ABI/Inform covers business and management topics, with articles from over 2,000 U.S. and international titles from 1971-present. Selected full text. |
Academic Search Premier provides abstracts from almost 8,200 periodicals in the social sciences, humanities, general science, multicultural studies, and others, with full text articles from nearly 4,650 titles. PDF documents go back to 1975 or further, and almost every topic of study is covered. |
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 35 ACM journals and magazines. You can also access conference proceedings. Covers computer and information science from the 1950s-present. |
The American Chemical Society (ACS) Publications include the full texts of more than 30 periodicals in chemistry and related disciplines. |
The online version of the American Journal of Physics from 1933 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. |
CINAHL Plus with Full Text covers literature related to nursing, kinesiology, and allied health professionals. Provides full text for hundreds of journals; plus legal cases, clinical innovations and trials, and drug records. |
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 indexed from 1990-present. |
ARTstor is a collection of nearly 500,000 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 from 1949-present. Through ATLA you can gain access to full-text articles in ATLASerials. |
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. |
Book Review Index is a guide to book reviews published back to 1965, with over five million review citations from thousands of publications. |
Britannica online contains the entire text of Encyclopaedia Britannica; it also includes Merriam-Webster's Dictionary and Thesaurus. |
Business Source Elite contains selected full text from nearly 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-present. |
CIA World Factbook is a Central Intelligence Agency publication providing country information: background, geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, military, transnational issues, and maps. |
Full text access to current and past issues (through 1995) of the Chronicle of Higher Education. |
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 over 2,700 scholarly journals published in Spanish, Portugues, French and English. 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. |
Classical Music Library is an extensive collection of over 50,000 recordings of classical music, focusing on contemporary classical music and women composers. Pieces come from over 30 music labels. Free registration enables users to create their own playlists. |
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 from 1996-present. Provides summaries, analysis, and bibliographies. |
CultureGrams Online allows access to a plethora of cultural information on 190 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 Premier, Business Source Elite, CINAHL Plus with Full Text, Health Source: Consumer, Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition, ERIC, PsycINFO, RILM, SocIndex, ATLA Religion, CMMC, 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. |
EBSCO 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, WorldCat Dissertations, SILC and others. |
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 more than 50 print reference titles, allowing you access to key reference sources without having to be in the library. |
GPO Monthly Catalog contains records on all subjects of interest to the U.S. government, including Congressional reports, hearings and debates; judiciary materials; and documents issued by executive departments from 1976-present. |
Grove Art Online provides online access to the entire text of the renown print source, and covers all aspects of the visual arts worldwide. |
HarpWeek is a collection of the 19th century periodical Harper's Weekly, covering the years from 1857-1912. 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. |
I-Share 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 and research 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 from 1931-present. |
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, Business II, and Biological Sciences. 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, including wire services, case law, broadcast transcripts and SEC filings. |
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 and the American Statistics Index. |
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, Twaynes Authors 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, pamphlets, reference books as well as biographies and primary source documents, and an extensive collection of photos, maps and flags. Useful for Education majors. |
MathSciNet covers the world's mathematical literature since 1940, providing Web access to the signed reviews and bibliographic data collected by the American Mathematical Society from over 1800 periodicals. |
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 and government, including a collection of academic journals, trade publications and newsweeklies; also provides full text for almost 300 periodicals. 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 Naxos label and other 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 1980-present. |
Newspaper Source contains selected full text of articles from more than 30 U.S. national and international newspapers, over 200 regional papers, and television and radio news transcripts. |
NoveList is a resource that assists fiction readers in finding new authors and titles, from a list of 135,000 fiction titles. |
NoveList K-8, a subset 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 2,100 general and academic journals in business, current affairs, economics, literature, religion, psychology, women's studies, and others, from 1987 to present. Selected full text. |
MEDLINE with full text is a comprehensive source of full text for medical journals, providing full text for nearly 1,200 journals. Of those, more than 1,000 have cover-to-cover indexing in MEDLINE, and there are more than 1,400,000 full-text articles dating back to 1965. |
