A.C. Buehler Library: Library Homepage: Databases by Discipline

A Note About Liaison Librarians

All but the most in-depth subject-specific questions can be answered by any librarian who is at the reference desk, available on web chat, or at 630-617-3173.

To schedule an in-depth research consultation or information literacy instruction, please contact your liaison librarian.
Contact information is listed with each discipline's databases in this guide.

Art

ARTstor This link opens in a new window
A collection of over 1.8 million digital images of paintings, photos, architectural works, sculptures, and design pieces from around the world from all time periods.

Liaison librarian for art is Donna Goodwyn (donnamg@elmhurst.edu or ext. 3171).

Bibliography of the History of Art This link opens in a new window
From the Getty Research Institute, a database provides access to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) and to the Répertoire de la litterature de l'art (RILA) for no charge on its Web site. These citation databases, searchable together, cover material published between 1975 and 2007.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
An electronic archive of journal titles in a variety of disciplines, often going back to the first issue of a journal's existence. In addition, a collection of over 1.8 million digital images of paintings, photos, architectural works, sculptures, and design pieces from around the world from all time periods.
Oxford Art Online This link opens in a new window
Provides online access to the entire text of the renowned Grove Dictionary of Art, Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art. Covers all aspects of the visual arts worldwide. Subscription is limited to 3 simultaneous users.
Saskia Art Images This link opens in a new window
A digital repository of 30,000 images, which also includes references to 19 major art history texts. Currently images are only available on campus.

Biology

Liaison librarian for biology is Jennifer Paliatka (jenniferp@elmhurst.edu or ext. 3158).

AGRICOLA This link opens in a new window
An index to materials relating to all aspects of agriculture, forestry, animal science, food and human nutrition, and earth and environmental science acquired by the National Agriculture Library since 1970. Contains nearly 5 million citations to journal articles, AV materials and book chapters, patents, software, technical reports and theses.
Annual Reviews This link opens in a new window
Spans a number of topics; the library subscribes to full text of 10 titles: Clinical Psychology (2008-date), Criminology (2018-date), Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics (1996-date), Genetics (1996-date), Microbiology (1996-date), Physiology (1997-date), Plant Biology (2013-date), Psychology (2008-date), Public Health (1980-date), and Sociology (2008-date). An index of the entire Annual Review series can be searched from this site as well.
GreenFILE This link opens in a new window
GreenFILE is a collection of more than 612,000 scholarly, government and general-interest records that include content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done on each level to minimize negative impact. Topics covered include global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
An electronic archive of journal titles in a variety of disciplines, often going back to the first issue of a journal's existence. In addition, a collection of over 1.8 million digital images of paintings, photos, architectural works, sculptures, and design pieces from around the world from all time periods.
MEDLINE (EBSCO) with Full Text This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive source of full text for medical journals, providing full text for more than 1,470 journals. Coverage back to 1949 with fulltext back to 1965, includes searchable citations to more than 4800 current journals.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
A free, comprehensive, medical journal literature database from the National Library of Medicine (NLM). This link includes a button that will search Elmhurst University resources.
ScienceDirect College Edition (Social and Behavioral Sciences) This link opens in a new window
Provides indexing to the entire Elsevier library. In addition, there is access to full-text articles in over 350 psychology and social science journals for the most recent 5 years. Besides listing articles that are already in print, ScienceDirect also lists articles that are about to be published.
SpringerLink Journals and Ebooks This link opens in a new window
A collection of over 2200 journals in all disciplines, with over 1650 in full text back to 1997; AND over 8000 fulltext ebooks (medicine from 2005-2010, and all STEM areas from 2014).
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Access the world’s leading scholarly literature in the sciences and social sciences and examine proceedings of international conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions. Elmhurst's subscription includes: Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index, both with coverage from 1998-present.
MEDLINE (FirstSearch) This link opens in a new window
An international index to all areas of medicine, dating back to 1965. Over 10,500 titles are indexed, and substantial abstracts are included.
MEDLINE (Thomson-Reuters) This link opens in a new window
The U.S. National Library of Medicine® (NLM®) premier life sciences database.

Business & Economics

Business Source Premier This link opens in a new window
Contains full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles. Covers all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Also includes other full text information such as: country economic reports from the EIU, Global Insight, ICON Group and CountryWatch; detailed company profiles for the world's 10,000 largest companies; and market research reports, industry reports, and SWOT analyses.

Liaison librarian for business is Jacob Hill (jacobh@elmhurst.edu or ext. 3168).

Gale Directory Library This link opens in a new window
Includes online versions of the Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media, Encyclopedia of Business Information Sources, and Market Share Reporter.
Global Issues (Gale In Context) This link opens in a new window
A database that explores global issues through a portal displaying current information from newspapers, magazines, academic journals, websites, reference sources, primary sources and statistics.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Nexis Uni™ features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis®—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790—with an intuitive interface that offers quick discovery across all content types, personalization features such as Alerts and saved searches and a collaborative workspace with shared folders and annotated documents.
New York Times This link opens in a new window
Allows you to access the full text from 1980-present. For information on setting up a free account to NYTimes.com, see this page: https://library.elmhurst.edu/newssources
Newspaper Source This link opens in a new window
Contains comprehensive full text of articles from more than 40 U.S. national and international newspapers, selected full text from over 330 regional papers, and television and radio news transcripts.
ProQuest Global Newsstream This link opens in a new window
Global Newsstream enables users to search the most recent global news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring content from newspapers, newswires, and news sites in active full-text format. This product provides one of the largest collections of news from the US, Canada, Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Australia. It offers exclusive access to the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and co-exclusive access (with Factiva) to The Wall Street Journal. It also offers access to the largest collection of leading Hispanic newspapers, news wires, websites and blogs in full text from US publishers in both Spanish and English including El Diario/La Prensa (New York City), La Opinión (Los Angeles), La Prensa (San Antonio) and Extra (Chicago). Local papers covered also include the Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Defender, and Daily Herald.
Regional Business News This link opens in a new window
Has full-text articles from over 100 regional business publications from throughout the United States and Canada, including Crain's Chicago Business, with coverage back to 1990.
Wall Street Journal This link opens in a new window
Allows you to access the full text of the paper from 1984-present.

