ABI/Inform covers business and management topics, with articles from 2,947 U.S. and international titles from 1971-present. Selected full text. |
Academic Search Elite provides abstracts from almost 3,500 periodicals in the social sciences, humanities, general science, multicultural studies, and others, with full text articles from 2,050 titles. Coverage is from 1985-present. |
AccessScience is the online version of the 9th edition of the McGraw-Hill Online Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. In addition to encyclopedic articles on science and technology, this resource includes recent research developments, biographies of scientists, science and technology news, illustrations, learning resources, and links to web sites. |
ACM Digital Library contains the full text of articles from over 30 ACM journals. You can also access conference proceedings. Journals in this collection, which date back to the 1950s, cover computer and information science. |
The American Chemical Society Publications include the full texts of more than thirty periodicals in chemistry and related disciplines. |
The online version of the American Journal of Physics from 1993 to the present. |
American National Biography offers information on 18,000 men and women -- from all eras and walks of life -- whose lives have shaped the United States. Published in 1999, the ANB is updated quarterly. |
AMICO is an online resource for images of over 73,000 works of art. Records for items include dimensions, materials and techniques, and ownership information. Works date from the BC era up to modern times, and include paintings, sculptures, textiles, manuscripts, jewelry, and other items from all over the world. |
The full text of the nine most recent volumes of Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics. In addition, there are citations from 1970-1995. |
The full text of the five most recent volumes of Annual Review of Genetics, with citations available from 1967-1999. |
The full text of Annual Review of Microbiology published from 1996-present is available, as are citations from articles published from 1947 to 1995. |
The full text of the Annual Review of Physiology spans 1997-present, with citations of articles from 1939-1996 also available. |
There are four Annual Reviews in the area of biology that are available full-text: Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, Annual Review of Genetics, Annual Review of Microbiology, and Annual Review of Physiology. The contents of the entire Annual Review series can be searched, but not accessed, from this site. |
ArticleFirst is a general source for science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture. Over 16,000 titles are included, from 1990-present. |
ARTstor is a collection of about 300,000 about 300,000 digital images of paintings, photos, architectural works, sculptures, and design pieces from around the world from all time periods. Images appear in a separate window; make sure that any pop-up blockers are disabled before accessing this database. |
ATLA Religion is designed to support religious and theological scholarship. This international database covers such topics as Biblical studies, world religions, Church history, and religious perspectives on social issues. Through ATLA you can gain access to full-text articles in ATLAS (ATLA Serials Database). |
Biography and Genealogy Master Index (BGMI) indexes any print resource containing biographical information on people from all time periods, geographical locations and fields of endeavor. BGMI can also index items from other indexes, such as Literary Index. |
Book Review Index is a guide to book reviews published back to 1965, with over five million review citations from thousands of publications. |
The Encyclopedia Britannica online also includes Britannica's Internet Guide and Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. |
Business Source Elite contains selected full text from over 1,100 journals in business, management, economics, finance, banking, accounting, and related areas. Coverage is from 1985 to present. |
Chicago Tribune gets you to the full text (excluding advertisements) from 1985-date. |
CIA World Factbook is a Central Intelligence Agency publication providing country information: background, geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, military, transnational issues, and maps. |
CINAHL covers literature related to nursing, kinesiology, and allied health professionals. |
CLASE and PERIODICA is a combination of two different indexes covering Latin American journals in the social sciences, sciences, the humanities, and Pan-American issues. CLASE and PERIODICA accesses citations in 2,600 scholarly journals published in English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese. CLASE covers 1975-present, while PERIODICA covers 1978-present. |
Clinical Pharmacology contains current relevant information for all U.S. prescription drugs, herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter medications, and new or experimental drugs. Drugs may be searched by their generic or brand names. |
Cochrane Collection accesses full-text articles from both the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR) as well as the Cochrane Review Groups (CRG). In addition, there are protocols pertaining to the effects of healthcare. This database is useful for finding information on evidence-based medicine and is a valuable resource for statistics and studies. |
CollegeSource is a handy tool for finding out information on a variety of colleges, CollegeSource allows you to look at past and present course catalogs from 2-year, 4-year, and graduate schools from all over the world. |
