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American Psychiatric Pub.
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Biological & Agricultural Index
Bioline International
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Business Source Complete
CARLI Digital Collections
Chicago Tribune
Chronicle of Higher Education
CINAHL Plus with Full Text
Columbia Earthscape
Comm. & Mass Media Complete
Conf. Board Research Online
Contemporary Literary Criticism Select
CQ Researcher
Criminal Justice Periodicals
EBSCOAnimals
ECO
ERIC (EBSCO)
ERIC (FirstSearch)
FindArticles
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
General Science Abstracts
GPO
HarpWeek
Health Source -- Consumer Ed.
Health Source -- Nursing/Acad. Ed.
Hoover's Online
Humanties International Index
Illinois Periodicals Online
JSTOR
KCDL Online (Kraus Curric. Dev. Library)
Lexis-Nexis Academic
MagPortal
MAS Ultra - School Ed.
Medline
Military & Govt. Collection
NetLibrary
Newspaper Source
Oxford English Dictionary
PapersFirst
PerAbs
Physical Education Index
Political Science
Pre-CINAHL
Primary Search
Proceedings
Professional Development Coll.
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
ProQuest Education Journals
ProQuest Ethnic Newswatch
ProQuest GenderWatch
ProQuest Nursing Journals
PsycARTICLES
PsycINFO
PubMed Central
ReferenceUSA
Regional Business News
Social Sciences - Full Text
Social Work Abstracts
SocINDEX with Full Text
Sociological Collection
SPORTDiscus
ValueLine
Wall Street Journal
WilsonSelect
WorldAlmanac
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Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) (EBSCO) (FT)
Academic Search Complete, is a scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 4,600 peer-reviewed journals, the searchable PDF content of some goes back as far as 1865. Indexing and abstracting for more than 9,500 journals and a total of nearly 10,000 other publications are also included. Searchable cited references are provided for nearly 1,000 journals.

American Psychiatric Publishing (FT)
Search full-text articles from 1997 to the present in Academic Psychiatry, American Journal of Psychiatry, Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, Psychiatric Services, Journal of Psychotherapy Practice and Research, Focus, Psychosomatics, American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, and Psychiatric News.

Annual Reviews (FT)
Aurora U has online access to all the titles that we subscribe to in print: the Annual Reviews of Anthropology, Genetics, Microbiology, Psychology, Public Health, and Sociology.

Art (WilsonWeb) (FT)
Offers full text plus abstracts and indexing of an international selection of journals covering Western, Latin America, Canadian, Asian, and non-Western art, new artists, contemporary art, exhibition reviews, and feminist criticism.  

ArticleFirst (Statewide Illinois Library Catalog) (FT)
Index and abstracts nearly 12,500 journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture.

Biological and Agricultural Index (EBSCO)
WBAI provides cover-to-cover indexing periodicals in the biological and agricultural sciences from 1983 to the present. Book reviews, chapters in annual reviews of research, and journal supplements are indexed in addition to articles. Subject coverage includes: agricultural chemicals, agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, agriculture and agricultural research, animal husbandry, biochemistry, biology, biotechnology, botany, cytology, ecology, entomology, environmental science, fishery sciences, food science, forestry, genetics, horticulture, marine biology and limnology, microbiology, nutrition, physiology, plant pathology, soil science, veterinary medicine, and zoology.

Bioline International (FT)
Bioline International is a not-for-profit electronic publishing service providing free access to peer-reviewed research journals published in developing countries. BI's goal is to further a global understanding of health concerns, including tropical medicine, infectious diseases, epidemiology, emerging new diseases, biodiversity, the environment, conservation and international development. Bioline International offers the full-text of journal articles from Brazil, Cuba, India, Indonesia, Kenya, South Africa, Uganda, and Zimbabwe, most of which are written in English.

BioOne (FT)
A collection of full-text articles from research journals in the
biological, ecological, and environmental sciences.

Books in Print
Lists all books published in the U.S. and currently in publication or in stock for purchase by the public. Complete bibliographic information, prices, and subject headings are included. Most pamphlets, periodicals, government publications and unbound materials are excluded. This database has no connection to any library's holdings. Special password required.

