Electronic Resources

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Academic Search Complete: Academic Search Complete is a multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 9,810 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. This scholarly collection offers full text coverage of information in many areas of academic study including: archaeology, area studies, astronomy, biology, chemistry, civil engineering, electrical engineering, ethnic & multicultural studies, food science & technology, general science, geography, geology, law, mathematics, mechanical engineering, music, physics, psychology, religion & theology, women’s studies, and other fields. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for nearly 1,000 journals. Academic Search Complete is updated daily.
URL: search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=a9h
African American Biographical Database: Brings together in one resource the biographies of thousands of African Americans, many not to be found in any other reference source. These biographical sketches have been carefully assembled from biographical dictionaries and other sources. This extraordinary collection contains extended narratives of African American activists, business people, former slaves, performing artists, educators, lawyers, physicians, writers, church leaders, homemakers, religious workers, government workers, athletes, farmers, scientists, factory workers, and more--both the famous and the everyday person. AABD draws its initial content from Chadwyck-Healey’s acclaimed Black Biographical Dictionaries 1790-1950 and includes descriptive listings of individuals taken from Black Biography, 1790-1950: A Cumulative Index, edited by Randall K. Burkett, Nancy Hall Burkett, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Biographical portraits from newly uncovered dictionaries as well as from other published reference sources, obituary files, slave narrative collections, internet sites, etc. will be added as the database expands.
URL: aabd.chadwyck.com/
African-American Song Database: African American Song is the first online resource to document the history of African American music in an online music listening service. The collection contains a diverse range of genres such as jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and narratives, among others.
URL: csu4.classical.com
America: History and Life: America: History & Life is an electronic database that covers the history and culture of the Americas from prehistory to the present. With indexing for 1,700 journals from 1964 to present and abstracts in English of articles published in more than 40 languages, this database is an important tool for students and scholars of U.S. and Canadian history.
URL: search.ebscohost.com/login.asp?profile=web&defaultdb=ahl
American Chemical Society Publications: The American Chemical Society is the leading publisher of peer-reviewed research journals in the chemical and related sciences, serving scientific communities worldwide through an unparalleled commitment to quality, reliability, and innovation. This link will give you full-text access to over thirty American Chemical Society publications covering the period 1996-present.
URL: pubs.acs.org/
Annual Review of Anthropology: The Annual Reviews series provides researchers, professors, and scientific professionals with a definitive academic resource in 15 disciplines. Annual Reviews saves you time by synthesizing the vast amount of primary research literature and identifying the principal contributions in your field. Editorial committees comprised of the most distinguished scholars in the discipline select all topics for review, and the articles are written by authors who are recognized experts in the field. Annual Reviews publications are among the highest cited publications by impact factor according to the Institute for Scientific Information(R) (ISI). The following Annual Reviews are available: Annual Review of Anthropology, Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Annual Review of Biochemistry, Annual Review of Biophysics, Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, Annual Review of Entomology, Annual Review of Genetics, Annual Review of Medicine, Annual Review of Microbiology, Annual Review of Nutrition, Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Annual Review of Physiology, Annual Review of Psychology, Annual Review of Public Health, and Annual Review of Sociology.
URL: arjournals.annualreviews.org/loi/anthro
Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics: See Annual Review of Anthropology, above, for a description.
URL: arjournals.annualreviews.org/loi/astro
Annual Review of Biochemistry: See Annual Review of Anthropology, above, for a description.
URL: arjournals.annualreviews.org/loi/biochem
Annual Review of Biophysics: See Annual Review of Anthropology, above, for a description.
URL: arjournals.annualreviews.org/loi/biophys
Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics: See Annual Review of Anthropology, above, for a description.
URL: arjournals.annualreviews.org/toc/ecolsys/35/1
Annual Review of Entomology: See Annual Review of Anthropology, above, for a description.
URL: arjournals.annualreviews.org/loi/ento
Annual Review of Genetics: See Annual Review of Anthropology, above, for a description.
URL: arjournals.annualreviews.org/loi/genet
Annual Review of Medicine: See Annual Review of Anthropology, above, for a description.
URL: arjournals.annualreviews.org/loi/med
Annual Review of Microbiology: See Annual Review of Anthropology, above, for a description.
URL: arjournals.annualreviews.org/loi/micro
Annual Review of Nutrition: See Annual Review of Anthropology, above, for a description.
URL: arjournals.annualreviews.org/loi/nutr
Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology: See Annual Review of Anthropology, above, for a description.
URL: arjournals.annualreviews.org/loi/pharmtox
Annual Review of Physiology: See Annual Review of Anthropology, above, for a description.
URL: arjournals.annualreviews.org/loi/physiol
Annual Review of Psychology: See Annual Review of Anthropology, above, for a description.
URL: arjournals.annualreviews.org/loi/psych
Annual Review of Public Health: See Annual Review of Anthropology, above, for a description.
URL: arjournals.annualreviews.org/loi/publhealth
Annual Review of Sociology: See Annual Review of Anthropology, above, for a description.
URL: arjournals.annualreviews.org/loi/soc
Annual Reviews: Annual Reviews- provides researchers, professors, and scientific professionals with a definitive academic resource that synthesizes the vast amount of primary research literature. They are written by authors who are recognized experts in the field. Annual Reviews in the sciences include Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Annual Review of Biochemistry, Annual Review of Biophysics, Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, Annual Review of Entomology, Annual Review of Genetics, Annual Review of Microbiology, and the Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology.
URL: www.annurev.org/
ArticleFirst: OCLC index of articles from the contents pages of journals from 1990 to present
URL: newfirstsearch.oclc.org/dbname=ArticleFirst;FSIP
ARTstor: As part of its ongoing effort to become a community resource, ARTstor is developing a rich digital library that will offer coherent collections of art images and descriptive information as well as the software tools to enable active use of the collections. The ARTstor Library’s initial content includes approximately 500,000 images covering art, architecture and archeology.
URL: www.artstor.org

