American Political Science Review

Publisher    : Cambridge University Press	Type: Journal
Updated     : Quarterly Holdings     : Full text from 2001 - 2003 Description :  Online version of journal.     Available by remote access and on the Downtown Campus

America's News Magazines

Publisher    : NewsBank/InfoWeb	Type: Full Text Database
Updated     : Daily Holdings     : Full text articles, some back to the 1990s. Description :  Full text of articles from nearly 30 popular magazines, including Time, Newsweek, and U.S. News & World Report.     Available by remote access and on the Downtown, Main, and Rice campuses.

America's Newspapers

Publisher    : NewsBank/InfoWeb	Type: Full Text Database
Updated     : Daily Holdings     : Full text articles, some back to the 1970s. Description :  Full text articles from nearly 800 popular newspapers. Includes Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, New York Times, L. A. Times, and Washington Post.     Available by remote access and on the Downtown, Main, and Rice campuses.

ArticleFirst (FirstSearch)

Publisher    : FirstSearch (OCLC Databases)	Type: Full Text Database
Updated     : Daily Holdings     : See database publication list for exact holdings; some titles from 1990 Description :  Abstracts and full text for articles from over 16,000 journals.     Available by remote access and on the Downtown, Main, and Rice campuses

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (EBSCO)

Publisher    : EBSCO

Type: Index

Updated     :  Holdings     : Citations and abstracts from 2,500 US and international journals. Some citations back to the 18th century. The Index also features nearly 13,000 citations to architects' obituaries. Description :  Published by the Getty Research Institute, the Avery Index covers current international, scholarly and popular periodical literature in architecture and design. It includes publications from professional associations, US state and regional periodicals, and major serials about the architecture and design of Europe, Asia, Latin America and Australia.     Available by remote access and on the Downtown, Main, and Rice campuses.

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Chronicle of Higher Education

Publisher    : Chronicle of Higher Education	Type: Journal
Updated     : Daily Holdings     : Full text from 1995 - present Description :  Online version of journal.     Available by remote access and on the Downtown Campus.

ClasePeriodica (FirstSearch)

Publisher    : FirstSearch (OCLC Databases)	Type: Full Text Database
Updated     : Quarterly Holdings     : Varies depending on title; some titles as far back as 1975 Description :  Abstracts and full text articles from Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities. Articles are in Spanish, Portuguese, French and English.     Available by remote access and on the Downtown, Main, and Rice campuses

Communication & Mass Media Complete (EBSCO)

Publisher    : EBSCO	Type: Full Text Database
Updated     : Daily Holdings     : See database publication list for exact holdings; some titles from 1915; some PDFs available Description :  Citations and full text articles on communications and mass media from nearly 600 journals (full text is not available for all articles).     Available by remote access and on the Downtown, Main, and Rice campuses

Congressional Serial Set

Publisher    : Readex	Type: Full Text Database
Updated     : As new material is added Holdings     : Full text images from 1817-1954 Description :  Search electronic versions of Congressional documents. Currently includes 1817 - 1954. New volumes are added regularly.     Available by remote access and on the Downtown Campus.

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Digital Sanborn Insurance Maps (Illinois)

Publisher    : ProQuest	Type: Web Resource
Updated     : Not updated Holdings     : Maps from 1867 - 1970 Description :  Maps for most towns & cities in Illinois.     Available by remote access and on the Downtown, Main, and Rice campuses

Downtown Campus Library Online Catalog

Publisher    : Illinois Institute of Technology, Downtown Campus Library	Type: Catalog
Updated     : Daily Holdings     : Downtown Campus Library's collection records Description :  The online catalog for the Downtown Campus Library.     No restriction

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Ebooks (FirstSearch)

Publisher    : FirstSearch (OCLC Databases)	Type: Index
Updated     : Daily Holdings     : Indexes nearly 300,000 items. Includes all materials cataloged to the present. Description :  All online electronic books cataloged by OCLC members, including all subjects. Includes books available in NetLibrary.     Available by remote access and on the Downtown, Main, and Rice campuses.

EBSCOhost

Publisher    : EBSCO

Type: Full Text Database

Updated     : Varies depending on individual EBSCO database Holdings     : Varies depending on individual EBSCO database; some PDFs available Description :  Full text articles, abstracts, and citations from business, academic, health, and general databases (full text is not available for all articles). See individual EBSCO databases for more information.     Available by remote access and on the Downtown, Main, and Rice campuses

ECO (Electronic Collections Online) (FirstSearch)

Publisher    : FirstSearch (OCLC Databases)	Type: Index
Updated     : Daily Holdings     : See database publication list for exact holdings; some titles from 1995; links to full text articles in other FirstSearch databases Description :  Index to over 5400 science and humanities journals.     Available by remote access and on the Downtown, Main, and Rice campuses

Emporis Research

Publisher    : Emporis	Type: Web Resource
Updated     : Continuous Holdings     : Statistics, analytic information, and photos from buildings, architectural companies, and over 50,000 worldwide cities. Description :  Architecture statistics, global building market analysis, photos of buildings, and architectural company profiles from over 50,000 cities worldwide.     Available on the Downtown, Main, and Rice campuses.

