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• 18thConnect Open Access
  Online finding aid | Scholarly community | Eighteenth-century literary & historical studies
• 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.
• 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
• ACS Publications Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  Publications by the American Chemical Society | ACS Style Guide | Applied Chemistry | Biochemistry | Macromolecular Chemistry | Organic Chemistry | Physical, Inorganic, and Analytical Chemistry
• ADS Abstract Service Open Access Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  The Astrophysics Data System (ADS) | Citations with Some Fulltext | Astronomy and Astrophysics | Physics and Geophysics | ArXiv Preprints
• African American Newspapers: The 19th Century
  Topics: Fulltext Articles | African-American Newspapers | 1800`s
• AGRICOLA Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  Citations and Abstracts | National Agricultural Library collections | Agriculture and Allied Disciplines | Agricultural Economics | Aquaculture and Fisheries | Animal and Veterinary Sciences | Botany | Entomology | Farming and Farming Systems | Forestry | Articles are available through the Get Full Text link | Primarily 1970 to Present
• Alexander Street Video
  Streaming Video | American History in Video | Counseling and Therapy in Video I & II | Dance in Video | Ethnographic Video Online: Volume I | Filmmakers Library Online | LGBT Studies Online | New World Cinema: Independent Features and Shorts, 1990 to Present | World History in Video | Browse Collections Available at EIU
• America: History and Life Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  Topics: United States History | Pre-Colonial Era to Present | Canadian History
• American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection
  American periodicals published between 1684 and 1912
• American Black Journal (Television Program) Open Access
  Streaming Video | Television Programs Presenting African American Perspectives | 1968-2002
• American Council on Education Open Access
  Newsletter providing up-to-date information on national higher education issues and federal and state actions that affect colleges and universities.
• American History in Video
  (Primary/Secondary Sources) Streaming Video | United States History | Documentaries | Archival Footage | Newsreels | Public Affairs Footage
• American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library Open Access
  United States history
• American Periodicals Series Online
  Topics: American Magazines | 1740`s - Early 1900`s
• American Popular Entertainment Collection Open Access
  Historic newspapers and trade journals published for the entertainment industry in the US between 1853 and 1929. These works include trade perspectives, features, and travel information on vaudeville, music performance, burlesque, and other popular forms of entertainment of the period.
• Applied Science and Technology Abstracts Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  Topics: Wide Variety of Applied Science & Technology Specialties | Computers | Green Technologies | Renewable Energy | Materials Sciences | Textiles | Manufacturing | Engineering
• APS Journal Search Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  American Physical Society Journals | Some Fulltext Articles
• ArchiveGrid
  Subset of WorldCat helpful for Identifying Collections Held in Archives | Historical Documents | Personal Papers | Family Histories
• Art Abstracts Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  Topics: Book Reviews | Film Reviews | Emerging Artists | Reproductions of Works of Art | Non-Western Art | Television | Textiles
• Article1st
  Citations for Journal Articles | General Topics
• ARTSEARCH
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  Topics: Careers in the Arts | Administration | Artistic | Production/Design | Career Development | Education
• arXiv.org Open Access Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  E-print service | Physics | Mathematics | Non-Linear Science | Computer Science | Quantitative Biology
• ASTM Compass
  ASTM Standards | Search, browse, view, print, and compare standards | Research reports, selected journals, technical papers, materials, and monographs from ASTM
• Biological & Agricultural Index Plus Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  Topics: Agriculture | Biological Sciences | Botany | Environmental Science | Zoology | 1983 to Present
• Biosis Previews Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  Comprehensive Biological Sciences Database | 1969 to 2019 | Citations and Abstracts | Agriculture | Aquatic Sciences | Biochemistry | Biophysics | Biotechnology | Botany | Cell Biology | Developmental Biology | Ecology | Entomology | Genetics and Genomics | Medicine | Microbiology | Molecular Biology | Pharmacology | Physiology | Zoology | Articles are available through the Get Full Text link
• Black Thought and Culture
  Non-Fiction Writings by Notable African Americans | Includes Previously Unpublished and Fugitive Materials | Date Range from 1700-2006
• British Periodicals
  Topics: British History and Culture | 1680s to the 1930s
• Business Source Elite Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  Topics: Business | Management | Economics | Finance | Banking | Accounting | Company Profiles & Financials
• 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
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  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.
