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Library Catalogs (Find books and AV materials from Lake Land and other libraries)

LINC Library Catalog
Find books and AV materials at Lake Land and 90 other libraries in East-Central Illinois.
I-Share
Online catalog of 71 academic libraries in Illinois, including the U of I and Eastern Illinois. 
WorldCat. Click here to search!
WorldCat (FirstSearch)
Search the collections of thousands of libraries throughout the U.S. and the world.
WorldCat Local (TRIAL)
Search Lake Land, the Lincoln Trail system, other Illinois libraries, and libraries worldwide all in one place. This is a new catalog that we're trying out, so if you have any input about it, please let us know.
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Article Databases (Find articles from Newspapers, Magazines & Journals) *

Products Subject Guide
Infotrac link Gale PowerSearch
(Formerly InfoTrac)
A large suite of Gale databases, most notably Academic OneFile and Expanded Academic ASAP. Full-text articles in humanities, social sciences, science and technology, physical sciences, medicine, the arts, theology, and literature. Updated daily.
ProQuest
Updated daily, ProQuest provides the full text for newspaper articles from around the country. The ProQuest Research Library also offers academic journals and popular magazines on a variety of general subjects. Nursing, Allied Health, and Career and Technical Education research is also included. 
 EBSCOhost - click here to search! EBSCOhost
Contains several databases ranging from general interest to medicine, business, education, newspapers, and psychology.
FirstSearch. Click here to search! FirstSearch
Contains 10 different databases (not all are full-text) on subjects such as business, education, government, medicine, and general research.
JSTOR
JSTOR is an archive of scholarly journals that includes high-resolution, scanned images of past journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated.
ScienceDirect
Contains over 25% of the world's science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic information, including a rich journal collection of over 2,500 titles.

The Chronicle of Higher Education
Online subscription to the publication of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators.
* For a complete list of all the journals, magazines and newspapers available through all of our article databases, see our Periodical Holdings page.
Arts & Humanities
   Gale PowerSearch (formerly InfoTrac)
   ProQuest Research Library
Business
   Business Source Elite
   ProQuest Research Library
   Regional Business News
Education
   ERIC (FirstSearch)
   ERIC (EBSCOhost)
   Chronicle of Higher Education
   Career and Technical Education
   Professional Development Collection
History
   Historical New York Times (1851- 2001)
   Harper's Weekly (1857 - 1889)
News
   ProQuest Newspapers
   Newspaper Source
   Historical New York Times (1851- 2001)
Nursing, Medicine, Health
   ProQuest Nursing Journals
   Health Source: Nursing
   Health Source: Consumer
   MEDLINE
Science & Technology
   ScienceDirect
   PowerSearch (formerly InfoTrac)
Social Sciences
   PowerSearch (formerly InfoTrac)
   ProQuest Research Library
   PsychARTICLES
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Reference Databases (Overviews, statistics, opinions, and more on a wide variety of subjects)

Products Subject Guide
American Mosiac
A family of reference databases that focuses on the history, biography, literature, arts, music, pop culture, politics, and more of different groups of Americans.
The African American Experience
The Latino American Experience
American Indian Experience

Auto Repair Reference Center
Repair information on 25,000 vehicles from 1945 to present. Factory drawings, technical service bulletins, wiring diagrams, specs & maintenance schedules, and quick tips.

Biography Resource Center
Contains 1.4 million biographies from many different biographical reference sources. Also, find quick reference information on an additional 900,000 people .
Books In Print. Click here to search!
Books In Print
Information on 3.4 million books that are currently in print and over 165,000 publishers, distributors, wholesalers, and book agents.

CQ Electronic Library
Congressional Quarterly's definitive reference resource for research in American government, politics, history, public policy, and current affairs.
Credo Reference
Offering access to over 1.7 million individual entries from 240 reference books: dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri, books of quotations, and a host of subject-specific titles covering everything from the arts to accountancy and law to literature.

Daily Life Online
A cross-disciplinary resource for history, social studies, and literature, this database provides context for contemporary life and cultures throughout history and around the world. Includes primary documents, images, maps, vetted weblinks, and thousands of folk and fairy tales.
CollegeSource Online. Click here to search!
Encyclopedia Britannica Online
Access more than 118,000 thousand encyclopedia articles and 14,000 photos, drawings, maps and flags. In addition, search 215,000 entries from Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus.

Facts on File
Includes access to three different databases: World News Digest brings together and enhances nearly seven decades of news (from 1940 to present) from the renowned Facts On File World News Digest in print. Issues and Controversies explores more than 800 hot topics in business, politics, government, education, and popular culture. And Today's Science bridges the gap between the science that students learn in the classroom and the discoveries pushing the boundaries of science today.

Ferguson's Career Guidance Center
Profiles of more than 2,050 of today's most popular jobs in more than 94 industries. Includes industry overviews, career descriptions, training programs, and news on career opportunities.

Gale Virtual Reference Library
Online editions of Gale reference books, including history sources such as the ten-volume set of American Decades and American Decades Primary Sources, the 8-volume Science and Its Times, and encyclopedias for nursing, race & racism, and sex & gender.