Black Literature Index: Black Literature Index—Over 70,000 bibliographic citations for fiction, poetry and literary reviews published in 110 black periodicals and newspapers between 1827–1940.
URL: bsc.chadwyck.com/search/initAdvancedSearch.do
Book Index with Reviews: Book Index with Reviews (BIR) helps you find information on the books you want and need to read. BIR is a cooperative effort between NoveList, EBSCO Publishing and Baker & Taylor.
URL: search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=BIR&defaultdb=kdh
Business Source Elite: Business Source® Elite provides full text coverage of scholarly business, management and economics journals. This rich collection also includes publications covering topics such as accounting, banking, finance, international business, marketing, sales, etc. Business Source Elite offers full text for nearly 1,100 business publications and contains expanded PDF backfiles for 150 titles (back to 1985 or the first issue published for that journal). 10,000 substantial company profiles from Datamonitor are also included.
URL: search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=bsh

CCH - Tax On The Net: a complete state and federal tax research service
URL: tax.cchgroup.com/ipnetwork
Chicago Defender and the Daily Defender: Chicago Defender and the Daily Defender—full text access to these newspapers from 1910–1976; 1999 to present available in Ethnic Newswatch, q.v., below.
URL: bsc.chadwyck.com/search/initAdvancedSearch.do
Chicago Sun Times: This newspaper has a daily subscription circulation of over 500,000. It was founded in 1948. Since then it has provided award-winning, comprehensive coverage of issues that affect Chicago, Illinois and the nation.
URL: infoweb.newsbank.com
Chicago Tribune: The Chicago Tribune covers international and national news with 20 bureaus, including offices in Moscow, London, Jerusalem, Beijing, Mexico City, Johannesburg, Washington DC, New York and Los Angeles. Noted for extensive coverage of business news, the Tribune provides in-depth profiles of the more than 85 Fortune 500 companies headquartered in the Chicago region, along with superb biographical sketches, criticism and comment of research-worthy topics, coverage of social issues, urban affairs, sports, politics and government, cultural affairs, and the important issues and events in Chicago, Illinois and the entire Midwest. The Tribune celebrated its 150th anniversary in 1997 and counts 18 Pulitzer prizes among its many awards.
URL: infoweb.newsbank.com
Chronicle of Higher Education: Full text access to the Chronicle of Higher Education updated daily with the latest news in academe. Includes all the text from the current print edition, a searchable archive of back issues going back to September 1989, commentary and essays from the weekly magazine, The Chronicle Review, as well as data from the annual Almanac.
URL: chronicle.com
CINAHL Plus with Full Text: CINAHL Plus with Full Text provides indexing for 3,001 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health, with indexing back to 1937. Offering complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses' Association, CINAHL Plus with Full Text covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. In addition, this database offers access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters, as well as Evidence-Based Care Sheets. Searchable cited references for more than 1,155 journals are also included. CINAHL Plus with Full Text provides full text for 336 journals, plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials. PDF backfiles to 1937 are also included.
URL: search.ebscohost.com/login.asp?profile=web&defaultdb=rzh
ClasePeriodica: CLASE indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities. PERIODICA covers journals specializing in science and technology. Offers access to more than 300,000 bibliographic citations from documents published in 2,600 scholarly journals published in the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages.
URL: newfirstsearch.oclc.org/dbname=ClasePeriodica;FSIP
Cochrane Controlled Trials Register: A bibliography of controlled trials identified by contributors to the Cochrane Collaboration and others, as part of an international effort to hand search the world's journals and create an unbiased source of data for systematic reviews. Clinical Pharmacology contains current, concise and clinically-relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new and investigational drugs.
URL: search.ebscohost.com/login.asp?profile=web&defaultdb=cgh
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews: contains full text articles, as well as protocols focusing on the effects of healthcare. The reviews are highly structured and systematic, with evidence included or excluded on the basis of explicit quality criteria, to minimize bias.
URL: search.ebscohost.com/login.asp?profile=web&defaultdb=chh
Cochrane Methodology Register: The Cochrane Methodology Register (CMR) is a bibliography of publications which report on methods used in the conduct of controlled trials. It includes journal articles, books and conference proceedings; these articles are taken from the MEDLINE database and from hand searches. The database contains studies of methods used in reviews and more general methodological studies which could be relevant to anyone preparing systematic reviews. CMR records contain the title of the article, information on where it was published (bibliographic details), and in some cases, a summary of the article. CMR is produced by the UK Cochrane Centre, on behalf of the Cochrane Methodology Review Group.
URL: search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=cmr
Collegesource: A virtual library representing 32,081 college catalogs in full cover-to-cover, original page format with two-year, four-year, graduate, professional and international schools.
URL: www.collegesource.org/
Credo Reference: xreferplus is a giant online reference library that provides you with access to a selection of over 200 reference books. xreferplus includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations, not to mention a range of subject-specific titles covering everything from art to accountancy and literature to law.
URL: www.xreferplus.com
Criminal Justice Periodicals: The most comprehensive database of its kind — provides information on virtually any criminal justice topic, including corrections administration, law enforcement, social work, industrial security, drug rehabilitation, and criminal and family law. Full text for about 50 of the titles most frequently accessed by criminal justice researchers. Covering 190 titles from 1981 to date.
URL: proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=SU5UPTAmVkVSPTImREJTPTExMjE@&clientId=45998
CSU MegaSearch: With one easy to use interface, CSU MegaSearch searches across multiple databases. This federated search engine is a convenient tool for finding materials within a subject.
URL: wfxsearch.webfeat.org/wfsearch/search?cid=10325

Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness: includes abstracts of published systematic reviews on the effects of health care from around the world, which have been critically analyzed according to a high standard of criteria. DARE's abstracts include a description of the systematic reviews methodology, results and conclusions. It provides access to quality reviews in subjects for which a Cochrane review may not yet exist.
URL: search.ebscohost.com/login.asp?profile=web&defaultdb=dah
Directory of Open Access Journals: This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals with an aim to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 2801 journals in the directory.
URL: www.doaj.org