• Daily Eastern News Archive Open Access
  Fulltext Articles | 1960-Present | Citations Indexed From 1914 to Present
• Dance in Video
  Streaming Video | Ballet | Tap | Jazz | Contemporary | Experimental | Improvisational Dance | Pioneers of Modern Dance
• Demographics and Consumer Behavior
  Reference sources from the Gale Virtual Reference Library, covering US demographics, consumer behavior, and purchasing/spending trends.
• Digital Image Collections Open Access
  Various digital photograph resources either created by or licensed to Booth Library.
• Digital Library of Illinois (formerly MyMediaMall) Open Access
  Check out and download audiobooks, ebooks, and videos using your library ID.
• Disaster Lit Open Access
  Expert guidelines | research reports | conference proceedings | training classes | fact sheets
• Dissertations and Theses (WorldCat)
  Over 8 million records representing all dissertations, theses and published material based on theses and dissertations cataloged in WorldCat.
• Documenting the American South Open Access
  Fulltext Digital Collections | Colonial Period Through the First Decades of the 20th Century | Primary Sources | Diaries | Letters
• Drugs, Supplements and Herbal Information from MedlinePlus Open Access
  Prescriptions | Over-the-Counter Medicines | Herbs and Supplements
• Early Americas Digital Archive Open Access
  Early American Fiction & Nonfiction | 1492 to about 1820
• Early English Books Online (EEBO)
  Fulltext | Digitized facsimile reproductions of Virtually Every Work Printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America | 1473-1700
• Early English Books Online (EEBO) Text Creation Partnership Open Access
  Public domain downloadable text files of 25,000+ titles from EEBO. This is the public release of phase I of the EEBO TCP
• eBooks on EBSCOhost
  Search and view over 6,500 e-book titles on a variety of topics, including business, computer science, criminal justice, education, general reference, management, nursing and health, political science, psychology, talent development, and more. Includes Shakespeare's plays and other titles from Project Gutenberg.
• EBSCO Databases for Counseling Research
  Cross-search selected EBSCO article databases for topics in Counseling.
• EBSCO Databases Selected for Communication Disorders & Sciences Research Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  Cross-search selected EBSCO article databases for topics in Communication Disorders & Sciences
• EBSCOhost Mobile
  EBSCOhost Mobile is tailor-made for the smaller screens of mobile devices, and offers the most important EBSCOhost features and functionality, right in the palm of your hand! EBSCOhost Mobile is compatible with BlackBerry, Dell Axiom, iPhone, and Palm 750.
• EconLit Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  Citations and abstracts for articles from international journals, books, dissertations and working papers.
• EconPapers Open Access
  Over 450,000 Working Papers | Access Varies | Some Free | Some Require Subscription
• EDGAR database Open Access
  Security & Exchange Commission | Corporate Information | Financial Information | Review Forms 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K
• Electronic Library of Mathematics Open Access Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  Online journals, proceedings, monographs, and classic works in Mathematics. All are in electronic form and free of charge.
• Encyclopedia of Environmetrics
  A comprehensive source of relevant fundamental concepts in environmetric research, development and applications for statisticians, mathematicians, economists, environmentalists, ecologist, government officials and policy makers.
• 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.
• English Short-Title Catalog Open Access
  The English Short-Title Catalog (ESTC) is designed to include a bibliographic record, with holdings, of every surviving copy of books, pamphlets and other ephemeral materials produced in Great Britain or any of its dependencies, in any language, worldwide, from 1473-1800.