Global Issues in Context
Learn about different countries through international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals bring together a variety of specially selected, highly relevant sources for analysis of social, political, military, economic, environmental, health, and cultural issues.
Grove Art and Grove Music: See Oxford Art Online and Oxford Music Online.

Historical Statistics of the U.S.
A five-volume reference work that provides statistics on U.S. history dealing with population, work and welfare, economics, government and international relations.

History Study Center
Primary and secondary sources-- Journal articles, rare books, newspaper articles, video clips, parliamentary papers, criminal trial records, radio and television news, maps, images, student guides and reference resources.
Issues & Controversies
Issues & Controversies
Up-to-date, in-depth and objective information on the most hotly debated issues of the day.
Academic Universe. Click here to search!
LexisNexis Academic
News, business, legal and general reference sources.

LitFinder
Full text of 126,000 poems, 5,000 short stories, 2,800 essays, 1,800 speeches, and 1,000 plays from all time periods and is international in scope. Also includes biographies, work summaries, photographs, and a glossary.

Literature Resource Center
Biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Covers 120,000 novelists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most studied authors .

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
Opinions, views, arguments, and statistics on a wide-range of current controversial social issues.

Oxford English Dictionary
An historical dictionary of English, covering the language from the earliest times to the present day.
Oxford Reference Online
A compilation of 100 printed reference works published by the Oxford University Press.
OxfordArtOnline. Click here to search! Oxford Art Online
The entire text of The Dictionary of Art (1996, 34 vols.) with annual additions of new material and updates. Also includes content from the Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.
OxfordMusicOnline. Click here to search! Oxford Music Online
Full text of several music reference sources, including the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, the New Grove Dictionary of Opera, the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, Oxford Dictionary of Music, and the Oxford Companion to Music.
Pop Culture Universe
A "digital library of information on American and world popular culture, past and present-- in a package as dynamic as the topic it covers... If it's Peachy, Swell, Nifty, Slick, Smooth, Cool, Neat-O, Groovy, Far Out, Rad, Bitchin’, Mint, Dope, Fly, Phat, Hot, or Awesome… you’ve come to the right place."
Sage eReference
A collection of 70+ reference books available online through Sage.
Testing and Education Reference Center
Research careers and college programs and prepare for dozens of standardized tests, such as college entrance & credit (SAT, ACT, TOEFL, GRE), nursing & civil service exams (NCLEX, firefighters, EMT, law enforcement, ASVAB) and much more.
Art
   Oxford Art Online
   Credo Art
Auto Repair
   Auto Repair Ref Center
Biography
   Biography Resource Center
   Literature Resource Center
   Credo Biography
Book Sellers
   Books in Print
Business
   Credo Business
   LexisNexis Academic
   Encyc. of Business & Finance
Career Guidance
   Ferguson's Career Center
   Testing and Education Ref Ctr
Cultures
   Global Issues in Context
   Daily Life Online
   Am. Mosaic: African Americans
   Am. Mosaic: Latino Americans
   Am. Mosaic: American Indians
   Encyc. of Islam & Muslim World
   Black Thought and Culture
   Women and Social Movements
   Pop Culture Universe
Education
   Chronicle of Higher Education
   Testing and Education Ref Ctr
Food
   Credo Food
   Oxford Food & Drink
   Encyc. of Food & Culture
General Reference
   Encyclopedia Britannica Online
   Oxford English Dictionary
   Oxford Reference
   Credo Reference
   Sage eReference
   Acronyms, Initials & Abbrevs.
History
   History Study Center
   Daily Life Online
   American Decades
   Am. Decades: Primary Sources
   World News Digest
   Historical Statistics of the U.S.
   Pop Culture Universe
   Oxford History
   Credo History
Issues & Opinions
   Issues & Controversies
   Opposing Viewpoints
   CQ Public Affairs Collection
Law & Government
   CQ Electronic Library
   LexisNexis Academic
   Credo Law
Literature
   Literature Resource Center
   LitFinder
   Credo Literature
   Contemporary Novelists
   Writers Directory
Medicine
   Credo Medicine
   Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
   Encyc. of Nursing & Allied Health
   Encyc. of Alternative Medicine
   Encyclopedia of Public Health
Miscellaneous
   Schirmer Encyc. of Film
   Weather Almanac
   Encyc. of Clothing & Fashion
   Cities of the United States
   Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Music
   Oxford Music Online
   Credo Music
   Baker's Dict. of Pop Musicians (1990-2004)
News
   LexisNexis Academic
   World News Digest
Poetry
   LitFinder
Quotations
   Credo Quotations
   Oxford Quotations
Science & Technology
   Today's Science (Facts on File)
   Science and Its Times
   Credo Science
   Credo Technology
   Oxford Science
   Oxford Computing
Social Science
   Encyclopedia of Sociology
   Encyclopedia of Bioethics
   Encyclopedia of Race & Racism
   Encyclopedia of Sex & Gender
   Black Thought and Culture
   Women and Social Movements
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