Chemistry

Liaison librarian for chemistry is Jennifer Paliatka (jenniferp@elmhurst.edu or ext. 3158).

American Chemical Society (ACS) Publications This link opens in a new window
Includes the full texts of more than 30 periodicals in chemistry and related disciplines published by the American Chemical Society.
GreenFILE This link opens in a new window
GreenFILE is a collection of more than 612,000 scholarly, government and general-interest records that include content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done on each level to minimize negative impact. Topics covered include global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.
PubChem This link opens in a new window
PubChem, released in 2004, provides information on the biological activities of small molecules. PubChem is organized as three linked databases within the NCBI's Entrez information retrieval system. These are PubChem Substance, PubChem Compound, and PubChem BioAssay. PubChem also provides a fast chemical structure similarity search tool. More information about using each component database may be found using the links in the homepage.
ScienceDirect College Edition (Social and Behavioral Sciences) This link opens in a new window
Provides indexing to the entire Elsevier library. In addition, there is access to full-text articles in over 350 psychology and social science journals for the most recent 5 years. Besides listing articles that are already in print, ScienceDirect also lists articles that are about to be published.
SciFinder (requires an individual login) This link opens in a new window
SciFinder is a tool that accesses a wide diversity of research from many scientific disciplines, including biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, materials science, and agricultural science. Includes references from thousands of currently published journals and patents from 50+ patent authorities, as well as organic and inorganic substance information. If this is your first time using SciFinder, you will need to create an account with your Elmhurst email address by following this link to complete a SciFinder user registration: https://go.openathens.net/redirector/elmhurst.edu?url=https://scifinder.cas.org/registration/index.html?corpKey=110D3D52X86F35040X1DBB08961560689831
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Access the world’s leading scholarly literature in the sciences and social sciences and examine proceedings of international conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions. Elmhurst's subscription includes: Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index, both with coverage from 1998-present.

Communication Arts & Sciences

Liaison librarian for communication arts & sciences is Peg Cook (cookm@elmhurst.edu or ext. 3267).

Communication and Mass Media Complete (CMMC) This link opens in a new window
Covers a variety of areas pertaining to communication and mass media. The product of a merging of CommSearch and Mass Media Articles Index, CMMC contains the full text of over 500 titles in addition to citations to several other types of documents and searchable cited references.
Gale Directory Library This link opens in a new window
Includes online versions of the Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media, Encyclopedia of Business Information Sources, and Market Share Reporter.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
An electronic archive of journal titles in a variety of disciplines, often going back to the first issue of a journal's existence. In addition, a collection of over 1.8 million digital images of paintings, photos, architectural works, sculptures, and design pieces from around the world from all time periods.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
An online library of over 325 journals from 120 scholarly publishers. Some full text dates back to 1993. Journals in this collection cover primarily the arts and humanities, and the social sciences.
Sage Journals Online This link opens in a new window
A collection of over 700 peer-reviewed journals in full text, covering such subject areas as business, the humanities, social sciences, and science, technology and medicine.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Access the world’s leading scholarly literature in the sciences and social sciences and examine proceedings of international conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions. Elmhurst's subscription includes: Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index, both with coverage from 1998-present.

Communication Sciences & Disorders

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Provides abstracts from over 12,500 periodicals in the social sciences, humanities, general science, multicultural studies, and others, with full text articles from 8,500 titles, including more than 7,300 that are peer-reviewed. Almost every topic of study is covered. The database is updated daily, and includes searchable cited references from more than 1,400 journals.

Liaison librarian for communication sciences & disorders is Julie James (julie.james@elmhurst.edu or ext. 3170).

CINAHL Complete This link opens in a new window
Provides full text for more than 1,300 journals indexed in CINAHL. Provides indexing for more than 5,000 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. Covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. Searchable cited references for nearly 1,500 journals are also included.
Communication and Mass Media Complete (CMMC) This link opens in a new window
Covers a variety of areas pertaining to communication and mass media. The product of a merging of CommSearch and Mass Media Articles Index, CMMC contains the full text of over 500 titles in addition to citations to several other types of documents and searchable cited references.
ERIC (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
ERIC is a key source for education information. Allows users to access articles from scholarly as well as professional periodicals, in addition to ERIC documents back to 1966 - more than 1.4 million records in all. Many articles are available in full-text, and there are links to full-text ERIC documents available.
ERIC (FirstSearch) This link opens in a new window
A key source for education information. Allows users to access articles from scholarly as well as professional periodicals, in addition to ERIC documents back to 1966.
MEDLINE (FirstSearch) This link opens in a new window
An international index to all areas of medicine, dating back to 1965. Over 10,500 titles are indexed, and substantial abstracts are included.
MEDLINE (Thomson-Reuters) This link opens in a new window
The U.S. National Library of Medicine® (NLM®) premier life sciences database.
MEDLINE (EBSCO) with Full Text This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive source of full text for medical journals, providing full text for more than 1,470 journals. Coverage back to 1949 with fulltext back to 1965, includes searchable citations to more than 4800 current journals.
Sage Journals Online This link opens in a new window
A collection of over 700 peer-reviewed journals in full text, covering such subject areas as business, the humanities, social sciences, and science, technology and medicine.
SpringerLink Journals and Ebooks This link opens in a new window
A collection of over 2200 journals in all disciplines, with over 1650 in full text back to 1997; AND over 8000 fulltext ebooks (medicine from 2005-2010, and all STEM areas from 2014).

