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General Databases

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EbscoHost - is a rich collection of general and specialized databases, all including at least some full text. Specialized databases focus on medicine, business, and education among other topics.

Elsevier Social and Behavioral Sciences Journal Collection - provides access to the last 4 years in full-text of a selection of Elsevier's premier journals in the areas of psychology, sociology, economics, business and management, artificial intelligence, computer and information science, linguistics, and urban planning. Citation and abstracts are available for earlier issues of the journals where full text is not provided.

FirstSearch - is a collection of databases covering a range of subjects. It includes both general databases like Periodical Abstracts and WilsonSelectPlus (which contains only full-text articles) as well as special databases focused on education, medicine, and business and those that catalog special types of materials like government documents and conference papers.

History Resource Center U.S. - This database provides access to original documents, reference sources and more than 110 full-text journals covering American history from the pre-colonial period through the present day. This database has a two-simultaneous-user limit. If you cannot access the database at a given time, try back later. Please remember to log out so others may use it.

Infotrac Expanded Academic - is a strong, general periodical database that includes both full text articles and citations in the arts, humanities, science and technology. One of the chief advantages of Infotrac is that it guides users with subject terms.

Lexis-Nexis Academic - is a news-oriented full-text database that also includes special subject areas of medicine, business, and law as well as general reference resources. Among its special features are transcripts of broadcast news programming and foreign newspaper stories. The legal database provides quick access to both federal and state statuatory law and case law and patent searching.

Liebert Health Science E-Journals - collection contains more than 60 different electronic journals, primarily in health-related fields. Subject matter ranges from alternative therapies to viral immunology. Users may search by keyword or jump directly to the journal of interest and look through the tables of contents of various issues for relevant articles.

Literary Reference Center - This comprehensive database gives users access to original literary works, both classic and contemporary; literary criticism for academic journals and e-book versions of significant critical works; plot summaries; biographical information; a literary timeline; and a dictionary of literary terms.

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center - takes Greenhaven Press's social issues series Opposing Viewpoints, At Issue and Current Controversies and supplements them in an online form by adding primary sources, statistics, related articles and topical overviews to provide users with the full context of a topic.

Sage Journals Online - provides access to the full text backfile of Sage's journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine.

Science Resource Center - More than 200 magazines and academic journals, as well as topic overviews, experiments, biographies, illustrations and web links are gathered together in this database.

A-Z Guide to Full Text Periodicals - The A-Z Guide enables users to locate which issues of which periodicals the DACC Library has access to in full-text format. Users can search the guide by title, subject, or database provider.

Electronic Newspapers, Magazines and Journals

Chicago Tribune and Chicago Tribune Historical Archive - The Chicago Tribune is available in full text. Front page coverage goes back through 1900. Major stories coverage dates back to the 1920s.

Chronicle of Higher Education - The Chronicle is the academic world's news central and the online edition includes all the material from the print edition as well as a section dedicated to community colleges.

CQ Researcher Online - Issued by Congressional Quarterly, CQ Researcher offers balanced examinations of a single controversial topic in each weekly issue. Topics range as widely as government secrecy to teen sex.

Illinois Periodicals Online - Online access to nine magazines about Illinois: Illinois Country Living, Illinois Heritage, Illinois History, Illinois History Teacher, Illinois Issues, Illinois Libraries, Illinois Municipal Review, Illinois Parks & Recreation, OutdoorIllinois

New York Times Full Text and Historical New York Times - The New York Times databases provide users with access to the complete run of the United States unofficial newspaper of record back to 1851 in a fully searchable format.

Sage Journals Online - provides access to the full text backfile of Sage's journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine.

Electronic Books and Reference Resources

AccessScience Science Encyclopedia - AccessScience is the McGraw-Hill online Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, an excellent first stop for scientific and technical research. It includes biographical information about famous scientists and mathematicians as well as bibliographies, study guides, science news, and links to science sites on the web.

American National Biography - The ANB is a collection of more than 18,000 biographical profiles of people who have influenced the culture and history of the United States. It includes cross-references and bibliographies.

Books in Print - Books-in-Print is the electronic version of the standard reference source for determining what books are currently available from publishers. In addition, the electronic version features book reviews, biographical information on authors, contact information about publishers, bestseller and award lists, and essays about literature that appeared in different years.

Encyclopedia Britannica - This version of Britannica offer users all the depth of coverage and scholarly quality of this renowned encyclopedia in an online format.

Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History - This 5-volume set and supplement covers all aspects of the African-American experience from 1619 through today. More than 2,300 articles examine the history and present-day situation of the African-Americans.

Encyclopedia of Philosophy - A new and updated edition of this multivolume set contains more than 2,100 entries -- including more than 450 new articles. The topics included range from Buddhist philosophy to the Holocaust to biomedical ethics. The second edition also features 1,000 biographical entries on major figures in philosophical thought throughout history.

Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer - This electronic version of the 2-volume print original covers 120 cancers in depth, as well as both traditional and alternative treatments, drugs, diagnostic procedures and side effects.

Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine - The online version of the 3rd edition of the 5-volume encyclopedia includes information on more than 1,600 medical concepts and conditions, including causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatments, and procedures.

GroveArt - is the online version of the revised 38 volume Grove Dictionary of Art. It provides articles on artists and art subjects, art news, and links to a vast array of images.

GroveMusic - is the online version of the revised Grove Dictionary of Music. The online version also includes the New Grove Dictionary of Opera.

HarpWeek--Harper's Weekly 1857-1877 Issues Online - The online version of Harper’s Weekly magazine from the years 1857-1877. This digitized version of the popular magazine provides access to original news and cultural coverage of one of the most volatile periods in U.S. history.

Illinois Sanborn Maps, 1867 - 1970 - Sanborn maps are large-scale maps of cities and towns drawn at a scale of 50 feet to an inch. Created to assist fire insurance companies in assessing the risks related to particular properties, the maps chart the development of urban areas over time. The plans include detailed information about each building as well as street names and details, property boundaries, building use, and house and block numbers.

NetLibrary Online Book Collection - NetLibrary is a collection of electronic books on a range of subjects. These works can be browsed online and actually checked out so that the user can have short-term exclusive access to them, as they would with a regular library book.

Novelist - A fiction guide, Novelist provides excerpts from reviews, book recommendations, reading group guides, and book summaries for a broad range of fiction for adults and young readers.

Oxford English Dictionary - The online version of the standard reference source for the development and usage of words in the English language.

Science Resource Center - More than 200 magazines and academic journals, as well as topic overviews, experiments, biographies, illustrations and web links are gathered together in this database.

Testing & Education Reference Center - This database contains practice exams and electronic versions of review guides for GED and college entrance tests, including the NCLEX, as well as licensing and professional exams for many fields, including real estate and firefighting. In addition it provides access to scholarship and financial aid information, college success guides, and a variety of other educational tools.

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Created January 23, 2006
Revised April 22, 2008