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• 18thConnect Open Access
  Online finding aid | Scholarly community | Eighteenth-century literary & historical studies
• 19th Century Collections Online Archive 3: British Theatre, Music, and Literature: High and Popular Culture (Gale)
  Topics: Arts in the Victorian Era | Playbills | Scripts | Scores | Popular Culture
• 19th 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
• 19th 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
• A Vision Of Britain Through Time Open Access
  Historical surveys | How the country and its localities have changed
• 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
• Academy of American Poets Open Access
  American poets | Appreciation of contemporary poetry
• 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
• ACS Style Guide
  Guide for citing materials in American Chemical Society (ACS) style.
• Ad*Access Open Access
  Presents images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955.
• Administration for Children & Families. Children's Bureau (U. S. Dept. of Health & Human Services) Open Access
  Reports | Statistics | Adoption | Foster Care | Child Abuse | Neglect
• 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
• Advertising Age Open Access
  Advertising Age is one of the most well-known advertising publications. The website has far more than just the magazine articles and is a research destination in itself. This is an important site for anyone interested in advertising.
• AdViews: A Digital Archive of Vintage Television Commercials Open Access
  A free digital archive of television commercials from the 1950`s to the 1980`s. The materials on this web site are made available for use in research, teaching and private study. Although the material on this web site is publicly accessible for the limited purposes described above, some material is not in the public domain. Copyright in specific materials may be owned by Duke University, by another institution, or by an individual. Each collection may have specific copyright information and usage rules.
• African American Newspapers: The 19th Century
  Topics: Fulltext Articles | African-American Newspapers | 1800`s
• African American Women Writers of the 19th Century Open Access
  Digitized 19th-century African American Women's literature
• AgingStats.gov Open Access
  U. S. Government Information | Key indicators of well-being for Older Americans
• 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
• AHRQ's National Guideline Clearinghouse Open Access
  Summaries of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines disseminated by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services. Includes Otolaryngology, Speech-Language Pathology and more.
• 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
• All Business Open Access
  
• 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 Association of Community Theatre Open Access
  The American Association of Community Theatre (AACT) is the national voice of community theatre, representing the interests of its members and over 7,000 theatres across the U.S. and with the armed forces overseas.
• 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 Factfinder Open Access
  Topics: Facts and Statistics | Census Data | Population | Economics | Housing | Geography | USA, Puerto Rico, and Island areas
• 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 Nurses Association Book Collection
  Includes Scope And Standards of Practice books from the American Nurses Association.
• 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.
• American Society for Theatre Research Open Access
  The American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR), established in 1956, provides an organization and public voice for theatre scholars and promotes the cause of theatre as a field for serious scholarly study and research.
• APA Dictionary of Psychology
  Psychology | Clear and Authoritative Definitions
• 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
  Password required
  
  Topics: Careers in the Arts | Administration | Artistic | Production/Design | Career Development | Education
• Artslynx International Theatre Resources Open Access
  Information on production histories, books, design, technical theater, costumes, and acting for theater students, actors and designers.
• arXiv.org Open Access Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  E-print service | Physics | Mathematics | Non-Linear Science | Computer Science | Quantitative Biology
• Asian American Religious Cultures
  Traditional belief systems | Buddhism | Confucianism |Hinduism | Islam | Micronesian and Polynesian religious traditions in the United States | Culture and religious rituals of Asian American Christians.
• Australian Digital Collections Open Access
  Information about Australia & its literature. Formerly known as OzLit.
• Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorders Sourcebook
  Symptoms | Assessment | Diagnosis | Early Interventions | Including Speech Language Therapies
• AWP Official Guide to Writing Programs Open Access
  Creative writing programs | Descriptions
• Biological & Agricultural Index Plus Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  Topics: Agriculture | Biological Sciences | Botany | Environmental Science | Zoology | 1983 to Present
• Biomass Maps Open Access
  These maps illustrate the biomass resources available in the United States by county. Biomass feedstock data are analyzed both statistically and graphically using a geographic information system (GIS). The following feedstock categories are evaluated: crop residues, forest residues, primary and secondary mill residues, urban wood waste, and methane emissions from manure management, landfills, and domestic wastewater treatment.
• Biosis Previews Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  Comprehensive Biological Sciences Database | 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 | Primarily 1969 to Present
• 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
• British Women Romantic Poets, 1789-1832 Open Access
  Poetry | British and Irish women | 1789-1832
• Budget of the United States Government Open Access
  President's budget message and proposals | Other budgetary publications | 1996 to present
• Bulfinch's Mythology Open Access
  Thomas Bulfinch's ageless volumes on Western mythology and fables of the ages.
• Business Source Elite Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  Topics: Business | Management | Economics | Finance | Banking | Accounting | Company Profiles & Financials
• Business.usa.gov Open Access
  