• ERIC.gov Open Access Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  Largest Education Database | Peer-Reviewed Articles | Submitted Documents and Reports | Pre-K-12 Education | Postsecondary Education | Continuing Education | Special Education | ELL | Counseling | Gender & Education
• ERIC/EBSCO Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  Largest Education Database | Articles | Documents and Reports | Pre-K-12 Education | Postsecondary Education | Continuing Education | Special Education | ELL | Counseling | Gender & Education | Speech Disorders in Children
• ERIC/OVID Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  Largest Education Database | Peer-Reviewed Articles | Submitted Documents and Reports | Pre-K-12 Education | Postsecondary Education | Continuing Education | Special Education | ELL | Counseling | Gender & Education
• 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
• European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750
  A bibliographic index for libraries, scholars and individuals interested in early European works that relate to the Americas. The database contains more than 32,000 entries and is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750.
• Evidence Analysis Library
  Evidence-based nutrition practice guidelines | Systematic reviews | Position papers | Limited to 2 simultaneous users
• Facts on File Dictionary of Earth Science
  Online Dictionary | Earth Science Terminology
• Farm, Field and Fireside Collection Open Access
  Historically significant U.S. farm weeklies published in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
• 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
• Films on Demand
  Streaming Video | Family and Consumer Science | Nursing
• Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
  Online Encyclopedia | General Topics
• Gale eBooks on Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL)
  Gale eBooks on Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL) is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
• Gale Literature (formerly Gale Artemis Literary Sources)
  Topics: Literary Criticism for Authors and their Works | Cross-searchable with Children's Literature Review - Dictionary of Literary Biography - Gale Literature - Something About the Author | Great Sources of Information about the Lives of Authors and their Works
• Gale Primary Sources
  Cross search Gale Primary Sources | 19th Century British Theatre, Music, and Literature | 19th Century Women's Transnational Networks | 19th Century UK Periodicals | London Times Digital Archive | 19th Century US Newspapers
• GARD Genetic and Rare Disease Information Center Open Access
  Causes | Symptoms | Prognosis | Treatments | Daily Life | Research
• GeoRef Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  Comprehensive Geosciences Database | Journal Articles | Maps | Government Reports | Economic Geology | Engineering Geology | Environmental Geology | Geochemistry | Geophysics | Hydrology | Marine Geology and Oceanography | Mineralogy | Paleontology | Petrology | Articles available through the Get Full Text link
• 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
• Godey's Lady's Book
  American Magazine Published for Women 1830-1898 | Fashion | Literature | Health and Hygiene | Recipes | Handicrafts | Color Plates best viewed in Chrome Browser
• 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.
• GovInfo Open Access
  Free public access to the full text of official publications from all three branches of the US Federal Government.
• GPO Monthly Catalog
  Find Federal Government Publications | Coverage from 1976-Present | Links to Online Publications and Federal Depository Libraries
• 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.
• Grove Music Online
  The most comprehensive reference for all aspects of music. Over 29,000 articles on music, musical instruments and musicians from the past and present. Oxford Music Online provides the access point for Grove Music. Please LOGOUT when you finish a session so another user may access the database.
• Harper's Weekly
  Fulltext Articles | 1857-1889
• Health Reference Online (Omnigraphics)
  Basic consumer health information on the causes, symptoms and treatments for a disease or disorder.
• Health Source: Consumer Edition
  General Health Topics | Consumer Information | Nutrition | Childcare | Sports Medicine | Wellness | Exercise
• Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  Medical Topics | Treatments | Research | Nursing | Allied Health
• 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
• HeinOnline: Gun Regulation and Legislation in America
  Gun Control | Legislative histories | Congressional Research Service reports | Hearings | Supreme Court briefs | Related materials
• HeinOnline: Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture, & Law
  Slavery | United States & English-speaking world | Statutes | State and federal legal cases | Books and pamphlets
• Historical Abstracts Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  Topics: World History | Excluding the United States and Canada
• 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.