Computer Science & Information Systems

Liaison librarian for computer science & information systems is Jacob Hill (jacobh@elmhurst.edu or ext. 3168).

Criminal Justice & Sociology

Liaison librarian for criminal justice & sociology is Elaine Fetyko Page (elainep@elmhurst.edu or ext. 3166).

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
An electronic archive of journal titles in a variety of disciplines, often going back to the first issue of a journal's existence. In addition, a collection of over 1.8 million digital images of paintings, photos, architectural works, sculptures, and design pieces from around the world from all time periods.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Abstracts Database This link opens in a new window
Contains references to over 220,000 articles and reports on criminal justice topics; includes a few links to full text documents.
Sage Journals Online This link opens in a new window
A collection of over 700 peer-reviewed journals in full text, covering such subject areas as business, the humanities, social sciences, and science, technology and medicine.
SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Contains more than 2.3 million records as well as abstracts for over 2,500 journals, as well as conference papers, books, and monographs. Includes almost 900 full text journals, hundreds of books, thousands of conference papers, and 25,000 author profiles. Topics covered include urban studies, anthropology, criminology and criminal justice, ethnic and racial studies, marriage and the family, social psychology, and sociological theory.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Access the world’s leading scholarly literature in the sciences and social sciences and examine proceedings of international conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions. Elmhurst's subscription includes: Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index, both with coverage from 1998-present.

Education

Chronicle of Higher Education This link opens in a new window
Full text access to current and past issues (through 1995) of the Chronicle of Higher Education, source of news for people in academe.

Liaison librarian for education is Donna Goodwyn (donnamg@elmhurst.edu or ext. 3171).

ERIC (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
ERIC is a key source for education information. Allows users to access articles from scholarly as well as professional periodicals, in addition to ERIC documents back to 1966 - more than 1.4 million records in all. Many articles are available in full-text, and there are links to full-text ERIC documents available.
ERIC (FirstSearch) This link opens in a new window
A key source for education information. Allows users to access articles from scholarly as well as professional periodicals, in addition to ERIC documents back to 1966.
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia This link opens in a new window
An encyclopedia aimed primarily at elementary and middle school students with over 25,000 entries on a variety of topics.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
An electronic archive of journal titles in a variety of disciplines, often going back to the first issue of a journal's existence. In addition, a collection of over 1.8 million digital images of paintings, photos, architectural works, sculptures, and design pieces from around the world from all time periods.
MAS-Ultra, School Edition This link opens in a new window
Designed for high school libraries, this database provides articles from nearly 500 popular publications dating back to 1975. Every article is assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). This database also includes book reviews, pamphlets, reference books as well as biographies and primary source documents, and an extensive collection of photos, maps and flags. Useful for Education majors.
Professional Development Collection This link opens in a new window
Designed for professional educators, provides full text of articles from over 500 peer-reviewed journals and 200 educational reports.
APA PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
Covers professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, and other areas. There are 2,500 titles indexed, and linked full text is available.
Sage Journals Online This link opens in a new window
A collection of over 700 peer-reviewed journals in full text, covering such subject areas as business, the humanities, social sciences, and science, technology and medicine.
Teacher Reference Center This link opens in a new window
Provides indexing for over 280 of the most popular education trade journals. Linked full text is available.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Access the world’s leading scholarly literature in the sciences and social sciences and examine proceedings of international conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions. Elmhurst's subscription includes: Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index, both with coverage from 1998-present.
Primary Search This link opens in a new window
Designed for elementary school libraries and public libraries, contains articles from more than 80 popular elementary school magazines. Full text from 1989-present, with abstracts back to 1984. Includes Encyclopedia of Animals, Funk & Wagnall's Encyclopedia and American Heritage Children's Dictionary. All articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Useful for Education majors.

English

Liaison librarians for english are Peg Cook (cookm@elmhurst.edu or ext. 3267) and Susan Swords Steffen (susanss@elmhurst.edu or ext. 3172).

Gale eBooks This link opens in a new window
Contains the full-text of hundreds of print reference titles and series, allowing you access to key reference sources without having to be in the library. Includes a variety of topics, and all titles in the Scribner's and Twayne's author series. Most Gale eBook titles can also be accessed through I-Share.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
An electronic archive of journal titles in a variety of disciplines, often going back to the first issue of a journal's existence. In addition, a collection of over 1.8 million digital images of paintings, photos, architectural works, sculptures, and design pieces from around the world from all time periods.
Literary Index This link opens in a new window
An online index to the entirety of the approximately 130 print Gale products, including Contemporary Literary Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Drama Criticism, and Short Story Criticism. There are nearly 165,000 authors and 215,000 titles indexed. Will become Gale Literary Index in September 2020.
Literature Criticism Online This link opens in a new window
Search Contemporary Literary Criticism (CLC), Drama Criticism (DC), Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism (NCLC), Poetry Criticism (PC), Shakespearean Criticism (SC), and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (TCLC) through an easy-to-navigate interface.
Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window
Combines a variety of key literary resources, including MLA International Bibliography, Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature, Contemporary Authors Online, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, Scribner Writers Series, Twayne's and the Dictionary of Literary Biography.
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
The MLA International Bibliography is the definitive index for the study of language, literature, linguistics, rhetoric and composition, folklore, and film, covering scholarly publications from the early 20th century to the present. International in scope, it includes citations to journal articles, books, articles in books, series, translations, scholarly editions, websites, and dissertations, with links to full text in JSTOR, Project MUSE, and other resources. The database also includes the MLA Directory of Periodicals and the MLA Thesaurus, a searchable collection of thousands of subject terms, and personal names used in indexing the bibliography.

