Art and Art History

Arts & Humanities Search                                                                       Online Provider: FirstSearch | Note: Password Required Description:  The online equivalent of ISI's Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Citations only for over 1,300 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals in a broad range of disciplines.

Academic Search Premier                                                      Full Text Available: Articles Online Provider: EBSCO Description:  This multi-disciplinary database offers full text for nearly 4,515 scholarly journals, including more than 3,630 peer-reviewed titles. Covering virtually every area of academic study, Academic Search Premier offers full text information dating as far back as 1985. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.

CAMIO (Catalog of Art Museum Images Online)   Full Text Available: images Online Provider: OCLC Description: CAMIO is a premiere resource of works of art from prominent museums around the world. Showcasing a wide range of fine and decorative art, CAMIO provides high-quality art images for education, research and enjoyment. Every work in CAMIO is represented by at least one high-resolution image and a description. JPEG format is used in various sizes for easy storage and use. All content is rights-cleared for educational use. The art can be searched in a variety of ways, including by Keyword, Title, or Museum.

Historical Abstracts                                                                                                          Online Provider: EBSCO Description: Abstracts only for over 1,700 periodicals covering world history from 1450 to present.  Some links to JSTOR.  For research in a variety of disciplines, including:  art & art history, popular culture, biography, political science, ethnic studies, history, literature, and women's & gender studies.

Saskia Digital Image Archive Full Text Available: Images Online Provider: CARLI Digital Collections Description: Saskia Digital Image Archive is a collection consisting of over 30,000 high resolution and digital images of paintings, sculpture and architecture. The images come from many of the most important collections in the world; including the Louvre, the Uffizi, the Prado, and the Kunsthistorisches Museum, as well as from significant archaeological sites in Greece, Italy, Turkey, and Egypt.

Pop Culture Universe                                                            Full Text Available: Books, Articles Online Provider: Greenwood Publishing Group Description:  'Pop Culture Universe:  Icon, Idols, Ideas' is a combined digital library of books, book chapters, encyclopedia entries, and images on American and world popular culture from the 1920s to the present.  An authoritative resource for all levels of researchers, Pop Culture Universe advances the study of popular culture and popular history.  Search a variety of subject areas ranging from business, fashion, TV, music, literature, sports, youth culture, and more, or search by time periods, people, or places.  A chronological listing of major events, popular fads of the decades, the emergence of new businesses and products, discoveries and inventions, clothing and style, sports happenings and achievements, and obituaries of notable individuals.

Biography

Current Biography Illustrated                                                Full Text Available: Biographies, obituaries... Online Provider: EBSCO Description:  Full-text access to more than 25,000 articles and obituaries on celebrities, politicians, actors, sports figures, writers, etc. that were initially published in the monthly magazine, Current Biography.  Coverage is from 1940 to present.  Features more than 19,500 images.

American National Biography   Full Text Available: Biographical entries Online Provider: Oxford University Press Description:  Biographical information of famous Americans.

Dictionary of Literary Biography    Full Text Available: Essays Online Provider: Gale Description:  The essays of DLB outline the lives and careers of authors from all eras and genres and summarize the critical response to their work. In addition, each DLB entry contains personal information, a list of principal works, and suggested further readings.

Contemporary Authors    Full Text Available: Biographies Online Provider: Gale  Description:  Contemporary Authors provides complete biographies on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors.

Contemporary Black Biography  Full Text Available: Biographies Online Provider: Gale  Description: Provides informative biographical profiles of the important and influential persons of African American and/or black heritage. Covers persons of various nationalities in a wide variety of fields, including architecture, art, business, dance, education, fashion, film, industry, journalism, law, literature, medicine, music, politics and government, publishing, religion, science and technology, social issues, sports, television, theater, and others.

Oxford Music Online    (formerly Grove Music Online) Full Text Available: Encyclopedic entries  Online Provider: Oxford University Press | Restrictions: On-campus use only | Note:  Limited concurrent user access. Be sure to log off when finished your searching so that other authorized users can access it. If unable to connect, please try again at a later time. Description:  Access to articles, biographies, bibliographies, 20th century composers and performers, world music, jazz, opera, rock, popular music, instruments and their history.

Contemporary Literary Criticism Select    Full Text Available: Essays Online Provider: Gale Description:  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.

America: History and Life                                                                      Online Provider: EBSCO                               Description: Abstracts only for over 1,700 periodicals covering U.S. and Canadian history from prehistory to present.  Some links to JSTOR.  For research in a variety of disciplines, including:  popular culture, economics, ethnic studies, history, literature, sociology, urban studies, women's and gender studies.

Historical Abstracts                                                                                                            Online Provider: EBSCO Description: Abstracts only for over 1,700 periodicals covering world history from 1450 to present.  Some links to JSTOR.  For research in a variety of disciplines, including:  art & art history, popular culture, biography, political science, ethnic studies, history, literature, and women's & gender studies.

Pop Culture Universe                                                            Full Text Available: Books, Articles Online Provider: Greenwood Publishing Group Description:  'Pop Culture Universe:  Icon, Idols, Ideas' is a combined digital library of books, book chapters, encyclopedia entries, and images on American and world popular culture from the 1920s to the present.  An authoritative resource for all levels of researchers, Pop Culture Universe advances the study of popular culture and popular history.  Search a variety of subject areas ranging from business, fashion, TV, music, literature, sports, youth culture, and more, or search by time periods, people, or places.  A chronological listing of major events, popular fads of the decades, the emergence of new businesses and products, discoveries and inventions, clothing and style, sports happenings and achievements, and obituaries of notable individuals.

Biology

Biological Abstracts                                                                Online Provider: EBSCO    Description: Complete collection of bibliographic references covering life science and biomedical research literature published from more than 4,000 journals internationally. It provides access to the information in virtually every life science discipline and contains nearly 7.7 million archival records from as far back as 1969, with more than 370,000 citations added each year.

AGRICOLA                                                                                                   Online Provider: FirstSearch | Note: Password Required Description:  Citations covering every major agricultural subject, including agricultural engineering and marketing, animal breeding, entomology, environmental pollution, farm management, foods and feeds, pesticides, rural sociology, veterinary medicine, and water resources.

Academic Search Premier                                                       Full Text Available: Articles Online Provider: EBSCO Description:  This multi-disciplinary database offers full text for nearly 4,515 scholarly journals, including more than 3,630 peer-reviewed titles. Covering virtually every area of academic study, Academic Search Premier offers full text information dating as far back as 1985. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.

Academic OneFile                                                                 Full Text Available: Articles, Reviews Online Provider: Gale Cengage (InfoTrac)    Description:  Provides a combination of indexing, abstracts, images, and full text for scholarly and general interest journals embracing all academic disciplines.  Offers citations to articles in 8,000 scholarly journal titles, nearly 4,000 of which afford full text.  Full-text for some titles may be subject to publisher-imposed embargo periods.  Features a powerful Subject Guide to assist in searching. Note:  This database vendor recommends using MS Internet Explorer; users may experience difficulty when using Mozilla Firefox or other web browsers.

SciFinder Scholar (web version)-- Web version of SciFinder Scholar is available to authorized RU users after completing an online registration. To obtain the registration URL that is specified for Roosevelt users, please contact the Library Reference Desk at refdt@roosevelt.edu (Downtown Auditorium Library) or schlib@roosevelt.edu (Schaumburg Library). Please make the request of the registration URL with your Roosevelt University email account as this registration URL can only be sent to your Roosevelt e-mail address, and you are able to register only with your Roosevelt e-mail account. Here is the Instruction on how to complete the Online registration form. Note: Currently the SciFinder Scholar database is accessible only from on-campus computers. Limited concurrent user access. If unable to connect, please try again at a later time. Description: SciFinder Scholar, a product of the American Chemical Society, is a graphical software package that lets you search Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) databases. It contains nearly 22.4 million citations from over 9,000 journals worldwide and covers the full spectrum of chemistry-related information. It provides access to patent information, conference proceedings, and the CAS Registry of chemical substances. SciFinder Scholar also covers biology, life sciences, food sciences, engineering, physics and other sciences. For tips and guides on how to search and explore the basic functionality of SciFinder Scholar, please see the Support & Training pages provided by CAS. Access to SFS is restricted to current faculty, staff, and students of Roosevelt University.  Limited concurrent users can access SFS at one time, so be sure to log off when finished your searching so that other authorized users can access it. Sessions are ended automatically after 20 minutes of inactivity.

Annual Reviews     Full Text Available: Articles  Online Provider: Annual Reviews    Biochemistry  |  Cell and Developmental Biology  |  Genetics  Immunology |  Microbiology  | Psychology | Clinical Psychology Description: Full text of scientific reviews published by Annual Reviews.  Biochemistry back to 1997; Cell and Developmental Biology back to 1996; Genetics back to 1996; Immunology back to 1996; Microbiology back to 1996; Psychology back to 1996; Clinical Psychology back to 2005.

Facts On File -Today's Science    Full Text Available: Brief news reports Online Provider: Facts On File Description:  Drawing on major scientific journals, magazines and newspapers in the United States and abroad, this database covers all the topics that today’s students study: health, the environment, technology, life science, physical science, earth and space science, and science and society.

JSTOR                                                                                   Full Text Available: Articles  Online Provider: JSTOR Description: A growing full-text archive of 400+ scholarly journals offering complete back runs from the very first issues to a "moving wall" of 2-5 years before the current issue.  Includes 36 Biological Science journals. Note:  Microsoft Internet Explorer users with the Google Toolbar loaded may need to click on its pop-up blocker in order to view PDFs.

Biology Digest                                                                                          Online Provider: FirstSearch | Note: Password Required Description:  Covers all of the life sciences. Specially created to meet the needs of college undergraduates and high school students. Gives easy access to new scientific developments, with comprehensive subject-oriented abstracts.

PubMed Online Provider: NLM Description: PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles (some of which are free) and other related resources.  Includes access to the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) with a 6-month embargo.

Book Reviews

Book Review Digest Plus        Full Text Available:   Articles                                                                                              Online Provider: H. W. Wilson | Note:  Limited concurrent user access - if unable to connect, please try again at a later time.  Description:  Contains over 1.3 million citations, book summaries and review excerpts for more than 660,000 books, including more than 115,000 full text reviews. With coverage back to 1983, this database pulls reviews from over 4,000 journals in all subject areas covering arts, sciences, social sciences, business and the humanities.

Academic OneFile                                                                 Full Text Available: Articles, Reviews Online Provider:  Gale Cengage (InfoTrac)    Description:  Provides a combination of indexing, abstracts, images, and full text for scholarly and general interest journals embracing all academic disciplines.  Offers citations to articles in 8,000 scholarly journal titles, nearly 4,000 of which afford full text.  Full-text for some titles may be subject to publisher-imposed embargo periods.  Features a powerful Subject Guide to assist in searching. Note:  This database vendor recommends using MS Internet Explorer; users may experience difficulty when using Mozilla Firefox or other web browsers.