EBSCO Animals: offers in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals.
URL: search.ebscohost.com/login.asp?profile=web&defaultdb=ani
EBSCO AtoZ: Contains full-text electronic journals at CSU
URL: atoz.ebsco.com/home.asp?ID=cgcsu
EBSCO databases: EBSCO research databases include full-text, Searchasaurus, EBSCOlearn, EBSCOhost text-only, Novelist, Novelist K-8, and Business Search interfaces.
URL: search.ebscohost.com/
ECO: OCLC list of scholarly journals: A FirstSearch database of scholarly journals from the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC)
URL: newfirstsearch.oclc.org/dbname=ECO;FSIP
Education Journals (ProQuest): ProQuest Education Journals gives users access to over 760 top educational publications, including more than 600 of the titles in full text.
URL: proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=SU5UPTAmVkVSPTImREJTPTFDNUU@&clientId=45998
Encyclopedia Britannica: Encyclopedia Britannica is the world’s most comprehensive reference product, a distinction it has held since its first publication in 1768. Encyclopedia Britannica Online includes the complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, Britannica Student Encyclopedia and the Britannica Book of the Year. You can also use Encyclopedia Britannica Online to search an Internet directory that includes more than 300,000 links to Web sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors.
URL: www.search.eb.com/
Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (ELS): Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (ELS) is the most comprehensive reference work ever published in the biological sciences. Spanning the entire spectrum of life sciences, The Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (ELS) features more than 4,100 specially commissioned and peer-reviewed articles. An essential read for life scientists as well as a valuable resource for teaching, the articles are written by leaders in the field to provide comprehensive and authoritative coverage.
URL: www.els.net/
ERIC (EBSCO): A national information system supported by the U.S. Department of Education, the National Library of Education, and the Office of Educational Research and Improvement. It provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. ERIC provides full text of more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1000 educational and education-related journals. This is a good choice for ERIC because of the increased full-text linkage from all EBSCO databases.
URL: search.ebscohost.com/login.asp?profile=web&defaultdb=eric
ERIC (FirstSearch): A national information system supported by the U.S. Department of Education, the National Library of Education, and the Office of Educational Research and Improvement. It provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. ERIC provides full text of more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1000 educational and education-related journals.
URL: newfirstsearch.oclc.org/dbname=ERIC;FSIP
Ethnic News Watch: Ethnic NewsWatch is an interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Designed to provide the "other side of the story," ENW titles offer additional viewpoints from those proffered by the mainstream press. Coverage begins in 1990.
URL: proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=SU5UPTAmVkVSPTImREJTPTM4M0U@&clientId=45998

FACTS.com: presents the full text of Facts On File World News Digest since 1940, plus a live news feed from Reuters® and thousands of in-depth features, images, charts, and primary documents using more than half a million internal hyperlinks. Facts.com also provides full text access to Issues & Controversies, Today's Science, and the World Almanac Reference Database.
URL: www.2facts.com/stories/mainmenu.asp
FirstSearch databases: Leads to the OCLC FirstSearch service, connecting you to information in a wide range of subjects in sixteen databases.
URL: newfirstsearch.oclc.org/FSIP
