Librarian
Kristyn Caragher
Contact:
Richard J. Daley Library
801 S. Morgan St
Chicago, IL 60607
801 S. Morgan St
Chicago, IL 60607
312-996-2730
Background Resources
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AccessEngineeringAccessEngineering is an engineering reference tool for professionals, academics, and students
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CQ : Congressional Quarterly ResearcherProvides snapshots of current affairs. Single-themed reports are researched and written by experienced observers from a range of viewpoints. From 1923 to present.
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Credo ReferenceGrowing collection of electronic reference books -- dictionaries, encyclopedias, bilinguals, almanacs, handbooks, atlases, and directories.
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Congressional Research ServiceThe Congressional Research Service "works exclusively for Congress, providing timely, objective, and authoritative research and analysis to committees and Members of both the House and Senate, regardless of political party affiliation." Contains numerous reports on a wide variety of policy topics.
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Oxford Reference OnlineOxford Reference Online is a digital reference shelf of topical encyclopedias, handbooks, thesauruses and dictionaries with emphasis on Literature and Western Civilization . Limited to 5 simultaneous users.
Articles
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IEEE XploreIEEE journals and conference proceedings; Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) journals and proceedings; all current IEEE Standards.
Note: If you're unable to set up an IEEE account, go to https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/. After creating an account, go to IEEE in the library website and sign in. -
Google ScholarSearches for scholarly materials such as peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from broad areas of research. It includes a variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.
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ACM Digital LibraryACM Digital Library (formerly ACM Portal) offers full text of every article ever published by the Association for Computing Machinery.
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Web of ScienceAccess to the Web of Science Core Collection which is the largest citation database in science, engineering, medicine and technology; also the social sciences, arts and humanities are represented. This resource was acquired with funding from the Library/IT Assessment.