• 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.
• CAMIO
  OCLC`s Catalog of Art Museum Images Online | High Quality Digital Images
• 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.
• Carlyle Letters Online Open Access
  Thomas & Jane Welsh Carlyle | 10,000 letters | Unique 19th perspectives
• Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Open Access
  Federal assistance programs | Grants, awards, scholarships | For states, local governments, organizations, individuals
• Catalog of U.S. Government Publications Open Access
  Search for historical & current US federal publications | Links to online publications | Congressional serials set | Congressional publications | Government ebooks
• Celebration of Women Writers Open Access
  Women Writers | Bibliography | Digital Texts
• Census of Agriculture Historical Archive Open Access
  Public archive of Census publications published prior to 1987.
• Center for Media and Public Affairs Open Access
  The Center for Media and Public Affairs (CMPA) is a nonpartisan research and educational organization which conducts scientific studies of news and entertainment media. CMPA's goal is to provide an empirical basis for ongoing debates over media coverage and impact through well-documented, timely, and readable studies.
• Center for Public Integrity: Investigative Journalism in the Public Interest Open Access
  The mission of the Center for Public Integrity is to produce original, responsible investigative journalism to make institutional power more transparent and accountable.
• Charleston Times-Courier Open Access
  Archive of the Charleston Times-Courier and the Mattoon Journal Gazette.
• ChemIDplus Open Access
  free access to structure and nomenclature authority files used for the identification of chemical substances cited in National Library of Medicine databases. Click here for more info.
• 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 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
• ChildStats.gov Open Access
  U. S. Government Information | Key national indicators of child well-being
• Chronicle of Higher Education
  Provides complete access to the Chronicle of Higher Education including all articles published since September 1989.
• Chronicle of Higher Education : Facts & Figures
  Higher Education | Statistics | Information | Trends
• 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)
• CompPile Open Access
  Bibliography | Post-secondary composition & rhetoric
• Congress.gov Open Access
  Official website for U.S. federal legislative information | Track Legislation | Congressional Information | Replaces Thomas.gov
• Consumer Health Complete
  General Consumer Health Topics | Streaming Video
• Contemporary American Poetry Archive Open Access
  CAPA is an electronic archive designed to make out-of-print volumes of poetry available to readers, scholars, and researchers.
• Contemporary Authors
  Contemporary Authors merged with Gale Artemis Literary Sources. This link was removed August 20, 2015
• Contemporary Postcolonial & Postimperial Literature in English Open Access
  Still underconstruction, this site offers backgraound and biographical information on postcolonial authors.
• 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.
• Country Studies Open Access
  Countries Worldwide | Description & Analysis | History | Social | Economic | Political | National Security Systems | Institutions
• CQ Press Guide to U.S. Elections
  Analysis & Data | Candidates | Election Returns | Campaign Finance | Reapportionment | Redistricting
• CQ Researcher
  In-Depth Articles on Current News Topics | Overview | Historical Background | Chronology | Pro/Con Arguments | Resources for Additional Research.
• CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
  Authoritative resource consisting of tables of data and current international recommendations on nomenclature, symbols, and units, its usefulness spans not only the physical sciences but also related areas of biology, geology, and environmental science
• Daily Eastern News Archive Open Access
  Fulltext Articles | 1960-Present | Citations Indexed From 1914 to Present
• Daily Eastern News Online Open Access
  The Daily Eastern News is produced by the students of Eastern Illinois University. It is published daily Monday through Friday in Charleston, Ill. during fall and spring semesters and online during the summer.
• Dance in Video
  Streaming Video | Ballet | Tap | Jazz | Contemporary | Experimental | Improvisational Dance | Pioneers of Modern Dance
• Decades Resources Open Access
  Lists multiple reference sources detailing American history by the decade.
• Diccionario de la Lengua Española Open Access
  Comprehensive Spanish-language dictionary (contents are in Spanish).
• Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online
  