Periodical Abstracts                                                              Full Text Available: Articles   Online Provider: FirstSearch   | Note: Password Required Description:  This multi-disciplinary database offers full-text articles from over 1,000 popular and academic journals with citations and abstracts for over 1,100 more.  Includes transcripts of news-oriented television and radio shows.  Focuses on the following academic areas of study:  business, economics, literature, psychology, religion, and women's studies.

Academic Search Premier                                                      Full Text Available: Articles Online Provider: EBSCO Description:  This multi-disciplinary database offers full text for nearly 4,515 scholarly journals, including more than 3,630 peer-reviewed titles. Covering virtually every area of academic study, Academic Search Premier offers full text information dating as far back as 1985. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.

JSTOR                                                                                 Full Text Available: Articles  Online Provider: JSTOR Description: A growing full-text archive of 400+ scholarly journals offering complete back runs from the very first issues to a "moving wall" of 2-5 years before the current issue. Note:  Microsoft Internet Explorer users with the Google Toolbar loaded may need to click on its pop-up blocker in order to view PDFs.

Lexis-Nexis -  Academic Universe                                         Full Text Available: Articles Online Provider: Lexis-Nexis Description:  Provides searchable access to a comprehensive spectrum of full-text information from over 5,900 sources, selected to meet academic needs covering news, business, legal, medical, reference resources.  Includes: National and regional newspapers, U.S. Federal and state case law; Shepard’s® Citations for all U.S. Supreme Court cases; and business news journals, company financial information, SEC filings & reports...

MAS Ultra - School Edition                                                     Full Text Available: Articles, pamphlets...  Online Provider: EBSCO Description:  Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database provides full text for over 500 popular general interest and current events publications with information dating back as far as 1975 for key magazines. MAS Ultra – School Edition also provides nearly 550 full text pamphlets, 253 full text reference books, nearly 100,000 biographies, 76,000 primary source  documents, and an image collection of 116,000 photos, maps and flags.

PsycCRITIQUES                                                                     Full Text Available:  Reviews Online Provider: EBSCO Description:  Each week, PsycCRITIQUES releases 15 or more reviews of current books and movies, focusing on the field of psychology.  Plus, the database contains book reviews previously published back to 1995.

Alternative Press Index                                                                         Online Provider: FirstSearch | Note: Password Required Description:  Citations for articles in almost 300 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines. Interdisciplinary and international in scope. Other features include selected abstracts, journal record information and hot links to Publisher websites.

Novelist                                                                                 Online Provider: EBSCO Description:  Easy-to-use readers' advisory services which provide a resource for teachers and students to encourage and support fiction reading.

Business - Company Research

Mergent Online                                                                     Full Text Available: Annual Reports, financial data... Online Provider: Mergent | Note:  Limited concurrent user access - if unable to connect, please try again at a later time.  Description:  Financial data for over 25,000 U.S. and international publicly traded companies.  Features annual reports, SEC filings, and ability to create comparison reports.

Hoover's Online                                                                    Full Text Available: Company information  Online Provider: Hoover's Inc. | Note: RU's subscription does not include access to the "Pro Plus Tools".   Description:  Hoover's provides comprehensive company, industry, and market intelligence. The database includes information on 12 million companies, with in-depth coverage of 25,000 of the world's top business enterprises. The site is updated daily.

Dun & Bradstreet Key Business Ratios Online Provider: Dun & Bradstreet Description: Dun & Bradstreet Key Business Ratios, one of the standard sources for finding financial ratios is now available online! D&B Industry Norms and Key Business Ratios analyzes US companies, both public and private, using 14 ratios for about 800 SIC codes. This resource will allow users to export data and create comparative reports.

Market Share Reporter Description: Part of Gale's Digital Library Collection, it affords an immediate overview of companies, products and services and cites original sources. A convenient arrangement by four-digit SIC code helps business decision makers and researchers easily access needed data for more than 2,000 entries. Each entry features a descriptive title; data and market description; a list of producers/ products along with their market share; and more.

Business Rankings Annual Online Provider: Gale Description: Part of Gale's Digital Library Collection, this online version of Business Rankings Annual contains information related to rankings on companies, products, services, and activities culled from a variety of published sources such as periodicals, newspapers, financial services, directories, statistical annuals and other printed material.

Encyclopedia of Business Information Sources  Online Provider: Gale Description: Part of Gale's Directory Library Collection, a bibliographic guide to citations covering over 1,100 subjects of interest to business personnel. Includes abstracts and indexes, almanacs and yearbooks, bibliographies, online databases, research centers and institutes and much more.

Business Source Premier                                                       Full Text Available: Articles  Online Provider: EBSCO Description:  Provides full text for more than 2,300 scholarly business journals. With full text back to 1965, and searchable cited references back as far as 1998, this database covers all business fields: marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Additional full text, non-journal content includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses.

Value Line Investment Survey                                                Full Text Available: Company and Industry Profiles Online Provider: Value Line Description:  Online version of the print resource.  Provides "snapshot" profiles for 3,500 companies and 100 industries.  Company profiles contain timeliness and safety ranks, projected annual return, historical financial statistics, and other information.  Industry profiles offer timeliness ranking, assessment of operating environment, and 5-year historical financial statistics.

Business Organizations, Agencies & Publications Directory      Full Text Available: Brief company information Online Provider: FirstSearch | Note: Password Required Description:  A unique guide to international business information sources. Lists contact name, address, phone, and fax numbers, and a description of the organization's founding, membership, activities, and sources.

Encyclopedia of Associations (National & Regional, State and Local Organizations of the U. S. - part of the Gale Directory Library) Online Provider: Gale Description: Part of Gale's Digital Library Collection, the Encyclopedia of Associations Online is a source for locating professional societies, trade associations, labor unions, cultural and religious organizations, fan clubs, and other groups in all subject areas. Geographic coverage includes U.S. national and regional, state, and local organizations.

Worldscope                                                                                                Online Provider: FirstSearch | Note: Password Required Description:  Comprises basic financial information on public companies worldwide. Types of companies covered include industrials, utilities, transportation, banks, insurance, and others. Includes company name, telephone number, address, ticker symbol and basic stock information, SIC codes, industry classifications, and more. Full entries, including financials, are available through the full-text function for an additional charge.

Business - Journal & News Articles

Business Source Premier                                                       Full Text Available: Articles  Online Provider: EBSCO Description:  Provides full text for more than 2,300 scholarly business journals. With full text back to 1965, and searchable cited references back as far as 1998, this database covers all business fields: marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Additional full text, non-journal content includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses.

Lexis-Nexis -  Academic Universe                                         Full Text Available: Articles Online Provider: Lexis-Nexis Description:  Provides searchable access to a comprehensive spectrum of full-text information from over 5,600 sources, selected to meet academic needs covering news, business, legal, medical, reference resources.  Includes: National and regional newspapers, U.S. Federal and state case law; Shepard’s® Citations for all U.S. Supreme Court cases; and business news journals, company financial information, SEC filings & reports...

Wall Street Journal (Eastern Edition)   Full Text Available: Newspaper Articles Online Provider: ProQuest Description: Considered to be the preeminent publication for business news and information on financial markets worldwide. Full-text access for 1984 to present.

ABI Inform                                                                             Online Provider: FirstSearch | Note: Password Required Description:  Covers nearly every aspect of business, including:  accounting, actuarial science, business communication, economics, finance, financial services, human resource management, industrial/organizational psychology, information systems, international business, management, marketing, and risk management.  Citations include abstracts of articles from over 1,800 current business periodicals.

JSTOR                                                                                   Full Text Available: Articles  Online Provider: JSTOR Description: A growing full-text archive of 400+ scholarly journals offering complete back runs from the very first issues to a "moving wall" of 2-5 years before the current issue.  Includes 23 Economics and 5 Finance journals. Note:  Microsoft Internet Explorer users with the Google Toolbar loaded may need to click on its pop-up blocker in order to view PDFs.

Periodical Abstracts                                                              Full Text Available: Articles   Online Provider: FirstSearch  | Note: Password Required Description:  This multi-disciplinary database offers full-text articles from over 1,000 popular and academic journals with citations and abstracts for over 1,100 more.  Includes transcripts of news-oriented television and radio shows.  Focuses on the following academic areas of study:  business, economics, literature, psychology, religion, and women's studies.

ACM Digital Library                                                               Full Text Available: Articles Online Provider: Association for Computing Machinery Description:  Full text for every Journal, Magazine, and Transaction article ever published by ACM. However, the full-text of articles from the ACM's Special Interest Group newsletters and conference proceedings are not available. For computer science, information systems, telecommunications, and web technology systems research.

IEEE Computer Society Pick 5    Full Text Available: Articles  Online Provider: IEEE Computer Society Description:  The library has a subscription to the full text of five IEEE computer science scholarly journals, together with their complete back issue collection.  Each journal may be searched separately, or in combination with others.  These journals are:  IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Security & Privacy, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, IEEE Internet Computing, and IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis & Machine Intelligence.  This subscription is also helpful for Information Systems research.

EconLit                                                                                                        Online Provider: FirstSearch | Note: Password Required Description:  Contains citations, with abstracts, to articles from economics journals. In addition, subject indexing and abstracts of books and subject indexing of dissertation titles are included. Corresponding printed sources are: Journal of Economic Literature, Index of Economic Articles, and Cambridge University Press Abstracts of Working Papers in Economics.

Business and Management Practices                                     Full Text Available: Articles Online Provider: FirstSearch | Note: Password Required Description:  Provides information on business and management issues such as decision making; implementing new technology; planning for the future; dealing with internal and external issues; and expanding businesses. Covers business methodology with emphasis on case studies and practical applications. Approximately 60% of the records include full text.  Can limit results to "Accounting & Finance", "Human Resources", or "Marketing & Sales" in "Department Phrase" field.

Regional Business News                                                        Full Text Available: Articles, newswires Online Provider: EBSCO Description:  This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis.

Business & Industry                                                             Full Text Available: Articles, reports...  Online Provider: FirstSearch | Note: Password Required Description:  A multi­industry, international database that provides access to company, industry, market, and product information. ASCII full text articles are available online for the majority of those sources.

Business Dateline                                                                 Full Text Available: Articles Online Provider: FirstSearch | Note: Password Required Description:  Provides access to full-text articles from newspapers, city business magazines and U.S. and Canadian wire services. An essential business information tool for monitoring the latest trends in industry, health, environmental issues, education, and much more.

Historical Statistics of the United States: Millennial Edition Full Text Available: Statistics Online Provider: Cambridge University Press Description: This is a fully cross-referenced and indexed source for the quantitative facts of American history, topics ranging from migration and health to crime and the Confederate States of America. Tables are fully searchable, customizable, and downloadable.