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia: For students and adults alike, the Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia database indexes over 25,000 records, covering an array of topics. Full text for each record may be easily accessed by double clicking on the topic from the display. The database contains various images, offers brief biographies as well as information in a variety of subject areas. This database is updated annually.
URL: search.ebscohost.com/login.asp?profile=web&defaultdb=funk

Google Scholar: NB: Using this interface may result in being offered information for a fee. Please do not pay for service if requested. CSU may, and probably does, have costfree ways of finding this information. Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. We are adding the link at this time in preparation for the Library Links Program and direct linking. Ask the reference desk, 773-995-2235, for information regarding OCLC's Open WorldCat support for this library.
URL: scholar.google.com
GPO: The Government Printing Office provides access to government publications for all citizens in all districts expressed in the U.S. House of Representatives.
URL: newfirstsearch.oclc.org/dbname=GPO;FSIP
GreenFILE: GreenFILE is a new database that focuses on the relationship between human beings and the environment, with topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources. GreenFILE offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the ecology. Comprised of both scholarly as well as general interest titles, GreenFILE will serve as an informative resource for anyone concerned about the issues facing our planet. Also includes selected government documents and reports. GreenFILE’s indexes more than 600 titles and full text is provided for more than 4,600 records.
URL: www.greeninfoonline.com/

HarpWeek: Provides electronic access to Harper’s Weekly, the illustrated 19th century “Journal of Civilization” for a 56-year period: 1857-1912. Harper's Weekly is perhaps the most important primary resource for examining 19th-century America on a cumulative week-to-week basis. Included access to news stories, illustrations, cartoons, editorials, biographies, literature and even advertisements that shaped and reflected public opinion in this era.
URL: app.harpweek.com/
Health Source: Consumer Edition: Provides consumer health information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. It features searchable full text for nearly 300 journals. Updated on a daily basis.
URL: search.ebscohost.com/login.asp?profile=web&defaultdb=hxh
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition: Provides more than 550 scholarly full text journals, including more than 450 peer-reviewed journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Includes abstracts and indexing for more than 800 journals. Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong. Full text information in this database dates as far back as 1975.
URL: search.ebscohost.com/login.asp?profile=web&defaultdb=hch
Health Technology Assessments: The Health Technology Assessments (HTA) database provides details of completed and ongoing health technology assessments (studies of the medical, social, ethical and economic implications of healthcare interventions) from around the world. The aim of the database is to improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of health care. In addition to systematic reviews, HTA contains ongoing and completed research based on trials, questionnaires and economic evaluations.
URL: search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=hta
Historical Abstracts: Historical Abstracts is an electronic database that covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, womens history, history of education, and more. Provides indexing of more than 1,700 academic historical journals in over 40 languages back to 1955.
URL: search.ebscohost.com/login.asp?profile=web&defaultdb=hia
Historical New York Times: A complete backfile of this prestigious newspaper is now available electronically. Full page images preserve context and meaning, allowing unprecedented access to the historical record.
URL: proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=SU5UPTAmVkVSPTImREJTPTFBQ0Q@&clientId=45998