• Digital Image Collections Open Access
  Various digital photograph resources either created by or licensed to Booth Library.
• Digital Public Library of America Open Access
  Digitized Books | Images | Historic Records | Audio & Visual Materials
• Digitized Manuscripts from the British Library Open Access
  Digitized Manuscripts and Archives | British Library
• 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.
• DiversityDataKids.org Open Access
  National, integrated information source | Statistics | Who our children are | What our children need | How to improve opportunities for all children
• Documenting the American South Open Access
  Fulltext Digital Collections | Colonial Period Through the First Decades of the 20th Century | Primary Sources | Diaries | Letters
• Doing Business Open Access
  Business Regulations | 189 Economies & Selected Cities Worldwide | How to Start a Business | Deal with Construction Permits | Register Property | Includes Tables of Data
• Drugs, Supplements and Herbal Information from MedlinePlus Open Access
  Prescriptions | Over-the-Counter Medicines | Herbs and Supplements
• Dynamic Maps, Geographic Information System (GIS) Data and Analysis Tools Open Access
  The Dynamic Maps, Geographic Information System (GIS) Data and Analysis Tools Web site provides maps, data and tools for renewable energy resources that determine which energy technologies are viable solutions in domestic and international regions.
• 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
• eAtlas of Global Development Open Access
  Maps & Graphs | Thematically Organized | 175 World Bank Indicators | 200+ Countries | Visualize & Compare | Important Development Challenges
• 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 Selected for Communication Disorders & Sciences Research Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  Cross search selected EBSCO article databases for topics in Communication Disorders & Sciences
• EBSCO eBooks for Counseling
  
• 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.
• EconData Open Access
  Links to U.S. Regional Economic Data | Organized by Category
• 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
• Education eBooks on EBSCOhost
  Online Books | Educational Change | Educational Leadership | Effective Teaching | School Management | Multicultural Education | School Principles | and more...
• Education Resources from the Florence Coles Ballenger Teachers Center Web Site Open Access
  Categorized education resources of interest to students and faculty in the College of Education.
• Educational Testing Service Test Collection Open Access
  20,000 tests | Other measurement devices | Early 1900s to the present
• Educational Theatre Association Open Access
  