Chemistry

SciFinder Scholar (web version)-- Web version of SciFinder Scholar is available to authorized RU users after completing an online registration. To obtain the registration URL that is specified for Roosevelt users, please contact the Library Reference Desk at refdt@roosevelt.edu (Downtown Auditorium Library) or schlib@roosevelt.edu (Schaumburg Library). Please make the request of the registration URL with your Roosevelt University email account as this registration URL can only be sent to your Roosevelt e-mail address, and you are able to register only with your Roosevelt e-mail account. Here is the Instruction on how to complete the Online registration form. Note: Currently the SciFinder Scholar database is accessible only from on-campus computers. Limited concurrent user access. If unable to connect, please try again at a later time. Description: SciFinder Scholar, a product of the American Chemical Society, is a graphical software package that lets you search Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) databases. It contains nearly 22.4 million citations from over 9,000 journals worldwide and covers the full spectrum of chemistry-related information. It provides access to patent information, conference proceedings, and the CAS Registry of chemical substances. SciFinder Scholar also covers biology, life sciences, food sciences, engineering, physics and other sciences. For tips and guides on how to search and explore the basic functionality of SciFinder Scholar, please see the Support & Training pages provided by CAS. Access to SFS is restricted to current faculty, staff, and students of Roosevelt University.  Limited concurrent users can access SFS at one time, so be sure to log off when finished your searching so that other authorized users can access it. Sessions are ended automatically after 20 minutes of inactivity.

Chemical Abstracts   Searching Chemical Abstracts through web version of SciFinder Scholar is available to authorized RU users now. Self-registration of an username and password is required. For more information on how to register, please see the SciFinder Scholar section that is also listed on this page. Online Provider: CAS. Limited concurrent user access - if unable to connect, please try again at a later time. Note:  Chemical Abstracts is also available via STN Easy. Please contact the library for logon ID and password.| Restrictions: Access only from 5:00 PM to 5:00 AM, Monday thru Friday. Access all day Saturday and Sunday.

American Chemical Society                                                    Full Text Available: Articles Online Provider: ACS Publications Description: Now includes the journal archives which provides full text searching of journals from 1879 to current ACS Web Editions.

Organic Syntheses  Full Text Available: Articles, procedures... Online Provider: CambridgeSoft Description: Organic Syntheses has provided the chemistry community with annual collections of detailed and reliable procedures for the synthesis of organic compounds since 1921. Organic Syntheses procedures may be accessed either via the tables of contents of individual volumes or by conducting structure and keyword searches.

Knovel's Online Interactive Books and Databases      Full Text Available: Reports, tables... Online Provider: Knovel International Critical Tables of Numerical Data, Physics, Chemistry and...|  |Knovel Critical Tables  | Smithsonian Physical Tables |  |Thermochemistry of the Chemical Substances   Description:  Searchable scientific and engineering tables/handbooks in chemistry and chemical engineering.

Annual Reviews     Full Text Available: Articles  Online Provider: Annual Reviews    Biochemistry  |  Cell and Developmental Biology  |  Genetics  Immunology |  Microbiology  | Psychology | Clinical Psychology Description: Full text of scientific reviews published by Annual Reviews.  Biochemistry back to 1997; Cell and Developmental Biology back to 1996; Genetics back to 1996; Immunology back to 1996; Microbiology back to 1996; Psychology back to 1996; Clinical Psychology back to 2005.

Facts On File -Today's Science    Full Text Available: Brief news reports Online Provider: Facts On File Description:  Drawing on major scientific journals, magazines and newspapers in the United States and abroad, this database covers all the topics that today’s students study: health, the environment, technology, life science, physical science, earth and space science, and science and society.

PubMed Online Provider: NLM Description: PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles (some of which are free) and other related resources.  Includes access to the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) with a 6-month embargo.

Computer Science

ACM Digital Library                                                                Full Text Available: Articles Online Provider: Association for Computing Machinery Description:  Full text for every Journal, Magazine, and Transaction article ever published by ACM. However, the full-text of articles from the ACM's Special Interest Group newsletters and conference proceedings are not available. For computer science, information systems, telecommunications, and web technology systems research.

IEEE Computer Society Pick 5    Full Text Available: Articles  Online Provider: IEEE Computer Society Description:  The library has a subscription to the full text of five IEEE computer science scholarly journals, together with their complete back issue collection.  Each journal may be searched separately, or in combination with others.  These journals are:  IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Security & Privacy, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, IEEE Internet Computing, and IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis & Machine Intelligence.  This subscription is also helpful for Information Systems research.

Academic Search Premier                                                        Full Text Available: Articles Online Provider: EBSCO Description:  This multi-disciplinary database offers full text for nearly 4,515 scholarly journals, including more than 3,630 peer-reviewed titles. Covering virtually every area of academic study, Academic Search Premier offers full text information dating as far back as 1985. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.

Business Source Premier                                                        Full Text Available: Articles  Online Provider: EBSCO Description:  Provides full text for more than 2,300 scholarly business journals. With full text back to 1965, and searchable cited references back as far as 1998, this database covers all business fields: marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Additional full text, non-journal content includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses.

 

Criminal Justice

Criminal Justice Abstracts    Online Provider: ProQuest Description: Contains indexes and summaries of international journal articles, books, and governmental and non-governmental reports on a wide range of topics in criminal justice such as crime trends, crime prevention and deterrence, juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, police, courts, punishment and sentencing.  Coverage is from 1968 to present.

SocINDEX with Full Text                                                         Full Text Available: Articles, books, monographs, and conference papers Provider: EBSCO Description:  SocINDEX with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. The database features more than 1,600,000 records with subject headings from a 15,600 term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers. SocINDEX with Full Text contains full text for 253 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895, and 72 "priority" coverage journals. This database also includes full text for 547 books and monographs, and full text for 6,711 conference papers.

Academic Search Premier                                                       Full Text Available: Articles Online Provider: EBSCO Description:  This multi-disciplinary database offers full text for nearly 4,515 scholarly journals, including more than 3,630 peer-reviewed titles. Covering virtually every area of academic study, Academic Search Premier offers full text information dating as far back as 1985. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.

Academic OneFile                                                                 Full Text Available: Articles, Reviews Online Provider: Gale Cengage (InfoTrac)    Description:  Provides a combination of indexing, abstracts, images, and full text for scholarly and general interest journals embracing all academic disciplines.  Offers citations to articles in 8,000 scholarly journal titles, nearly 4,000 of which afford full text.  Full-text for some titles may be subject to publisher-imposed embargo periods.  Features a powerful Subject Guide to assist in searching. Note:  This database vendor recommends using MS Internet Explorer; users may experience difficulty when using Mozilla Firefox or other web browsers.

JSTOR                                                                               Full Text Available: Articles  Online Provider: JSTOR Description: A growing full-text archive of 400+ scholarly journals offering complete back runs from the very first issues to a "moving wall" of 2-5 years before the current issue.  Includes 23 Sociology journals. Note:  Microsoft Internet Explorer users with the Google Toolbar loaded may need to click on its pop-up blocker in order to view PDFs.

Lexis-Nexis - Academic Universe                                          Full Text Available: Articles Online Provider: Lexis-Nexis Description:  Provides searchable access to a comprehensive spectrum of full-text information from over 5,900 sources, selected to meet academic needs covering news, business, legal, medical, reference resources.  Includes: National and regional newspapers, U.S. Federal and state case law; Shepard’s® Citations for all U.S. Supreme Court cases; and business news journals, company financial information, SEC filings & reports...

Lexis-Nexis - Statistical Universe                                          Full Text Available: Statistics Online Provider: Lexis-Nexis Description: Find national income and production statistics, retail and wholesale trade data, interest rates, economic indicators, and social and demographic statistics, plus data on energy, environmental protection, agriculture and fisheries, crime, and much, much more.  Crucial yet elusive statistical data from federal agencies, U.S. Congress, state governments, United Nations, and international organizations.

Access World News                                                               Full Text Available: Articles Online Provider: Newsbank, Inc. Description:  Full text content for more than 2,400 local, regional, national, and international newspapers, including the following:  Chicago Sun-Times (1986 to present), Chicago Tribune (1985 to present), and New York Times (2000 to present).

Newspaper Abstracts                                                                                 Online Provider: FirstSearch | Note: Password Required Description:  Indexes and abstracts US and regional newspapers, including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and USA Today. The Wall Street Journal (Eastern edition) is indexed beginning Jan 1, 1990.

Newspaper Source                                                                Full Text Available: Articles   Online Provider: EBSCO Description:  Provides selected full text for 23 national and international newspapers and over 180 regional U.S. newspapers, including the Chicago Tribune back to 1997.  Features full text of radio and television news transcripts as well as indexing and abstracts for many other national newspapers, including the New York Times.

Chicago Tribune                                                                    Full Text Available: Newspaper Articles Online Provider: NewsBank Inc. Description: Complete full-text of Chicago Tribune from 1985 to date.

Facts On File -Issues & Controversies    Full Text Available: Essays   Online Provider: Facts On File Description:  Full text essays on the most prominent and hotly debated issues of the day.  A dependable online source of up-to-date, in-depth and objective information.  Allows keyword searching of full text on any topic.

CQ Electronic Library    Full Text Available: Reports Online Provider: Congressional Quarterly Press | Note:  Limited concurrent user access - if unable to connect, please try again at a later time.  Description:  Search across the CQEL collections simultaneously.  CQEL collections currently include CQ Researcher, CQ Global Researcher, and CQ Weekly. CQ Researcher:  Explores a single current events topic in depth each week.  Reports range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education, science and technology. Objective and balanced, reports feature comments, pro and con, from all sides of an issue.  Coverage back to October 25, 1991. CQ Global Researcher:  Offers researchers international perspectives on the most vital world issues with original, single-topic reports, written in the same balanced, unbiased style as CQ Researcher. CQ Weekly:  Reports non-partisan analysis of news & events happening in the US Congress. Covers virtually every act of Congress, delivering nonpartisan news and analysis unavailable anywhere else.

Periodical Abstracts                                                           Full Text Available: Articles   Online Provider: FirstSearch  | Note: Password Required Description:  This multi-disciplinary database offers full-text articles from over 1,000 popular and academic journals with citations and abstracts for over 1,100 more.  Includes transcripts of news-oriented television and radio shows.  Focuses on the following academic areas of study:  business, economics, literature, psychology, religion, and women's studies.

PAIS International                                                                                      Online Provider: ProQuest Description: Contains bibliographic records for more than 553,300 journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, etc. With coverage back to 1972, it  provides premier resource for world affairs, public policy, and social issues.

SIRS Researcher                                                                 Full Text Available: Articles, government publications... Online Provider: FirstSearch | Note: Password Required Description:  Contains thousands of full-text articles exploring social, scientific, historic, economic, political, and global issues. Articles are carefully selected by the Social Issues Resources Series from domestic & international newspapers, magazines, journals, and government publications.

Dissertations

Dissertations & Theses @ Roosevelt University     Full Text Available: RU dissertations & theses published after 1996   Online Provider: ProQuest Description:  Full-text access to RU students' dissertations and theses submitted to UMI by Roosevelt University after 1996. Citations and abstracts are available for RU dissertations and theses published in 1996 or earlier.