Physical Review Online Archive (PROLA) includes Physical Review Letters (1958-2003), Reviews of Modern Physics (1929-2003), Physical Review Special Topics (1998-present), Physical Review Series I (1893-1912), Physical Review Series II (1913-1969), Physical Review Series III (1970-2003) (Physical Review A, B, C, D, and E). |
Primary Search, designed for elementary school libraries and public libraries, contains articles from nearly 70 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-present. |
Professional Development Collection, designed for professional educators, provides articles from nearly 550 journals, 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. Journals in this collection cover primarily the arts and humanities, and the social sciences. |
The ProQuest databases include ProQuest Psychology, the Chicago Tribune, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal; and the Historical New York Times and Chicago Tribune. |
Saskia Art images is a digital repository of 30,000 art images, with references to 19 major art history texts. |
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 2003. |
This collection allows you to search The New York Times, The chicago Tribune, and The Wall Street Journal simultaneously. |
ProQuest Psychology Journals accesses nearly 500 titles academic journals in psychology and related fields, all in full text. |
PsycARTICLES includes the full text of 46 American Psychological Association (APA) journals as well as 11 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 400,000 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 from 1867-1970. 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 (Social and Behavioral Sciences) provides indexing to its entire library. In addition, there is access to full-text articles in over 350 psychology and social science journals for the most recent 5 years. 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, EBSCO Animals, and the American Heritage Children's Dictionary. |
SILC (Statewide Illinois Library Catalog) is a catalog of materials from many of the library systems in Illinois. Use SILC to find information about items located in libraries, limited by library type or region within Illinois. |
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. |
Scitation and SPIN (Searchable Physics Information Notices) are continually updated databases 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. Includes State of the Nation--current and historical economic data, and GLOBUS & NTDB--trade data and international market research. |
African American Experience is a rich collection of online reference works and primary sources documenting the African American experience for over 200 years. Includes over 4,000 interviews with former slaves, multimedia files, lesson plans and classroom resources. |
Health Source: Consumer Edition features searchable full text for nearly 150 journals on consumer heatlh topics, including food science and nutrition, child care and sports medicine. |
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-present. |
Whatis.com is a dictionary of computing and networking terms. |
Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts (LISTA) indexes more than 600 periodicals in library science and information management. |
WilsonSelectPlus covers the social sciences, humanities, business, general science, as well as current issues. There are over 2,100 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 U.S. Politics, World Almanac for Kids, and Funk & Wagnall's New Encyclopedia. Coverage dates back to 1998. |
WorldCat is a combined catalog of more than 55,000 libraries worldwide. |
Credo Reference is an online collection of 200 reference books, containing the full text of titles covering a wide range of subjects, from accounting to philosophy. |
Teacher Reference Center provides indexing for over 280 of the most popular education trade journals. |
WorldCat Dissertations is a catalog of all dissertations, theses and published materials based on theses that are available in OCLC member libraries. |
American Mosaic is a collection of databases dealing with different American ethnic groups. As of summer 2007, there are two groups represented: African Americans and Latino Americans. Future releases will concentrate on Native Americans and Asian Americans. |
Daily Life Online is a suite of databases that explore life and culture from the past to the present, allowing researchers to compare and contrast social issues through the ages. A useful resource for looking at arts and literature in the context of their times. Includes extensive teacher resources, correlating materials in the databases to the Illinois Learning Standards. |
The Greenwood Digital Collection is a collection of academic electronic books from Praeger, Greenwood Press and Libraries Unlimited. |
Latino American Experience is a wide-ranging collection of materials focused on the history and culture of Latinos in the United States. Materials include more than 150 scanned books, hundreds of primary documents, Spanish-language content, and lesson plans. Additional information on the history and culture of the people of Latin America, the Caribbean and the Iberian Peninsula is also included. |
LitFinder is a collection of 125,000 poems and thousands of stories, plays and speeches, all in full text. Also includes explanations, study guides, and other teacher resources. |
PubMed is a free, comprehensive, medical journal literature database from the National Library of Medicine (NLM). |
TeachingBooks makes available original, in-studio movies of authors and illustrators, audio excerpts of professional book readings, guides to thousands of titles and a wealth of multimedia resources on childrens and young adult literature. |
World Folklore and Folklife is a collection of resources to help in researching topics in literature and culture studies. Includes reference works on folklore throughout the world and contains the full text of thousands of folk tales. |
What is this database? |
What is this database? |