Business Source Complete (EBSCO) (FT)
Business Source Complete provides a large collection of indexing, abstracting and full text content of scholarly journals, financial data, books, major reference works, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, and SWOT analyses.

CARLI Digital Collections
This collection is a repository of 20 visual image collections containing digital material either licensed or created by the member libraries of the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI). Some of the collections included are the SASKIA Art Images Collection, World War II Correspondence from the Illinois Wesleyan University, the Ayer Art Collection from the Newberry Library, and the Pullman Digital Collection from the Newberry.

Chicago Tribune (NewsBank) (FT)
Complete full-text content of local and regional news (1985-Current), including community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community. Paid advertisements are excluded.

Chronicle of Higher Education (FT)
Online access to the current and back issues of the Chronicle.

CINAHL Plus with Full Text (EBSCO) (FT)
CINAHL Plus with Full Text is a comprehensive source of indexing, abstracting and full text content for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 620 journals indexed in CINAHL.

Columbia Earthscape (FT)
An index to interdisciplinary resources in earth and environmental sciences, including social, political and economic dimensions. Includes journal abstracts and some full-text articles, full-text monographs and selected chapters, conference literature, images, multimedia projects, and resources for science educators.

Communication & Mass Media Complete (EBSCO) (FT)
Communication & Mass Media Complete combines two popular databases in the fields of communication and mass media studies -- CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association (NCA)), and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Pennsylvania State University). Communication & Mass Media Complete provides an invaluable resource for students, researchers, and educators interested in any and all aspects of communication and mass media.

The Conference Board's Research Online Collection (FT)
TCB Research Online is a searchable database of full-text research reports on the latest issues in business management and US and global economics. Proprietary, nonbiased research includes studies of Fortune 500 companies on business trends, leadership decisions, performance excellence, corporate governance, HR, productivity, CRM and more. Economics material includes US and global economic indicators, and analysis and forecasts of US and international economic conditions by TCB's chief economist.

Contemporary Literary Criticism Select (FT)
Contemporary Literary Criticism--Select is an extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary authors. Each CLC--Select entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, listing of principal works and sources for further study.

CQ Researcher (FT)
In-depth reports from 1991 to date produced by the research staff of CQ Press on a variety of current social, economic, political, and environmental issues. Reports include overview, background, outlook, pro/con analysis, graphics, and bibliography.

Criminal Justice Periodicals (ProQuest) (FT)
Provides cover-to-cover access for 44 criminal justice journals, plus complete abstracts for 188 titles. Publications in CJPI focus primarily on practical issues in crime prevention and deterrence, juvenile delinquency, police issues, and courtroom procedures, but also include a number of highly respected theoretical journals as well.

EBSCOAnimals (EBSCO) (FT)
EBSCO's Encyclopedia of Animals offers in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals. Within some of the full text, image links are available for the Windows client. Images are accessed by double-clicking any image graphic.

ECO (Statewide Illinois Library Catalog) (FT)
A growing collection of journals in a variety of subject areas, all with full-text articles available online. Articles are presented in page image formats (predominately PDF) that include all original content and images. The interface supports cross-journal searching and browsing within selected journals. Users can view bibliographic information for all journals and view full-text articles from journals to which Aurora University subscribes. Adobe's free Acrobat PDF viewer and CatchWord's free RealPage viewer are required to view the full-text articles.

ERIC (EBSCO) (FT)
ERIC (Statewide Illinois Library Catalog) (FT)
xERIC, the Education Resources Information Center, sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education, produces a  database of journal and non-journal education literature.  ERIC is central to the literature of education, providing the public with a  bibliographic database of more than 1.1 million citations going back to 1966. Journal articles, and more than 107,000 full-text non-journal documents (issued 1993-2004) are now available for free.

FindArticles
Includes the full-text from a wide variety of journals from popular to peer reviewed. Examples include Art Forum, Wrestling Digest, Jet, and National Review.

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia (EBSCO) (FT)
For students and adults alike, the Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia database indexes over 25,000 records. Full text for each record may be easily accessed by double clicking on the topic from the display. This database is updated annually.