Dissertation Abstracts                                                                             Online Provider: FirstSearch | Note: Password Required Description:  Covers every doctoral dissertation completed in the US at accredited institutions for the last 150 years. Includes some master's theses and foreign language dissertations.

PsycINFO                                                                               Online Provider: EBSCO Description: PsycINFO contains more than 1.8 million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations and technical reports, all in the field of psychology. Journal coverage, which dates back to the 1800s, includes international material selected from more than 1,700 periodicals in over 30 languages. More than 60,000 records are added each year.

 

Drama

Play Index                                                                   Full Text Available: Abstracts only Online Provider: WilsonWeb Description:  Play index containing abstracts for 31,000+ plays and one-act plays, monologues, classic dramas, etc.  Includes a "Find this play in a book" feature, subject and keyword access, and ability to limit by Genre.  Plays are updated on a weekly basis.

Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text          Full Text Available:  Articles, movie reviews, and images                                    Online Provider: EBSCO Description: Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text is a comprehensive full-text database covering the entire spectrum of television and film. The database will provide indexing and abstracts for more than 600 publications, as well as full text for more than 90 journals and nearly 60 books. It includes Variety Movie Reviews and a collection of excellent motion picture images.

Theatre in Video       Full Text Available: Streaming Video Online Provider: Alexander Street Press Description:  Theatre in Video has more than 250 performances of plays from around the world with film documentaries in streaming video.  Browse by Productions, Documentaries, People, Genres, Companies, Theatres, and Dates.  Users can save scenes, and create and share playlists.

Economics

ABI Inform                                                                             Online Provider: FirstSearch | Note: Password Required Description:  Covers nearly every aspect of business, including:  accounting, actuarial science, business communication, economics, finance, financial services, human resource management, industrial/organizational psychology, information systems, international business, management, marketing, and risk management.  Citations include abstracts of articles from over 1,800 current business periodicals.

Business Source Premier                                                        Full Text Available: Articles  Online Provider: EBSCO Description:  Provides full text for more than 2,300 scholarly business journals. With full text back to 1965, and searchable cited references back as far as 1998, this database covers all business fields: marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Additional full text, non-journal content includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses.

EconLit                                                                                                        Online Provider: FirstSearch | Note: Password Required Description:  Contains citations, with abstracts, to articles from economics journals. In addition, subject indexing and abstracts of books and subject indexing of dissertation titles are included. Corresponding printed sources are: Journal of Economic Literature, Index of Economic Articles, and Cambridge University Press Abstracts of Working Papers in Economics.

JSTOR                                                                                  Full Text Available: Articles  Online Provider: JSTOR Description: An archive of 400+ scholarly journals offering back runs of journals from the very first issues to a "moving wall" of 2-5 years before the current issue.  Includes 27 Business/Economics journals. Note:  Microsoft Internet Explorer users with the Google Toolbar loaded may need to click on its pop-up blocker in order to view PDFs.

Lexis-Nexis - Academic Universe                                           Full Text Available: Articles Online Provider: Lexis-Nexis Description:  Provides searchable access to a comprehensive spectrum of full-text information from over 5,600 sources, selected to meet academic needs covering news, business, legal, medical, reference resources.  Includes: National and regional newspapers, U.S. Federal and state case law; Shepard’s® Citations for all U.S. Supreme Court cases; and business news journals, company financial information, SEC filings & reports...

NBER Working Papers        Online Provider: National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Description: Full texts of National Bureau of Economic Research working papers published from 1973 to the present. NBER researchers initially report their findings in scientific papers aimed at other professional economists. Nearly 700 papers are published each year.

Periodical Abstracts                                                              Full Text Available: Articles   Online Provider: FirstSearch  | Note: Password Required Description:  This multi-disciplinary database offers full-text articles from over 1,000 popular and academic journals with citations and abstracts for over 1,100 more.  Includes transcripts of news-oriented television and radio shows.  Focuses on the following academic areas of study:  business, economics, literature, psychology, religion, and women's studies.

Lexis-Nexis - Statistical Universe    Full Text Available: Statistics Online Provider: Lexis-Nexis Description: Find national income and production statistics, retail and wholesale trade data, interest rates, economic indicators, and social and demographic statistics, plus data on energy, environmental protection, agriculture and fisheries, crime, and much, much more.

Historical Statistics of the United States: Millennial Edition         Full Text Available: Statistics Online Provider: Cambridge University Press Description: This is a fully cross-referenced and indexed source for the quantitative facts of American history, topics ranging from migration and health to crime and the Confederate States of America. Tables are fully searchable, customizable, and downloadable.

SIRS Researcher                                                                    Full Text Available: Articles, government publications... Online Provider: FirstSearch | Note: Password Required Description:  Contains thousands of full-text articles exploring social, scientific, historic, economic, political, and global issues. Articles are carefully selected by the Social Issues Resources Series from domestic & international newspapers, magazines, journals, and government publications.

PAIS International                                                                                      Online Provider: ProQuest Description: Contains bibliographic records for more than 553,300 journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, etc. With coverage back to 1972, it  provides premier resource for world affairs, public policy, and social issues.

Alternative Press Index                                                                         Online Provider: FirstSearch | Note: Password Required Description :  Indexes almost 300 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines. Interdisciplinary and international in scope. Other features include selected abstracts, journal record information and hot links to Publisher websites.

Education

ERIC                                                                                                            Online Provider: Ebsco | Note: ERIC is also available from FirstSearch.   ERIC from FirstSearch Description:  ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional  information and citations and abstracts from over 980 educational and education-related journals.

Education Research Complete   Full Text Available:  Articles, books and monographs, and conference papers Online Provider: EBSCO Description: Education Research Complete is the definitive online resource for education research. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. Education Research Complete provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,870 journals, as well as full text for more than 1,060 journals, and includes full text for more than 133 books and monographs, and for numerous education-related conference papers

Professional Development Collection                                      Full Text Available: Articles   Online Provider: Ebsco Description:  Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of over 500 full text journals, including more than 300 peer-reviewed titles. Professional Development Collection is the most comprehensive collection of full text education journals in the world.

Chronicle of Higher Education Online    Full Text Available: Articles Online Provider: The Chronicle of Higher Education Description:  The Chronicle of Higher Education Online is a primary source of news and information for the college and university community. It is published every weekday and features the complete contents of the latest issue, daily news, advice columns, discussion forums, current job listings, etc. Articles published since September 1989 are fully searchable.

Academic Search Premier                                                      Full Text Available: Articles Online Provider: EBSCO Description:  This multi-disciplinary database offers full text for nearly 4,515 scholarly journals, including more than 3,630 peer-reviewed titles. Covering virtually every area of academic study, Academic Search Premier offers full text information dating as far back as 1985. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.

JSTOR     Full Text Available: Articles  Online Provider: JSTOR Description: An archive of 400+ scholarly journals offering back runs of journals from the very first issues to a "moving wall" of 2-5 years before the current issue.  Includes 6 Education journals. Note:  Microsoft Internet Explorer users with the Google Toolbar loaded may need to click on its pop-up blocker in order to view PDFs.

PsycINFO                                                                               Online Provider: Ebsco Description: PsycINFO contains more than 1.8 million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations and technical reports, all in the field of psychology. Journal coverage, which dates back to the 1800s, includes international material selected from more than 1,700 periodicals in over 30 languages. More than 60,000 records are added each year.

PsycARTICLES                                                                     Full Text Available: Articles   Online Provider: Ebsco Description: PsycARTICLES is a definitive source of searchable full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. It contains more than 100,000 articles from 57 journals - 46 published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and 11 from allied organizations. Its coverage spans from 1894 to present. Each journal is also indexed in PsycINFO.

Mental Measurements Yearbook                                            Full Text Available: Articles  Online Provider: Ebsco Description:  A comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments produced by the Buros Institute at the University of Nebraska.  Contains evaluations of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, and business.

Historical Statistics of the United States: Millennial Edition Full Text Available: Statistics Online Provider: Cambridge University Press Description: This is a fully cross-referenced and indexed source for the quantitative facts of American history, topics ranging from migration and health to crime and the Confederate States of America. Tables are fully searchable, customizable, and downloadable.

MAS Ultra - School Edition                                                     Full Text Available: Articles, pamphlets, images for high school level   Online Provider: Ebsco Description:  Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database provides full text for over 500 popular general interest and current events publications with information dating back as far as 1975 for key magazines. MAS Ultra – School Edition also provides nearly 550 full text pamphlets, 253 full text reference books, nearly 100,000 biographies, 76,000 primary source  documents, and an image collection of 116,000 photos, maps and flags.

Primary Search                                                                    Full Text Available: Articles at the primary school level Online Provider: Ebsco Description:  Primary Search provides full text for more than 60 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost.

Encyclopedias, dictionaries, directories, almanacs, maps...

Books In Print Online Provider: FirstSearch | Note: Password Required Description:  Contains citations to in print, out-of-print, and forthcoming books, audios, and videos from North American publishers. Includes thousands of full-text book reviews from Choice, Kirkus, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journal.

Business Organizations, Agencies & Publications Directory    Full Text Available: Brief company information Online Provider: FirstSearch | Note: Password Required Description:  A unique guide to international business information sources. Lists contact name, address, phone, and fax numbers, and a description of the organization's founding, membership, activities, and sources.

Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media Description: Part of Gale's Digital Library Collection, this media directory contains thousands of listings for radio and television stations and cable companies. It provides address, phone, fax numbers, and e-mail addresses; key personnel, including feature editors; owner information; hours of operation; networks carried and more.

Encyclopedia of Associations (National & Regional, State and Local Organizations of the U. S. - part of the Gale Directory Library) Online Provider: Gale Description: Part of Gale's Digital Library Collection, the Encyclopedia of Associations Online is a source for locating professional societies, trade associations, labor unions, cultural and religious organizations, fan clubs, and other groups in all subject areas. Geographic coverage includes U.S. national and regional, state, and local organizations.

Encyclopedia of Business Information Sources   Online Provider: Gale Description: Part of Gale's Directory Library Collection, a bibliographic guide to citations covering over 1,100 subjects of interest to business personnel. Includes abstracts and indexes, almanacs and yearbooks, bibliographies, online databases, research centers and institutes and much more.

Encyclopedia of Science & Technology Online   Full Text Available: Encyclopedic Entries Online Provider: McGraw-Hill's AccessScience | Note:  Limited concurrent user access - if unable to connect, please try again at a later time.  Description: McGraw-Hill's Encyclopedia of Science & Technology Online provides fully searchable content to over 8,500 online articles in the 10th Edition of the McGraw-Hill's Encyclopedia of Science & Technology. It covers all major areas of science and technology.

Digital Sanborn Maps Online Provider: ProQuest Description:  Digital access to large-scale maps of Illinois towns and cities.

Encyclopedia Britannica    Full Text Available: Encyclopedic Entries Online Provider: Encyclopedia Britannica Description:  Includes the complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, Britannica Student Encyclopedia and the Britannica Book of the Year. You can also use Encyclopædia Britannica Online to search an Internet directory that includes more than 300,000 links to Web sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors.