• Hospitality & Tourism Complete Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  Topics: Hospitality | Tourism | Culinary Arts | Leisure | Business Travel Hotel Management | International Foods | Tourist Destinations
• How Products are Made Open Access
  Explains and details the manufacturing process of a wide variety of products. The site provides step by step descriptions of the assembly and manufacturing process. There is related information for each product including how the item works, who invented the product and possible future developments.
• 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
• Illinois Digital Newspaper Collection Open Access
  Historic Illinois Newspapers | 1831-1975 | Urbana Daily Courier | Sangamo Journal | University of Illinois collegiate newspaper The Daily Illini | And More
• Illinois General Assembly Open Access
  Current Information | Bill Status | Full Text of Current and Pending Legislation | Voting Records | Public Acts | Illinois Compiled Statutes | Illinois Constitution | Members & Committees | Transcripts for Senate & House | Legislative Reports and More
• Illinois Sanborn Insurance Maps
  Insurance Maps of Illinois Towns and Cities from 1867 to 1970 | Placement of Homes and Businesses | Building Sizes and Addresses | Property Boundaries, etc.
• Illinois.gov Open Access
  Official State of Illinois Web Portal | Find State Agency Information by Topic and Agency | Programs | Services | Contact Information
• IMF eLibrary Open Access
  Digital library from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) with over 21,000 online publications. As of January 1, 2020, the IMF eLibrary became available to the public at no charge.
• In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience Open Access
  The Web site is organized around thirteen defining migrations in America | Illustrations | Maps | Lesson Plans | Related Web Sites
• International Monetary Fund eLibrary Data Open Access
  Data and Statistics | International Finance | Domestic Finance | Economics | International Payments | Inflation | Exchange Rates | Interest rates | Banking | Prices | Production
• IPA Source
  International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts.
• IsisCB Explore Open Access
  A research tool for the history of science, whose core dataset comes from bibliographical citations in the Isis Bibliography of the History of Science. The IsisCB currently contains 40 years of citation data from 1974 to 2014.
• Issues and Controversies On File
  This database combines analysis and explanations of opposing points of view for current and historical events. It includes chronologies, illustrations, maps, tables, sidebars, bibliographies and contact information. 
• JFK Assassination Records - 2017 Additional Documents Release Open Access
  National Archives and Records Administration release of documents previously withheld in accordance with the JFK Assassination Records Collection Act. See also The official Warren Commission report on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy - Call number E842.9 .A55 1964x, 3000 Level, Booth Library
• JSTOR Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  Scholarly Journal Articles and Book Chapters | Broad Range of Disciplines in the Humanities, Social Sciences & Field Sciences
• 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.
• Kanopy Streaming Videos on CounselingResearch 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.
• Lakeview College of Nursing Databases Open Access
  Students in the Lakeview College of Nursing-EIU Cooperative Nursing Program may use this link to access databases at the Danville Campus.
• LGBT Studies in Video
  Streaming Video | LGBT political, cultural and social movements throughout the twentieth century and into the present day.
• Library Literature and Information Science Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  Book Reviews | Library Management | Library Automation | Cataloging | Censorship | Public Services | Preservation of Materials | History of the Book | Reference Services
• London Lives 1690-1800 Open Access
  London Lives has been designed to facilitate historical research on poverty, crime and illness, and on social conditions, as reflected in institutional records.
• Making of America (Cornell University) Open Access
  Fulltext Articles | Primary Sources | American Social History | Roughly 1800-1925
• Making of America (University of Michigan) Open Access
  Fulltext Books | Primary Sources | Education | Religion | History | Sociology | Technology | Science | Roughly 1800-1925
• MAS Ultra-School Edition
  For High School Students | Full-Text Articles from 500 Popular Publications
• MasterFILE Premier
  This multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,750 general reference publications 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 164,424 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 453,000 photos, maps & flags.