General Science Abstracts (EBSCO)
Wilson General Science Abstracts covers 111 English language periodicals in the physical, life, and health sciences from 1984. In addition to feature articles, WGSI indexes biographical sketches, symposia, conferences, review articles, selected letters to the editor, and supplements to journals.

GPO (Statewide Illinois Library Catalog)
Contains citations to more than 450,000 records for documents published by agencies of the U.S. government. Includes congressional reports, hearings, judicial materials and pamphlets produced by depts. of Commerce, Defense, Labor, etc. Coverage: 1976 to date.

HarpWeek (FT)
HarpWeek provides electronic access to Harper's Weekly, the 19th century "Journal of Civilization", and perhaps the most important primary resource for examining nineteenth century America on a cumulative week-to-week basis. Covers the period from 1857-1889.

Health Source -- Consumer Edition (EBSCO) (FT)
Search for information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source -Consumer Edition features searchable full text for over 190 journals including Consumer Reports on Health and Men's Health, as well as abstracts and indexing for over 205 general health, nutrition and professional health care publications.

Health Source --Nursing/Academic Edition (EBSCO) (FT)
Provides 600 scholarly full text journals, including more than 450 peer-reviewed journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for more than 850 journals. Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong, including full text from Creative Nursing, Issues in Comprehensive Pediatric Nursing, Issues in Mental Health Nursing, Journal of Advanced Nursing, Journal of Child & Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing, Journal of Clinical Nursing, Journal of Community Health Nursing, Journal of Nursing Management, Journal of the Society of Pediatric Nurses, Nurse Practitioner, Nursing, Nursing Diagnosis, Nursing Ethics, Nursing Forum, Nursing Inquiry, and Nursing Management.

Hoover's Online (FT)
Hoover's Online provides continuously updated intelligence on public and private companies worldwide. Hoover's, Inc. (Nasdaq: HOOV) delivers comprehensive company, industry, and market intelligence. Hoover's provides sales, marketing, business development, and recruiting professionals with global business intelligence suitable to prepare for client meetings, sales presentations, and other business opportunities.

Humanities International Index (EBSCO) (EBSCO) (FT)
covers journals, books and other important reference sources in the humanities, and provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracting for over 1,700 journals and contains more than 1.6 million records.

Illinois Periodicals Online (FT)
Includes the full-text of Illinois Heritage, Illinois History, Illinois History Teacher, Illinois Parks & Recreation, OutdoorIllinois, and other Illinois journals.

JSTOR
The AU Library subscribes to JSTOR Arts & Sciences I, II, III and IV and the Biological Sciences Collections. Please note that JSTOR is an archival database, therefore it does not provide current issues of its journals. Visit JSTOR's web site for more information.

Kraus Curriculum Development Library Online
KCDL Online is a searchable database of curricula, frameworks, and standards. It brings together educational objectives, content, instructional strategies, and evaluative techniques for all subjects covered in PreK-12 and Adult Basic Education. This is a resource educators may use to implement educational strategies and improve learning. The online index covers the 1st through current editions of the Krause Curriculum Development Library. The 21st edition--ONLY-- is available full-text online. The Aurora University Library holds the 20th edition in microfiche.

Lexis-Nexis Academic (FT)
LexisNexis Academic provides access to full-text information from over 5,600 sources, including national and regional newspapers; U.S., Federal and state case law, codes, regulations, legal news, law reviews, and international legal information; Shepard's Citations for all U.S. Supreme Court cases back to 1789, and business news journals, company financial information, SEC filings and reports, and industry and market news.

MagPortal
Indexes approximately 150 Internet-based online journals. Examples include Teacher Magazine, JAAPA: The Official Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants, Outside, and Diversity/Careers Professional.

MAS Ultra - School Edition (EBSCO) FT)
MAS Ultra includes the full-text of articles from a variety of sport and recreational journals, such as Bicycling, Packpacker, Fishing World, and Skiing, as well as environmental magazines such as Wilderness. Camping Magazine is available full-text beginning 1/1/95. Parks & Recreation is available full-text beginning 7/1/96.

Medline (Statewide Illinois Library Catalog) (FT)
Indexes and abstracts over 3,500 Journals published internationally, covering all areas of medicine. Coverage: 1965 to date.