Facts On File -World News Digest: 1940 to Current Year    Full Text Available: News reports Online Provider: Facts On File Description:  Brings together complete content from the Facts On File World News Digest since 1940 and selected content from six other core reference databases to answer questions about events, issues, statistics and people.

Gale Virtual Reference Library      Full Text Available:  Encyclopedic entries  Online Provider: Gale Description: The Gale Virtual Reference Library is an online full-text collection of valuable reference books in multiple subject areas. This collection includes many multidisciplinary reference e-books, including some with primary source documents.  The collection can be browsed by subject or searched by keyword.  Individual titles can also be accessed from the RU Library Catalog.

Oxford English Dictionary     Full Text Available: Extended dictionary entries Online Provider: Oxford University Press Description:  Access to OED's Second Edition 20 volume dictionary of words, etymologies, variant spellings, and pronunciations from the English-speaking world. Also includes the 3 volume Additions Series.

Oxford Digital Reference Shelf     Full Text Available: Encyclopedic entries Online Provider: Oxford University Press Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature --  This Encyclopedia includes 350 essays on poets, playwrights, essayists, and novelists, as well as major works and essays on literary movements, periods, and themes from leading scholars, encompassing the range and depth of American literary history from the 1600s to the present day.    Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature -- This Encyclopedia provides comprehensive coverage of literature from the Abbey Theatre to Israel Zangwill, covering the entire history of literature in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland in the major literary languages. It also includes substantial accounts of individual authors and detailed histories of particular themes, movements, genres, and institutions, whose impact upon the writing or the reading of literature was significant.   Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History -- With over 650 biographies of influential women and over 600 topical articles covering topics such as geography and history, culture and society, organizations, movements, and gender studies, this Encyclopedia captures the experiences of women throughout history. It has comprehensive coverage on the role women have played throughout world history.  Oxford Companion to World Exploration -- From Antarctica to the North Pole, it offers information on all topics of exploration worldwide, including advances in navigation, the discovery of the New World, polar expeditions, and the space age. In addition to examining the lives and expeditions of heroic and influential explorers, the book covers navigational and marine sciences and ranges from ancient cultures through modern space exploration.   Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance -- This Encyclopedia provides  information about theatre and performance from ancient Greek theatre to the latest developments in London, Paris, New York, and around the globe. In addition to performances in playhouses, it covers dance, opera, radio, film, television, and popular performance, including carnivals, circus, and public executions.

Palgrave Dictionary of Economics        Full Text Available: Extended dictionary entries Online Provider: Palgrave Macmillan Description: Palgrave Dictionary of Economics allows full text searching of the over 1,850 articles contained in the 8 volume print edition of The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition. It covers major topics in Economics as well as a range of interdisciplinary subjects, including: Health, Education and Welfare; Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; and Law and Economics. Features include hyperlinked cross-references within articles, links to related sites, sources of further information and bibliographical citations, and incorporation of quarterly additions and updates.

Sage eReference Encyclopedias  Full Text Available: Encyclopedic entries Online Provider: Sage Description:  Provides access to many encyclopedias in a variety of academic disciplines, including:  Communication & Media Studies, Counseling & Psychotherapy, Criminology & Criminal Justice, Economics, Education, Family Studies, Geography, History, Psychology, Social Issues, and Sociology.

World Almanacs    Full Text Available: Encyclopedic and brief entries Online Provider: FirstSearch Description:  Includes the full text of all of the Almanac titles: The World Almanac and Book of Facts, providing key facts on a wide variety of subjects internationally; The World Almanac of the U.S.A. with essential facts about the United States—current and historical; The World Almanac of US Politics, a guidebook to federal, state, and local governments; The World Almanac for Kids, covering information and facts of interest to middle-school children and teachers; and the Funk & Wagnall's New Encyclopedia, a comprehensive general encyclopedia.

Credo Reference Full Text Available: Encyclopedic and Dictionary Entries Online Provider: Credo Credo Reference is an online collection of many reference books covering a wide variety of subjects, with entries covering such subjects as medicine, art, technology, law and more, all aggregated and integrated in a robust search engine.  Searching by keyword will yield results from a number of different reference sources, and entries include cross references to related topics.  Credo Reference is your alternative to Wikipedia.

African American Almanac        Full Text Available: Encyclopedic and brief entries Online Provider: Gale Description: Provides a range of historical and current information on African American history, society and culture. Includes coverage of such topics as: Africa and the Black diaspora; film and television; landmarks; national organizations; population; religion; science and technology; and sports.

 

Film & TV

Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text           Full Text Available:  Articles, movie reviews, and images                                    Online Provider: EBSCO Description: Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text is a comprehensive full-text database covering the entire spectrum of television and film. The database will provide indexing and abstracts for more than 600 publications, as well as full text for more than 90 journals and nearly 60 books. It includes Variety Movie Reviews and a collection of excellent motion picture images.

Play Index                                                                   Full Text Available: Abstracts only Online Provider: WilsonWeb Description:  Play index containing abstracts for 31,000+ plays and one-act plays, monologues, classic dramas, etc.  Includes a "Find this play in a book" feature, subject and keyword access, and ability to limit by Genre.  Plays are updated on a weekly basis.

Pop Culture Universe                                                     Full Text Available: Books, Articles Online Provider: Greenwood Publishing Group Description:  'Pop Culture Universe:  Icon, Idols, Ideas' is a combined digital library of books, book chapters, encyclopedia entries, and images on American and world popular culture from the 1920s to the present.  An authoritative resource for all levels of researchers, Pop Culture Universe advances the study of popular culture and popular history.  Search a variety of subject areas ranging from business, fashion, TV, music, literature, sports, youth culture, and more, or search by time periods, people, or places.  A chronological listing of major events, popular fads of the decades, the emergence of new businesses and products, discoveries and inventions, clothing and style, sports happenings and achievements, and obituaries of notable individuals.

Theatre in Video       Full Text Available: Streaming Video Online Provider: Alexander Street Press Description:  Theatre in Video has more than 250 performances of plays from around the world with film documentaries in streaming video.  Browse by Productions, Documentaries, People, Genres, Companies, Theatres, and Dates.  Users can save scenes, and create and share playlists.

General  Full Text Article Databases

Academic Search Premier                                                      Full Text Available: Articles Online Provider: EBSCO Description:  This multi-disciplinary database offers full text for nearly 4,515 scholarly journals, including more than 3,630 peer-reviewed titles. Covering virtually every area of academic study, Academic Search Premier offers full text information dating as far back as 1985. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.

Wilson OmniFile Select                                                         Full Text Available: Articles Online Provider: WilsonWeb Description: Wilson OmniFile Full Text Select Edition is a multidisciplinary, 100% full-text database providing every article published in more than 1600 publications from the following Wilson periodical databases: Art Full Text, Applied Science & Technology Full Text, Biological & Agricultural Index, Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Index to Legal Periodicals & Books, Library Literature & Information Science Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, Wilson Business Full Text

Project MUSE                                                                        Full Text Available: Articles   Online Provider: Project MUSE Description:  Project MUSE Standard Collection offers full text access to current peer-reviewed content from over 270 interdisciplinary, prestigious humanities and social science journals published by many of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies.  The Standard Collection contains full text of most, but not all, journals in the Premium Collection.

JSTOR                                                                                    Full Text Available: Articles  Online Provider: JSTOR Description: A growing full-text archive of 400+ scholarly journals offering complete back runs from the very first issues to a "moving wall" of 2-5 years before the current issue. Note:  Microsoft Internet Explorer users with the Google Toolbar loaded may need to click on its pop-up blocker in order to view PDFs.

Academic OneFile                                                                Full Text Available: Articles, Reviews Online Provider: Gale Cengage (InfoTrac)    Description:  Provides a combination of indexing, abstracts, images, and full text for scholarly and general interest journals embracing all academic disciplines.  Offers citations to articles in 8,000 scholarly journal titles, nearly 4,000 of which afford full text.  Full-text for some titles may be subject to publisher-imposed embargo periods.  Features a powerful Subject Guide to assist in searching. Note:  This database vendor recommends using MS Internet Explorer; users may experience difficulty when using Mozilla Firefox or other web browsers.

Sage Journals Online    Full Text Available: Articles Online Provider: Sage Publications Description:  Sage provides online full-text access to more than 485 scholarly journals in business, humanities, medicine, science, social sciences, and technology.  Coverage varies from the first date of publication through present or from 1999 through present.

Google Scholar                                                                                                    Online Provider: Google Description:  Google Scholar provides a broad search that includes selected research papers, professional society and interest group publications, conference reports, book summaries, and media reports.  Results include abstracts and citations, drafts, works in progress, reprints, and peer-reviewed journal articles.  Not everything in Google Scholar is free.  This link to Google Scholar connects you to the full-text of articles provided through RU Library journal subscriptions.

Geography / Geology

GEOBASE Online Provider: FirstSearch | Note: Password Required Description:  Contains citations with abstracts covering worldwide literature in journals on geography, geology, ecology, international development, and their related disciplines. Subject coverage includes cartography, climatology, energy, environment, geomorphology, hydrology, photogrammetry, sedimentology, geochemistry, geophysics, paleontology, petrology, volcanology, and much more.

SciFinder Scholar (web version)-- Web version of SciFinder Scholar is available to authorized RU users after completing an online registration. To obtain the registration URL that is specified for Roosevelt users, please contact the Library Reference Desk at refdt@roosevelt.edu (Downtown Auditorium Library) or schlib@roosevelt.edu (Schaumburg Library). Please make the request of the registration URL with your Roosevelt University email account as this registration URL can only be sent to your Roosevelt e-mail address, and you are able to register only with your Roosevelt e-mail account. Here is the Instruction on how to complete the Online registration form. Note: Currently the SciFinder Scholar database is accessible only from on-campus computers. Limited concurrent user access. If unable to connect, please try again at a later time. Description: SciFinder Scholar, a product of the American Chemical Society, is a graphical software package that lets you search Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) databases. It contains nearly 22.4 million citations from over 9,000 journals worldwide and covers the full spectrum of chemistry-related information. It provides access to patent information, conference proceedings, and the CAS Registry of chemical substances. SciFinder Scholar also covers biology, life sciences, food sciences, engineering, physics and other sciences. For tips and guides on how to search and explore the basic functionality of SciFinder Scholar, please see the Support & Training pages provided by CAS. Access to SFS is restricted to current faculty, staff, and students of Roosevelt University.  Limited concurrent users can access SFS at one time, so be sure to log off when finished your searching so that other authorized users can access it. Sessions are ended automatically after 20 minutes of inactivity.

JSTOR     Full Text Available: Articles  Online Provider: JSTOR Description: A growing full-text archive of 400+ scholarly journals offering complete back runs from the very first issues to a "moving wall" of 2-5 years before the current issue.  Includes 8 Geography journals. Note:  Microsoft Internet Explorer users with the Google Toolbar loaded may need to click on its pop-up blocker in order to view PDFs.