MLA Literary Research Guide
The Literary Research Guide is a selective, annotated guide to reference sources essential to the study of British literature, literatures of the United States, other literatures in English, and related topics.

Oxford English Dictionary This link opens in a new window
The historical dictionary of the English language available online.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
An online library of over 325 journals from 120 scholarly publishers. Some full text dates back to 1993. Journals in this collection cover primarily the arts and humanities, and the social sciences.

Geography & Geosciences

Liaison librarian for geography & geosciences is Susan Swords Steffen (susanss@elmhurst.edu or ext. 3172).

Global Issues (Gale In Context) This link opens in a new window
A database that explores global issues through a portal displaying current information from newspapers, magazines, academic journals, websites, reference sources, primary sources and statistics.
GreenFILE This link opens in a new window
GreenFILE is a collection of more than 612,000 scholarly, government and general-interest records that include content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done on each level to minimize negative impact. Topics covered include global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
An electronic archive of journal titles in a variety of disciplines, often going back to the first issue of a journal's existence. In addition, a collection of over 1.8 million digital images of paintings, photos, architectural works, sculptures, and design pieces from around the world from all time periods.
Military and Government Collection This link opens in a new window
Offers current news on all branches of the military and government, including a collection of academic journals, trade publications and newsweeklies; also provides full text for almost 300 periodicals. Full text from 1975-present.
Sanborn Maps This link opens in a new window
Our subscription to the Digital Sanborn Maps includes most towns and cities in Illinois from 1867-1970. The maps contain information such as the outline of each building, the size, shape and construction materials, heights, and location of windows and doors. The maps also give street names, sidewalk widths, property boundaries, building use, and house numbers. Currently images are only available from on campus.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Access the world’s leading scholarly literature in the sciences and social sciences and examine proceedings of international conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions. Elmhurst's subscription includes: Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index, both with coverage from 1998-present.

History

ArchiveGrid This link opens in a new window
ArchiveGrid includes over 7 million records describing archival materials, bringing together information about historical documents, personal papers, family histories, and more. With over 1,400 archival institutions represented, ArchiveGrid helps researchers looking for primary source materials held in archives, libraries, museums and historical societies.

Liaison librarian for history is Jennifer Paliatka (jenniferp@elmhurst.edu or ext. 3158).

Biography and Genealogy Master Index (BGMI) This link opens in a new window
Indexes any print resource containing biographical information on people from all time periods, geographical locations and fields of endeavor.
Encyclopedia of Chicago This link opens in a new window
The definitive reference source on metropolitan Chicago and its history. Includes over 1,400 entries--articles, photos, maps, broadsides and newspapers--tracing Chicago's development from the 17th century to the present.
European View of the Americas 1493 to 1750 This link opens in a new window
The database contains more than 32,000 entries and is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750.
HarpWeek This link opens in a new window
A collection of the 19th century periodical Harper's Weekly, covering the years from 1857-1912. It includes full-page images of each issue, including cartoons, editorials, news, illustrations, and advertisements.
Historical Statistics of the United States: Millennial Edition This link opens in a new window
A definitive source of quantitative data about American history. Includes hundreds of manipulable tables and also contains essays about historical trends.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
An electronic archive of journal titles in a variety of disciplines, often going back to the first issue of a journal's existence. In addition, a collection of over 1.8 million digital images of paintings, photos, architectural works, sculptures, and design pieces from around the world from all time periods.
Military and Government Collection This link opens in a new window
Offers current news on all branches of the military and government, including a collection of academic journals, trade publications and newsweeklies; also provides full text for almost 300 periodicals. Full text from 1975-present.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chicago Tribune This link opens in a new window
Includes every issue from 1849-1990. For current issues, use Chicago Tribune, which provides access to articles from 1985-present.

Intercultural Studies

Liaison librarian for intercultural studies is Jennifer Paliatka (jenniferp@elmhurst.edu or ext. 3158).

Black Studies in Video This link opens in a new window
The collection contains 500 hours of film covering African American history, politics, art and culture, family structure, gender relationships, and social and economic issues. The collection is comprised of documentaries, powerful interviews, and previously unavailable archival footage surveying the black experience.
Global Issues (Gale In Context) This link opens in a new window
A database that explores global issues through a portal displaying current information from newspapers, magazines, academic journals, websites, reference sources, primary sources and statistics.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
An electronic archive of journal titles in a variety of disciplines, often going back to the first issue of a journal's existence. In addition, a collection of over 1.8 million digital images of paintings, photos, architectural works, sculptures, and design pieces from around the world from all time periods.
LGBT Studies in Video This link opens in a new window
LGBT Studies provides students and researchers across disciplines a multi-content perspective on the LGBT political, cultural and social movements throughout the twentieth century and into the present day.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
An online library of over 325 journals from 120 scholarly publishers. Some full text dates back to 1993. Journals in this collection cover primarily the arts and humanities, and the social sciences.

