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ArchiveGridArchiveGrid--Search through historical documents, personal papers, and family histories held in archives around the world. Encyclopedia Britannica Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica includes the complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and the Britannica Book of the Year.
CAMIO CAMIO — OCLC's Catalog of Art Museum Images Online is a growing online collection documenting works of art from around the world, representing the collections of prominent museums CARLI Digital Collections Carli Digital Collections
CARLI Digital Collections
The CARLI Digital Collections was established in 2006 as a repository for digital content licensed or created by the member libraries of the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI). Lewis University Library image collections are available through this link.
Chronicle of Higher Education The Chronicle of Higher Education Online is a source of news and information for college and university faculty and administration. Proquest Digital Dissertations Digital Dissertations
Proquest Digital Dissertations and Theses is the single, central, authoritative resource for full text information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses.

Choose Proquest Direct and select - ProQuest Dissertations and Theses - Full Text
EBSCO HOST Ebsco
EBSCO HOST includes databases providing a variety of scholarly, full-text/full-image materials including the following:
•Academic Search Complete
•ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials Full Text
•Business Source Complete
•CINAHL Plus with Full Text
• Communication and Mass Media Complete
• EBSCO Animals
•Education Research Complete
•ERIC
•Essay and General Literature
•Film & Television Literature Index
•Funk & Wagnell’s New World Encyclopedia
•GreenFILE
• Health Source – Consumer Edition
•Health Source – Nursing/Academic
•Edition with Lexi-PAL Drug Guide
•Humanities International Complete
•Library Literature
•MAS Ultra-School Edition
•MasterFILE Premier
•MEDLINE with Full Text
•Mental Measurements Yearbook
•Military and Government Collection
•MLA International Bibliography
•Newspaper Source
•Primary Search
•Professional Development Collection
•PsycARTICLES
•PsycINFO
•Regional Business News
•Short Story Index
•SocINDEX with Full Text
ERIC ERIC Complete index of educational materials with more than 983,000 records from 1966 to the present. ERIC is a guide to published and unpublished documents covering every aspect of education. Use this database in combination with the ERIC database listed under the EBSCO HOST databases above. Euromonitor International’s
Global Market Information Database Euromonitor International
Euromonitor International’s
Global Market Information Database (GMID) provides business intelligence on industries, countries and consumers.
FAITS Faulkner
FAITS database covers the broad spectrum of Information Technology and communications such as IT infrastructure, telecom, wireless communications, data networking, security, enterprise systems, the Internet and the World Wide Web.
SMP Faulkner
SMP Critical management issues for those charged with providing enterprise-wide security.
First Search First Search
First Search has unique databases covering various areas of research, many full-text.
Government Documents Government Documents
Government Documents
Hapi Online Hapi Online
Health And Psychosocial Instruments Online. Comprehensive database on measurement instruments containing more than 60,000 records on questionnaires, rating scales, coding schemes, tests, and interview forms.
HarpWeek HarpWeek
HarpWeek provides electronic access to Harper’s Weekly, the illustrated 19th century "Journal of Civilization" for a 56-year period: 1857-1912.
IBISWorld US Industry Reports IBISWorld
IBIS provide immediate access to vital information on every industry in the US Economy publishing the largest collection of Industry Market Research Reports in the US with over 700 reports. Each report is written at the 5-digit level of the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS).
In the First Person Alexander Street Press
In the First Person is a library index that lets users perform in-depth field and keyword searches across all letters, diaries, oral histories, memoirs, and autobiographies within scholarly materials that are freely available on the Web. With a single search, users can access thousands of personal narratives in English from archives and repositories.
IRIS Database
IRIS Database currently contains over 9,000 active federal and private funding opportunities in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. In addition to funding opportunities for faculty, the IRIS Database also contains fellowships and scholarships for grad students and undergrads. Users can search IRIS by sponsor, deadline date, keyword, and other criteria. Most IRIS records contain live links to sponsor Web sites, electronic forms, or Electronic Research Administration (eRA) portals. The IRIS Database is updated daily.
JStor JStor
JStor is a searchable archive of older journals in the humanities and social sciences.
Lexis-Nexis Academic Lexis-Nexis

Lexis-Nexis includes four parts: Academic, Congressional, History and Statistical
Academic:is divided into NEWS; BUSINESS, including company financial information, Hoover’s Reports and market research; LEGAL, including federal and state laws, and court cases.
Congressional: Provides access to full text of publications from and about the U. S. Congress. Includes 25 years of congressional information, with facts and figures on almost any topic of current interest.
Primary Sources in History: Provides access to primary and secondary materials covering colonial to the present day, includingPresedential Studies; African American Studies; Women's Studies; and guides to microfilm collections.
Statistical Base: Provides access to a variety of topics, including statistics on national income and production, retail and wholesale trade, interest rates, economic indicators, crime, energy, environmental issues, and social and demographic issues, etc.
E-journals from Liebert, Inc Mary Ann Liebert
E-journals from Liebert, Inc has 53 full-text Health Science E-journals in the area of health science and biomedical research from publisher Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., title list included.
MedlinePlus
MedlinePlus
LION Literature Online LION
LION Literature Online is library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 154 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources.
NewsBank Access World News NewsBank
Full-text content of local and regional newspapers including the Chicago Tribune and the Herald News (Joliet). Each newspaper has its own distinctive focus offering a variety of viewpoints on local and world issues. Paid advertisements are excluded.
Novelist NoveList
Novelist an electronic readers' advisory resource which assists fiction readers in finding new authors and titles of interest.
Novelist K-8 NoveList
Novelist K-8 an electronic readers' advisory resource which assists fiction readers in finding new authors and titles of interest.
Ovid Ovid
Ovid provides indexing of nursing journals in the Journals@Ovid FullText database. No articles are full text. Login and password are required. Call the Reference Desk at (815) 836-5306 with questions about access.

Your Journals@Ovid Database indexing one journal title, Nursing Research. Full text articles are indexed in the Ovid database. Login and password are not required on campus. Call the Reference Desk at (815) 836-5306 with questions about access
Oxford English Dictionary Oxford English Dictionary
Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millenium. Use OED for the meaning, history, usage, and pronunciation of over a half million words.
Naxos Music Library Naxos
Naxos Music Library is a Classical music collection of over 75,000 tracks of music.
ProQuest Direct Proquest DIrect
ProQuest Direct provides access to more than 2200 periodicals, most of them full text or full image, including the full text of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal newspapers.
  • Criminal Justice Periodicals Index
  • Historical Chicago Tribune 1849-1986
  • Historical New York Times 1851-2004
  • Historical Wall Street Journal 1889-1990
  • Proquest Digital Dissertations and Theses - Full Text
  • Proquest Nursing & Allied Health
  • Proquest Psychology Journals
  • Proquest Research LIbrary
Wilson Web Wilson Web
Wilson Web is a database containing full text coverage of nearly 1000 periodicals in business, humanities, general science, education, and the social sciences, as well as general works.