ERIC (EBSCO)

Publisher    : EBSCO	Type: Index
Updated     : As added Holdings     : Reports and articles Description :  Abstracts of articles and reports on education from over 2000 sources.     Available by remote access and on the Downtown, Main, and Rice campuses

ERIC (FirstSearch)

Publisher    : FirstSearch (OCLC Databases)	Type: Index
Updated     : Monthly Holdings     : See database publication list for exact holdings; some titles from 1985; links to full text articles as available in other FirstSearch databases Description :  Abstracts of articles and reports on education from over 2000 sources.     Available by remote access and on the Downtown, Main, and Rice campuses

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FirstSearch (OCLC Databases)

Publisher    : FirstSearch (OCLC Databases)

Type: Full Text Database

Updated     : Varies depending on FirstSearch database Holdings     : Varies depending on FirstSearch database; some PDFs available Description :  Databases with abstracts and full text articles from business and management journals, catalogs of library collections, and other resources. Users can search 3 FirstSearch databases at a time.     Available by remote access and on the Downtown, Main, and Rice campuses

Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia (EBSCO)

Publisher    : EBSCO	Type: Full Text Database
Updated     : Annually Holdings     : Encyclopedia entries Description :  Includes over 25,000 encyclopedia entries.     Available by remote access and on the Downtown, Main, and Rice campuses

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GPO Monthly (FirstSearch)

Publisher    : FirstSearch (OCLC Databases)

Type: Index

Updated     : Monthly Holdings     : See database publication list for exact holdings; some resources from 1976; links to full text sources as available. Description :  Covers all types of U.S. government documents, including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; and documents issued by executive departments.     Available by remote access and on the Downtown, Main, and Rice campuses

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Harper's Weekly (HarpWeek)

Publisher    : Harper's Weekly	Type: Journal
Updated     : As Available Holdings     : Full text images from 1857-1912 Description :  Imaged pages of Harper's Weekly from the Civil War, the Reconstruction era, the end of the 19th Century and the early 20th Century.     Available by remote access and on the Downtown, Main, and Rice campuses

Historical Statistics of the United States

Publisher    : Cambridge	Type: Full Text Database
Updated     : n/a Holdings     : Varies depending on type; some reports back to the 1700s Description :  Historical statistics of the United States available in HTML, PDF, and Excel. Topics include population, labor, economics, and government.     Available by remote access and on the Downtown Campus

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IIT Dissertations and Theses

Publisher    : ProQuest	Type: Full Text Database
Updated     : As available Holdings     : Index from 1982 - present; full text from 1997 - present Description :  Dissertations and Theses produced at IIT. Works best in Firefox. See also ProQuest Dissertations and Theses.     Available by remote access and on the Downtown, Main, and Rice campuses

Illinois Resources

Publisher    : Illinois Institute of Technology, Downtown Campus Library	Type: Web Resource
Updated     : Links are checked regularly Holdings     : Web links Description :  Web resources for researching Illinois Law     No restriction

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JSTOR

Publisher    : JSTOR

Type: Full Text Database

Updated     : As new issues become available Holdings     : Some articles as far back as the 1800s; recent issues of included journals are generally not available. Description :  Search authoritative business, law, education, public policy, social science, fine arts, and many other scholarly journals. Articles are imaged full text.     Available by remote access and on the Downtown, Main, and Rice campuses

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Lexis

Publisher    : LexisNexis	Type: Full Text Database
Updated     : Current/Daily Holdings     : Varies depending on database Description :  Legal research databases.     Password assignment required. Directions on how to register your LexisNexis Activation code. Available only to Chicago-Kent students, faculty, and staff.

LexisNexis Academic

Publisher    : LexisNexis

Type: Full Text Database

Updated     : Current/Daily Holdings     : Varies depending on resource selected Description :  LexisNexis Academic offers full text news, business information, biographic tools, medical information, and legal research. Includes over 350 newspapers such as the New York Times (back to 1980) and the Washington Post (back to 1977), over 300 magazines and journals, over 600 newsletters, radio and television transcripts, and blogs; some publications in Spanish, French, German, Italian, and Dutch. Includes company profiles from Hoover's, Standard & Poor's, and other research resources. Stuart School of Business students can use LexisNexis Academic for legal research -- search cases, statutes, law reviews, treaties, and law directories. Update legal research using Shepard's Citations for federal and state cases.     Available by remote access and on the Downtown, Main, and Rice campuses.