Kinesiology

CINAHL Complete This link opens in a new window
Provides full text for more than 1,300 journals indexed in CINAHL. Provides indexing for more than 5,000 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. Covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. Searchable cited references for nearly 1,500 journals are also included.

Liaison librarian for kinesiology is Elaine Fetyko Page (elainep@elmhurst.edu or ext. 3166).

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition This link opens in a new window
Contains selective full-text access to over 500 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Includes AHFS Consumer Medication Information, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.
MEDLINE (FirstSearch) This link opens in a new window
An international index to all areas of medicine, dating back to 1965. Over 10,500 titles are indexed, and substantial abstracts are included.
MEDLINE (Thomson-Reuters) This link opens in a new window
The U.S. National Library of Medicine® (NLM®) premier life sciences database.
MEDLINE (EBSCO) with Full Text This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive source of full text for medical journals, providing full text for more than 1,470 journals. Coverage back to 1949 with fulltext back to 1965, includes searchable citations to more than 4800 current journals.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
A free, comprehensive, medical journal literature database from the National Library of Medicine (NLM). This link includes a button that will search Elmhurst University resources.
SpringerLink Journals and Ebooks This link opens in a new window
A collection of over 2200 journals in all disciplines, with over 1650 in full text back to 1997; AND over 8000 fulltext ebooks (medicine from 2005-2010, and all STEM areas from 2014).
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Access the world’s leading scholarly literature in the sciences and social sciences and examine proceedings of international conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions. Elmhurst's subscription includes: Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index, both with coverage from 1998-present.

Mathematics

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
An electronic archive of journal titles in a variety of disciplines, often going back to the first issue of a journal's existence. In addition, a collection of over 1.8 million digital images of paintings, photos, architectural works, sculptures, and design pieces from around the world from all time periods.

Liaison librarian for math is Jennifer Paliatka (jenniferp@elmhurst.edu or ext. 3158).

MathSciNet This link opens in a new window
Covers the world's mathematical literature since 1940, providing Web access to signed reviews and bibliographic data collected by the American Mathematical Society. MathSciNet® contains almost 3 million items and over 1.7 million direct links to original articles.
ScienceDirect College Edition (Social and Behavioral Sciences) This link opens in a new window
Provides indexing to the entire Elsevier library. In addition, there is access to full-text articles in over 350 psychology and social science journals for the most recent 5 years. Besides listing articles that are already in print, ScienceDirect also lists articles that are about to be published.
SciFinder (requires an individual login) This link opens in a new window
SciFinder is a tool that accesses a wide diversity of research from many scientific disciplines, including biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, materials science, and agricultural science. Includes references from thousands of currently published journals and patents from 50+ patent authorities, as well as organic and inorganic substance information. If this is your first time using SciFinder, you will need to create an account with your Elmhurst email address by following this link to complete a SciFinder user registration: https://go.openathens.net/redirector/elmhurst.edu?url=https://scifinder.cas.org/registration/index.html?corpKey=110D3D52X86F35040X1DBB08961560689831
SpringerLink Journals and Ebooks This link opens in a new window
A collection of over 2200 journals in all disciplines, with over 1650 in full text back to 1997; AND over 8000 fulltext ebooks (medicine from 2005-2010, and all STEM areas from 2014).
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Access the world’s leading scholarly literature in the sciences and social sciences and examine proceedings of international conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions. Elmhurst's subscription includes: Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index, both with coverage from 1998-present.

