Electronic Reference Databases

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: http://aabd.chadwyck.com/
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: http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/loi/anthro
Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics
See Annual Review of Anthropology above.
URL: http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/loi/astro
Annual Review of Biochemistry
See Annual Review of Anthropology above.
URL: http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/loi/biochem
Annual Review of Biophysics
See Annual Review of Anthropology above.
URL: http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/loi/biophys
Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics
See Annual Review of Anthropology above.
URL: http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/toc/ecolsys/35/1
Annual Review of Entomology
See Annual Review of Anthropology above.
URL: http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/loi/ento
Annual Review of Genetics
See Annual Review of Anthropology above.
URL: http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/loi/genet
Annual Review of Medicine
See Annual Review of Anthropology above.
URL: http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/loi/med
Annual Review of Microbiology
See Annual Review of Anthropology above.
URL: http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/loi/micro
Annual Review of Nutrition
See Annual Review of Anthropology above.
URL: http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/loi/nutr
Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology
See Annual Review of Anthropology above.
URL: http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/loi/pharmtox
Annual Review of Physiology
See Annual Review of Anthropology above.
URL: http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/loi/physiol
Annual Review of Psychology
See Annual Review of Anthropology above.
URL: http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/loi/psych
Annual Review of Public Health
See Annual Review of Anthropology above.
URL: http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/loi/publhealth
Annual Review of Sociology
See Annual Review of Anthropology above.
URL: http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/loi/soc
Annual Reviews
See Annual Review of Anthropology above.
URL: http://www.annurev.org/
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: http://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: http://bsc.chadwyck.com/search/initAdvancedSearch.do
Black Thought and Culture
Black Thought and Culture is a landmark electronic collection of approximately 100,000 pages of non-fiction writings by major American black leaders—teachers, artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, war veterans, entertainers, and other figures—covering 250 years of history. It contains 1297 sources with 1100 authors, covering the non-fiction published works of leading African Americans including the words of Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, Carter G. Woodson, Gwendolyn Brooks, Huey P. Newton, James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Cornel West, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and hundreds of other notable people.
URL: http://www.alexanderstreet2.com/bltclive/
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: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=BIR&defaultdb=kdh
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: http://bsc.chadwyck.com/search/initAdvancedSearch.do
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: http://www.collegesource.org/
Community Preventive Services
The Guide to Community Preventive Services is a resource to help you choose programs and policies to improve health and prevent disease in your community. More than 200 interventions have been reviewed and the Task Force on Community Preventive Services of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
URL: http://www.thecommunityguide.org/index.html
Credo Reference
Credo Reference is a 24/7 online reference library that provides access to a selection of over 400 reference books. Credo Reference includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations, as well as a range of subject-specific titles covering everything from art to accountancy and literature to law. A current alphabetical list of all available titles can be found here.
URL: http://www.credoreference.com/advanced.do
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: http://wfxsearch.webfeat.org/wfsearch/search?cid=10325
Datamonitor Company Profiles
Datamonitor Company Profiles provides detailed company profiles for the world’s 10,000 largest companies. Many of these reports include SWOT analyses.
URL: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=bsedata&defaultdb=bsh
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: http://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: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.asp?profile=web&defaultdb=ani
EBSCO AtoZ
Contains full-text electronic journals at CSU
URL: http://atoz.ebsco.com/home.asp?ID=cgcsu
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: http://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: http://www.els.net/
FACTS.com
FACTS.com presents the full text of 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 and Today’s Science Database.
URL: http://www.fofweb.com/Direct2.asp?ItemID=WE00&ID=95663
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: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.asp?profile=web&defaultdb=funk
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. In many cases, these are multi-volume reference works previously only available in a physical form in the library. Now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7. Chicago State has access to more than 40 titles. Featured titles include Contemporary Black Biography, a 71 volume biographical reference source and International Directory of Company Histories, a massive 93 volume encyclopedia of business history. A current alphabetical list of all available titles can be found here.
URL: http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/uiuc_csu?db=gvrl
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: http://scholar.google.com
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: http://www.greeninfoonline.com/
Grove Music Online
A gateway into music research and the access point for new and forthcoming Oxford music reference products
URL: http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/
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: http://app.harpweek.com/
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: http://library.csu.edu/eresources/ieee.php
Illinois Researcher Information Service
The IRIS Database currently contains over 9,000 active federal and private funding opportunities in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. In addition to funding opportunities for faculty, the IRIS Database also contains fellowships and scholarships for grad students and undergrads. Users can search IRIS by sponsor, deadline date, keyword, and other criteria. Most IRIS records contain live links to sponsor Web sites, electronic forms, or Electronic Research Administration (eRA) portals. The IRIS Database is updated daily.
URL: http://iris.library.uiuc.edu/~iris/search.html
IllinoisCatalog
Leads to the OCLC FirstSearch service, connecting you to information in a wide range of subjects in 16 databases.
URL: http://newfirstsearch.oclc.org/dbname=IllinoisCatalog;FSIP
