A-Z Databases

Frequently Used Databases

Some of the most frequently-used databases

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Gale Academic OneFile, provides millions of articles from over 17,000 scholarly journals and other authoritative sources and covers everything from art and literature to economics and the sciences. Also included are thousands of podcasts and videos.

Directory of Open Access Journals

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This general resource provides full-text access to over 11,000 open access, peer-reviewed journals (open access means they are provided at no cost). Contains materials across a variety of disciplines.

Discovery Service for Illinois College

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The Illinois College discovery service is a general database that searches the Illinois College catalog, I-Share and a number of our databases all at once. If you are looking for the absolute maximum number of results you can get with one search, this is the resource to use!

EBSCO eBook - Academic Collection

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This multidisciplinary collection includes thousands of e-books covering a large selection of academic subjects and features e-books from leading publishers and university presses.

JSTOR

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This general database provides full-text access to over 1,300 journals and magazines in a variety of content areas. The searching options are limited, but students like the "clean and simple" interface.

What Everyone Needs to Know

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The What Everyone Needs to Know® series makes complex topics highly readable, giving you the information you need to know, now, and keeping you up to date on the most important topics leading the discussion today in politics, health, global affairs, and more. Written by experts in the field, What Everyone Needs to Know® offers a balanced and authoritative primer on complex current event issues and countries.

New / Trial Databases

The following databases are newly acquired or being evaluated for a future subscription.

CIA World Factbook

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The World Factbook provides basic intelligence on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, environment, communications, transportation, military, terrorism, and transnational issues for 266 world entities.

Open Illinois - OER Materials

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Open Illinois facilitates the use of Open Educational Resources (OER) and supports training, advocacy, and coordination of cooperative effort for the benefit of members of Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI) and other Illinois stakeholders. This centralized repository provides materials helpful to academic and research institutions in developing OER and advocating for adoption of OER on their campuses to reduce students costs.

You can Explore curated OER Collections by subject and find OER developed in Illinois.

Visit this Collection to learn about open educational resources, copyright, and Creative Commons.

Our Getting Started section is the place to learn how to create a profile, create an institutional page or form a working group, and use Open Author to create OER.

UpToDate

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(NOTE: You MUST register an account before logging in). UpToDate is an evidence-based clinical resource. It includes a collection of medical and patient information, access to Lexicomp drug monographs and drug-to-drug interactions, and a number of medical calculators.