IEEE Computer Society Digital Library: The University Library now subscribes to the IEEE Computer Society Digital Library. The library now provides access to nineteen full text computer science journals.
URL: library.csu.edu/eresources/ieee.php
Illinois Periodicals Online: Provides full text access to 10 journals and magazines dealing with the state of Illinois. Titles include Illinois Country Living, Illinois Heritage, Illinois History : A Magazine for Young People, Illinois History Teacher, Illinois Issues, Illinois Libraries, Illinois Municipal Review, Illinois Parks & Recreation, and Outdoor Illinois
URL: www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/
IllinoisCatalog: Leads to the OCLC FirstSearch service, connecting you to information in a wide range of subjects in 16 databases.
URL: newfirstsearch.oclc.org/dbname=IllinoisCatalog;FSIP
International Index to Black Periodicals: The International Index to Black Periodicals covers scholarly and popular Black Studies journals, including full text for many titles. The Marshall Index is a guide to black periodicals, 1940-1946.
URL: bsc.chadwyck.com/search/initAdvancedSearch.do
International Index To Music Periodicals: IIMP Full Text enables you to search and browse hundreds of music journals covering a broad scope of research from performance, theory and composition to music education, jazz and ethnomusicology. It provides indexing, abstracts and selected full text coverage of the most important music journals - all integrated in one site.
URL: iimpft.chadwyck.com/
International Pharmaceutical Abstracts: Produced by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, this database includes information from over 750 pharmaceutical, medical, and health-related journals published worldwide since 1970. International Pharmaceutical Abstracts covers the entire spectrum of drug therapy and pharmaceutical information including current health-related drug literature.
URL: search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=ipa
Issues and Controversies: In-depth investigations of today's top issues
URL: www.2facts.com/icof/issues-home-feature.asp

JSTOR: Arts and Sciences 1 (119 titles) is JSTOR’s first collection includes core journals in economics, history, political science, and sociology, as well as in other key fields in the humanities, social sciences, ecology, mathematics, and statistics. Arts and Sciences IV (112 titles) has a strong focus on the professions of business, education, and law, and also includes titles in psychology, public policy and administration.
URL: www.jstor.org/action/showAdvancedSearch

Kids Search: Designed especially for children in grades K-5, this EBSCO full-text database features topic searches from magazine and newspaper sources in the main categories of animals, arts and music, geography, health, news, language arts, math, science, social studies and sports as well as a list of the five top searches and a spotlight topic. Also includes a dictionary, encyclopedia, an image database, and a teacher resources page with links to curriculum standards, Department of Education websites and EBSCO education databases for adults. Covers 1990 to the present and is updated daily.
URL: search.ebscohost.com/login.asp?profile=srck5
Kraus Curriculum Development Library: is the resource educators need to implement educational strategies and improve learning. This searchable database of curricula, frameworks, and standards brings together educational objectives, content, instructional strategies, and evaluative techniques for all subjects covered in PreK-12 and Adult Basic Education.
URL: www.kcdlonline.com/