IntelliConnect
A complete state and federal tax research service
URL: http://intelliconnect.cch.com
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: http://bsc.chadwyck.com/search/initAdvancedSearch.do
Issues and Controversies
In-depth investigations of today's top issues
URL: http://www.2facts.com/Direct2.aspx?ItemID=WE57&ID=95663
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: http://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: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.asp?profile=srck5
Library of Congress Classification Web
Library of Congress Classification and Subject Headings on the Web
URL: http://classweb.loc.gov/Auto/
Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy
The Merck Manuals is a series of healthcare books for medical professionals and consumers. The content of The Manuals is now available in enhanced online versions as part of The Merck Manuals Online Medical Library. The Online Medical Library is updated periodically with new information, and contains photographs, and audio and video material not present in the print versions.
URL: http://www.merck.com/mmpe/index.html
Merck Manual of Geriatrics
The Merck Manual of Geriatrics targets the growing need for a useful source of information about the growing population of aging adults.
URL: http://www.merck.com/mkgr/mmg/contents.jsp
Merck Manual of Health and Aging
The Merck Manual of Health and Aging targets the growing need for a useful source of information about the growing population of aging adults.
URL: http://www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual_ha/contents.html
Merck Manual--Home Edition
Explains disorders, who is likely to get them, their symptoms, how they are diagnosed, how they might be prevented, and how they can be treated. Also provides information about prognosis.
URL: http://www.merck.com/mmhe/index.html
Merck Veterinary Manual
The Merck Veterinary Manual (MVM) has served veterinarians and other animal health professionals as a concise and reliable animal health reference for over 45 years. The Merck Veterinary Manual Online is published on a nonprofit basis through a cooperative effort of Merck & Co, Inc. and Merial Limited as a free service to the veterinary profession
URL: http://www.merckvetmanual.com/mvm/index.jsp
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: http://gateway.ovid.com/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&MODE=ovid&NEWS=n&PAGE=main&D=clre
Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database
All Therapeutic Research publications, continuing education courses and services are based on scientific evidence without any outside commercial influence. The researchers, reviewers, specialists, and editors provide recommendations to hundreds of thousands of health professionals, throughout many countries. The staff nurture creative innovations.
URL: http://www.NaturalDatabase.com
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: http://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: http://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: http://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: http://www.netlibrary.com/
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: http://dictionary.oed.com/
Oxford Music Online
A gateway into music research and the access point for new and forthcoming Oxford music reference products
URL: http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/
Pharmacists Letter
Evidence and advice for the pharmacist on new developments in drug therapy
URL: http://www.PharmacistsLetter.com
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: http://cisweb.lexis-nexis.com/histuniv/
RefWorks
RefWorks—an online research management, writing and collaboration tool—is designed to help researchers easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies. To utilize this resource, you must set up an account with Refworks utilizing your CSU email user name and password.
URL: http://www.refworks.com
Sanborn Insurance Maps (Illinois)
ProQuest Information and Learning's Digital Sanborn Maps, 1867-1970 provides academic and public libraries digital access to more than 660,000 large-scale maps of more than 12,000 American towns and cities.
URL: http://sanborn.umi.com/
Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience
Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience includes interdisciplinary essays and a series of topical studies designed to help define the development of Black Studies as an academic field written by leading scholars on the Black Experience.
URL: http://bsc.chadwyck.com/search/initAdvancedSearch.do
Statesmans Yearbook
This book is an authoritative and accessible volume containing information essential for diplomats, politicians and all statesmen involved with international affairs.
URL: http://www.statesmansyearbook.com
The World Almanac
The world's most trusted reference source.
URL: http://www.2facts.com/Formslogin.asp?db=WA
The World Almanac Encyclopaedia
An encyclopaedia from the world's most trusted reference source.
URL: http://www.2facts.com/Formslogin.asp?db=WAE
Therapeutic Research Center
Therapeutic Research Center Home Page
URL: http://www.therapeuticresearch.com
Webfeat
With one easy to use interface, Webfeat searches across multiple databases. This federated search engine is a convenient tool for finding materials within a subject. CSU Megasearch is the name our school uses for this resource.
URL: http://wfxsearch.webfeat.org/wfsearch/search?cid=10325
Who’s Who? -- Marquis Who’s Who on the Web
Marquis Who’s Who on the Web, a ‘high-speed’, searchable online database, features comprehensive profiles on 1.2 million of the most accomplished individuals from all fields of endeavor including: government, business, science and technology, the arts, entertainment, and sports.
URL: http://search.marquiswhoswho.com
World Almanac
Electronic access to Funk & Wagnall's New Encyclopedia, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, The World Almanac of the U.S.A., The World Almanac of U.S. Politics, and The World Almanac for Kids
URL: http://newfirstsearch.oclc.org/dbname=WorldAlmanac;FSIP
WorldCat
This interface may be more familiar to public library users than the SILC interface below—this interface requires an initial registration. Contains over 1,000,000,000 items in over 10,000 libraries world wide
URL: http://www.worldcat.org
WorldCat
This OCLC WorldCat at SILC catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide contains all the records cataloged by OCLC member libraries. It offers millions of bibliographic records representing 400 languages.
URL: http://newfirstsearch.oclc.org/dbname=WorldCat;FSIP
Xreferplus
Credo Reference, the actual name of what was Xreferplus, is a giant online reference library that provides you with access to a selection of reference books. Please use Credo Reference instead.
URL: http://www.xreferplus.com

General Interest Databases

Academic Search Complete—is the world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for over 5,300 scholarly publications, including more than 4,400 peer-reviewed publications. Offers indexing and abstracts for 9,300 journals on nearly every area of academic study.

Gale Virtual Reference Library—is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely at all times.

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.

Newsbank—provides full-text articles from the electronic editions of record for nearly 500 U.S. newspapers – including the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Chicago Sun Times.