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Information Resources
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If you would like to try out some database products the library is considering a subscription to, please see our Trials page.
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Catalogs
(Find books and AV materials from Lake Land and other libraries)
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LINC Library Catalog
Find books and AV materials at Lake Land and 90 other libraries
in East-Central Illinois.
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I-Share
Online catalog of 71 academic libraries in Illinois, including the U of I and Eastern Illinois.
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WorldCat (FirstSearch)
Search the collections of thousands of libraries throughout the U.S. and the world.
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WorldCat Local (TRIAL)
Search Lake Land, the Lincoln Trail system, other Illinois libraries, and libraries worldwide all in one place. This is a new catalog that we're trying out, so if you have any input about it, please let us know.
For directions on how to order items from WorldCat Local, click here.
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Gale PowerSearch
A large suite of Gale databases, most notably Academic OneFile and Expanded Academic ASAP. Full-text articles in humanities, social sciences, science and technology, physical sciences, medicine, the arts, theology, and literature. Updated daily.
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ProQuest
Updated daily, ProQuest provides the full text for newspaper articles from around the country. The ProQuest Research Library also offers academic journals and popular magazines on a variety of general subjects. Nursing, Allied Health, and Career and Technical Education research is also included.
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EBSCOhost
Contains several databases ranging from general interest to medicine, business, education, newspapers, and psychology.
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FirstSearch
Contains 10 different databases (not all are full-text) on subjects such as business, education, government, medicine, and general research. |
JSTOR
JSTOR is an archive of scholarly journals that includes high-resolution, scanned images of past journal issues and pages
as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. |
ScienceDirect
Contains over 25% of the world's science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic information, including a rich journal collection of over 2,500 titles.
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The Chronicle of Higher Education
Online subscription to the publication of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators. |
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American Mosiac
A family of reference databases that focuses on the history, biography, literature, arts, music, pop culture, politics, and more of different groups of Americans.
The African American Experience
The Latino American Experience
American Indian Experience
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Auto Repair Reference Center
Repair information on 25,000 vehicles from 1945 to present. Factory drawings, technical service bulletins, wiring diagrams, specs & maintenance schedules, and quick tips.
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Biography Resource Center
Contains 1.4 million biographies from many different biographical reference sources. Also, find quick reference information on an additional 900,000 people .
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Books In Print
Information on 3.4 million books that are currently in print and over 165,000 publishers, distributors, wholesalers, and book agents.
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CQ Electronic Library
Congressional Quarterly's definitive reference resource for research in American government, politics, history, public policy, and current affairs. |
Credo Reference
Offering access to over 1.7 million individual entries from 240 reference books: dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri, books of quotations, and a
host of subject-specific titles covering everything from the arts to accountancy and law to literature.
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Daily Life Online
A cross-disciplinary resource for history, social studies, and
literature, this database provides context for contemporary life
and cultures throughout history and around the world. Includes primary documents, images, maps, vetted weblinks, and thousands of folk and fairy tales.
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Encyclopedia Britannica Online
Access more than 118,000 thousand encyclopedia articles and 14,000 photos, drawings, maps and flags. In addition, search 215,000 entries from
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus.
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Facts on File
Includes access to three different databases: World News Digest brings together and enhances nearly seven decades of news (from 1940 to present) from the renowned
Facts On File World News Digest in print. Issues and Controversies explores more than 800 hot topics in business, politics, government, education,
and popular culture. And Today's Science bridges the gap between the science that students learn in the classroom and the
discoveries pushing the boundaries of science today. |

Ferguson's Career Guidance Center
Profiles of more than 2,050 of today's most popular jobs in more than 94 industries. Includes industry overviews, career descriptions, training programs, and news on career opportunities.
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Gale Virtual Reference Library
Online editions of Gale reference books, including history sources such as the ten-volume set of American Decades and American Decades Primary Sources, the 8-volume Science and Its Times, and encyclopedias for nursing, race & racism, and sex & gender.
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Global Issues in Context
Learn about different countries through international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals bring together a variety of specially selected, highly relevant sources for analysis of social, political, military, economic, environmental, health, and cultural issues.
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| Grove Art and Grove Music: See Oxford Art Online and Oxford Music Online. |

Historical Statistics of the U.S.
A five-volume reference work that provides statistics on U.S. history dealing with population, work and welfare, economics, government and international relations.
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History Study Center
Primary and secondary sources-- Journal articles, rare books, newspaper articles, video clips, parliamentary
papers, criminal trial records, radio and television news, maps, images, student guides and reference resources. |

Issues & Controversies
Up-to-date, in-depth and objective information on the most hotly debated issues of the day.
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LexisNexis Academic
News, business, legal and general reference sources.
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LitFinder
Full text of 126,000 poems, 5,000 short stories, 2,800 essays, 1,800 speeches, and 1,000 plays from all time periods and is international in scope. Also includes biographies, work summaries, photographs, and a glossary.
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Literature Resource Center
Biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Covers 120,000 novelists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most studied authors .
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Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
Opinions, views, arguments, and statistics on a wide-range of current controversial social issues.
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Oxford English Dictionary
An historical dictionary of English, covering the language from the earliest times to the present day.
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Oxford Reference Online
A compilation of 100 printed reference works published by the Oxford University Press.
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Oxford Art Online
The entire text of The Dictionary of Art (1996, 34 vols.) with annual additions of new material and updates. Also includes content from the Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.
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Oxford Music Online
Full text of several music reference sources, including the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, the New Grove Dictionary of Opera, the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, Oxford Dictionary of Music, and the Oxford Companion to Music.
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Pop Culture Universe
A "digital library of information on American and world popular culture, past and present-- in a package as dynamic as the topic it covers... If it's Peachy, Swell, Nifty, Slick, Smooth, Cool, Neat-O, Groovy, Far Out, Rad, Bitchin’, Mint, Dope, Fly, Phat, Hot, or Awesome… you’ve come to the right place."
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Sage eReference
A collection of 70+ reference books available online through Sage.
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Testing and Education Reference Center
Research careers and college programs and prepare for dozens of standardized tests, such as college entrance & credit (SAT, ACT, TOEFL, GRE), nursing & civil service exams (NCLEX, firefighters, EMT, law enforcement, ASVAB) and much more.
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