ComAbstracts contains abstracts of over 50,000 articles published in the communication(s) field. |
CMMC covers a variety of areas pertaining to communication and mass media. The product of a merging of CommSearch and Mass Media Articles Index, CMMC contains the full text of over 200 titles in addition to citations to several other types of documents. |
Communication Institute for Online Scholarship (CIOS) supports the use of computer technologies in the service of communication scholarship and education. Their web site includes a resource library, electronic conferences, tables of contents for current communications journals, the Visual Communication Concept Explorer, and much more. |
CQ Researcher covers current and controversial issues. Provides summaries, analysis, and bibliographies. |
CultureGrams Online allows access to a plethora of cultural information on over 180 countries and territories throughout the world. In addition to statistics, maps, and images, you can also look at cultural recipes. |
The EBSCO databases include Academic Search Elite, Business Source Elite, Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition, ERIC, PsycINFO, RILM, SocIndex, ATLA Religion, CMMC, Cochrane Collection, Clinical Pharmacology, Newspaper Source, NoveList, NoveList K-8, Regional Business News, Military and Government Collection, and many others. |
Electronic Collections Online (ECO) covers a variety of subject areas, all with full text articles online from over 5,400 sources. Articles are presented in page image formats (mostly PDF). Coverage is from 1995-present. |
Encyclopedia of Animals, written in an elementary-school reading level, offers in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals; includes articles and some images of animals. |
ERIC via EBSCO is a key source for education information. Allows users to access articles from scholarly as well as professional periodicals, in addition to ERIC documents. Many articles are available in full-text, and there are links to full-text ERIC documents available. |
ERIC via FirstSearch is a key source for education information. Allows users to access articles from scholarly as well as professional periodicals, in addition to ERIC documents. Many articles are available in full-text, and there are links to full-text ERIC documents available. |
The website for the Education Resource Information Center (ERIC) allows users to access the full text of more that 107,000 ERIC documents released between 1993 and 2004. To use this website most efficiently, you will need the ERIC document number (e.g., ED425001) of the material you wish to retrieve. Use ERIC to find ERIC documents and their numbers. |
FindLaw is an index and search engine for legal information on the web. |
The FirstSearch databases include ArticleFirst, ABI/Inform, WilsonSelectPlus, WorldCat, Periodical Abstracts, Electronic Collections Online, and SILC. |
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia is an encyclopedia aimed primarily at elementary and middle school students. |
Gale Virtual Reference Library contains the full-text of several print reference books, allowing you access to key reference sources without having to be in the library. Titles include the Encyclopedia of Education, the St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, and the Encyclopedia of Sociology. |
GPO Monthly Catalog contains records on all subjects of interest to the U.S. government. |
Grove Dictionary of Art provides online access to the entire text of the renown print source, and covers all aspects of the visual arts worldwide from prehistory to the 1990s. |
HarpWeek is a collection of the 19th century periodical Harper's Weekly, covering the years from 1857-1877. It includes full-page images of each issue, including cartoons, editorials, news, illustrations, and advertisements. |
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition contains selective full-text access to nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. |
Illinet Online is the "card catalog" of the A.C. Buehler Library. Use this resource to find books, journal titles, movies, and music owned by Elmhurst College, and information about items located in 65 academic libraries in Illinois. |
The Journal of Applied Physics is the archival journal of the American Institute of Physics (AIP), presenting significant finds in applied physics. It is issued twice monthly. |
JSTOR is an electronic archive of titles, often going back to the first issue of a journal's existence. Articles can be found in the following collections: Arts and Sciences I, II, III, IV, and Complement; General Science, and Biological Science. JSTOR does not include current issues of journals. |
Lexis-Nexis Academic provides full text access to over 5,600 news, business, legal, and reference sources. |
Lexis-Nexis Statistical provides a wealth of information from 1,000 of the best statistical publications. Statistics come from a variety of resources, such as the World Bank and the U.S. Federal Government. Provides access to the Statistical Abstract of the United States as well. |
Literary Index is an online index to the entirety of the approximately 130 print Gale products, including Contemporary Literary Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Drama Criticism, and Short Story Criticism. There are almost 150,000 authors and nearly 200,000 titles indexed. |
Literature Resource Center combines a variety of key literary resources, including MLA International Bibliography, the Scribner Writers Series, Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature, Contemporary Authors Online, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, Scribner Writers Series, and the Dictionary of Literary Biography. |
