Online Databases

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Business Source Elite: This business database provides full text for over 1,000 business publications.
Glassdoor: provides information about companies including reviews and salaries.
Hoover’s: provides in-depth information about businesses and people in the business community.
Regional Business News: provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications.

Article First: OCLC Index of articles from the contents pages of journals.
ClasePeriodica: is an index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities.
E-books (OCLC catalog of online electronic books available through libraries worldwide).
Illinois Catalog: is an OCLC catalog of materials in Illinois Libraries.
OAlster: a Union catalog of digital resources.
PapersFirst: this is an OCLC index of papers presented at conferences worldwide.
Proceedings: An OCLC index of worldwide conference proceedings.
World Cat: catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide.

Newsbank: provides access to hundreds of newspapers throughout the United States and the world.
Newspaper Source: provides cover-to-cover full text for more than 40 (U.S.) & international newspapers.
SIRS Knowledge Source: provides access to SIRS Issues Researcher, SIRS Government Reporter, and SIRS Renaissance.

ERIC: an education database, ERIC contains more than 1.3 million records and links to more than 323,000 full-text documents dating back to 1966.
MAS Ultra: this database contains full text for nearly 500 popular, high school magazines.
Primary Search: provides full text for more than 70 popular, magazines for elementary school research.
Professional Development Collection: is the most comprehensive collection of full text education journals in the world.

Academic Search Premier: this multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles.
Cyberdrive Illinois: provides access to resources from the Illinois State Library.
Ebook Collection: search and view the full text of eBooks.
ECO: a collection of scholarly journals.
HarpWeek: electronic access to Harper’s Weekly (1857-1912)
Literary Reference Center: a comprehensive database that provides users with a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works.
MasterFILE Premier: designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals with full-text information dating as far back as 1975.

Consumer Health Complete: a comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content. It is designed to support patients’ information needs and foster an overall understanding of health-related topics.
Health Source—Consumer Edition: provides access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition: This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.
Medline: provides articles covering all areas of medicine, including dentistry and nursing.

GPO: provides a catalog of U.S. Government Publications.
Military and Government Collection: Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government.

Britannica Academic Edition: online access to the Encyclopedia Britannica.
Funk & Wagnall’s New World Encyclopedia: This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.
Oxford English Dictionary: online access to the OED.
World Almanac: provides access to Funk and Wagnalls New Encyclopedia and four almanacs.