LISTA (Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts)

Publisher    : EBSCO

Type: Index

Updated     : Varies depending on resource. Many resources are updated daily. Holdings     : Index of over 700 periodicals, books, research reports, and proceedings. Coverage for some materials dates back to mid-1960s. Some full text available. Description :  Index of articles related to library science, including classification, cataloging, online information retrieval, information management, and many other topics.     No restriction.

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MAD CAD Building Codes Online

Publisher    :	Type: Web Resource
Updated     : as available Holdings     : 1992 - 2008 Description :  Building codes and standards from CSI (Construction Specifications Institute), ICC (International Code Council), and NFPA (National Fire Protection Association).     Available by remote access and on the Downtown, and Main campuses

Military and Government Library (EBSCO)

Publisher    : EBSCO

Type: Full Text Database

Updated     : Daily Holdings     : See database publication list for exact holdings; some titles indexed from the early 1900s; some PDFs available. Description :  Includes citations and full text articles about all branches of the military and government from over 400 sources (full text is not available for all articles) and over 200 pamphlets.     Available by remote access and on the Downtown, Main, and Rice campuses

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NewsBank/InfoWeb/Readex

Publisher    : NewsBank/InfoWeb	Type: Full Text Database
Updated     : Daily Holdings     : Varies depending on resource Description :  Full text articles from over 1000 newspapers and nearly 30 popular magazines; full text historical Congressional documents (PDF)     Available by remote access and on the Downtown, Main, and Rice campuses.

Newspaper Source (EBSCO)

Publisher    : EBSCO	Type: Full Text Database
Updated     : Daily Holdings     : See database publication list for exact holdings; some titles from 1994. Description :  Full text from 25 national newspapers, selected full text from 260 national newspapers; includes television and radio transcripts.     Available by remote access and on the Downtown, Main, and Rice campuses

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Oxford English Dictionary

Publisher    : Oxford University Press	Type: Web Resource
Updated     : Quarterly Holdings     : Full text Description :  Online version of the Oxford English Dictionary     Available by remote access and on the Downtown, Main, and Rice campuses

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PapersFirst (FirstSearch)

Publisher    : FirstSearch (OCLC Databases)	Type: Index
Updated     : Twice a month Holdings     : See database publication list for exact holdings; some citations from 1993. Description :  Citations for individual papers presented at conferences worldwide.     Available by remote access and on the Downtown, Main, and Rice campuses

Philosopher's Index (FirstSearch)

Publisher    : FirstSearch (OCLC Databases)

Type: Index

Updated     : Quarterly Holdings     : See database publication list for exact holdings; some titles from 1940. Includes citations and abstracts from over 560 journals in more then 30 languages. Description :  Features major fields of philosophy such as aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, logic, and metaphysics as well as the philosophy of related interdisciplinary fields such as education, history, law and religion. Includes citation information and abstracts for journal articles, books, contributions to anthologies, and book reviews.     Available by remote access and on the Downtown, Main, and Rice campuses.

Policy Archive

Publisher    : Center for Governmental Studies (CGS) / Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis (IUPUI)	Type: Full Text Database
Updated     : Frequently, though perhaps not always daily Holdings     : See database for exact holdings; depends on contributing members Description :  A free, multi-disciplinary database with public policy research from governmental, charitable, for-profit, and non-profit contributors     No restriction.

Proceedings (FirstSearch)

Publisher    : FirstSearch (OCLC Databases)	Type: Index
Updated     : Twice a week Holdings     : See database publication list for exact holdings; some titles from 1993 Description :  Index of worldwide conference proceedings.     Available by remote access and on the Downtown, Main, and Rice campuses

Professional Development Collection (EBSCO)

Publisher    : EBSCO	Type: Full Text Database
Updated     :  Holdings     : See database publication list for exact holdings; some full text from 1965 Description :  Full text, abstracts, and indexing for articles on education from over 700 journals (full text is not available for all articles) as well as 200 reports.     Available by remote access and on the Downtown, Main, and Rice campuses

Project Muse

Publisher    : Project Muse	Type: Full Text Database
Updated     : As new journals are issued. Holdings     : See database description complete list of holdings Description :  From the Galvin Library. Includes over 300 scholarly journals on a variety of subjects including arts and cultural studies.     Available by remote access and on the Downtown, Main, and Rice campuses

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses

Publisher    : ProQuest

Type: Full Text Database

Updated     : As new material becomes available Holdings     : Includes dissertations and theses published from 1861-present. Full text generally available from 1996 - present (some full text available from 1939-1995) Description :  Dissertations from 1980-present include 350-word abstracts; master's theses from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. More than 600,000 PDF dissertations and theses are available.     Available by remote access and on the Downtown, Main, and Rice campuses.