Multidisciplinary / Other

ABC-CLIO E-Books Collection This link opens in a new window
A collection of academic electronic books from ABC-Clio, Praeger, Greenwood Press and Libraries Unlimited.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Provides abstracts from over 12,500 periodicals in the social sciences, humanities, general science, multicultural studies, and others, with full text articles from 8,500 titles, including more than 7,300 that are peer-reviewed. Almost every topic of study is covered. The database is updated daily, and includes searchable cited references from more than 1,400 journals.
ArticleFirst This link opens in a new window
A general source for science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture. Over 16,000 titles are indexed from 1990-present.
Chicago Tribune This link opens in a new window
Gets you to the full text (excluding advertisements) from 1985-date. To see the full text of the Tribune from 1849-1990, go to ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chicago Tribune.
CQ Researcher This link opens in a new window
Covers current and controversial issues from 1991-present. In-depth reports provide summaries, analysis, and links to additional resources.
Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
An online collection of over 1000 reference books, covering a wide range of subjects, from art to technology. Credo Reference also includes a selection of specialized reference books from Sage Publishing.
EBL ebooks (CARLI) This link opens in a new window
This project through the CARLI consortium includes more than 29,000 humanities and social science ebook titles from select publishers. It offers online and offline access, read aloud functionality, and usability for portable devices.
EBSCO Databases This link opens in a new window
Elmhurst University's current subscriptions include: Academic Search Complete, Agricola, ATLA Religion, Business Source Premier, CINAHL Plus with Full Text, Communication and Mass Media Complete, Consumer Health Complete, EBSCO ebooks, ERIC, European views of the Americas 1493 to 1750, Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, GreenFILE, Health Source: Consumer Edition, Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition, Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts, MAS-Ultra, MasterFILE Premier, MEDLINE Plus Full Text, Military and Government Collection, Newspaper Source, NoveList, Omnifile Fulltext Select, Philosopher's Index, Primary Search, Professional Development Collection, PsycINFO, PsycARTICLES, Regional Business News, RILM, Searchasaurus, SocIndex with Full Text, and Teacher Reference Center.
EBSCO ebooks This link opens in a new window
A collection of full-text electronic books available to Elmhurst University students, faculty, and staff; includes a subscription to more than 118,000 titles in the Academic Core collection. EBSCO ebook titles can also be accessed through I-Share.
FirstSearch Databases This link opens in a new window
These include ArticleFirst, CLASE and Periodica, ERIC, GPO Online, Illinois Catalog, Medline, OAIster, PapersFirst, Proceedings, WorldCat, and WorldCat Dissertations.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
A search engine to broadly search for scholarly literature from one platform across many disciplines and sources.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
An electronic archive of journal titles in a variety of disciplines, often going back to the first issue of a journal's existence. In addition, a collection of over 1.8 million digital images of paintings, photos, architectural works, sculptures, and design pieces from around the world from all time periods.
LGBT Studies in Video This link opens in a new window
LGBT Studies provides students and researchers across disciplines a multi-content perspective on the LGBT political, cultural and social movements throughout the twentieth century and into the present day.
Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts (LISTA) This link opens in a new window
Indexes more than 600 periodicals in library science and information management, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Coverage extends back to the mid-1960s.
MasterFILE Premier This link opens in a new window
A multidisciplinary database providing full text for nearly 1,700 general reference publications including 500 reference books and 81,900 primary source documents, as well as an image collection of over 935,000 photos, maps and flags.
New World Cinema: Independent Features and Shorts 1990-present This link opens in a new window
A collection of approximately 200 full-length feature films from leading independent distributors such as Kino Lorber, First Run Features, Film Movement, MK2, and the Global Films Initiative, along with some fifty award-winning shorts. All the films were shown at major festivals. Many were nominated and collectively, the films in the collection have won more than 1,000 awards.
OAIster This link opens in a new window
A catalog of more than 30 million digital resources from over 1,500 organizations, developed by the University of Michigan and harvested using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting. Includes scanned books, articles, audio, video, images, and datasets.
OmniFile Full Text Select This link opens in a new window
OmniFile Full Text Select Edition is a multidisciplinary, 100% full-text database providing full text articles, with their accompanying indexing and abstracts. Coverage of more than 3100 publications goes back to 1994.
Proceedings This link opens in a new window
Contains citations of congresses, symposiums, conferences, expositions, workshops, and meetings received by the British Library Document Supply Centre, from 1993-present.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
An online library of over 325 journals from 120 scholarly publishers. Some full text dates back to 1993. Journals in this collection cover primarily the arts and humanities, and the social sciences.
ProQuest Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Includes the ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chicago Tribune (1849-2011)‎ and ProQuest Global Newstream (1984 - current).
Sage Journals Online This link opens in a new window
A collection of over 700 peer-reviewed journals in full text, covering such subject areas as business, the humanities, social sciences, and science, technology and medicine.
Sage Knowledge This link opens in a new window
A variety of encyclopedias and other reference materials from SAGE publications.
ScienceDirect College Edition (Social and Behavioral Sciences) This link opens in a new window
Provides indexing to the entire Elsevier library. In addition, there is access to full-text articles in over 350 psychology and social science journals for the most recent 5 years. Besides listing articles that are already in print, ScienceDirect also lists articles that are about to be published.
SpringerLink Journals and Ebooks This link opens in a new window
A collection of over 2200 journals in all disciplines, with over 1650 in full text back to 1997; AND over 8000 fulltext ebooks (medicine from 2005-2010, and all STEM areas from 2014).
Academic Video Online: Premium (AVON) This link opens in a new window
Academic Video Online (AVON) delivers more than 70,000 video titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film and more. AVON includes every kind of video material available with curricular relevance: documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, field recordings, commercials, and raw footage. Users will find thousands of award-winning films, including Academy®, Emmy®, and Peabody® winners as well as the most frequently used films for classroom instruction, plus newly released films and previously unavailable archival material.
WorldCat This link opens in a new window
WorldCat is an international combined catalog of more than 44,000 libraries. Use WorldCat to find information about items that are not available in I-Share.
WorldCat Dissertations This link opens in a new window
A catalog of all dissertations, theses and published materials based on theses that are available in OCLC member libraries.

Music

Liaison librarian for music is Julie James (julie.james@elmhurst.edu or ext. 3170).

Classical Music Library This link opens in a new window
Classical Music Library is an extensive collection of nearly 100,000 recordings of classical music, focusing on contemporary classical music and women composers. Pieces come from over 30 music labels. Free registration enables users to create their own playlists.
Classical Scores Library This link opens in a new window
Contains over 1.5 million pages of classical scores spanning time periods from the Middle Ages to the 21st century.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
An electronic archive of journal titles in a variety of disciplines, often going back to the first issue of a journal's existence. In addition, a collection of over 1.8 million digital images of paintings, photos, architectural works, sculptures, and design pieces from around the world from all time periods.
Music Online This link opens in a new window
Browse or search this comprehensive database of streaming audio, video, reference, and scores on the web. More than 515,000 albums, over 6 million audio tracks, over 24,000 books, documents and music scores, and over 1700 hours of video are included.
Oxford Music Online This link opens in a new window
Includes the full text of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, New Grove Dictionary of Opera, New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, Oxford Dictionary of Music, and Oxford Companion to Music. You can find information on all aspects of music and musicians. Includes links to other music resources like RILM and Classical Music Library. Subscription is limited to 8 simultaneous users.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature This link opens in a new window
Contains over 700,000 entries pertaining to vocal and musical instruments; historical and ethnomusicology; notation, theory, criticism, and analysis; pedagogy; liturgy, dance, and other interdisciplinary studies of music and related areas from over 11,000 journals in 200 languages.