Digital Sanborn Maps Online Provider: ProQuest Description:  Digital access to large-scale maps of Illinois towns and cities, 1867-1970.

Oxford Companion to World Exploration     Full Text Available: Encyclopedic entries Online Provider: Oxford University Press Description: From Antarctica to the North Pole, it offers information on all topics of exploration worldwide, including advances in navigation, the discovery of the New World, polar expeditions, and the space age. In addition to examining the lives and expeditions of heroic and influential explorers, the book covers navigational and marine sciences and ranges from ancient cultures through modern space exploration.

Academic Search Premier                                                      Full Text Available: Articles Online Provider: EBSCO Description:  This multi-disciplinary database offers full text for nearly 4,515 scholarly journals, including more than 3,630 peer-reviewed titles. Covering virtually every area of academic study, Academic Search Premier offers full text information dating as far back as 1985. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.

Academic OneFile                                                                Full Text Available: Articles, Reviews Online Provider: Gale Cengage (InfoTrac)    Description:  Provides a combination of indexing, abstracts, images, and full text for scholarly and general interest journals embracing all academic disciplines.  Offers citations to articles in 8,000 scholarly journal titles, nearly 4,000 of which afford full text.  Full-text for some titles may be subject to publisher-imposed embargo periods.  Features a powerful Subject Guide to assist in searching. Note:  This database vendor recommends using MS Internet Explorer; users may experience difficulty when using Mozilla Firefox or other web browsers.

GreenFILE                                                                            Full Text Available: Articles Online Provider: EBSCO    Description: Providing indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes all aspects of human impact to the environment such as global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, etc.

History

JSTOR     Full Text Available: Articles  Online Provider: JSTOR Description: An archive of 400+ scholarly journals offering back runs of journals from the very first issues to a "moving wall" of 2-5 years before the current issue.  Includes 40 History journal titles. Note:  Microsoft Internet Explorer users with the Google Toolbar loaded may need to click on its pop-up blocker in order to view PDFs.

America: History and Life                                                                       Online Provider: EBSCO                               Description: Abstracts only for over 1,700 periodicals covering U.S. and Canadian history from prehistory to present.  Some links to JSTOR.  For research in a variety of disciplines, including:  popular culture, economics, ethnic studies, history, literature, sociology, urban studies, women's and gender studies.

Historical Abstracts                                                                                                            Online Provider: EBSCO Description: Abstracts only for over 1,700 periodicals covering world history from 1450 to present.  Some links to JSTOR.  For research in a variety of disciplines, including:  art & art history, popular culture, biography, political science, ethnic studies, history, literature, and women's & gender studies.

Pop Culture Universe                                                            Full Text Available: Books, Articles Online Provider: Greenwood Publishing Group Description:  'Pop Culture Universe:  Icon, Idols, Ideas' is a combined digital library of books, book chapters, encyclopedia entries, and images on American and world popular culture from the 1920s to the present.  An authoritative resource for all levels of researchers, Pop Culture Universe advances the study of popular culture and popular history.  Search a variety of subject areas ranging from business, fashion, TV, music, literature, sports, youth culture, and more, or search by time periods, people, or places.  A chronological listing of major events, popular fads of the decades, the emergence of new businesses and products, discoveries and inventions, clothing and style, sports happenings and achievements, and obituaries of notable individuals.

Historical Statistics of the United States: Millennial Edition Full Text Available: Statistics Online Provider: Cambridge University Press Description: This is a fully cross-referenced and indexed source for the quantitative facts of American history, topics ranging from migration and health to crime and the Confederate States of America. Tables are fully searchable, customizable, and downloadable.

Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History    Full Text Available: Encyclopedic entries Online Provider: Oxford University Press Description: With over 650 biographies of influential women and over 600 topical articles covering topics such as geography and history, culture and society, organizations, movements, and gender studies, this Encyclopedia captures the experiences of women throughout history. It has comprehensive coverage on the role women have played throughout world history.

Black Thought and Culture              Full Text Available:  Essays Online Provider: Alexander Street Press Description: Approximately 100,000 pages of non-fiction writings by major African-American leaders. Primary source materials including letters, speeches, prefatory essays, political leaflets, oral histories, interviews, periodicals and trial transcripts covering 250 years.  Teachers, artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, veterans, entertainers, and others are represented.

Academic Search Premier                                                      Full Text Available: Articles Online Provider: EBSCO Description:  This multi-disciplinary database offers full text for nearly 4,515 scholarly journals, including more than 3,630 peer-reviewed titles. Covering virtually every area of academic study, Academic Search Premier offers full text information dating as far back as 1985. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.

Academic OneFile                                                                Full Text Available: Articles, Reviews Online Provider: Gale Cengage (InfoTrac)    Description:  Provides a combination of indexing, abstracts, images, and full text for scholarly and general interest journals embracing all academic disciplines.  Offers citations to articles in 8,000 scholarly journal titles, nearly 4,000 of which afford full text.  Full-text for some titles may be subject to publisher-imposed embargo periods.  Features a powerful Subject Guide to assist in searching. Note:  This database vendor recommends using MS Internet Explorer; users may experience difficulty when using Mozilla Firefox or other web browsers.

Facts On File -World News Digest: 1940 to Current Year    Full Text Available: News reports Online Provider: Facts On File Description:  Brings together complete content from the Facts On File World News Digest since 1940 and selected content from six other core reference databases to answer questions about events, issues, statistics and people.

American National Biography   Full Text Available: Biographical entries Online Provider: Oxford University Press Description:  Biographical information of famous Americans.

Arts & Humanities Search Online Provider: FirstSearch | Note: Password Required Description:  The online equivalent of ISI's Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Provides complete indexing for many of the world's leading arts and humanities journals in a broad range of disciplines. Also includes individually selected, relevant items from thousands of the world's leading science and social sciences journals.

Project MUSE                                                                        Full Text Available: Articles   Online Provider: Project MUSE Description:  Project MUSE Standard Collection offers full text access to current peer-reviewed content from over 270 interdisciplinary, prestigious humanities and social science journals published by many of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies.  The Standard Collection contains full text of most, but not all, journals in the Premium Collection.

Encyclopedia Britannica    Full Text Available: Encyclopedic Entries Online Provider: Encyclopedia Britannica Description:  Includes the complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, Britannica Student Encyclopedia and the Britannica Book of the Year. You can also use Encyclopædia Britannica Online to search an Internet directory that includes more than 300,000 links to Web sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors.

HarpWeek (Harper's Weekly)     Full Text Available: Articles  Online Provider: HarpWeek Description:  The Harper's Weekly magazine covering "The Civil War Era, Reconstruction and Gilded Age I & II (1857-1889)"

Illinois Periodicals Online    Full Text Available: Articles  Online Provider: NIU Libraries Description: Ten journals about Illinois, including Illinois History, Illinois Issues and Illinois Municipal Review.

Saskia Digital Image Archive Full Text Available: Images Online Provider: CARLI Digital Collections Description:  Saskia Digital Image Archive is a collection consisting of over 30,000 high resolution and digital images of paintings, sculpture and architecture. The images come from many of the most important collections in the world; including the Louvre, the Uffizi, the Prado, and the Kunsthistorisches Museum, as well as from significant archaeological sites in Greece, Italy, Turkey, and Egypt.

Hospitality Management

Hospitality & Tourism Complete                                      Full Text Available: Articles, reports... Online Provider: EBSCO  Description:  Hospitality & Tourism Complete covers scholarly research and industry news relating to all areas of hospitality and tourism. This collection contains more than 749,000 records, with coverage dating as far back as 1965. There is full text for 440 publications, including periodicals, company & country reports, and books.

ABI Inform                                                                             Online Provider: FirstSearch | Note: Password Required Description:  Covers nearly every aspect of business, including:  accounting, actuarial science, business communication, economics, finance, financial services, human resource management, industrial/organizational psychology, information systems, international business, management, marketing, and risk management.  Citations include abstracts of articles from over 1,800 current business periodicals.

Business Source Premier                                                        Full Text Available: Articles  Online Provider: EBSCO Description:  Provides full text for more than 2,300 scholarly business journals. With full text back to 1965, and searchable cited references back as far as 1998, this database covers all business fields: marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Additional full text, non-journal content includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses.

Hoover's Online     Full Text Available: Company information  Online Provider: Hoover's Inc. | Note: RU's subscription does not include access to the "Pro Plus Tools". Description:  Hoover's provides comprehensive company, industry, and market intelligence. The database includes information on 12 million companies, with in-depth coverage of 25,000 of the world's top business enterprises. The site is updated daily.

Mergent Online    Full Text Available: Annual Reports, financial data... Online Provider: Mergent  | Note:  Limited concurrent user access - if unable to connect, please try again at a later time.  Description:  Financial data for over 25,000 U.S. and international publicly traded companies.  Features annual reports, SEC filings, and ability to create comparison reports.

Lexis-Nexis - Academic Universe                                          Full Text Available: Articles Online Provider: Lexis-Nexis Description:  Provides searchable access to a comprehensive spectrum of full-text information from over 5,600 sources, selected to meet academic needs covering news, business, legal, medical, reference resources.  Includes: National and regional newspapers, U.S. Federal and state case law; Shepard’s® Citations for all U.S. Supreme Court cases; and business news journals, company financial information, SEC filings & reports...

 

Journalism/Communication

Lexis-Nexis -  Academic Universe                                         Full Text Available: Articles Online Provider: Lexis-Nexis Description:  Provides searchable access to a comprehensive spectrum of full-text information from over 5,600 sources, selected to meet academic needs covering news, business, legal, medical, reference resources.  Includes: National and regional newspapers, U.S. Federal and state case law; Shepard’s® Citations for all U.S. Supreme Court cases; and business news journals, company financial information, SEC filings & reports...

Chicago Tribune                                                                    Full Text Available: Newspaper Articles Online Provider: NewsBank Inc. Description: Complete full-text of Chicago Tribune from 1985 to date.

Access World News                                                              Full Text Available: Articles Online Provider: Newsbank, Inc. Description:  Full text content for more than 2,400 local, regional, national, and international newspapers, including the following:  Chicago Sun-Times (1986 to present), Chicago Tribune (1985 to present), and New York Times (2000 to present).

Newspaper Source                                                                Full Text Available: Articles   Online Provider: Ebsco Description:  Provides selected full text for 23 national and international newspapers and over 180 regional U.S. newspapers, including the Chicago Tribune back to 1997.  Features full text of radio and television news transcripts as well as indexing and abstracts for many other national newspapers, including the New York Times.

Periodical Abstracts     Full Text Available: Articles   Online Provider: FirstSearch  | Note: Password Required Description:  This multi-disciplinary database offers full-text articles from over 1,000 popular and academic journals with citations and abstracts for over 1,100 more.  Includes transcripts of news-oriented television and radio shows.  Focuses on the following academic areas of study:  business, economics, literature, psychology, religion, and women's studies.

Academic Search Premier                                                     Full Text Available: Articles Online Provider: EBSCO Description:  This multi-disciplinary database offers full text for nearly 4,515 scholarly journals, including more than 3,630 peer-reviewed titles. Covering virtually every area of academic study, Academic Search Premier offers full text information dating as far back as 1985. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.