• Eighteenth-Century Resources Open Access
  Links to significant and reliable Internet resources that focus on the (very long) eighteenth century. Last updated 2006.
• 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.
• Electronic Text Center (University of Virginia Library) Open Access
  Digital Images | Humanities Texts | Twelve Languages
• Encyclopedia of Adulthood and Aging
  Concise, accurate summaries of classic topics as well as the most recent thinking and research in new areas covering a broad range of issues, from biological and physiological changes in the body to changes in cognition, personality, and social roles to applied areas such as psychotherapy, long-term care, and end-of-life issues.
• Encyclopedia of Chicago Open Access
  Historical information on Chicago
• Encyclopedia of Child Behavior and Development
  Provides a comprehensive grounding in broadly based topics that cover the wide expanse of child behavior and development issues covering the major conceptual areas of child development: learning, behavior, and emotions.
• Encyclopedia of Child Behavior and Development - Speech Development
  Defines and explores topics related to Speech Development & Disorders
• Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment
  Acknowledges the overlap of criminology and criminal justice with a number of disciplines such as sociology, psychology, epidemiology, history, economics, and public health, and law with entries organized around 12 core substantive areas of crime and punishment: international aspects, multi/interdisciplinary aspects, crime types, corrections, policing, law and justice, research methods, criminological theory, correlates of crime, organizations and institutions (U.S.), victimology, and special populations.
• 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.
• Encyclopedia of Health Communication
  Comprehensive coverage of the theory, research, and applications of health communication.
• Encyclopedia of Mathematics Open Access
  An open-access wiki geared towards graduate researchers in mathematics. The original articles are from the online Encyclopaedia of Mathematics, published by Kluwer Academic Publishers in 2002. Contains more than 8,000 entries, illuminating nearly 50,000 notions in mathematics.
• Encyclopedia of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery
  Topics | General Otolaryngology | Head and Neck Surgery | Pediatric Otolaryngology | Otology-neurotology | Facial Plastics
• Encyclopedia of Public Relations
  This work explores the evolution of the Public Relations field, with examples from history describing events, changing practices, and the key figures who developed and expanded the profession.
• Encyclopedia of Religion
  Presents a cross-cultural approach that emphasizes religion's role within everyday life and as a unique experience from culture to culture.
• Encyclopedia of Religious Controversies in the United States
  Historical and Contemporary Issues in American Religion | Controversies | Abortion | Intelligent Design | Scientology
• English Server Open Access
  Access to over 27,000 works in a wide range of disciplines.
• 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
• Essential Supreme Court Decisions
  Summaries of leading cases in U.S. constitutional law
• 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
• Ethnologue Open Access
  A detailed guide to the over 7000 living languages of the world.
• European Association for Digital Humanities Open Access
  Digital humanities methods & technology | European focus
• 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
• FDLP LibGuides Open Access
  Guides to government information | Various topics | Created by librarians at the Government Publishing Office and at US libraries
• FDsys Open Access
  Code of Federal Regulations | Compilation of Presidential Documents | Congressional Bills, Documents, Hearings, Reports | Congressional Record | Constitutional Analysis | Economic Indicators | Federal Register | Public and Private Laws | United States Code | United States Courts Opinions
• FedStats Open Access
  U. S. Government Information | Access All Statistical Information | 100 Agencies | Topics A-Z
• Feminist Science Fiction, Fantasy & Utopia Open Access
  Bibliographies related to feminist science fiction and fantasy literature; reading lists, author biographies, etc.
• 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
• Folktales and Fairy Tales: Traditions and Texts from around the World
  Folktales and fairy tales from around the globe | History | Geography | Culture | Anthropology | Contemporary Topics | Fairy Tale in Manga | Television | Pop Music | Music Videos
• Fortune 500 Open Access
  