MAS-Ultra, School Edition, designed for high school libraries, provides articles from over 700 popular publications dating back to 1975. Every article is assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). This database also includes book reviews, health pamphlets, reference books and an extensive image collection. Useful for Education majors. |
MathSciNet covers the world's mathematical literature since 1940, providing Web access to the signed reviews and bibliographic data from Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications. It also provides links to original articles and other original documents. |
MedLine is an international index to all areas of medicine, dating back to 1965. Over 9,500 titles are indexed, and substantial abstracts are included. |
Military and Government Collection offers current news on all branches of the military, including a collection of military titles, trade publications and newsweeklies; also provides full text for almost 400 periodicals. Some publications in this database are FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin and Military Technology. Full text from 1975-present. |
MLA International Bibliography is an international index to literature, languages, linguistics, film, and folklore from 1963 to the present. It is now a part of Gale's Literature Resource Center, but can be accessed independently. |
The MLS Union List of Serials is a listing of over 10,000 magazines and journals held by 173 libraries in the Metropolitan Library System. Use this source to discover what libraries carry a particular magazine or journal. |
The National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Abstracts Database contains references to over 180,000 articles and reports on criminal justice topics; includes a few links to full text documents. |
Naxos provides access to over 85,000 music tracks from the Marco Polo, Dacapo, and Naxos catalogs. Users can listen to audio tracks of classical, jazz, world, folk, and Chinese music. Besides providing streaming audio, the database also provides biographical information on musicians and composers as well as notes on the music itself. |
NetLibrary is a collection of over 22,000 full-text electronic books available to Elmhurst College students, faculty, and staff. Books can be browsed or checked out for four hours at a time. To be able to access NetLibrary books from off-campus, you must first create a NetLibrary username while on the Elmhurst College campus. |
Grove Music Online includes the full text of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, as well as the New Grove Dictionary of Opera and the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. You can find information on all aspects of music and musicians. |
New York Times allows you to access the full text from 1995 - present; it also includes index back to 1990. |
Newspaper Source contains selected full text of articles from more than 200 U.S. and international newspapers, including over 200 regional papers. |
NoveList is a resource that assists fiction readers in finding new authors and titles, from a list of 125,000 fiction titles. |
NoveList K-8, an offshoot of NoveList, specializes helping children and young adults discover new authors and titles to read. |
Oxford English Dictionary is the historical dictionary of the English language. |
PapersFirst indexes papers included in congresses, conferences, expositions, workshops, symposiums, and meetings, dating from 1993 to the present. |
PDR Electronic Library includes the Physicians' Desk Reference (PDR), Stedman's Medical Dictionary, the PDR for Nonprescription Drugs and Dietary Supplements, the PDR for Opthalmic Medicines, and the PDR for Herbal Medicines. |
Periodical Abstracts is an index to over 2,000 general and academic journals in business, current affairs, economics, literature, religion, psychology, women's studies, and others, from 1987 to present. Selected full text. |
Periodicals Content Index Full Text (PCI Full Text) is an online periodical archive that provides the full image of periodical articles in the humanities and social sciences, from 1770 to 1995 for hundreds of periodicals. |
Physical Review Online Archive includes Physical Review Letters (1958-1998), Reviews of Modern Physics (1929-1998), Physical Review Special Topics (1998-present), Physical Review Series I (1893-1912), Physical Review Series II (1913-1969), Physical Review Series III (Physical Review A, B, C, D, and E). |
Primary Search, designed for elementary school libraries and public libraries, contains articles from over 60 popular elementary school magazines as well as student pamphlets. Full text from 1989-present, with abstracts back to 1984. All articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Also includes over 100,000 images. Useful for Education majors. |
ProceedingsFirst contains citations of congresses, symposiums, conferences, expositions, workshops, and meetings, from 1993 to the present. |
Professional Development Collection, designed for professional educators, provides journal articles, many of which are peer-reviewed. Journals include Curriculum Administrator, Educational Leadership, High School Journal, Journal of Learning Disabilities, Phi Delta Kappan, Reading Teacher, and others. |
Project MUSE is an online library of over 300 journals from 60 scholarly publishers. Some full text dates back to 1993 to the present. Journals in this collection cover primarily the arts and humanities, and the social sciences. |
