What Database Should I use?
Use the descriptions below to learn more about a specific database and to see suggested academic disiplines.
How to Access the Databases:
On campus users: click on the name of each database to start a search.
Off campus users: will be prompted to use their JJC username and password - the same ones used for your JJC email account or iCampus online learning course. See the Password Help page for help with username and password.
Alexander Street Press Music Resources
- Smithsonian Global Sound
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.
- American History in Video
American History in Video provides the largest and richest collection of video available online for the study of American history.The collection allows students and researchers to analyze historical events with over 2,000 hours of video
Suggested academic disciplines:
Music, Fine Arts, Social Sciences, Humanities, History
Nonprofit digital library of more than one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences with a suite of software tools to view, present, and manage images for academic purposes.
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.
Please note: Student ID # required for authentication when downloading images.
Suggested academic disciplines:
Fine Arts, Social Sciences, English and Foreign Language
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.
Find reports on politics and social issues published by Congressional Quarterly.
Suggested academic disciplines:
Speech and Social Science
Databases to choose from: Academic Search Premier, Business Source Elite, Health Source Nursing, Professional Development Collection (education), and others
Suggested academic disciplines:
English, Business, Education, Social Science, Nursing, Natural Science and Vocational, Computer Information and Office Systems
Human Relations Area File
Suggested academic disciplines:
Social Sciences (Anthropology, Multi-Cultural Diversity)
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
Faulkner Advisory on Info Tech Studies
Suggested academic disciplines:
Computer Information and Office Systems
Comprises the full-text of "The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians", Classical, Opera, and Jazz
Suggested academic disciplines:
Music and Social Sciences
HarpWeek: Online issues of Harper's Weekly 1857-1877
Suggested academic disciplines:
Social Sciences (History)
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
Databases to choose from: Literature Criticism Online, Academic OneFile , Gale Virtual Reference Library Business and Company ASAP and Business Index ASAP
Suggested academic disciplines:
English, Business, Education, Social Science, Nursing, Natural Science, Technical and Agriculture
Databases to choose from: Arts & Sciences, Life Sciences, and Language & Literature Collections
Suggested academic disciplines:
Fine Arts, Social Sciences, English and Foreign Language, and Humanities
"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
Provides journal items and book sources on literary criticism
Suggested academic disciplines:
English and Literature
Oxford English Dictionary: World's largest English Language dictionary, with word histories.
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
Find books and articles - search all databases at the same time!
Not available off campus, even using Citrix.
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
Digital Sanborn Insurance Maps: Illinois 1897 - 1970
Decade by decade city town and village property maps for all of Illinois
Use Citrix Metaframe for off campus sessions
Suggested academic disciplines:
Social Science (History)