• FRED: Federal Reserve Economic Data Open Access
  200,000 data series | 59 Regional, National, & International
• Fuel Economy Guide Open Access
  U. S. Dept. of Energy information on fuel economy and using fuel efficient cars with side by side fuel economy data for new and used passenger vehicles dating back to 1984.
• Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
  Online Encyclopedia | General Topics
• FXConverter Open Access
  Current Exchange Rate | 164 Currencies
• Gabriel García Márquez Archive Open Access
  Digital archive for the papers of Colombian-born writer Gabriel García Márquez, including manuscripts, correspondence, photos, and more.
• Gale Artemis Literary Sources
  Topics: Literary Criticism for Authors and their Works | Cross-searchable with Children's Literature Review - Dictionary of Literary Biography - Literature Criticism Online - Something About the Author | Great Sources of Information about the Lives of Authors and their Works
• Gale Encyclopedia of Neurological Disorders
  Diseases | Syndromes | Drugs | Treatments | Therapies | Diagnostic Equipment
• Gale Primary Sources
  Cross search Gale Primary Sources | 19th Century British Theatre, Music, and Literature | 19th Century UK Periodicals | London Times Digital Archive | 19th Century US Newspapers
• Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL)
  Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL) is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
• GARD Genetic and Rare Disease Information Center Open Access
  Causes | Symptoms | Prognosis | Treatments | Daily Life | Research
• Gender : sources, perspectives, and methodologies
  Gender | Women's Studies | Queer Studies | Men's Studies
• Genetics Home Reference Open Access
  Genetic Conditions | Inheritance | Genetic Testing
• 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 are available through the Get Full Text link
• Get Educated.com : The Consumer's Guide to Online Colleges Open Access
  Reliable source of information for online degrees.
• 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
• Glossary of International Economics Open Access
  Terms & Concepts | International Economics | Includes International Trade & International Finance
• Glossary of Literary Theory Open Access
  Definitions of terms related to literary theory.
• Godey's Ladys Book
  American Magazine Published for Women 1830-1898 | Fashion | Literature | Health and Hygiene | Recipes | Handicrafts | Color Plates best viewed in Chrome Browser
• goENC.com Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  For Math and Science Educators | Lesson Plans | Curriculum Resources | Articles | Book Reviews | Professional Development
• 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. GovInfo will replace FDsys in December 2018.
• 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 Art Online
  One of the most comprehensive online references for all aspects of the visual arts from prehistory to the present day. Oxford Art Online provides the access point for Grove Art Online. Please LOGOUT when you finish a session so another user may access the database.
• 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.
• GVRL Reference Books on Counseling
  
• Handbook of Social Theory
  History | Current Debates | Future Development
• Harper's Weekly
  Fulltext Articles | 1857-1889
• HathiTrust Open Access
  1.2 million 19th and 20th century books in the public domain digitized from libraries around the world and covering all subjects. Search the Hathi Trust interface or find and access titles directly through the EIU library catalog.
• 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
• Heaven, Hell, and the Afterlife: Eternity in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
  Examination of historic and contemporary perspectives on eternity
• Historical Abstracts Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  Topics: World History | Excluding the United States and Canada
• Historical Dictionary of American Theater : Modernism
  History | Chronology | Introduction | Dictionary | Extensive Bibliography
• Historical Statistics of the United States
  
• 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.
• History of African Americans : Exploring Diverse Roots
  Cultural history of African Americans from colonial times to the present.
• 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
• Household Products Database Open Access
  Lists health effects from Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) provided by the manufacturers for over 4,000 consumer brands. Research products by name, category or chemical ingredient.
• 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
• IBDB: Internet Broadway Database Open Access
  The official database for Broadway theatre information, from the beginnings of New York theatre until today.
• Illinois County Databook, 6th edition, 2002 Open Access
  Major demographic, economic, and political statistics for each county in Illinois
• Illinois County Databook, 7th edition, 2013 Open Access
  Major demographic, economic, and political statistics for each county in Illinois
• 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 School Code Open Access
  Chapter 105 of the Illinois Compiled Statutes is known as the Illinois School Code. It is searchable, but to make your search meaningful, you may want to read the "search help page".
• Illinois.gov Open Access
  Official State of Illinois Web Portal | Find State Agency Information by Topic and Agency | Programs | Services | Contact Information
• ILOSTAT Open Access
  Statistics on labor issues from over 200 countries, such as unemployment, wages, hours of work, consumer price indices, and more. From the International Labour Organisation
• 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 Encyclopedia of Geography
  Collaboration between Wiley and the American Association of Geographers (AAG) | Review and Define Concepts | Explore Research and Techniques in Geography and Interrelated Fields
• International Federation for Theatre Research Open Access
  The International Federation for Theatre Research exists to promote collaboration and the exchange of information between individuals and organizations concerned with theatre research. To this end the Federation supports conferences and publications and assists its members in all such activities and projects.
• 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
• Invitation to World Literature Open Access
  Read selections from each work and explore the historical and cultural context of each work through interactive maps and other features.
• 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
  Topics: Broad Range of Disciplines in the Humanities, Social Sciences & Field Sciences
• Kanopy Streaming Video
  Kanopy is a video streaming solution for colleges offering a "Netflix-like" user experience and a broad selection of over 26,000 documentaries, feature films and training videos from thousands of producers. Touching on all topics, featured producers in Kanopy's collection include Criterion Collection, PBS, HBO, The Video Project, New Day Films, The Great Courses, California Newsreel, Kino Lorber, Media Education Foundation, First Run Features, BBC, and many more. Films can be watched from anywhere, anytime by all staff and students.
• Kanopy Streaming Videos on Counseling
  