• MathSciNet Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  Abstracts, reviews, and citations for Mathematics books, articles, and conference proceedings.
• MathSciNet/EBSCO Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  Abstracts, reviews, and citations for Mathematics books, articles, and conference proceedings. May be cross-searched with EBSCOhost databases on technology and education topics.
• MEDLINE Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  Topics: Medicine | Communication Disorders | Health | Nutrition | Psychology | Nursing
• MedlinePlus Open Access
  MedlinePlus is the National Institutes of Health's Web site for patients and their families and friends. You can use MedlinePlus to learn about the latest treatments, look up information on a drug or supplement, find out the meanings of words, or view medical videos or illustrations. You can also get links to the latest medical research on your topic or find out about clinical trials on a disease or condition.
• Mental Measurements Yearbook indexed by Buros Test Reviews Online Open Access
  Use the Buros Test Reviews Online free search site to identify test reviews in Mental Measurements Yearbooks located in the Reference Room Ref. Z5814.P8 R93
• Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print
  Guide to over 3000 contemporary test instruments | Evaluations of testing products | Comprehensive bibliography of commercially available English-language tests
• Mergent FIS
  US company data | International company data | Annual reports
• MetaLib: Search US Federal Government Databases Open Access
  Cross-searches US Government Databases | Archival Databases | AGRICOLA Books | AUL Index to Military Periodicals | Catalog of US Govt Pubs | EPA Publications | FDsys | Govinfo | Library of Congress | PubMed | USA.gov
• Military & Government Collection
  Current News | All Branches of the Military | Government Agencies
• MLA International Bibliography Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  Topics: Criticism of Authors & Their Works | Fiction | Short Stories | Drama | Poetry | Rhetoric & Composition | Literary Theory | History, Theory and Practice of Teaching Language and Literature | Includes Indexing for Book Chapters and Dissertations in the Discipline
• Modernist Journals Project Open Access
  Topics: Fulltext Modernist Journals | New Age (1907-1922) | Dana (1904-1905) | Rhythm (1911-13) | Blast (1914-15) | The Owl (1915-1923)| The Blue Review (1913) | The Tyro (1921-1922) | And More!
• Mometrix e-Library
  Study guides | Practice tests | Flash cards | Over 1800 in all | Test prep materials for GMAT, GRE, HESI, ILTS, LSAT, MCAT, NCLEX, LSAT, GMAT, MCAT | Topics include Business, Careers, College admissions and placement, Construction, Counseling, English Language, Finance, Grad school, K12, Medical professional, Medical technology, Nursing, Nutrition, Personal fitness, Public service and legal, Teaching
• Morningstar Investment Research Center
  Real-time access to data | Independent analysis | Stocks| Mutual funds | Exchange-traded funds | Closed-end funds
  Limited to ONE user at a time. Please log out when you are finished
  
• Music Index Online Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  The Music Index, produced by Harmonie Park Press, is the single most comprehensive annual subject-author guide to music literature. Published since 1949, The Music Index contains surveyed data from more than 725 international music periodicals from over 40 countries in 23 languages.
• MyMediaMall (Digital Library of Illinois)
  Check out and download audiobooks, ebooks, and videos using your library ID. Note: the name for this collection changed to Digital Library of Illinois on 7/1/19.
• 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
• OAIster
  A union catalog of more than 19 million digital resources from over 1,000 organizations developed by the University of Michigan and harvested using OAI-PMH (the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting).
• Occupational Outlook Handbook Open Access
  Profiles of hundreds of occupations that describe What They Do, Work Environment, How to Become One, Pay, and more.
• 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.