The ProQuest databases include CINAHL; ProQuest Nursing, Psychology, and Education Complete; the Chicago Tribune, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal; and the Historical New York Times and Chicago Tribune. |
ProQuest Education Complete contains more than 700 titles on education--including primary, secondary, and university-level topics--with nearly 300 in full text. Coverages is from 1988 to the present. |
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chicago Tribune includes every issue from 1890 to 1984. For current issues, use Chicago Tribune, which provides access to articles from 1985-present. |
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Times includes the entire run of the paper, dating back to the first issue in 1851 and ending in 2001. For current issues, use New York Times, which provides access to articles from 1995-present. |
ProQuest Nursing Journals accesses almost 500 leading full-text journals in nursing and allied health. |
ProQuest Psychology Journals accesses nearly over 500 titles academic journals in psychology and related fields, all in full text. |
PsycARTICLES includes the full text of 45 American Psychological Association (APA) journals as well as 8 from allied organizations. Coverage goes back to 1985. |
PsycINFO covers professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, and other areas. There are 2,000 titles dating back to 1805. Linked full text is available. |
Regional Business News has full-text articles from 75 regional business publications from throughout the United States, including Crain's Chicago Business. |
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature has almost 300,000 entries pertaining to vocal and musical instruments; historical and ethnomusicology; notation, theory, criticism, and analysis; pedagogy; liturgy, dance, and other interdisciplinary studies of music and related areas. |
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy includes over 2000 original articles from over 1300 international experts across the discipline of philosophy. The articles cover Anglo-American, ethical and political, cross-cultural, interdisciplinary, continental and contemporary philosophy. |
Our subscription to the Digital Sanborn Maps includes most towns and cities in Illinois. The maps contain information such as the outline of each building, the size, shape and construction materials, heights, and location of windows and doors. The maps also give street names, sidewalk widths, property boundaries, building use, and house numbers. |
ScienceDirect (Psychology) provides indexing to its entire library. In addition, there is access to full-text articles in almost 200 psychology journals, with coverage dating to the early 20th century. Besides listing articles that are already in print, ScienceDirect also lists articles that are about to be published. |
Searchasaurus, aimed at the primary grades, searches Primary Search, Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, Encyclopedia of Animals, and the American Heritage Children's Dictionary. |
SILC (Statewide Illinois Library Catalog) is a catalog of materials from many of the 12 library systems in Illinois. Use SILC to find information about items located in libraries in the Metropolitan Library System, (including Elmhurst Public Library) and other local public libraries. |
SocINDEX contains more than 1,300,000 records as well as abstracts for over 2,500 journals, as well as conference papers, books, and monographs. Topics covered include urban studies, anthropology, criminology and criminal justice, ethnic and racial studies, marriage and the family, social psychology, and sociological theory. |
SPIN Web (Searchable Physics Information Notices) is a continually updated database of over one million abstracts in the physical sciences from 1975 to the present. |
Stat-USA is a service of the U.S. Department of Commerce, providing information of interest to the U.S. business, economic, and trade community. |
Testing & Education Reference Center allows users to take online practice entrance tests such as the Graduate Record Examination (GRE), the College Level Examination Program (CLEP), and the Law School Admissions Test (LSAT). Users can also search for graduate programs and scholarships, sign up for recruitment programs, and get advice on admissions essays. |
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The ValueLine Investment Survey Standard Edition provides information on about 1,700 stocks, as well as more than 90 industries, the overall stock market, and the economy. The latest twelve issues are available. On the Welcome screen, click on the bright red link labeled "Subscriber Log On.", then, click the link for the "Standard Edition." |
Wall Street Journal allows you to access the full text of the paper from 1984 to the present. |
Whatis.com is a dictionary of computing and networking terms. |
Wilson Education Abstracts indexes and summarizes articles from over 400 education journals. Links to full text are available. |
WilsonSelectPlus covers the social sciences, humanities, business, general science, as well as current issues. There are almost 1,700 sources dating back to 1994. All full text. |
World Almanac includes the contents of the World Almanac and Book of Facts, World Almanac of the U.S.A., World Almanac of Politics, World Almanac for Kids, and Funk & Wagnall's New Encyclopedia. Coverage dates back to 1998. |
WorldCat is a combined catalog of more than 34,000 libraries worldwide. |
xreferplus is an online collection of over 150 reference books, containing the full text of titles covering a wide range of subjects, from accounting to philosophy. |
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