• 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.
• Larousse Open Access
  French and bilingual dictionaries (including German, Spanish, and Italian) plus the Encyclopédie Larousse, a French-language encyclopedia.
• 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
• Literature and Politics Today
  This encyclopedia explores the relationship between literature and politics through entries on authors, historical figures, major literary and political works, national literatures, and literary movements. It covers specific themes, concepts, and genres related to literature and politics from the 20th century to the present.
• Literature Criticism Online
  
• 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.
• Lynda.com Open Access
  Students, faculty, and staff have unlimited access to lynda.com, a library that teaches software tools and skills through high-quality instructional videos. lyndaCampus is provided by ATAC, ITS, and CATS. Anyone with an active EIU email address can create a new account: eiu.edu/lynda/account_creation.php
• 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.
• MathWorld Open Access
  An online encyclopedia of mathematics.
• 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 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
• Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy Open Access
  
• Merck Manual of Geriatrics Open Access
  
• Merck Manual of Health and Aging Open Access
  
• Mergent FIS
  US company data | International company data | Annual reports
• Middle English Dictionary Open Access
  Comprehensive Lexicon | 1100-1500
• Military & Government Collection
  Current News | All Branches of the Military | Government Agencies
• MLA Directory of Periodicals
  The MLA Directory of Periodicals offers detailed descriptions of over 5,500 journals. Entries include editorial contact information, publication frequency, circulation, subscription prices and submission guidelines.
• 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!
• 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.
• MyMediaMallResearch Help
  Check out and download audiobooks, ebooks, and videos using your library ID.
• 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 Coalition Against Domestic Violence Open Access
  Statistics | Signs of Abuse | Links to Services for Victims
• 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
• NCLEX Exam Review
  Open the "Career Tools" box, choose "Medical/Nursing" and then choose NCLEX RN or NCLEC PN to access online practice tests.
• 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)
  Fulltext Articles | 1851-2010
• 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
• NINES (Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship) Open Access
  A scholarly organization devoted to forging links between the material archive of the nineteenth century and the digital research environment of the twenty-first.
• Nineteenth Century in association with the British Library Open Access
  Search an online catalogue of over 28,000 nineteenth-century works available on microfiche. It allows you to search the largest and most important collection of nineteenth-century works for research and teaching.
• 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)
• NIST Chemistry WebBook Open Access
  Standard Reference Data Program
• North American Industry Classifications (NAICS) Open Access
  
• 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 | Book Reviews
• NTIS Alert Open Access
  The National Technical Information Service serves as the largest central resource for government-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and business related information available today.
• NYPL Digital Collections Open Access
  NYPL Digital Collections provides access to over 275,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.
• 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.
• One Source Open Access
  
