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• Cabell's Directories of Publishing Opportunities in Business
  These directories help you select journals in the areas of Accounting, Economics & Finance, Management, and Marketing that are most likely to publish your manuscript. Includes extensive information on the style and format of most Business journals.
• CAplusSM Core Journal Coverage List with Journal Title Abbreviations Open Access
  The list is sorted alphabetically by the full journal title and also includes the journal abbreviation, CODEN, and publication frequency. This is not the full list of publications covered by CAS, and the list is subject to change.
• CARLI Digital Collections
  CARLI Digital Collections is a repository for digital content created by member libraries, or purchased by CARLI for use by its members. CARLI Digital Collections provides access to myriad special collections, containing over 150,000 items including images, printed and manuscript materials, sound recordings, and the Saskia Art Image and Sanborn Maps of Illinois collections.
• Charleston Times-Courier Open Access
  Archive of the Charleston Times-Courier and the Mattoon Journal Gazette.
• ChemSpider Open Access
  Chemical structure database synthesizing structure, property, and associated information from multiple data sources. Maintained by the Royal Society of Chemistry.
• Chicago Collections Open Access
  Chicago Collections members maintain vital collections of books, letters, photos, or maps related to the Chicago region. They preserve and share Chicago's history and culture to provide free and open access for all
• Chicago Defender (Historical)
  Fulltext articles | 1910-1975
• Chicago Manual of Style
  Trial
  
  Online version of the Chicago Manual of Style | 17th and 16th editions | Browsable and searchable | Trial through Sept. 2020
• Chicago Tribune
  Fulltext Articles | 1985 to the present
• Chicago Tribune (Historical)
  Fulltext Articles | 1849-1990
• Children's Literature Comprehensive Database
  Topics: Fulltext Reviews of Children's Books | Reading Levels | Readers Advisory
• Choice Reviews
  Choice Magazine online | Search and browse over 200,000 reviews of academic monographs | Over 5,000 new reviews added annually | Source for library collection development and academic research
• Chronicle of Higher Education
  Provides complete access to the Chronicle of Higher Education including all articles published since September 1989.
• Chronicling America Open Access
  Selected Fulltext Newspaper Pages | California | District of Columbia | Florida | Kentucky | Minnesota | Nebraska | New York | Texas | Utah | Virginia | 1836 to 1922
• CINAHL Plus with Full Text Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  Topics: Nursing & Allied Health | Evidence Based Practice | CE Modules
• Citeseer: Scientific Literature Digital Library Open Access Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  A full text database of scientific literature, primarily in computer science. Interested parties can submit their papers to the search engine.
• Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective
  Topics: Fulltext Articles | New York Herald | Charleston Mercury | Richmond Enquirer | November 1, 1860 to April 15, 1865
• Clase and Periodica
  Scholarly Articles | Spanish, Portuguese, French, and English Languages | 24 Latin American and Caribbean Countries
• Cochrane Library
  Systematic Reviews | Evidence-Based Health Care
• Collegiate Chronicle Collection Open Access
  Selected Historical College Newspapers | Eagle from American University | Hoya from Georgetown University |F&M College Reporter from Lancaster | Lincolnian from Oxford | Weekly Gettysburgian from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania | Ithacan from Ithaca College in New York
• Columbia Granger's World of Poetry
  Topics: Fulltext poems | Biographies of Poets | Commentaries | History & Criticism | Subject Search | Glossary
• Communication & Mass Media Complete Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  Indexing for journals in all areas related to communication studies and mass media. CMMC offers full text for 350 titles and contains citation coverage for additional 660 sources.
• Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies Open Access
  A searchable compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. (Call Number for the print volumes located in the Book Stacks: E464 .A512)
• Congress.gov Open Access
  Official website for U.S. federal legislative information | Track Legislation | Congressional Information | Replaces Thomas.gov
• Congressional Research Service Reports Open Access
  In-depth legislative reports | Analysis and research on contemporary issues | Written by attorneys, economists, scientists | Agriculture, immigration, foreign policy, banking regulation, veterans' issues, and more
• Consumer Health Complete
  General Consumer Health Topics | Streaming Video
• Core Historical Literature of Agriculture (CHLA) Open Access
  Agricultural Texts | Early Nineteenth Century to the Middle to Late Twentieth Century
• Counseling and Therapy in Video: Volume I
  Streaming Video | A collection of videos filmed between 1985 and 2010, providing faculty and students with a first-hand look at the realities of working with clients and the challenges associated with putting theoretical concepts into practice, including dozens of therapeutic methods and diagnoses.
• Counseling and Therapy in Video: Volume II
  Streaming Video | Expands on the content of the first volume with a special emphasis on contemporary topics, featuring world-renowned therapists demonstrating their methods and techniques as of 2005 or later. The collection also includes documentaries providing insight into the human condition and training in skills such as reflection and empathy.
• CQ Researcher
  In-Depth Articles on Current News Topics | Overview | Historical Background | Chronology | Pro/Con Arguments | Resources for Additional Research.