Academic OneFile                                                                Full Text Available: Articles, Reviews Online Provider: Gale Cengage (InfoTrac)    Description:  Provides a combination of indexing, abstracts, images, and full text for scholarly and general interest journals embracing all academic disciplines.  Offers citations to articles in 8,000 scholarly journal titles, nearly 4,000 of which afford full text.  Full-text for some titles may be subject to publisher-imposed embargo periods.  Features a powerful Subject Guide to assist in searching. Note:  This database vendor recommends using MS Internet Explorer; users may experience difficulty when using Mozilla Firefox or other web browsers.

Newspaper Abstracts Online Provider: FirstSearch | Note: Password Required Description:  Indexes and abstracts US and regional newspapers, including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and USA Today. The Wall Street Journal (Eastern edition) is indexed beginning Jan 1, 1990.

Pop Culture Universe                                                            Full Text Available: Books, Articles Online Provider: Greenwood Publishing Group Description:  'Pop Culture Universe:  Icon, Idols, Ideas' is a combined digital library of books, book chapters, encyclopedia entries, and images on American and world popular culture from the 1920s to the present.  An authoritative resource for all levels of researchers, Pop Culture Universe advances the study of popular culture and popular history.  Search a variety of subject areas ranging from business, fashion, TV, music, literature, sports, youth culture, and more, or search by time periods, people, or places.  A chronological listing of major events, popular fads of the decades, the emergence of new businesses and products, discoveries and inventions, clothing and style, sports happenings and achievements, and obituaries of notable individuals.

Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media Description: Part of Gale's Digital Library Collection, this media directory contains thousands of listings for radio and television stations and cable companies. It provides address, phone, fax numbers, and e-mail addresses; key personnel, including feature editors; owner information; hours of operation; networks carried and more.

Law

Lexis-Nexis - Academic Universe                                         Full Text Available: Articles Online Provider: Lexis-Nexis Description:  Provides searchable access to a comprehensive spectrum of full-text information from over 5,600 sources, selected to meet academic needs covering news, business, legal, medical, reference resources.  Includes: National and regional newspapers, U.S. Federal and state case law; Shepard’s® Citations for all U.S. Supreme Court cases; and business news journals, company financial information, SEC filings & reports...

Academic OneFile                                                                 Full Text Available: Articles, Reviews Online Provider: Gale Cengage (InfoTrac)    Description:  Provides a combination of indexing, abstracts, images, and full text for scholarly and general interest journals embracing all academic disciplines.  Offers citations to articles in 8,000 scholarly journal titles, nearly 4,000 of which afford full text.  Full-text for some titles may be subject to publisher-imposed embargo periods.  Features a powerful Subject Guide to assist in searching. Note:  This database vendor recommends using MS Internet Explorer; users may experience difficulty when using Mozilla Firefox or other web browsers.

SocINDEX with Full Text                                                         Full Text Available: Articles, books, monographs, and conference papers Provider: EBSCO Description:  SocINDEX with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. The database features more than 1,600,000 records with subject headings from a 15,600 term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers. SocINDEX with Full Text contains full text for 253 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895, and 72 "priority" coverage journals. This database also includes full text for 547 books and monographs, and full text for 6,711 conference papers.

Literature & Language

MLA International Bibliography                                                            Online Provider: Ebsco Description:  MLA International Bibliography is a bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association, the electronic version of the Bibliography dates back to 1963 and contains over 1.5 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series and 1,000 book publishers.

Project MUSE                                                                        Full Text Available: Articles   Online Provider: Project MUSE Description:  Project MUSE Standard Collection offers full text access to current peer-reviewed content from over 270 interdisciplinary, prestigious humanities and social science journals published by many of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies.  The Standard Collection contains full text of most, but not all, journals in the Premium Collection.

Gale's Literary Index Online Provider: Gale Description:  Integrates indexes from Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography and Gale's five Literature Criticism series.

Contemporary Literary Criticism Select    Full Text Available: Essays Online Provider: Gale Description:  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.

Contemporary Authors    Full Text Available: Biographies Online Provider: Gale  Description:  Contemporary Authors provides complete biographies on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors.

Dictionary of Literary Biography    Full Text Available: Essays Online Provider: Gale Description:  The essays of DLB outline the lives and careers of authors from all eras and genres and summarize the critical response to their work. In addition, each DLB entry contains personal information, a list of principal works, and suggested further readings.

Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature      Full Text Available: Encyclopedic entries Online Provider: Oxford University Press Description: This Encyclopedia includes 350 essays on poets, playwrights, essayists, and novelists, as well as major works and essays on literary movements, periods, and themes from leading scholars, encompassing the range and depth of American literary history from the 1600s to the present day.

Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature    Full Text Available: Encyclopedic entries Online Provider: Oxford University Press Description: This Encyclopedia provides comprehensive coverage of literature from the Abbey Theatre to Israel Zangwill, covering the entire history of literature in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland in the major literary languages. It also includes substantial accounts of individual authors and detailed histories of particular themes, movements, genres, and institutions, whose impact upon the writing or the reading of literature was significant.

Scribner Writer Series    Full Text Available: Essays Online Provider: Gale Description:  The Scribner Writers Series includes 15-20 page signed essays on more than 1,600 authors and literary genres drawn from 13 acclaimed Scribner print series.

Twayne Authors Series -Twayne World, English, and US Authors    Full Text Available: 200 Books Online Provider: Gale Description:  Twayne World, US, and English Authors each contains the full text of 200 frequently used Twayne Literary Masters books on individual World, US, or English authors, for a total of 600 individual full-text titles.

JSTOR     Full Text Available: Articles  Online Provider: JSTOR Description: An archive of 400+ scholarly journals offering back runs of journals from the very first issues to a "moving wall" of 2-5 years before the current issue.  Includes 16 Language & Literature journals. Note:  Microsoft Internet Explorer users with the Google Toolbar loaded may need to click on its pop-up blocker in order to view PDFs.

Book Review Digest Plus        Full Text Available:   Articles                                                                                              Online Provider: H. W. Wilson Description:  Contains over 1.3 million citations, book summaries and review excerpts for more than 660,000 books, including more than 115,000 full text reviews. With coverage back to 1983, this database pulls reviews from over 4,000 journals in all subject areas covering arts, sciences, social sciences, business and the humanities.

Short Story Index                                                                                    Full Text Available: Citations only Online Provider: WilsonWeb Description:  Short story index containing citations for 96,000+ short stories and the book anthologies in which they have been published.  Look for short fiction by a favorite author, search for a quintessential example of a particular genre, or research the body of work of a literary figure.

Play Index                                                                                                 Full Text Available: Abstracts only Online Provider: WilsonWeb Description:  Play index containing abstracts for 31,000+ plays and one-act plays, monologues, classic dramas, etc.  Includes a "Find this play in a book" feature, subject and keyword access, and ability to limit by Genre.  Plays are updated on a weekly basis.

Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text          Full Text Available:  Articles, movie reviews, and images                                    Online Provider: EBSCO Description: Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text is a comprehensive full-text database covering the entire spectrum of television and film. The database will provide indexing and abstracts for more than 600 publications, as well as full text for more than 90 journals and nearly 60 books. It includes Variety Movie Reviews and a collection of excellent motion picture images.

Periodical Abstracts     Full Text Available: Articles   Online Provider: FirstSearch  | Note: Password Required Description:  This multi-disciplinary database offers full-text articles from over 1,000 popular and academic journals with citations and abstracts for over 1,100 more.  Includes transcripts of news-oriented television and radio shows.  Focuses on the following academic areas of study:  business, economics, literature, psychology, religion, and women's studies.

Academic OneFile                                                                Full Text Available: Articles, Reviews Online Provider: Gale Cengage (InfoTrac) Description:  Provides a combination of indexing, abstracts, images, and full text for scholarly and general interest journals embracing all academic disciplines.  Offers citations to articles in 8,000 scholarly journal titles, nearly 4,000 of which afford full text.  Full-text for some titles may be subject to publisher-imposed embargo periods.  Features a powerful Subject Guide to assist in searching. Note:  This database vendor recommends using MS Internet Explorer; users may experience difficulty when using Mozilla Firefox or other web browsers.

Arts & Humanities Search Online Provider: FirstSearch | Note: Password Required Description:  The online equivalent of ISI's Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Provides complete indexing for many of the world's leading arts and humanities journals in a broad range of disciplines. Also includes individually selected, relevant items from thousands of the world's leading science and social sciences journals.

America: History and Life                                                                      Online Provider: EBSCO                               Description: Abstracts only for over 1,700 periodicals covering U.S. and Canadian history from prehistory to present.  Some links to JSTOR.  For research in a variety of disciplines, including:  popular culture, economics, ethnic studies, history, literature, sociology, urban studies, women's and gender studies.

Historical Abstracts                                                                                                           Online Provider: EBSCO Description: Abstracts only for over 1,700 periodicals covering world history from 1450 to present.  Some links to JSTOR.  For research in a variety of disciplines, including:  art & art history, popular culture, biography, political science, ethnic studies, history, literature, and women's & gender studies.

Alternative Press Index Online Provider: FirstSearch | Note: Password Required Description :  Indexes almost 300 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines. Interdisciplinary and international in scope. Other features include selected abstracts, journal record information and hot links to Publisher websites.

Novelist                                                                                                     Online Provider: Ebsco Description:  Easy-to-use readers' advisory services which provide a resource for teachers and students to encourage and support fiction reading.

Oxford English Dictionary     Full Text Available: Extended dictionary entries Online Provider: Oxford University Press Description:  Access to OED's Second Edition 20 volume dictionary of words, etymologies, variant spellings, and pronunciations from the English-speaking world. Also includes the 3 volume Additions Series.

Marketing

Mediamark Reporter      Full Text Available: Demographic Reports  Online Provider: MRI Description:  Product-based marketing research demographics database. Click on the "Mediamark Reporter" link at the top of the page to search.  First-time users: Click on "Register for Free" to sign up a new account. You will need to use your roosevelt.edu or mymail.roosevelt.edu email address.

Business Source Premier                                                        Full Text Available: Articles  Online Provider: EBSCO Description:  Provides full text for more than 2,300 scholarly business journals. With full text back to 1965, and searchable cited references back as far as 1998, this database covers all business fields: marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Additional full text, non-journal content includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses.

ABI Inform                                                                            Online Provider: FirstSearch | Note: Password Required Description:  Covers nearly every aspect of business, including:  accounting, actuarial science, business communication, economics, finance, financial services, human resource management, industrial/organizational psychology, information systems, international business, management, marketing, and risk management.  Citations include abstracts of articles from over 1,800 current business periodicals.

Business and Management Practices    Full Text Available: Articles Online Provider: FirstSearch | Note: Password Required Description:  Provides information on business and management issues such as decision making; implementing new technology; planning for the future; dealing with internal and external issues; and expanding businesses.   Covers business methodology with emphasis on case studies and practical applications. Approximately 60% of the records include full text.  Can limit results to "Marketing & Sales" in "Department Phrase" field.

