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- National Archives of the United Kingdom Open Access
1,000 years of British history | Browse popular online collections | Does not include the collections digitised in partnership with commercial publishers. - National Center for Education Statistics Open Access
U. S. Government Information | Statistics | Condition of Education | Digest of Education Statistics | High School Dropout & Completion Rates | Indicators of School Crime | Projections of Education Statistics - National Center for Health Statistics Open Access
U. S. Government Information | Statistics | Births | Deaths | Health | Disease | Exercise & Lifestyle | Intimate Partner Violence | Child Abuse - National Institute for Standards and Technology Open Access
- National Organization of Rare Disorders (NORD) Includes Peer Reviewed Content
Database of Research Reports and Article Citations for over 1,200 Rare Diseases | Information for Patients and Medical Professionals | Advocacy for Rare-Disease Community - Naxos Music Library
Online library for classical music | Streaming access to more than 143,400 CDs plus over 2 million tracks of both standard and rare repertoire | Over 800 new CDs added monthly - Naxos Music Library: Jazz
Online library for jazz music | Streaming access to contents from over 9500 jazz CDs - New Oxford Shakespeare
New consideration of Shakespeare's works | Modern Critical Edition of complete works, with modern spelling | Critical Reference Edition, with original spelling, notes, historical contexts | Authorship Companion, with essays on questions of authorship and chronology - New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics
Over 3000 Economics terms defined and explained | Written by leading experts in the field | Updated regularly - New World Cinema: Major Independent Features and Shorts, 1990 to Present
Streaming Video | 200 Award Winning Feature Films | 50 Award Winning Short Films | Leading Independent Distributors | Presented at Major Film Festivals - New York Times (1980-present)
Search five New York Times publications | Late Edition (East Coast) | International Edition | Book Review | NYT Magazine | Online Edition | subset of Global Newsstream - New York Times (Historical)
Full text articles | 1851-2014 - Newspaper Library, University of Illinois Open Access
Search for newspaper holdings at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the "World`s Largest University Newspaper Library." - Newspaper Source/EBSCO
Fulltext Articles | U. S and International Newspapers - Nineteenth Century Collections Online: British Theatre, Music, and Literature: High and Popular Culture (Gale)
Topics: Arts in the Victorian Era | Playbills | Scripts | Scores | Popular Culture - Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Women: Transnational Networks (Gale)
Women's history | Issues at the intersection of gender and class | Suffrage movements, culture, immigration, health, and more | Late 18th century through early 20th century | Primary sources | Books, journals, manuscripts, diaries, reports, and visuals - 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 - Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals Series I: New Readerships & Series II: Empire (Gale)
(Primary Sources) Topics: Women's | Children's | Humour | Leisure/Sport | Travel and Anthropology | Economics | Missionary and Colonial - Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (NCSE) Open Access
Monthly Repository (1806-1837) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833) | Northern Star (1838-1852) | Leader (1850-1860) | English Woman's Journal (1858-1864) | Tomahawk (1867-1870) | Publishers' Circular (1880-1890) - NoveList K-8 Plus
Subset of Novelist Plus | Readers Advisory Tool | Book Reviews | Learning Center offers Teaching Tools for Classroom Use - NoveList Plus
Readers' Advisory tool | Database for discovery of popular reading titles by genre, theme, subject, author, award-winners, and more | Book Reviews | Includes Fiction and Nonfiction | Adult, YA, and Children's
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- 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. - 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 - 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. - Saskia Art Images
This collection contains 30,000 digital images of paintings, sculpture and architecture, as well as archaeological sites.
Interdisciplinary and Related
- Academic Search Complete Includes Peer Reviewed Content
Topics: Broad Subject Coverage | Area Studies | Ethnic & Multicultural Studies | General Sciences | Social Sciences | Law | Politics & Government | Women`s Studies | Popular Culture | Search Multiple Databases - Business Source Elite Includes Peer Reviewed Content
Topics: Business | Management | Economics | Finance | Banking | Accounting | Company Profiles & Financials - Filmakers Online Library
Streaming Video | Race and Gender | Human Rights | Globalization and Global Studies | Multiculturalism | Criminal Justice | Social Justice | Environmental Issues | Bioethics | Political Science | Current Events | Psychology | Arts | Literature - 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. - Humanities International Complete Includes Peer Reviewed Content
Topics: Authors | Artists | Musicians | Literature & Theater Criticism | Fiction, Short Story, Poetry, Drama Criticism | Photography | Painting | Music | Theater | Graphic Arts | Film | Contemporary Arts | Society & Culture - Project Muse Includes Peer Reviewed Content
Topics: Literature and Criticism | History | Visual and Performing Arts | Theater | Cultural Studies | Education | Philosophy | Religion | Political Science | Gender Studies | Social Sciences. - 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 - Springer eBooks: Architecture, Design and Arts Includes Peer Reviewed Content
Online Books and Book Chapters | Publication Dates from 2005-2009 - 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