• Ornithological Worldwide Literature (OWL) Open Access
  OWL is a compilation of citations and abstracts from the worldwide journals, conference proceedings, reports, and doctoral dissertations that pertain to the science of ornithology.(Generally 1953-present)
• Oxford English Dictionary
  English Words | Meaning | History | Pronunciation | Quotations
• 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
• Oxford Handbooks Online: Political Science Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  In-depth scholarly articles from online handbooks | Research and current thinking on major Political Science topics | 36 ebooks in collection | Searchable and browsable by book and chapter
• PapersFirst
  Citations for papers presented at worldwide meetings, conferences, expositions, workshops, congresses and symposia. Papers1st contains a separate record for each paper listed in a Proceedings1st record (October 1993 to the present). Updated monthly.
• Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728-1800
  Published in Philadelphia from 1728 through the early 1800`s | Benjamin Franklin`s Newspaper | Firsthand View of Colonial America
• Philosopher's Index Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  Topics: Aesthetics | Axiology | Epistemology | Ethics | Logic | Metaphilosophy | Metaphysics | Philosophical Anthropology | Philosophy of Education, History, Language, Religion & Science | Political Philosophy | Social Philosophy
• PLANTS database Open Access
  Standardized Information | U.S. & Territories | Vascular plants | Mosses | Liverworts | Hornworts | Lichens
• PLoS (Public Library of Science) Biology Open Access
  Peer reviewed articles on biological topics
• Plunkett Research Online
  Business and industry data| Market research and trends| Company profiles
• Primary Search
  For Elementary School Students | Popular Topics | Lexile Scores attached to articles
• ProceedingsFirst
  Citations for meetings relating to the papers described in Papers1st (October 1993 to the present). Updated monthly.
• ProCon.org Open Access
  "Promoting critical thinking, education, and informed citizenship by presenting controversial issues in a straightforward, nonpartisan primarily pro-con format."
• Professional Development Collection Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  Topics: Highly Specialized Collection | Pre-K-12 Education | Postsecondary Education | Continuing Education | Special Education | ELL | Counseling
• 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.
• PsycArticles Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  PsycArticles, from the American Psychological Association (APA), is a definitive source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. Contains more than 45,000 articles from 57 journals - 46 published by the APA and 11 from allied organizations. 1985 to present. As of February 2020, this database is now called APA PsycArticles.
• PsycInfo Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  Citations and abstracts of peer-reviewed articles, dissertations, and technical reports on all areas of psychology (1887 to present). Articles are available through the Get Full Text link. As of February 2020, this database is now called APA PsycInfo.
• PubAg Open Access Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  A portal to USDA-authored and other highly relevant agricultural research.
• PubChem Open Access
  PubChem is organized as three linked databases within the NCBI`s Entrez information retrieval system. These are PubChem Substance, PubChem Compound, and PubChem BioAssay. PubChem also provides a fast chemical structure similarity search tool.
• Public Agenda Online Open Access
  Nonprofit Public Opinion Research Organization | Summaries of Current Social Issues | Education | Health Care | Economy | Environment
• PubMed with EIU Electronic Journals Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  Includes MEDLINE | Linked to Booth Library's electronic journals | Topics | Biochemistry | Communication Disorders | Health Care | Medicine | Nursing | Nutrition | Pharmacology | Pre-Clinical Sciences | 1800s to Present
• R2 Digital Library
  Nursing | Radiation Medicine | Allied Health | Books
• RAND Online Publications Open Access
  Nonprofit Think Tank | Summaries of Research | Arts | Child Policy | Civil Justice | Education | Energy and Environment | Health and Health Care | International Affairs | National Security | Population and Aging | Public Safety | Science and Technology | Substance Abuse | Terrorism and Homeland Security | Transportation and Infrastructure | Workforce and Workplace Issues
• Readers' Guide Retrospective
  Index to Popular Magazines | 1890 to 1982 | Some Linked to Fulltext Articles
• RIA Checkpoint
  Tax and financial data | Access available from off-campus during the pandemic
• RILM Abstracts of Music Literature Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  RILM Abstracts of Music Literature is 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.