Nursing & Public Health

CINAHL Complete This link opens in a new window
Provides full text for more than 1,300 journals indexed in CINAHL. Provides indexing for more than 5,000 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. Covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. Searchable cited references for nearly 1,500 journals are also included.

Liaison librarian for nursing and public health is Julie James (julie.james@elmhurst.edu or ext. 3170).

Consumer Health Complete This link opens in a new window
A full-text database providing access to easily understandable health and medical information found in hundreds of health reference books, more than 550 journals and magazines, images, diagrams, animations and video. It covers topics such as aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, men & women's health, and evidence-based health reports.
Health Source: Consumer Edition This link opens in a new window
Features searchable full text for over 80 journals on consumer health topics, including food science and nutrition, child care and sports medicine. Also includes hundreds of health topic pamphlets, health reference books and clinical reference health system reports.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition This link opens in a new window
Contains selective full-text access to over 500 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Includes AHFS Consumer Medication Information, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.
Joanna Briggs Institute Evidence Based Practice Database This link opens in a new window
Contains a wide range of summarized and appraised evidence, to inform practice. This comprehensive range of resources includes over 3,000 records across seven publication types: Evidence Based Recommended Practices, Evidence Summaries, Best Practice Information Sheets, Systematic Reviews, Consumer Information Sheets, Systematic Review Protocols, and Technical Reports.
MEDLINE (FirstSearch) This link opens in a new window
An international index to all areas of medicine, dating back to 1965. Over 10,500 titles are indexed, and substantial abstracts are included.
MEDLINE (Thomson-Reuters) This link opens in a new window
The U.S. National Library of Medicine® (NLM®) premier life sciences database.
MEDLINE (EBSCO) with Full Text This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive source of full text for medical journals, providing full text for more than 1,470 journals. Coverage back to 1949 with fulltext back to 1965, includes searchable citations to more than 4800 current journals.
Nursing Education in Video This link opens in a new window
A partnership with Medcom-Trainex, Nursing Education in Video gives faculty and students anywhere-anytime access to Medcom’s highly regarded library of full-length training programs—online in streaming video. Medcom videos have won more than 50 major awards for excellence, including the prestigious Emmy award. Nursing Education in Video covers the fundamentals of nurse training and advanced topics.
Nursing@Ovid Books Extended Core Collection This link opens in a new window
A collection of 38 electronic book titles in nursing, from LWW publishers. All titles are also included in the I-Share catalog.
Ovid Nursing and Health Professions Premier Collection This link opens in a new window
Over 70 top journals used by nurses and health professionals around the world. Includes titles such as AJN, JONA, Advances in Nursing Science, and Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
A free, comprehensive, medical journal literature database from the National Library of Medicine (NLM). This link includes a button that will search Elmhurst University resources.
SpringerLink Journals and Ebooks This link opens in a new window
A collection of over 2200 journals in all disciplines, with over 1650 in full text back to 1997; AND over 8000 fulltext ebooks (medicine from 2005-2010, and all STEM areas from 2014).
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Access the world’s leading scholarly literature in the sciences and social sciences and examine proceedings of international conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions. Elmhurst's subscription includes: Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index, both with coverage from 1998-present.

Philosophy

Liaison librarian for philosophy is Peg Cook (cookm@elmhurst.edu or ext. 3267).

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
An electronic archive of journal titles in a variety of disciplines, often going back to the first issue of a journal's existence. In addition, a collection of over 1.8 million digital images of paintings, photos, architectural works, sculptures, and design pieces from around the world from all time periods.

Physics

Liaison librarian for physics is Elaine Fetyko Page (elainep@elmhurst.edu or ext. 3166).

Scitation This link opens in a new window
Scitation is a database that includes more than one million documents from scholarly journals, magazines, conference proceedings, and other special publications from prestigious scientific societies and technical publishers.
SpringerLink Journals and Ebooks This link opens in a new window
A collection of over 2200 journals in all disciplines, with over 1650 in full text back to 1997; AND over 8000 fulltext ebooks (medicine from 2005-2010, and all STEM areas from 2014).
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Access the world’s leading scholarly literature in the sciences and social sciences and examine proceedings of international conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions. Elmhurst's subscription includes: Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index, both with coverage from 1998-present.

Political Science

C-SPAN Video Library This link opens in a new window
The C-SPAN Video Library records, indexes, and archives all C-SPAN programming for historical, educational, research, and archival uses. Every C-SPAN program aired since 1987, now totaling over 200,000 hours, is contained in the C-SPAN Archives and immediately accessible through the database and electronic archival systems developed and maintained by the C-SPAN Archives. Many programs aired since 2003 have searchable text transcripts.

Liaison librarian for political science is Peg Cook (cookm@elmhurst.edu or ext. 3267).

Global Issues (Gale In Context) This link opens in a new window
A database that explores global issues through a portal displaying current information from newspapers, magazines, academic journals, websites, reference sources, primary sources and statistics.
GPO Monthly Catalog This link opens in a new window
Contains records on all subjects of interest to the U.S. government, including Congressional reports, hearings and debates; judiciary materials; and documents issued by executive departments from 1976-present.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
An electronic archive of journal titles in a variety of disciplines, often going back to the first issue of a journal's existence. In addition, a collection of over 1.8 million digital images of paintings, photos, architectural works, sculptures, and design pieces from around the world from all time periods.
Military and Government Collection This link opens in a new window
Offers current news on all branches of the military and government, including a collection of academic journals, trade publications and newsweeklies; also provides full text for almost 300 periodicals. Full text from 1975-present.
Sage Journals Online This link opens in a new window
A collection of over 700 peer-reviewed journals in full text, covering such subject areas as business, the humanities, social sciences, and science, technology and medicine.
SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Contains more than 2.3 million records as well as abstracts for over 2,500 journals, as well as conference papers, books, and monographs. Includes almost 900 full text journals, hundreds of books, thousands of conference papers, and 25,000 author profiles. Topics covered include urban studies, anthropology, criminology and criminal justice, ethnic and racial studies, marriage and the family, social psychology, and sociological theory.

