuller description of EBSCO databases, click here.
	ERIC Complete index of educational materials with more than 983,000 records from 1966 to the present. ERIC is a guide to published and unpublished documents covering every aspect of education. Use this database in combination with the ERIC database listed under the EBSCOhost databases above.
	Euromonitor International’s Global Market Information Database (GMID) provides business intelligence on industries, countries and consumers.
	FAITS This database covers the broad spectrum of Information Technology and communications such as IT infrastructure, telecom, wireless communications, data networking, security , enterprise systems, the Internet and the World Wide Web.
	SMP Critical management issues for those charged with providing enterprise-wide security.
	First Search has unique databases covering various areas of research, many full-text.
	Government Documents
	Hapi Online Health And Psychosocial Instruments Online. Comprehensive database on measurement instruments containing more than 60,000 records on questionnaires, rating scales, coding schemes, tests, and interview forms.
	HarpWeek provides electronic access to Harper’s Weekly, the illustrated 19th century "Journal of Civilization" for a 56-year period: 1857-1912.
	Hoover's Onlinethe Business Information Authority. Comprehensive company, industry, and market intelligence. Twelve million company database searchable alphabetically and by geographical location, industry type, and other options. Updated daily.
	IBISWorld US Industry Reports provide immediate access to vital information on every industry in the US Economy publishing the largest collection of Industry Market Research Reports in the US with over 700 reports. Each report is written at the 5-digit level of the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS).
	In the First Person is a library index that lets users perform in-depth field and keyword searches across all letters, diaries, oral histories, memoirs, and autobiographies within scholarly materials that are freely available on the Web. With a single search, users can access thousands of personal narratives in English from archives and repositories.
	The IRIS Database currently contains over 9,000 active federal and private funding opportunities in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. In addition to funding opportunities for faculty, the IRIS Database also contains fellowships and scholarships for grad students and undergrads. Users can search IRIS by sponsor, deadline date, keyword, and other criteria. Most IRIS records contain live links to sponsor Web sites, electronic forms, or Electronic Research Administration (eRA) portals. The IRIS Database is updated daily.
	JStor A searchable archive of older journals in the humanities and social sciences.
	Lexis-Nexis: Lexis-Nexis Academic For a fuller description of Lexis-Nexis Databases, click here.
	E-journals from Liebert, Inc has 53 full-text Health Science E-journals in the area of health science and biomedical research from publisher Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., title list included.
LION	Literature Online A library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 154 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources.
	Access World News Full-text content of local and regional newspapers including the Chicago Tribune and the Herald News (Joliet). Each newspaper has its own distinctive focus offering a variety of viewpoints on local and world issues. Paid advertisements are excluded.

	Novelist an electronic readers' advisory resource which assists fiction readers in finding new authors and titles of interest.
	Ovid provides indexing of nursing journals in the Journals@Ovid FullText database. No articles are full text. Login and password are required. Call the Reference Desk at (815) 836-5306 with questions about access. Your Journals@Ovid Database indexing one journal title, Nursing Research. Full text articles are indexed in the Ovid database. Login and password are not required on campus. Call the Reference Desk at (815) 836-5306 with questions about access HAPI (Health And Psychosocial Instruments Online) Comprehensive database on measurement instruments containing more than 60,000 records on questionnaires, rating scales, coding schemes, tests, and interview forms.
	Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millenium. Use OED for the meaning, history, usage, and pronunciation of over a half million words.
	Naxos Music Library Classical music collection of over 75,000 tracks of music.
	ProQuest Direct provides access to more than 2200 periodicals, most of them full text or full image, including the full text of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal newspapers. Criminal Justice Periodicals Index Historical Chicago Tribune 1849-1986 Historical New York Times 1851-2004 Historical Wall Street Journal 1889-1990 Proquest Digital Dissertations and Theses - Full Text Proquest Nursing & Allied Health Proquest Psychology Journals Proquest Research LIbrary For a fuller description of Proquest Databases, click here.
	Wilson Web is a database containing full text coverage of nearly 1000 periodicals in business, humanities, general science, education, and the social sciences, as well as general works.

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