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe - Business: Through the integration of information and technology, LexisNexis uniquely unites proprietary brands, advanced Web technologies and premium information sources. Across the globe, LexisNexis provides customers with access to five billion searchable documents from more than 40,000 legal, news and business sources.
URL: www.lexisnexis.com/us/lnacademic/search/flap.do?flapID=companies
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe - General: Contains five separate subdivisions: General, News, Legal, Business and People. An excellent full text source for news, legal research, business news, financial information and biographical information. Provides access to TV and radio broadcasts transcripts.
URL: web.lexis-nexis.com/universe
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe - Legal Research: Through the integration of information and technology, LexisNexis uniquely unites proprietary brands, advanced Web technologies and premium information sources. Across the globe, LexisNexis provides customers with access to five billion searchable documents from more than 40,000 legal, news and business sources.
URL: www.lexisnexis.com/us/lnacademic/search/flap.do?flapID=legal
Lexis-Nexis Primary Sources in African American History: This module moves the study of African American history dramatically into the digital age. Includes the most essential source materials for scholarship—sources that every scholar in the field must know and will turn to again and again. Included are primary sources on the civil rights movement, the NAACP’s legal campaign against segregation and racism, late 19th and early 20th century peonage cases in the South, African Americans and the New Deal, the crusade against the movie Birth of a Nation, and much more. Also available are rare materials on slavery from colonial through antebellum years, the Civil War, reconstruction, and 20th century political developments. At present, the African American History module contains over 8,700 documents (7,400+ primary source items) composed of nearly 46,000 full-text searchable pages.
URL: cisweb.lexis-nexis.com/histuniv/
Library of Congress Classification Web: Library of Congress Classification and Subject Headings on the Web
URL: classweb.loc.gov/Auto/
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts: Library/Information Sciences & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) was formerly Information Science & Technology Abstracts (ISTA). EBSCO continues ISTA�s coverage (beginning in 1960) and increases the amount of library science covered. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, and information management, the information industry. LISTA indexes more than 600 periodicals plus books, research reports, and proceedings.
URL: search.ebscohost.com/login.asp?profile=web&defaultdb=lxh
Literature Resource Center: is a complete literature reference database and the premier Internet resource for information on literary figures from all time periods and in all genres. Provides electronic access to Contemporary Authors Online, offering biographical coverage of more than 115,000 writers; Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, profiles of 266 most studied authors and Dictionary of Literary Biography Online, containing 10,000 biocritical essays on authors and their works. Links to more than 250 prominent literary journals. Includes the Scribner Writer Series, featuring more than 1500 biocritical essays on authors. Over 4900 explications and overviews of prominent literary works; links to 5800 websites focusing on major authors and their works; over 6000 timeline events to help place literature in its historical and social context, 2300 author portraits; and a guide to writing a Modern Language Association-style research paper.
URL: infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/uiuc_csu?db=LitRC

Mary Ann Liebert Health Science E-Journals: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., founded in 1980, is acknowledged for establishing authoritative peer-reviewed journals in the most promising areas of biotechnology, biomedical research/life sciences, clinical medicine and surgery, and law.
URL: www.liebertonline.com/
MAS Ultra - School Edition: designed specifically for high school libraries, provides full text from nearly 600 popular general interest and current events publications covering general reference, health, science, and other areas. This database also offers indexing and abstracts for more than 650 titles.
URL: search.ebscohost.com/login.asp?profile=web&defaultdb=ulh
Medline: Medline is the National Library of Medicine’s comprehensive collection of citations in the medical field indexing nearly 10,000 journals beginning in 1965. Scope is beyond medicine to include all scientific fields. Some full-text is included.
URL: newfirstsearch.oclc.org/dbname=MEDLINE;FSIP
MEDLINE Plus: MedlinePlus is designed for consumers and has extensive information from the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources on over 700 diseases and conditions. There are also lists of hospitals and physicians, a medical encyclopedia and a medical dictionary, health information in Spanish, extensive information on prescription and nonprescription drugs, health information from the media, and links to thousands of clinical trials. MedlinePlus is updated daily.
URL: www.medlineplus.gov
Military & Government Collection: Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 400 journals and periodicals. The database also includes full text for 245 pamphlets and offers indexing and abstracts for more than 500 titles. Some publications covered in this database include Air Force Comptroller, Army Reserve Magazine, Defence Studies, Global Security Review, JFQ: Joint Force Quarterly, Military Technology, National Review, Combat Edge, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, Foreign Affairs, Naval Forces, and many more. Many full text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color.
URL: search.ebscohost.com/login.asp?profile=web&defaultdb=mth
MLA International Bibliography: is an index of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association, the electronic version of the Bibliography dates back to 1963 and contains over 1.5 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series and 1,000 book publishers. Coverage is international and subjects include literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, dramatic arts, historical aspects of printing and publishing, rhetoric, composition and the history, theory and practice of teaching language and literature.
URL: search.ebscohost.com/login.asp?profile=web&defaultdb=mzh