Psychology

Liaison librarian for psychology is Jennifer Paliatka (jenniferp@elmhurst.edu or ext. 3158).

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
An electronic archive of journal titles in a variety of disciplines, often going back to the first issue of a journal's existence. In addition, a collection of over 1.8 million digital images of paintings, photos, architectural works, sculptures, and design pieces from around the world from all time periods.
APA PsycARTICLES This link opens in a new window
Includes the complete full text of nearly 100 American Psychological Association (APA) journals and from allied organizations. Coverage from 1894-present.
APA PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
Covers professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, and other areas. There are 2,500 titles indexed, and linked full text is available.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
A free, comprehensive, medical journal literature database from the National Library of Medicine (NLM). This link includes a button that will search Elmhurst University resources.
Sage Journals Online This link opens in a new window
A collection of over 700 peer-reviewed journals in full text, covering such subject areas as business, the humanities, social sciences, and science, technology and medicine.
ScienceDirect College Edition (Social and Behavioral Sciences) This link opens in a new window
Provides indexing to the entire Elsevier library. In addition, there is access to full-text articles in over 350 psychology and social science journals for the most recent 5 years. Besides listing articles that are already in print, ScienceDirect also lists articles that are about to be published.
SpringerLink Journals and Ebooks This link opens in a new window
A collection of over 2200 journals in all disciplines, with over 1650 in full text back to 1997; AND over 8000 fulltext ebooks (medicine from 2005-2010, and all STEM areas from 2014).
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Access the world’s leading scholarly literature in the sciences and social sciences and examine proceedings of international conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions. Elmhurst's subscription includes: Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index, both with coverage from 1998-present.

Religious Studies

Liaison librarian for religious studies is Elaine Fetyko Page (elainep@elmhurst.edu or ext. 3166).

Atla Religion with AtlaSerials PLUS This link opens in a new window
Designed to support religious and theological scholarship, this international database covers such topics as Biblical studies, world religions, Church history, and religious perspectives on social issues from 1949-present. Through Atla you can gain access to full-text articles in AtlaSerials, a collection of 390+ theological journals.

Urban Studies

Encyclopedia of Chicago This link opens in a new window
The definitive reference source on metropolitan Chicago and its history. Includes over 1,400 entries--articles, photos, maps, broadsides and newspapers--tracing Chicago's development from the 17th century to the present.

Liaison librarian for urban studies is Donna Goodwyn (donnamg@elmhurst.edu or ext. 3171).

Sage Journals Online This link opens in a new window
A collection of over 700 peer-reviewed journals in full text, covering such subject areas as business, the humanities, social sciences, and science, technology and medicine.
Sanborn Maps This link opens in a new window
Our subscription to the Digital Sanborn Maps includes most towns and cities in Illinois from 1867-1970. The maps contain information such as the outline of each building, the size, shape and construction materials, heights, and location of windows and doors. The maps also give street names, sidewalk widths, property boundaries, building use, and house numbers. Currently images are only available from on campus.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Access the world’s leading scholarly literature in the sciences and social sciences and examine proceedings of international conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions. Elmhurst's subscription includes: Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index, both with coverage from 1998-present.

World Languages & Literatures

CLASE and PERIODICA This link opens in a new window
A combination of two different indexes covering Latin American journals in the social sciences, sciences, the humanities, and Pan-American issues. CLASE and PERIODICA accesses citations in over 2,600 scholarly journals published in Spanish, Portuguese, French and English. CLASE covers 1975-present, while PERIODICA covers 1978-present.

Liaison librarians for world languages & literatures are Peg Cook (cookm@elmhurst.edu or ext. 3267) and Susan Swords Steffen (susanss@elmhurst.edu or ext. 3172).

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
An electronic archive of journal titles in a variety of disciplines, often going back to the first issue of a journal's existence. In addition, a collection of over 1.8 million digital images of paintings, photos, architectural works, sculptures, and design pieces from around the world from all time periods.
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
The MLA International Bibliography is the definitive index for the study of language, literature, linguistics, rhetoric and composition, folklore, and film, covering scholarly publications from the early 20th century to the present. International in scope, it includes citations to journal articles, books, articles in books, series, translations, scholarly editions, websites, and dissertations, with links to full text in JSTOR, Project MUSE, and other resources. The database also includes the MLA Directory of Periodicals and the MLA Thesaurus, a searchable collection of thousands of subject terms, and personal names used in indexing the bibliography.

MLA Literary Research Guide
The Literary Research Guide is a selective, annotated guide to reference sources essential to the study of British literature, literatures of the United States, other literatures in English, and related topics.

Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
An online library of over 325 journals from 120 scholarly publishers. Some full text dates back to 1993. Journals in this collection cover primarily the arts and humanities, and the social sciences.

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Citation Linker - Bluejay Search
Elmhurst University's Citation Linker - Bluejay Search allows you to input a citation, DOI or PMID and retrieve the item if it is available in full text.

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