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• Tax Forms Online Open Access
  
  Federal tax forms, instructions and publications:
  https://www.irs.gov/forms-instructions
  
  Illinois State Tax Forms and instructions:
  http://www.revenue.state.il.us/taxforms/
• 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
• Technology Open Access
  Technology Resources
• Testing & Education Reference Center (TERC)
  Access on-line practice tests for the NCLEX, MCAT, LSAT, PRAXIS, GRE, GMAT and other tests. Use test prep eBooks to study.
• Times (London) Digital Archive
  Fulltext Articles | 1785-1985
• Tumblebooks
  Animated, talking picture books which teach kids the joy of reading.

Subject Specific

• Chicago Defender (Historical)
  Fulltext articles | 1910-1975
• 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.
• Lexis-Nexis, Academic
  Now "Nexis UNI" platform. Same content, new experience.
• Nexis Uni (formerly Lexis-Nexis Academic) Research Help
  Newspapers | Business, Political, Social, Entertainment Topics | Legal Research | Case Law | Law Reviews | Corporate Information | New Functionality | Set Individual Profile | Collaborative Work space | Shared Folders | Annotate Documents

Interdisciplinary and Related

• Academic Search Complete Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  Topics: Broad Subject Coverage | Area Studies | Ethnic & Multicultural Studies | General Sciences | Social Sciences | Law | Politics & Government | Women`s Studies | Popular Culture
• African American Newspapers: The 19th Century
  Topics: Fulltext Articles | African-American Newspapers | 1800`s
• 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.
• Charleston Times-Courier Open Access
  Archive of the Charleston Times-Courier and the Mattoon Journal Gazette.
• Chicago Tribune
  Fulltext Articles | 1985 to the present
• Chicago Tribune (Historical)
  Fulltext Articles | 1849-1990
• Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective
  Topics: Fulltext Articles | New York Herald | Charleston Mercury | Richmond Enquirer | November 1, 1860 to April 15, 1865
• 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
• Daily Eastern News Archive Open Access
  Fulltext Articles | 1960-Present | Citations Indexed From 1914 to Present
• Digital Image Collections Open Access
  Various digital photograph resources either created by or licensed to Booth Library.
• Farm, Field and Fireside Collection Open Access
  Historically significant U.S. farm weeklies published in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
• 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.
• 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
• JSTOR Includes Peer Reviewed Content
  Topics: Broad Range of Disciplines in the Humanities, Social Sciences & Field Sciences
• New York Times (1980-present)
  Lexis-Nexis provides the full text of articles from the New York Times.
• 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
• Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728-1800
  Published in Philadelphia from 1728 through the early 1800`s | Benjamin Franklin`s Newspaper | Firsthand View of Colonial America
• Public Agenda Online Open Access
  Nonprofit Public Opinion Research Organization | Summaries of Current Social Issues | Education | Health Care | Economy | Environment
• 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
• Times (London) Digital Archive
  Fulltext Articles | 1785-1985
• World Newspapers Open Access
  Fulltext Articles | Current Newspapers from Around the World