NASW Clinical Register: The NASW Register of Clinical Social Workers, 13th Edition, provides a listing of clinical social workers who have met national standards for education and experience established by the NASW Competence Certification Commission on recommendation of the Committee on Clinical Social Work.
URL: gateway.ovid.com/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&MODE=ovid&NEWS=n&PAGE=main&D=clre
National Criminal Justice Reference Service: Summaries of more than 180,000 criminal justice publications. Most documents published by NCJRS sponsoring agencies — the National Institute of Justice, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Office for Victims of Crime, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, and the Bureau of Justice Assistance, all part of the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, and the Office of National Drug Control Policy — since 1995 are available in full-text online.
URL: www.ncjrs.org/abstractdb/search.asp
Naxos Music Library: Naxos Music Library is the most comprehensive collection of classical music available online. It includes the complete Naxos, Marco Polo and Dacapo catalogues of over 5,000 CD's, including Classical music, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music. While listening, you can read notes on the works being played as well as biographical information on composers or artists in Naxos's extensive database. All these can be accessible from computers in academic libraries, home or office. Naxos Music Library and all of its contents are owned by Naxos Digital Services Ltd., part of the Hong Kong-based Naxos Group of Companies.
URL: ChicagoStateUNI.naxosmusiclibrary.com
Naxos Music Library - Jazz: Naxos Music Library Jazz is a comprehensive collection of Jazz music. It offers close to 20,000 tracks of jazz from over 1,900 albums.
URL: ChicagoStateUni.NaxosMusicLibrary.com/Jazz
NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information) Literature Databases: NCBI creates public databases, conducts research in computational biology, develops software tools for analyzing genome data, and disseminates biomedical information - all for the better understanding of molecular processes affecting human health and disease. The literature databases include PubMed, OMIN, OMIA, Books, Journals, PubMed Central, the NLM catalog and the NCBI handbook.
URL: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Literature/
NetLibrary: This site provides access to your library's eBook collection. When you enter the site from an affiliated library, you will see the name of your library in the box on the right side of the screen. Once you have accessed your library's affiliated site, you are able to search and view the full text of all the eBooks in your library's eBook collection.
URL: www.netlibrary.com/
New York Times - Current: Full text access from to the New York Times from 1/1/2000 to the present
URL: infoweb.newsbank.com
Newsbank: provides full-text articles from the electronic editions of record for over 800 U.S. newspapers — including the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Chicago SunTimes.
URL: infoweb.newsbank.com
Newspaper Source: Newspaper Source provides selected full text for 25 national (U.S.) and international newspapers, including USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor, The Washington Post, The Times (London), The Toronto Star, etc. The database also contains selected full text for more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers, including The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The Detroit Free Press, The Miami Herald, The New York Daily News, The San Jose Mercury News, etc. In addition, full text television & radio news transcripts are provided from CBS News, FOX News, NPR, etc.
URL: search.ebscohost.com/login.asp?profile=web&defaultdb=nfh
NHS Economic Evaluation Database: The NHS Economic Evaluation Database (NHS EED) assists decision-makers in the world of professional health care by providing information on the costs and effects of drugs, treatments and procedures. Economic evaluations—the cost-benefit analysis of two or more different medical treatments—from around the world are systematically identified, described and appraised for quality while their relative strengths and weaknesses are explored and highlighted. The database contains over 6,000 abstracts of quality-assessed economic evaluations and more than 21,000 total records. NHS EED is produced by the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD) at the University of York, UK.
URL: search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=eed
NoveList: is a fiction database that provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations, and much more for over 120,000 fiction titles. It also includes other content of interest to fiction readers, such as Author Read-alikes, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, and Feature Articles. Included are Standards-Based Thematic Units and Picture Book Extenders, as well as specific teaching guides for using fiction in the classroom. NoveList allows readers to use a favorite author or title as a template to locate other authors and titles of interest.
URL: search.ebscohost.com/login.asp?profile=novelist
Novelist K-8: allows you to discover the fiction titles that are popular with young readers as well as titles to use in your classroom. With NoveList you can use your students' favorite books (or the books you use in your classes) to find more books to read and use. You can search by instructional unit, theme or topic. Includes full-text book reviews from Booklist and School Library Journal. Users can also browse hundreds of theme-oriented book lists for readers at all grade levels through Explore Fiction, and look for award-winning and recommended titles in Best Fiction.
URL: search.ebscohost.com/login.asp?profile=novelistk8

