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Databases are for Lake Forest College affiliated users.
Academic
Search Premier - EBSCO (cross-disciplinary)
Academic
LexisNexis (newspapers)
Access (popular news; citations only)
African Newspapers (late 19th - early 20th centuries)
All Academic (search conference papers or browse)
America:
History and Life (U.S. & Canada history)
America's News Magazines (cross-disciplinary)
American Chemical Society Web Editions
Annual
Reviews (science)
Anthropological
Index Online (anthropology)
AnthroSource
(anthropology)
ArtAbstracts
(art)
ArticleFirst
(scholarly articles)
Art
Images Collection - SASKIA (art)
B.E. Journals in Theoretical Economics:
Advances in Theoretical Economics
Contributions
to Theoretical Economics
Frontiers of Theoretical Economics
Topics in Theoretical Economics
BioDigest
(biology, ecology & health)
BioOne
(biology, ecology & environment)
also available through CSA with FindIt links for BioOne 2 articles
Wiley InterScience (formerly Blackwell Synergy)
BooksInPrint (book descriptions & reviews)
Business
search in Lexis-Nexis (newspaper articles)
Business
Source Elite (business, management & economics)
Chicago
Tribune (full-text, 1985-present)
Chicago
Tribune (Historical, full-text, 1849 - 1985)
Choice Reviews Online (CHOICE magazine reviews)
Chronicle of Higher Education (full-text, 1995-present)
ClasePeriodica
(Latin America)
Communication
& Mass Media Complete
Congressional
Universe - Lexis-Nexis (bills, laws, & legislative histories)
Consumer
Health Complete - alternate
website format
Contemporary Authors (access to part of the Literary Index contents)
Contemporary
Women's Issues - CWI (women's health & human rights)
Credo Reference (cross-disciplinary)
Current Contents (science & social science)
Digital
Sanborn Maps (Illinois maps)
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) (cross-disciplinary)
Disclosure
(company financial reports)
Dissertation
Abstracts (dissertations & theses)
EBSCO Host - Academic
Search Premier (cross-disciplinary)
EBSCO
Animals (animal nature & habitat)
eReference Encylopedias (social sciences)
Electronic
Collections Online (cross-disciplinary)
Encyclopedia of Race and Racism
Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender: Men and Women in the World’s Cultures
ERIC
(education)
also available through the Department of Education
Funk
& Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
GEOBASE (geography, geology & environment)
Google News Archive (historical newspapers)
GPO
(government publications)
GreenFILE
(environment)
GREENR
(environment)
Harper's
Weekly (full-text & images,1857-1912)
Harvard
Educational Review Online (education)
Health
Source: Consumer Edition (health & prescription info)
Health
Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (medical)
Highwire Press (free Stanford journals)
Historical
Abstracts (world history, excluding U.S.)
Historical Chicago
Tribune (full-text, 1849 - 1985)
Historical Statistics of the United States
Homeland Security Digital Library
Hoover's
(search Lexis-Nexis for in-depth reports from Hoover's)
ICPSR (datasets; registration required)
Images Collection - SASKIA Art
Ingenta Select, now Liebert
Online (medical, law & science)
Institute of Physics (IOP)
Internet news sources (links
to newspapers)
JSTOR (cross-disciplinary)
Lake Forester (local news 9/28/1995-Current)
Legal
Research in Lexis-Nexis (law reviews and journals)
Lexis-Nexis
- Academic Universe (full-text newspaper articles)
Lexis-Nexis - Congressional
Universe (bills, laws, & legislative histories)
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
Liebert
Online formerly Ingenta (medical, law & science)
Making of
America (full-text 19th century American journals)
MasterFILE Premier (multi-disciplinary)
MAS
Ultra - School Edition (high-school level articles)
MDID (image database of Lake Forest College)
MEDLINE (medical)
also available through ISI
Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
Military
& Government Collection (military & FBI news)
MLA
Bibliography (literature, language & linguistics)
Muse
- Project Muse (cross-disciplinary)
National Climatic
Data Center Online (monthly weather data)
National Trade
Data Bank (markets & international trade)
NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research) (limited full text)
New York Times Article Archive (1851 - present, 1851 - 1922 full text)
Newspaper
Abstracts (US & local newspapers)
Newspaper
Source (US & international newspapers)
OED
Online (Oxford English Dictionary)
PapersFirst
(conference papers)
Philosopher's
Index (philosophy)
PNAS
Online (biological, physical & social sciences)
Primary
Search (education)
Proceedings
(conference papers)
Professional
Development Collection -EBSCO (educators)
Project
Muse (cross-disciplinary)
PROLA
(Physical Review Online Archive)
PsycINFO (psychology)
PubMed
(health, medicine & molecular biology)
PubMed
Central (full-text)
RefWorks (bibliography manager)
Regional Business News (local newspapers)
Sage eReference (social sciences)
Sanborn Digital
Maps (Illinois maps)
SASKIA Art Images Collection (art)
Scientific American Archive Online
SciFinder (chemistry) first time users must register
SIRSResearcher (social issues)
SocIndex (sociology)
Stat-USA/Internet (business,
economic & trade data)
VuFind
(alternate I-Share catalog interface)
Web
Editions from the American Chemical Society
Web of Knowledge (includes Web of Science -- sciences and social sciences)
WebFeat
(search across databases)
Wiley InterScience — formerly Blackwell Synergy (cross-disciplinary)
WolframAlpha Computational Knowledge Engine statistics and equations
WorldAlmanac
and Book of Facts
WorldCat
(book catalog for libraries worldwide)
Worldscope (financial info)