Subject Specific

• Abstracts in Social Gerontology Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  Covers essential areas related to social gerontology, including the psychology of aging, elder abuse, society and the elderly. Indexes 70,000 records 1990-to present.
• Communication & Mass Media Complete Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  Indexing for journals in all areas related to communication studies and mass media. CMMC offers full text for 350 titles and contains citation coverage for additional 660 sources.
• Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration
  A complete exploration of the prominent themes, events, and theoretical underpinnings of the movements of human populations from prehistory to the present day, including thematic interpretations and theories of migration, significant contemporary scientific discoveries and scholarly interpretations.
• Ethnographic Video Online: Volume I
  Streaming Video | Ethnographies, Field Notes, Seminal Texts, Memoirs,Contemporary Studies | Human Behavior and Culture around the World | Politics | Economics | History | Psychology | Environmental Studies | Religion | Area Studies | Linguistics | Geography
• HeinOnline: Gun Regulation and Legislation in America
  Gun Control | Legislative histories | Congressional Research Service reports | Hearings | Supreme Court briefs | Related materials
• Kanopy Streaming VideoResearch Help
  Kanopy is a video streaming solution for colleges offering a "Netflix-like" user experience. Effective 11/18/19: Booth Library has moved to a mediated access model for Kanopy. This model will allow only faculty to request films for course-related viewing. Films already licensed by the library will continue to be available until their license expires.
• U. S. Bureau of Justice Statistics Open Access
  United States Government Information | Statistics | Criminal Justice | Crime | Capital Punishment | Prisons | Domestic Violence
• Women and Social Movements, Scholar's Edition
  History (1600-2000) of U. S. women in social movements | Primary Documents | Online Journal | Notable American Women (1971-2004) |Publications of Federal, State, and Local Commissions on the Status of Women between 1961 and 2005.

Interdisciplinary and Related

• American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library Open Access
  United States history
• Article1st
  Citations for Journal Articles | General Topics
• Black Thought and Culture
  Non-Fiction Writings by Notable African Americans | Includes Previously Unpublished and Fugitive Materials | Date Range from 1700-2006
• CQ Researcher
  In-Depth Articles on Current News Topics | Overview | Historical Background | Chronology | Pro/Con Arguments | Resources for Additional Research.
• Dissertations and Theses (WorldCat)
  Over 8 million records representing all dissertations, theses and published material based on theses and dissertations cataloged in WorldCat.
• Global Newsstream
  Newspapers | US, Canadian, and Other International News | Includes current New York Times & Wall Street Journal | Newswires and News Blogs | Business, Political, Social, Entertainment Topics | 1980 to present for some titles
• Google Scholar with EIU Electronic JournalsResearch Help
  Search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Use the Get Full Text @ EIU link to access Booth Library`s electronic journals. View this tutorial http://booth.eiu.edu/gscholarsettings to learn how to set Google Scholar preferences for EIU journals in the generic Google Scholar.
• GreenFile Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  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.
• HeinOnline Academic
  US Statutes, Congressional documents, federal agency, other government publications | Legal and political research | 2600+ scholarly journals | US treaties | Classic treatises | State and federal case law | Special collections on Criminal Justice, History, Foreign Relations, Religion and the Law, and Women and the Law
• Historical Statistics of the United States : Earliest Times to the Present : Millennial Edition
  Published in 2006, this resource provides access to statistical data on American social, behavioral, humanistic, and natural sciences - including economics, government, finance, sociology, demography, education, law, natural resources, climate, religion, international migration and trade.
• Homeland Security Digital Library
  U.S. Policy and Strategy documents relevant to current issues in homeland security.
• Nineteenth Century U. S. Newspapers (Gale)
  Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century America | American Civil War | African American Culture and History | Westward Migration | Antebellum-Era Life | Political Party Newspapers
• Old Bailey Online Open Access
  The Old Bailey Proceedings Online makes available a fully searchable, digitised collection of all surviving editions of the Old Bailey Proceedings from 1674 to 1913, and of the Ordinary of Newgate's Accounts, 1690 to 1772. It allows access to over 210,000 trials and biographical details of approximately 3,000 men and women executed at Tyburn, free of charge for non-commercial use.
• Oxford Handbooks Online: Criminology and Criminal Justice Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  In-depth scholarly articles from online handbooks | Research and current thinking on major Criminology & Criminal Justice topics | 17 ebooks in collection | Searchable and browsable by book and chapter
• ProCon.org Open Access
  "Promoting critical thinking, education, and informed citizenship by presenting controversial issues in a straightforward, nonpartisan primarily pro-con format."
• Scopus
  Peer-reviewed research | Citations and abstracts | Science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities | Search for cited references and author and affiliation profiles | Data from over 22,000 journals and over 150,000 books | Track, analyze, and visualize scholarly research | Create an account to save searches and set up email alerts
• Wiley Online Library eBooks
  Over 3000 ebooks from Wiley from 2017-2021 across 60+ subject areas | May be used as course materials or for course reserves | Unlimited access through June 30, 2021 | Provided through Booth Library's CARLI consortium membership