OVID databases: OVID databases provide access to ERIC, Social Work Abstracts and the NASW Social Work Register
URL: gateway.ut.ovid.com/gw1/ovidweb.cgi
Oxford English Dictionary: The electronic Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. Presents the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It also traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations.
URL: dictionary.oed.com/

PapersFirst: OCLC index of papers presented at conferences worldwide. Covers every published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting
URL: newfirstsearch.oclc.org/dbname=PapersFirst;FSIP
PDR Electronic Library: Each full-length entry provides you with an exact copy of the product's FDA-approved labeling.
URL: pdrel.thomsonhc.com/
PerAbs - Periodical Abstracts: Periodical abstracts from general and academic journals includes for each record a bibliographic citation and a concise abstract; contains records for transcripts of significant segments of more than 80 news- and lifestyle-oriented television and radio programs.
URL: newfirstsearch.oclc.org/dbname=PerAbs;FSIP
Physical Education Index: Provides abstracts (no full-text) of material from both scholarly and trade literature in a wide variety of content areas such as administration, bio-mechanics-kinesiology, coaching, curriculum, facilities, history, law, leisure, patents, philosophy, recreation, research, activities, sports, sports medicine, teaching methods, and training. Updated monthly. An online thesaurus is available. Provided by CSA.
URL: www.csa.com/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=cstateu9&access=cstateu9009
Pre-CINAHL: A companion database to CINAHL, is intended to provide current awareness of new journal articles.
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Primary Search: designed specifically for elementary school libraries and public library children's rooms, contains full text for more than 60 popular, elementary school magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles. This database also offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 100 magazines. Full text is also available for over 100 student pamphlets.
URL: search.ebscohost.com/login.asp?profile=web&defaultdb=prh
Primary Sources in African American History: — moves the study of African American history dramatically into the digital age. Includes the most essential source materials for scholarship-sources that every scholar in the field must know and will turn to again and again. Included are primary sources on the civil rights movement, the NAACP’s legal campaign against segregation and racism, late 19th and early 20th century peonage cases in the South, African Americans and the New Deal, the crusade against the movie Birth of a Nation, and much more. Also available are rare materials on slavery from colonial through antebellum years, the Civil War, reconstruction, and 20th century political developments. At present, the African American History module contains over 8,700 documents (7,400+ primary source items) composed of nearly 46,000 full-text searchable pages.
URL: cisweb.lexis-nexis.com/histuniv/
Proceedings: An OCLC index of worldwide conference proceedings which covers published congresses, symposia, conferences, expositions, workshops and meetings. Contains in each record a list of the papers presented at each conference
URL: newfirstsearch.oclc.org/dbname=Proceedings;FSIP
Professional Development Collection: Designed for professional educators, provides a highly specialized collection of more than 750 full text journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. In addition to full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for more than 900 journals. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports. Full text information in the Professional Development Collection dates as far back as 1965.
URL: search.ebscohost.com/login.asp?profile=web&defaultdb=tfh
ProQuest databases: Proquest databases provide access to Criminal Justice Periodicals, ERIC, Ethnic Newswatch, Proquest Education Journals and the Historical New York Times.
URL: proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=SU5UPTAmVkVSPTImREJTPUcw&clientId=45998
ProQuest Education Journals: ProQuest Education Journals gives users access to over 760 top educational publications, including more than 600 of the titles in full text.
URL: proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=SU5UPTAmVkVSPTImREJTPTFDNUU@&clientId=45998
PsycARTICLES: is a definitive source of searchable full text articles on current issues in psychology. The PsycARTICLES database covers general psychology and specialized, basic, applied, clinical and theoretical research in psychology. The database contains more than 34,000 searchable full text articles from 43 journals published by the American Psychological Association and 8 from allied organizations. It contains all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata from each of the 51 journals.
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PsycINFO: contains nearly two million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books and dissertations, all in the field of psychology. Journal coverage, which spans from 1872 to the present, includes international material selected from nearly 2,000 periodicals in over 35 languages. More than 60,000 records are added each year. It also includes information about the psychological aspects of related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business and law.
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