• Open Humanities Press Open Access
  Open Access Ebooks | Humanities | Social Sciences
• 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
• 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.
• PEN American Center Open Access
  Association of writers working to advance literature, defend free expression, and foster international literary fellowship.
• PENNsound Open Access
  More than 10,000 audio files of poets reading their work available for downloading to MP3 or iPod
• Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728-1800
  Published in Philadelphia from 1728 through the early 1800`s | Benjamin Franklin`s Newspaper | Firsthand View of Colonial America
• Performing Arts in America 1875-1923 Open Access
  Captured in the then new techniques of photography, recorded sound, and film, the performing arts of the early twentieth century come alive as never before, preserved by The New York Public Library
• Periodic Table Live! Open Access
  Explore a broad range of information about the elements, their reactions, their properties, their structures, and their histories.
• Pew Research Center for the People and Press Open Access
  Access the Pew Center`s collection of public-opinion surveys and public policy documents.
• Pew Social Trends Open Access
  Statistics | Facts | Trends
• 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
• 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
• 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 eBooks
  Almanacs | Business and Industry
• Plunkett Research Online
  Business and industry data| Market research and trends| Company profiles
• Poetry Society of America Open Access
  Founded in 1910, the Poetry Society of America promotes the reading and writing of Poetry.
• Poetry Tool Open Access
  Poems arranged by category, occasion, etc.
• PopUp Picks eBook Collections Open Access
  Popup Picks is a mobile media curation service that brings Illinois readers unlimited access to the best eBooks from around the world and around the corner. It includes hand-curated, award-winning sci-fi, young adult, travel, humor, self-help, graphic novels and others from expert librarian curators. Collections change quarterly. Anyone in Illinois can use Popup Picks and there are no hold queues or waiting for titles - ever! Go to popuppicks.com for more information or browse the collection. PopUp Picks uses the BiblioBoard app on your mobile device. Use https://library.biblioboard.com/ to view additional collections on your desktop computer
• Primary Search
  For Elementary School Students | Popular Topics | Lexile Scores attached to articles
• Principles of Chemistry
  Introduction to the fundamentals of chemistry, from elements and molecules to chemical reactions and properties of matter.
• 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
• Profile of Older Americans Open Access
  U. S. Government Information | Key Statistics on Older Americans
• Project Gutenberg Open Access
  Access to electronic texts of hundreds of literary works in the public domain. Also provides access to reference works such as dictionaries, almanacs, etc. Please note: this site provides the entire book as a single text file.
• 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 American Psychological Association (APA) and 11 from allied organizations. 1985 to present.
• 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.
• 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 Health Open Access
  Reviews of clinical effectiveness research | Systematic Reviews
• 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
• R2 Otorhinolaryngology
  Otorhinolaryngology
• R2 Speech Therapy
  Speech Therapy | Audiology
• 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
• Reading Women Writers and African Literature Open Access
  English translations of works by African women writers writing in French. Parts of the site are in the original French.
• Renewable Resource Data Center Open Access
  The Renewable Resource Data Center (RReDC) provides access to an extensive collection of renewable energy resource data, maps, and tools. Biomass, geothermal, solar, and wind resource data for locations throughout the United States can be found through the RReDC.
• Renewable Resources Databases Open Access
  Because renewable resources vary considerably from one geographic location to another, optimal siting of renewable energy systems requires knowledge of the specific resource characteristics--availability, magnitude, and variability--at any given location. NREL provides high-quality renewable energy resource data for U.S. and international locations.
• RIA Checkpoint (You must be in the library building to use this database)
  Tax and financial data
• 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.
• Romantic Circles Open Access
  Romantic-period literature and culture
• Routledge Handbook of Hospitality Studies
  The most up-to-date and definitive resource on the subject; interdisciplinary in coverage, international in scope and designed to be a benchmark for any future assessment of the field and its development. The 'state-of-the-art' orientation of the book is achieved through a critical view of current debates and controversies in the field as well as future research issues and trends
• SAGE encyclopedia of cancer and society
  General, non-technical resource focusing on cancer from the perspective of the social and behavioural sciences, exploring social and economic impacts, the "business" of cancer, advertising of drugs and treatment centres, how behaviour change could offer great potential for cancer prevention, environmental risks, food additives and regulation, the relation between race and ethnicity and cancer risk, socioeconomic status, controversies--both scientific and political--in cancer treatment and research, country-by-country entries on cancer around the world, and more.
• Sage Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods
  Terminology | History | Applications | Implications of using a certain method
• SAGE Handbook of Cultural Sociology
  Schools of Thought | Methodological Approaches | Disciplinarity and Interdisciplinarity | Culture and Society | Culture and Politics | Arts and Aesthetics | Culture and Consumption
• Sage Handbook of Family Communication
  Family Communication Theory | Research | Families in Crisis |Families and Governmental Policies | Social Media | Extended Families
• Sage Handbook of Risk Communication
  Effective Communication Approaches | Diverse Contexts | Health | Environment | Science | Technology | Crisis
• SAGE Handbook of Sport Management
  Leadership | Gender | Diversity | Policy | Management Fundamentals | Challenges
• SAGE Handbook of the Sociology of Work and Employment
  Historical Context | Social Divisions | Experience of Work | Work and Organization | Non-Standard Forms of Work and Employment | Work and Life Beyond Employment | Globalization and the Future of Work
• Sage Knowledge E-Reference Collection
  Selected SAGE eBook and eReference content, including scholarly monographs, reference works, handbooks, series, professional development titles, and more.
• 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.
• Satiation, Satiety and the Control of Food Intake: Theory and Practice
  Human Appetite | Energy Balance | Consumption | Cultural & Environmental Factors
• 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
• SIMBAD Astronomical Database Open Access
  Provides basic data, cross-identifications and bibliography for astronomical objects outside the solar system.
• Slave Narrative
  Recent critical work on the literary genre known as the slave narrative.
• Social Sciences Abstracts Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  Citations and abstracts of journal articles in all areas of the social sciences (1983 to present).
• 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
• Springer eBooks for Counseling
  