Military and Government Collection (Fulltext) (EBSCO) (FT)
Military & Government Collection provides full text from over 330 military, government, and general interest publications. It includes titles such as Kiplinger's Personal Finance, National Parks, and Scientific American, as well as peer-reviewed and other scholarly journals, with a focus on engineering.

NetLibrary (FT)
Approximately 1,500 recent imprint titles have been selected in the following subject areas: Business, Computers and Information Technology, Consumer Health and Medicine, and General Reference. The entire collection will be treated as a reference collection initially, with a short--2-hour-- "check-out" time.

Newspaper Source (EBSCO) (FT)
Index and abstracts the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, and USA Today from 1995. Selected full text is available from 143 U.S. and international newspapers, including the Chicago Tribune, News-Gazette (Champaign-Urbana), Belleville News Democrat, and Peoria Journal Star.

Oxford English Dictionary (FT)
The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium, an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over 500,000 words. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources.

PapersFirst (Statewide Illinois Library Catalog)
Papers included in every congress, conference, exposition, workshop, symposium, and meeting received at The British Library.

PerAbs (Statewide Illinois Library Catalog) (FT)
Periodicals Abstracts indexes and abstracts more that 1700 periodicals, both scholarly journals and popular magazines, and provides full text for more than 800 of these. This database would be relevant to most subject searches. Coverage: 1991 to date.

Physical Education Index
Physical Education Index features a wide variety of content, ranging from physical education curricula, to sports medicine, to dance. Other coverage includes sport law, kinesiology, motor learning, recreation, standardized fitness tests, sports equipment, business and marketing, coaching and training, sport sociology/psychology,  health education and physical therapy.

Political Science (Sage) (FT)
Political Science: A SAGE Full-Text Collection includes the full-text of 25 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back 24 years, encompassing over 10,000 articles. It covers such subjects as General Political Science, American Government & Politics, Political Sociology, Comparative Politics, Policy Studies, Political Communication, Peace / Conflict Studies, Presidential Studies, Political Theory / Philosophy, International Relations, and Area Studies.

Pre-CINAHL (EBSCO) (FT)
A companion database to CINAHL, Pre-CINAHL is intended to provide current awareness of new journal articles, and includes a rotating file of limited bibliographic information (no subject searching), which are available to researchers only for the time when these articles are being assigned additional indexing.

Primary Search (EBSCO) (FT)
Primary Search provides full text from 57 children's magazines appropriate for elementary schools and children's reading rooms. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for over 80 magazines. Other full text sources include: The World Almanac of the U.S.A. and The World Almanac for Kids; The Encyclopedia of Animals; Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia; and full text for over 100 pamphlets.

Proceedings (Statewide Illinois Library Catalog)
Index to proceedings of every congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received at The British Library.

Professional Development Collection (EBSCO) (FT)
The Professional Development Collection provides a highly specialized collection of electronic information especially for professional educators. This collection offers information on everything from children's health and development to cutting-edge pedagogical theory and practice. The Professional Development Collection includes abstract and index coverage for over 595 well-known professional development titles, and searchable full text for 516 journals covering the most current topics in the field of education.

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses (ProQuest) (FT)
Contains citations and abstracts (since 1980) to every doctoral dissertation completed in the U.S. since 1861. Includes some master's theses (abstracts since 1988) and foreign language dissertations. Provides the full-text of most dissertations from 1997 to the present in the Humanities and Social Sciences. PLEASE DO NOT PRINT entire dissertations from the library's or computer lab's printers! Choose the specific page ranges that you need. Librarians and computer lab technicians can show you how to do that.

ProQuest Education Journals (ProQuest) (FT)
ProQuest Education Journals offers information on hundreds of topics in education. This database covers almost 400 leading journals with indexing from 1988 to the present and much full text coverage. This database is funded by a grant from the Aurora University College of Education.

ProQuest Ethnic Newswatch (ProQuest) (FT)
An interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of newspapers, magazines and journals from ethnic, minority and native presses. This current database begins its coverage in 1990.

ProQuest GenderWatch (ProQuest) (FT)
A full text database of unique and diverse publications that focus on how gender impacts a broad spectrum of subject areas. GenderWatch is a repository of an important historical perspective on the evolution of the women's movement and the changes in gender roles. Publications include scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books, booklets and government and special reports.

