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High-quality art images curated by leading museums, all rights-cleared for educational use.

Repository for digital content created by member libraries of the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI).

Digitized images of letters written by author Thomas and his wife Jane Carlyle which evoke the cultural milieu of Victorian England.

Colleges and universities in the U.S. are classified into groups of roughly comparable institutions. Data are derived from 1994 and 2005 surveys.

Login here. CAS SciFinder Scholar is the premier chemistry database produced by the American Chemical Society.

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Roman Catholic church documents, books and periodicals related to studies of the Catholic faith. From 1981 to present.

Official U.S. site of data from the last census in 2000. See also: Historical Statistics of the U.S. elsewhere in this guide.

Comprehensive resource for research into taxation.

The official record of each regularly scheduled City Council meeting.

Proceedings of the City Council before the Great Fire of 1871.

Historical archives of the Chicago Defender digitized cover-to-cover from 1905 to 1975.

News articles appearing in diverse foreign languages in the city of Chicago from 1855-1938.

Historical archives of the Chicago Tribune digitized cover-to-cover from 1849 to 1986.

Open access database on early education and child care research and policy.

Current news and information for the college and university community.

Theory and research in international affairs conducted by universities, NGOs, foundations, and independent societies.

CINAHL covers literature related to nursing and allied health.

Open access database of information related to rehabilitation research.

Archive of photographs taken in the year 2000 to document every feature of life in Chicago.

Latin American journals specializing in social sciences, humanities, science and technology.

Faculty in the field of classics making their papers available in advance of final publication.

Current medical evidence on the effects of common clinical interventions.

Includes CPonhand download for PDAs and smartphones. For off-campus support, contact Ask a Librarian .

Independent medical evidence on which to base clinical treatment decisions.

Comprehensive collection of college catalogs in full cover-to-cover format with 2-year, 4-year, graduate, professional and international schools.

Contains works of poetry found in anthologies, and volumes of collected works and selected works for individual poets.

CITY2000 includes half a million photographs of Chicago people and landscapes in the year 2000.

Full text coverage of communication and mass media and related fields.

Primary professional literature of the human communications fields, including journalism, mass media, health communications, rhetoric and more.

Journalism, political communication, mass communication, interpersonal communication, television / film studies, media studies, rhetoric, and literacy studies. 1955 to present.

Comprehensive database of engineering research. Cross-searchable with INSPEC.

Provides business management research and economic analyses. The Library's subscription provides 50% discount of registration fees for faculty and staff to attend Conference board conferences.

Papers and poster sessions presented at major scientific meetings around the world. From 1960 to present.

Official record of the proceedings and debates of the U.S. Congress. From 1994 to present. Updated daily when Congress is in session.

U.S. Congressional Serials Set (1789-1969) is an collection of publications compiled under directive of Congress. It complements the Congressional Record.

Contemporary Authors covers biographies and bibliographies of current writers in a wide range of media.

Global information on women's health, personal development and socioeconomic conditions.

Services on searching for new collaborative and funding opportunities.

Statistical package of cost-of-living index from 1990 to present.

Commerce, risk reviews, reports and forecasts of business in countries worldwide.

Public affairs reports, historic documents and analyses. Coverage from the latter half of the 20th century to the present.

Provides snapshots of current affairs. Single-themed reports are researched and written by experienced observers from a range of viewpoints. From 1923 to present.

Supreme Court decisions, biographies of Supreme Court justices, institutional history, and the U.S. Constitution.

Research on the American voter, political parties, campaigns and elections to Congress, the presidency, and governorships.

Congressional Quarterly's weekly magazine on current government, commerce and politics (1983 to present).

Platform to search across all CQ materials at once.

Growing collection of electronic reference books -- dictionaries, encyclopedias, bilinguals, almanacs, handbooks, atlases, and directories.

Coverage of criminal justice and substance abuse. From 1968 to present.

Criminal justice, juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, corrections, penology, policing, forensic psychology, and family and domestic violence. 1921 to present.

Platform of digital resources curated by the CRL, a consortium of North American research libraries.

Platform to cross-search a variety of databases in a wide range of fields.

This resource was acquired with funds from the Library/IT Assessment. Illustrata uncovers tables, figures, graphs, charts and other illustrations from scientific literature.

This resource was acquired with funds from the Library/IT Assessment. Illustrata uncovers tables, figures, graphs, charts and other illustrations from literature related to technology.

Information about the nature and use of language. Covers various fields of linguistics, (1973 to present).

Tables of contents captured from current issues of leading scholarly research journals and books in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities.

International registry of current controlled trials in health professions, freely available from BioMed Central.

Laboratory manuals in chemistry, life sciences, and medicine and healthcare. Updated quarterly.

Rich collection of pedagogical materials based on PreK-12 curricula, frameworks, and standards.