• 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 2005-2018
• Springer eBooks: Biomedicine and Life Sciences Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  Online Books and Book Chapters | Publication Dates from 2005-2018
• Springer eBooks: Business and Economics Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  Online Books and Book Chapters | Publication Dates from 2005-2018
• Springer eBooks: Chemistry and Materials Science Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  Online Books and Book Chapters | Publication Dates from 2005-2018
• Springer eBooks: Communication Disorders
  Online Books and Book Chapters | Publication Dates from 2005-2018
• Springer eBooks: Computer Science Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  Online Books and Book Chapters | Publication Dates from 2005-2018
• Springer eBooks: Earth and Environmental Science Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  Online Books and Book Chapters | Publication Dates from 2005-2018
• 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 2005-2018
• Springer eBooks: Energy Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  Online Books and Book Chapters | Publication Dates from 2005-2018
• Springer eBooks: Journalism Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  Online Books and Book Chapters | Publication Dates from 2005-2018
• Springer eBooks: Mathematics Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  Online Books and Book Chapters | Publication Dates from 2005-2018
• Springer eBooks: Medicine
  Online Books and Book Chapters | Publication Dates from 2005-2018
• Springer eBooks: Physics and Astronomy Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  Online Books and Book Chapters | Publication Dates from 2005-2018
• Springer eBooks: Political Science Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  Online Books and Book Chapters | Publication Dates from 2005-2018
• Springer eBooks: Professional Computing, Applied Computing and Web Design Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  Online Books and Book Chapters | Publication Dates from 2005-2018
• Springer eBooks: Reference Works Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  Online Books and Book Chapters | Publication Dates from 2005-2018
• Springer eBooks: Social Sciences Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  Online Books and Book Chapters | Publication Dates from 2005-2018
• SpringerLink Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  Full-text E-books and Book Chapters | Publication Dates from 2005-2018
  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
• Statistical Abstract of the United States Open Access
  Contains data from 1889-2011. The U.S. Census Bureau terminated the collection of data for the Statistical Compendia program effective October 1, 2011. The Statistical Compendia program is comprised of the Statistical Abstract of the United States and its supplemental products--the State and Metropolitan Area Data Book and the County and City Data Book. To access the most current data, please refer to the organizations cited in the source notes for each table of the Statistical Abstract.
• 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.
• Study Abroad Directory Open Access
  Worldwide | Study Abroad Programs | Academic Programs | Overseas Universities | Language Schools
• 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
• TEAMS Middle English Texts Open Access
  Texts which occupy an important place in the literary and cultural canon
• Technology Open Access
  Technology Resources
• 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
• Testing & Education Reference Center (TERC)
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• The Economics of the Family: How the Household Affects Markets and Economic Growth
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