ProQuest Nursing Journals (ProQuest) (FT)
Provides indexing to 275 and full-text to 266 nursing and allied health journals from 1998 to the present. Provides indexing only for 1986 through 1997.

PsycARTICLES (EBSCO) (FT)
PsycARTICLES is a definitive source of searchable full text articles on current issues in psychology. The PsycARTICLES database covers general psychology and specialized, basic, applied, clinical and theoretical research in psychology. The database contains more than 25,000 searchable full text articles from 38 journals published by the APA and 4 from allied organizations. It contains all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata from each of the 42 journals. Coverage spans from 1988 to the present.

PsycINFO (EBSCO) (FT)
Indexes and abstracts more than 1300 professional, scholarly journals in psychology and related fields, including education, management, nursing, recreation, and social work. Coverage is worldwide and includes many journals written in other languages. Also indexes books, chapters in books, and dissertations.

PubMed Central (FT)
A digital archive of research journals in the life sciences maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology at the National Library of Medicine.

ReferenceUSA (InfoUSA)
An online directory that provides detailed information on more than102 million U.S. residents and 12 million U.S. businesses, including small businesses, private companies, and government offices. Customized searches can be done using a wide variety of parameters, including number of employees, sales volume, NAICS code, city, state, zip, area code, executive title, and others.

Regional Business News (EBSCO) (FT)
Regional Business News provides comprehensive full text coverage of regional business publications, including 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

Social Sciences Full-Text
Indexes journals in the social sciences back to 1983, including peer-reviewed, and online full-text of some journals back to 1995. Subjects include the latest concepts, trends, opinions, theories, and methods from both applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences.

Social Work Abstracts (EBSCO)
Produced by the National Association of Social Workers, Inc., this database contains more than 35,000 records, spanning 1977 to the present, from social work and related journals on topics such as homelessness, AIDS, child and family welfare, aging, substance abuse, legislation, community organization, and more. The database indexes more than 450 journals in all areas of the profession. Updated semiannually.

SocINDEX with Full Text (EBSCO) (FT)
SocINDEX with Full Text contains the full text of 428 "core" journals dating back to 1908, and 136 "priority" journals. This database also includes full text for more than 720 books and monographs, and full text for 6,785 conference papers.

Sociological Collection (EBSCO) (FT)
This database provides coverage of more than 500 full text journals, including nearly 500 peer-reviewed titles. Sociological Collection offers information in all areas of sociology, including social behavior, human tendencies, interaction, relationships, community development, culture and social structure. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.

SPORTDiscus (EBSCO)
Provided by the Sport Information Resource Centre, SPORTDiscus offers comprehensive, bibliographic coverage of sport, fitness and related disciplines. This database contains over 650,000 records with journal and monograph coverage going back to 1800.

ValueLine
Includes two sections, Selection & Opinion, and Ratings & Reports. The Selection & Opinion section contains Value Line's latest economic and stock market forecasts, one-page write-ups of interesting and attractive stocks, model portfolios, and financial and stock market statistics. The Ratings & Reports section contains one-page reports on approximately 1,700 companies and more than 90 industries. Each company report contains, among other things, Value Line's Timeliness, Safety, and Technical ranks, financial and stock price forecasts for the coming 3 to 5 years, an analyst's written commentary, and much more.

Wall Street Journal (ProQuest) (FT)
The financial newspaper of record offering in-depth coverage of national and international finance as well as first rate coverage of hard news. Coverage: 1982-current

WilsonSelect (Statewide Illinois Library Catalog) (FT)
Contains indexed and abstracted articles from periodicals, all with ASCII full text online. The database is comprised of records from the following H.W. Wilson databases: Readers' Guide Abstracts, Social Sciences Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts, General Science Abstracts and Wilson Business Abstracts.

WorldAlmanac (Statewide Illinois Library Catalog) (FT)
Includes the contents of: The World Almanac and Book of Facts 1998, The World Almanac of the U.S.A., The World Almanac of U.S. Politics , and The World Almanac for Kids.

WorldCat (Statewide Illinois Library Catalog)
Catalog records of any type of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Includes manuscripts written as early as the 12th century.