ProQuest National Newspapers (Wall Street Journal)

Publisher    : ProQuest	Type: Full Text Database
Updated     : Daily Holdings     : Full text from 1984 Description :  Full text access to the Wall Street Journal     Available by remote access and on the Downtown, Main, and Rice campuses

PS: Political Science and Politics

Publisher    : Cambridge University Press Journals	Type: Journal
Updated     : Quarterly Holdings     : Abstracts and full text from 2002 - 2005 (Vol. 38, No. 1) Description :  Online version of journal.     Available by remote access and on the Downtown Campus

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Review of International Studies

Publisher    : Cambridge University Press Journals	Type: Journal
Updated     : Quarterly Holdings     : Abstracts and full text from 1997 - 2004 (Vol. 30, No. 4) Description :  Online version of journal. Library no longer subscribes; back issues only.     Available by remote access and on the Downtown Campus

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Sage eReference Encyclopedias

Publisher    : Sage

Type: Web Resource

Updated     :  Holdings     : over 60 online encyclopedias Description :  If you are looking for a starting point to learn about concepts in business, economics, legal & political issues, or social science, check out our collection of over 60 SAGE eReference Encyclopedias. Topics covered include: Aging & Gerontology, Business & Management, Communication & Media Studies, Criminology & Criminal Justice, Economics, Environment, Family Studies, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Politics, Psychology,Social Issues, Social Work & Social Policy, Sociology. From the Galvin Library.     Available by remote access and on the Downtown, Main, and Rice campuses

Serial Set

Publisher    : Readex	Type: Full Text Database
Updated     : As new material is added Holdings     : Full text images from 1817-1954 Description :  Search electronic versions of Congressional documents. Currently includes 1817 - 1954. New volumes are added regularly.     Available by remote access and on the Downtown Campus.

STAT-USA

Publisher    : U.S. Government	Type: Web Resource
Updated     : Daily Holdings     : Varies depending on resource Description :  Statistics and other information published by the US Department of Commerce for US business, economic and trade communities. Two users at a time.     Password required -- please see a reference librarian to access

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Teacher Reference Center

Publisher    : EBSCO

Type: Index

Updated     :  Holdings     : Index featuring abstracts from more than 270 periodicals. Coverage for some materials dates back to mid-1980s. Some full text available. Description :  Index of articles related to library science, including classification, cataloging, online information retrieval, information management, and many other topics.     Available by remote access and on the Downtown, Main, and Rice campuses.

Tutorial Series

Publisher    : Downtown Campus Library	Type: Web Resource
Updated     : Annually Holdings     : Self-paced tutorials Description :  Tutorials for legal research and writing resources. Includes Westlaw/Lexis Self-Paced Exercises, Legislative History Tutorial, Empirical Research Tutorial, and International Law Tutorial.     No restriction

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United Nations Statistics Division

Publisher    : United Nations	Type: Web Resource
Updated     : As statistics become available Holdings     : Varies depending on resource. Description :  Search the UN statistical databases, featuring demographic data, economic statistics, environmental data, and the Joint Oil Data Initiative (JODI). Search multiple US statistics databases at once though UNdata     No restriction.

USA.gov

Publisher    : US Government	Type: Web Resource
Updated     : Daily Holdings     : Varies depending on resource Description :  The official US government portal with links to agencies, laws and regulations, contact information, and other resources.     No restriction

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World Almanac (FirstSearch)

Publisher    : FirstSearch (OCLC Databases)	Type: Web Resource
Updated     : Annual Holdings     : From 1998 - present Description :  Over 32,000 entries from World Almanac, Funk & Wagnall's Encyclopedia, World Almanac & Book of Facts, World Almanac of the USA, World Almanac of US Politics, World Almanac for Kids.     Available by remote access and on the Downtown, Main, and Rice campuses

WorldCat (FirstSearch)

Publisher    : FirstSearch (OCLC Databases)	Type: Catalog
Updated     : Daily Holdings     : Catalog records for OCLC member libraries Description :  OCLC's catalog of books, web resources, and other material.     Available by remote access and on the Downtown, Main, and Rice campuses

WorldCatDissertations (FirstSearch)

Publisher    : FirstSearch (OCLC Databases)	Type: Index
Updated     : Daily Holdings     : Indexes over 5 million items Description :  All dissertations, theses and published material based on theses cataloged by OCLC members, including all subjects.     Available by remote access and on the Downtown, Main, and Rice campuses.

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