• Routledge Handbooks Online
  Ebooks and book chapters | Over 140 handbooks from Routledge and CRC Press | Scholarship in a variety of academic fields
• Sage Knowledge E-Reference Collection
  Selected SAGE eBook and eReference content, including scholarly monographs, reference works, handbooks, series, professional development titles, and more. Includes expanded access to full content through 6/30/2020.
• Sage Knowledge E-Reference Collection: Geography, Earth & Environmental Science
  Online Encyclopedias | General Topics in Geography
• Salem Literature Online
  Critical Survey of Long Fiction, 4th edition | Critical Survey of Graphic Novels | Critical Survey of Shakespeare's Sonnets | Magill`s Literary Annual | Selected Titles from the Critical Insights Series
• Salem Science Online
  Contains: Encyclopedia of Environmental Issues & Encyclopedia of Global Issues
• Sanborn Maps of Illinois, 1867-1970
  Insurance Maps of Illinois Towns and Cities from 1867 to 1970 | Placement of Homes and Businesses | Building Sizes and Addresses | Property Boundaries, etc.
• Saskia Art Images
  This collection contains 30,000 digital images of paintings, sculpture and architecture, as well as archaeological sites.
• SciFinder Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  Comprehensive Chemistry Database | Journal Articles | Patents | Structure and Substance Searching | Reaction Searching | Early 1800s to Present
  Access to this database requires user registration.
  Create an account.
• Scitation Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  American Institute of Physics SPIN Database | Major Physical Science Publications
• 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
• SIMBAD Astronomical Database Open Access
  Provides basic data, cross-identifications and bibliography for astronomical objects outside the solar system.
• Social Sciences Abstracts Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  Citations and abstracts of journal articles in all areas of the social sciences (1983 to present).
• South Asia Open Archives (SAOA) on JSTOR Open Access
  Open access materials for the study of South Asia | Primary and secondary sources | Collections on caste & social structure, literature, social & economic history, women & gender | Nearly 350,000 page images in 13 languages | Materials from 25 partner libraries, administered by the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) in partnership with JSTOR
• Spectator Online Open Access
  Scanned and digitised copies of the British weekly magazine The Spectator from July 1828 to December 2008.
• SPORTDiscus Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  Citations and Some Fulltext Articles | Recreation | Leisure Studies | Exercise Physiology | Sports Medicine | Coaching | Physical Fitness | Psychology of Sport | History of Sport | Sociology of Sport | Training Conditioning | Covers 1800 to Present
• Sports Medicine and Education Index (formerly Physical Education Index) Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  Citations and Abstracts | Some Figures and Tables Provided | Physical Education Curricula | Sports Medicine | Dance | Sport Law | Kinesiology | Motor Learning | Recreation | Standardized Fitness Tests | Sports Equipment | Business and Marketing | Coaching and Training | Sport Sociology/Psychology | Articles are available through the Get Full Text link
• Springer eBooks: Architecture, Design and Arts Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  Online Books and Book Chapters | Publication Dates from 2005-2009
• Springer eBooks: Behavioral Science Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  Online Books and Book Chapters | Publication Dates from 2005-2015
• Springer eBooks: Earth and Environmental Science Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  Online Books and Book Chapters | Publication Dates from 2005-2020
• Springer eBooks: Education Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  Online Books | Research Topics | Special Education | Autism | Child Development | Professional Development | Science Education | Innovative Teaching Strategies | Publication Dates from 2005-2020
• Springer eBooks: Political Science Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  Online Books and Book Chapters | Publication Dates from 2005-2020
• Springer eBooks: Professional Computing, Applied Computing and Web Design Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  Online Books and Book Chapters | Publication Dates from 2005-2020
• SpringerLink Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  Full-text E-books and Book Chapters | Publication Dates from 2005-2020
  Peer Reviewed Journals (Some Fulltext)
  
• Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage
  Industry surveys | Stock Reports | Mutual fund/ETF reports | Bond reports| Corporation records
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Open Access
  Scholarly reference source for philosophy
• Statistics of Income & Tax Statistics Open Access
  U. S. Government Information | Statistics | Tables, Articles & Data | U. S. Tax System
• Statutes-at-Large Open Access
  The United States Statutes at Large is the collection of laws passed by the United States Congress, in chronological order. The Law Library of Congress has digitized this collection and aims to make historic Statutes at Large accessible to the public.
