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Search with EBSCOhost     Search with Infotrac
Sixteen databases to choose from
Suggested academic disciplines: English, Business, Education, Social Science, Nursing, Natural Science and Vocational, Computer Information and Office Systems
Three databases to choose from
Suggested academic disciplines:
English, Business, Education, Social Science, Nursing, Natural Science, Technical and Agriculture

Search with LexisNexis     Search with Proquest
● "Search Forms" on News (New York Times and more, television show transcripts) Business, Legal Research Medical, Reference, and opinion polls
Suggested academic disciplines: Business, Criminal Justice, Nursing, and Social Science
The Chicago Tribune, The Historical Chicago Tribune, The Historical New York Times and Criminal Justice Periodicals
Suggested academic disciplines: English , Criminal Justice Business, Fine Arts, Social Sciences, and Natural Sciences

Search with CQResearcher     Search with Literature Online
● Find reports on politics and social issues published by Congressional Quarterly.
Suggested academic disciplines: Speech and Social Science
Provides journal items and book sources on literary criticism
Suggested academic disciplines: English and Literature

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Find books and articles - search all databases at the same time!
Not available off campus, even using Citrix.
● Multiple full-text and citation databases, including Wilson Select, ArticleFirst and more
Suggested academic disciplines: Social Science, English, Business, and Nursing

Image of Sanborn Maps/ Illinois: 1897-1970   Grove Music Online
Digital Sanborn Insurance Maps: Illinois 1897 - 1970
● Decade by decade city town and village property maps for all of Illinois
Suggested academic disciplines: Social Science (History)
Use Citrix Metaframe for off campus sessions
  Comprises the full-text of "The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians", Classical, Opera, and Jazz
Suggested academic disciplines: Music and Social Sciences
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 ● Faulkner Advisory on Info Tech Studies
Suggested academic disciplines: Computer Information and Office Systems
Human Relations Area File
Suggested academic disciplines: Social Sciences, (Anthropology, Multi-Cultural Diversity)

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● HarpWeek: Online issues of Harper's Weekly 1857-1877
Suggested academic disciplines: Social Sciences (History)
 

Credo Reference is a digital reference library that places a world of factual information at your fingertips. Containing a choice of over 240 high-quality reference books from the world's leading publishers, an ideal place to start any research. Credo contains over 2.5 million individual entries from a wide range of dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri, books of quotations and subject specific reference books, including maps, illustrations, sound files, artwork and more.

Suggested academic disciplines: English, Business, Education, Social Science, Nursing, Natural Science, Technical and Agriculture


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Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries, produced in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, is a virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions.
Classical Scores Library Classical Scores Library will contain 400,000 pages of classical scores from both in-copyright and public domain editions.
Classical Music Library Classical Music Library is the world's largest multi-label database of Classical music recordings for listening and learning in libraries.
African American Song With jazz, blues, gospel, and other forms of African American musical expression represented, African American Song brings 50,000 tracks of music to the ears of library patrons and music scholars.
Suggested academic disciplines: Music, Fine Arts, Social Sciences, Humanities
Covers global history from ancient times to the present day. Contents include reference books, essays, journal articles, historical newspaper and magazine articles, maps, rare books, government documents, transcripts of historical speeches, images and video clips.
Suggested academic disciplines: Social Sciences, History, English and Foreign Languages, Speech

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● The Premium PLUS Literature Collection combines quick reference coverage of the full subject spectrum with the rich resources of the Oxford Companions. From ready-reference to comprehensive scholarly articles, The Premium Collection provides students with reliable and authoritative answers to their research questions
Suggested academic disciplines:
English
and Foreign Language, Social Sciences, Business, and
Fine Arts
Oxford English Dictionary: World's largest English Language dictionary, with word histories.

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CARLI's Saskia Digital Image Archive
 

30,000 digital images of paintings, sculpture and architecture, including images from many important collections: the Prado, the Kunsthistorisches Museum, the Uffizi, and the Louvre as well as archaeological sites in Greece, Italy, Turkey and Egypt.”
Suggested academic disciplines:  Fine Arts, Social Sciences, English and Foreign Language
Student ID # required for authentication  when downloading images.
● A news and general reference database, Facts On File World News Digest at www.facts.com presents the full text of Facts On File World News Digest since 1940, plus a live newsfeed from Reuters® and thousands of in-depth features, images, charts, and primary documents.
● Thousands of additional hyperlinks connect researchers to relevant information from the three other databases at www.facts.com: Issues & Controversies; Today's Science, and the World Almanac Reference Database, including the World Almanac Encyclopedia.
Suggested academic disciplines:
English, Business, Education, Social Science, Speech, Nursing, Natural Science, Technical and Agriculture 

   
   


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