Mergent Online    Full Text Available: Annual Reports, financial data... Online Provider: Mergent  | Note:  Limited concurrent user access - if unable to connect, please try again at a later time.  Description:  Financial data for over 25,000 U.S. and international publicly traded companies featuring 15-year financial history, annual reports, and SEC filings.  Search by Financials, Industry Ratios, or SIC/NAICS Industry Codes to create downloadable comparison reports.

Hoover's Online     Full Text Available: Company information  Online Provider: Hoover's Inc. | Note: RU's subscription does not include access to the "Pro Plus Tools". Description:  Hoover's provides comprehensive company, industry, and market intelligence. The database includes basic information on 2.5 million searchable small businesses, with in-depth coverage of 30,000 of the world's top business enterprises.

Lexis-Nexis - Academic Universe                                          Full Text Available: Articles Online Provider: Lexis-Nexis Description:  Provides searchable access to a comprehensive spectrum of full-text information from over 5,900 sources, selected to meet academic needs covering news, business, legal, medical, reference resources.  Choose "Business", then "Business News" or "Industry and Market".

SRDS Media Solutions Provider: SRDS Description: The SRDS suite of online resources provides the most current, objective information about marketing  and advertising opportunities in consumer magazines, radio, TV and cable. Search or browse in magazines, radio networks, or TV and cable networks for demographics, contact information, circulation, and publication information with these comprehensive online sources.

Pop Culture Universe                                                            Full Text Available: Books, Articles Online Provider: Greenwood Publishing Group Description:  'Pop Culture Universe:  Icon, Idols, Ideas' is a combined digital library of books, book chapters, encyclopedia entries, and images on American and world popular culture from the 1920s to the present.  An authoritative resource for all levels of researchers, Pop Culture Universe advances the study of popular culture and popular history.  Search a variety of subject areas ranging from business, fashion, TV, music, literature, sports, youth culture, and more, or search by time periods, people, or places.  A chronological listing of major events, popular fads of the decades, the emergence of new businesses and products, discoveries and inventions, clothing and style, sports happenings and achievements, and obituaries of notable individuals.

Periodical Abstracts     Full Text Available: Articles   Online Provider: FirstSearch  | Note: Password Required Description:  This multi-disciplinary database offers full-text articles from over 1,000 popular and academic journals with citations and abstracts for over 1,100 more.  Includes transcripts of news-oriented television and radio shows.  Focuses on the following academic areas of study:  business, economics, literature, psychology, religion, and women's studies.

Encyclopedia of Associations (National & Regional, State and Local Organizations of the U. S. - part of the Gale Directory Library) Online Provider: Gale Description: Part of Gale's Digital Library Collection, the Encyclopedia of Associations Online is a source for locating professional societies, trade associations, labor unions, cultural and religious organizations, fan clubs, and other groups in all subject areas. Geographic coverage includes U.S. national and regional, state, and local organizations.

Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media Description: Part of Gale's Digital Library Collection, this media directory contains thousands of listings for radio and television stations and cable companies. It provides address, phone, fax numbers, and e-mail addresses; key personnel, including feature editors; owner information; hours of operation; networks carried and more.

Mathematics

JSTOR     Full Text Available: Articles  Online Provider: JSTOR Description: An archive of 400+ scholarly journals offering back runs of journals from the very first issues to a "moving wall" of 2-5 years before the current issue.  Includes 19 Mathematics journals. Note:  Microsoft Internet Explorer users with the Google Toolbar loaded may need to click on its pop-up blocker in order to view PDFs.

MathSciNet   Online Provider: American Mathematical Society Description: Citations and reviews of the world's current mathematical literature since 1940. Journals, conference proceedings and books of mathematics research are covered. MathSciNet is the Web version of the Mathematical Review Database and contains the same information as the journals Mathematical Review and Current Mathematical Publications.

Academic Search Premier                                                      Full Text Available: Articles Online Provider: EBSCO Description:  This multi-disciplinary database offers full text for nearly 4,515 scholarly journals, including more than 3,630 peer-reviewed titles. Covering virtually every area of academic study, Academic Search Premier offers full text information dating as far back as 1985. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.

Military and Government Collection                                        Full Text Available: Articles  Online Provider: Ebsco Description:  Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 titles.

Business Source Premier                                                        Full Text Available: Articles  Online Provider: EBSCO Description:  Provides full text for more than 2,300 scholarly business journals. With full text back to 1965, and searchable cited references back as far as 1998, this database covers all business fields: marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Additional full text, non-journal content includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses.

Medicine

Medline Online Provider: FirstSearch Description:  Covers all areas of medicine, including clinical medicine, experimental medicine, dentistry, nursing, health services administration, nutrition, and much more. Now includes the MeSH thesaurus.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition                              Full Text Available: Articles  Online Provider: Ebsco Description:  This database provides 600 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features abstracts and indexing for more than 850 journals. This database is updated on a daily basis.

Health Source: Consumer Edition                                           Full Text Available: Articles  Online Provider: Ebsco Description:  With Health Source - Consumer Edition you can 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.

PubMed Online Provider: NLM Description: PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles (some of which are free) and other related resources.  Includes access to the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) with a 6-month embargo.

Consumer Health Complete                                               Full Text Available: Articles Online Provider: EBSCO    Description: Consumer Health Complete provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. In addition, Consumer Health Complete includes the Clinical Reference System and the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which provides access to up-to-date, concise and clinically relevant drug monographs. The database is updated on a weekly basis.

Biological Abstracts                                                               Online Provider: EBSCO    Description: Complete collection of bibliographic references covering life science and biomedical research literature published from more than 4,000 journals internationally. It provides access to the information in virtually every life science discipline and contains nearly 7.7 million archival records from as far back as 1969, with more than 370,000 citations added each year.

Academic Search Premier                                                     Full Text Available: Articles Online Provider: EBSCO Description:  This multi-disciplinary database offers full text for nearly 4,515 scholarly journals, including more than 3,630 peer-reviewed titles. Covering virtually every area of academic study, Academic Search Premier offers full text information dating as far back as 1985. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.

Academic OneFile                                                                Full Text Available: Articles, Reviews Online Provider: Gale Cengage (InfoTrac)    Description:  Provides a combination of indexing, abstracts, images, and full text for scholarly and general interest journals embracing all academic disciplines.  Offers citations to articles in 8,000 scholarly journal titles, nearly 4,000 of which afford full text.  Full-text for some titles may be subject to publisher-imposed embargo periods.  Features a powerful Subject Guide to assist in searching. Note:  This database vendor recommends using MS Internet Explorer; users may experience difficulty when using Mozilla Firefox or other web browsers.

SciFinder Scholar (web version)-- Web version of SciFinder Scholar is available to authorized RU users after completing an online registration. To obtain the registration URL that is specified for Roosevelt users, please contact the Library Reference Desk at refdt@roosevelt.edu (Downtown Auditorium Library) or schlib@roosevelt.edu (Schaumburg Library). Please make the request of the registration URL with your Roosevelt University email account as this registration URL can only be sent to your Roosevelt e-mail address, and you are able to register only with your Roosevelt e-mail account. Here is the Instruction on how to complete the Online registration form. Note: Currently the SciFinder Scholar database is accessible only from on-campus computers. Limited concurrent user access. If unable to connect, please try again at a later time. Description: SciFinder Scholar, a product of the American Chemical Society, is a graphical software package that lets you search Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) databases. It contains nearly 22.4 million citations from over 9,000 journals worldwide and covers the full spectrum of chemistry-related information. It provides access to patent information, conference proceedings, and the CAS Registry of chemical substances. SciFinder Scholar also covers biology, life sciences, food sciences, engineering, physics and other sciences. For tips and guides on how to search and explore the basic functionality of SciFinder Scholar, please see the Support & Training pages provided by CAS. Access to SFS is restricted to current faculty, staff, and students of Roosevelt University.  Limited concurrent users can access SFS at one time, so be sure to log off when finished your searching so that other authorized users can access it. Sessions are ended automatically after 20 minutes of inactivity.

Annual Reviews     Full Text Available: Articles  Online Provider: Annual Reviews    Biochemistry  |  Cell and Developmental Biology  |  Genetics  Immunology |  Microbiology  | Psychology | Clinical Psychology Description: Full text of scientific reviews published by Annual Reviews.  Biochemistry back to 1997; Cell and Developmental Biology back to 1996; Genetics back to 1996; Immunology back to 1996; Microbiology back to 1996; Psychology back to 1996; Clinical Psychology back to 2005.

Chemical Abstracts   Searching Chemical Abstracts through web version of SciFinder Scholar is available to authorized RU users now. Self-registration of an username and password is required. For more information on how to register, please see the SciFinder Scholar section that is also listed on this page. Online Provider: CAS. Limited concurrent user access - if unable to connect, please try again at a later time. Note:  Chemical Abstracts is also available via STN Easy. Please contact the library for logon ID and password.| Restrictions: Access only from 5:00 PM to 5:00 AM, Monday thru Friday. Access all day Saturday and Sunday.

American Chemical Society                                                  Full Text Available: Articles Online Provider: ACS Publications Description: Now includes the journal archives which provides full text searching of journals from 1879 to current ACS Web Editions.

Lexis-Nexis - Academic Universe                                         Full Text Available: Articles Online Provider: Lexis-Nexis Description:  Provides searchable access to a comprehensive spectrum of full-text information from over 5,600 sources, selected to meet academic needs covering news, business, legal, medical, reference resources.  Includes: National and regional newspapers, U.S. Federal and state case law; Shepard’s® Citations for all U.S. Supreme Court cases; and business news journals, company financial information, SEC filings & reports...

Clinical Pharmacology                                                                            Online Provider: Ebsco Description:  Clinical Pharmacology provides access up-to-date, concise and clinically-relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new and investigational drugs.

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Academic Search Premier                                                      Full Text Available: Articles Online Provider: EBSCO Description:  This multi-disciplinary database offers full text for nearly 4,515 scholarly journals, including more than 3,630 peer-reviewed titles. Covering virtually every area of academic study, Academic Search Premier offers full text information dating as far back as 1985. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.

Wilson OmniFile Select                                                                   Full Text Available: Articles Online Provider: WilsonWeb Description: Wilson OmniFile Full Text Select Edition is a multidisciplinary, 100% full-text database providing every article published in more than 1600 publications from the following Wilson periodical databases: Art Full Text, Applied Science & Technology Full Text, Biological & Agricultural Index, Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Index to Legal Periodicals & Books, Library Literature & Information Science Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, Wilson Business Full Text

Project MUSE                                                                        Full Text Available: Articles   Online Provider: Project MUSE Description:  Project MUSE Standard Collection offers full text access to current peer-reviewed content from over 270 interdisciplinary, prestigious humanities and social science journals published by many of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies.  The Standard Collection contains full test of most, but not all, journals in the Premium Collection.

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