• Supreme Court of the United States Open Access
  Opinions | Oral Arguments | Case Documents
• Teacher Reference Center Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  Teacher and Administrator Professional Journals| Assessment | Best Practices | Continuing Education | Curriculum Development | Instructional Media | Literacy Standards | School Administration
• Test Reviews Online (Buros) Open Access
  Provides a way to identify test reviews included in the Mental Measurements Yearbooks located in the Reference Room Ref. Z5814.P8 R93
• Times (London) Digital Archive
  Fulltext Articles | 1785-1985
• U. S. Bureau of Justice Statistics Open Access
  United States Government Information | Statistics | Criminal Justice | Crime | Capital Punishment | Prisons | Domestic Violence
• U. S. Dept. of Labor Open Access
  United States Government Information | Statistics | Employment | Occupations | Workforce | Wages | Disability Resources
• U. S. Energy Information Administration Open Access
  U. S. Government Information | Statistics | Energy Consumption | Fossil Fuels | Natural Gas | Nuclear Power | Renewable Energy | Electricity
• Understanding Shakespeare [BETA] Open Access
  Texts of Shakespeare's Plays | Link to Articles in JSTOR
• USA.gov Open Access
  U.S. Government`s Official Web Portal | Find Government Information by Topic and Agency | Programs | Services | Contact Information
• Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War
  American Civil War | Letters | Diaries | Memoirs | Census Records | Church Records | Government Records | Battle Reports | Speeches | Photographs
• Victorian Database Online
  Comprehensive Bibliography | Books | Articles | Dissertations | 19th Century British Studies
• Victorian Women Writers Project Open Access
  Highly accurate transcriptions of works by British women writers of the 19th century.
• Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database Open Access
  Records of 35,000 Slaving Voyages | 1514 to 1866
• Wall Street Journal (via Global Newsstream)
  Search six Wall Street Journal publications | Eastern Edition | Europe, Brussels | Americas, New York | Asia, Hong Kong | Online Edition | WSJ Magazine | subset of Global Newsstream
• Westlaw Campus Research: Law
  US Supreme Court Cases | Federal Cases | Code of Federal Regulations | Federal Register | State Cases | Current Statutes from all 50 States | Law Journals | Black's Law Dictionary
• 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
• 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.
• Women Working, 1870-1930 Open Access
  Explores women's roles in the US economy between the Civil War and the Great Depression | Harvard University Open Collections Project
• Women's Studies Collection Open Access
  The collection is housed at The Women's Resource Center (WRC) which is located in the basement of Stevenson Hall.
• Womenwatch Open Access
  United Nations documents on women, country information, statistics, etc.
• World Databank Open Access
  Data and Statistics | World Development | Economics | Education | Gender | Health and Nutrition | International Finance | Population | Poverty | Debt | International Migration
• World History in Video
  Streaming Video | Explore Human History | Global in Scope | War | Natural Disasters | Space Exploration | Globalization
• World Newspapers Open Access
  Fulltext Articles | Current Newspapers from Around the World
• World Shakespeare Bibliography Online Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  The World Shakespeare Bibliography Online both cumulates and significantly expands the annual bibliographies in Shakespeare Quarterly.
• WorldCat
  Worldwide catalog of books, web resources, films, sound recordings, maps, and other materials. Updated daily.
• Zoological Record Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  Citations and Abstracts | Animal Biology and Allied Disciplines | Animal Behavior | Aquatic Sciences | Biodiversity | Conservation | Ecology | Evolution | Genetics | Habitat | Nutrition | Parasitology | Reproduction | Taxonomy | Wildlife Management | Zoology | Articles are available through the Get Full Text link | 1978-2016