General research database which includes scholarly journals and popular magazines. 9,000+ full-text publications covering most academic subjects. PDF content going back as far as 1887 and searchable cited references for more than 1,400 journals

AccessEmergency Medicine provides leading emergency medicine textbooks, procedural videos, interactive self-assessments with more than 3,000 review Q&A designed to help prepare for exams, an integrated drug database, patient education handouts, and more.

AccessMedicine is a comprehensive online medical resource containing 140 leading medical textbooks, an integrated drug database, a differential diagnosis tool, case studies and study tools.

The Case Files Collection provides materials for targeted case-based learning. The cases vary slightly, but generally for each case you get a patient history and systems review, short answer questions, clinical pearls, and references.

JAMA Evidence is an online resource for the teaching, learning, and application of evidence-based medicine.

AccessPediatrics provides support in education and clinical practice through leading pediatric textbooks, quick reference outlines of conditions and disorders, Pediatric Board Review, an integrated drug database and more.

This comprehensive online physiotherapy resource integrates leading physical therapy textbooks, procedure and exercise videos, image galleries, self-assessment tools, and a unique cadaver dissection tool –optimized for viewing on any device.

Full-text of McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science

AccessSurgery features leading surgical textbooks, instructional videos, 16,000+ high quality full-color images, interactive Board Review, integrated drug database and more.

Students in advanced practice nursing programs—and the faculty who teach them—need materials focused on the specific skills required to meet clinical requirements and pass certification exams with confidence. Advanced practice nurses always need access to techniques and concepts on the ward, at the bedside or in any clinical setting. This unique digital library is perfect for both, providing interactive access and simple search capabilities to essential texts, as well as rich multimedia resources including audio, videos, real-life case studies, an integrated journal feed, and self-assessment quizzing.

Over 500 titles from 1691 through 1820. Representing over two centuries of print culture from early colonial imports to titles published on American soil during the Revolution and early republic.

Over 1000 historic titles dating from 1821 through 1837.

Over 1,800 historic titles dating from 1838 through 1852.

Over 1,100 historic titles dating from 1853 through 1865.

Over 2,500 historic titles dating from 1866 through 1877.

Chemistry journals from the American Chemical Society in full-text

Documentaries, newsreels and archival footage on topics from American history. Includes documentaries from PBS, the History Channel, A&E and Biography. Collection includes more than 5,000 titles.

This collection of 83 books from the largest professional nursing organization in the United States is a must-have for any nursing organization.
The collection includes the ANA’s Nursing Standards series as well as critical titles for nursing ethics, quality, leadership, and specialty areas. The latest editions have been added to give nurses the most up-to-date information.

Summary and synthesis of research in biology, chemistry, psychology, sociology

Vision

The AORN Journal will be an indispensable resource recognized for scholarly, evidence-based, peer-reviewed articles that convey standards of excellence and innovations in the delivery of perioperative nursing.

Aims and Scope:

The AORN Journal provides professional perioperative registered nurses with evidence-based practice information needed to help meet the physiological, behavioral, safety, and health system needs of a diverse patient population.

Journal content supports the clinical, research/quality improvement, education, and management strategies related to the nurse's role in caring for patients before, during, or after operative and other invasive and interventional procedures in ambulatory and inpatient settings.

Full-text articles from American Psychological Association journals

Scholarly, peer-reviewed articles in psychology, behavioral science, mental health, and other related fields

Citations and abstracts covering most academic subjects; limited full-text

Full-text reports on 55 Asian countries, covering business, government, economics, social issues, and the environment

Articles, reviews, and essays in all fields of religion and theology

Covers biology, biomedical, and life sciences with citations, abstracts and links to full-text.

2,900+ full-text publications covering business and economics, plus company profiles

Collections of tens of thousands of digitized images, historical documents and more from Illinois academic libraries

Full-text of current issues of the newspaper, 1996-present

Full-text archive of the newspaper, 1849-1998

Higher education news, features and commentary in full-text

Full text and indexed research database provides full text for nursing and allied health journals. Also includes Quick Lessons, Evidence-Based Care Sheets, & Continuing Education Modules.

This database brings together a diverse offering of publications covering civil rights in the United States. Containing links to more than 500 scholarly articles, legislative histories on the landmark legislation, briefs from major Supreme Court cases, and publications from the Commission on Civil Rights.

Information from articles, essays, book reviews, monographs, conference proceedings, technical reports, interviews and brief notes published in journals edited in 24 different countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as from publications that focus on Pan-American issues.

CLCD QuickFind K-12 is a custom topic-focused database, the most comprehensive listing of children's and YA literature titles in the industry.

CENTRAL is a concentrated source of reports of randomized and quasi-randomized controlled trials. In addition to bibliographic details CENTRAL records will often include a summary of the article. They do not contain the full text of the article.

CCAs provides a readable, digestible, clinically focused entry point to rigorous research from Cochrane Reviews. Each CCA contains a clinical question, a short answer, and data for the outcomes.

The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR) is the leading journal and database for systematic reviews in health care.

CMR is a bibliography of publications reporting on methods used in the conduct of controlled trials. It includes journal articles, books, and conference proceedings, and the content is sourced from MEDLINE and hand searches. The summary of the article may be present, but CMR does not contain the full text of the article.

Contains scholarly, peer-reviewed journals related to communication, mass media, and other related fields. Full-text access for more than 450 journals, along with additional extensive indexing.

An independent, scholarly publication launched in 1921, features debates on pending legislation before Congress and issues before the Supreme Court. Congressional Digest is not controlled by any party, interest, class or sect and presents side-by-side arguments on pending legislation.

A comprehensive database for consumer-oriented health content, designed to help users gain an overall understanding of key topics across the health and wellness spectrum.

An online collection of video available for the study of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling. The videos in this collection include counseling sessions and demonstrations, consultations, lectures, and interviews.

Oesterle Library and consortially owned e-book collection. Search the collection of approximately 4,000 academic ebook titles.

Thousands of electronic books on most academic subjects, along with classic literature and more.

Full-text of 520 academic and professional journals covering education

Education citations, abstracts, and full-text

This collection has been dispersed between other video collections available through Alexander Street Press. To find specific ethnographic videos, use the search box on this page. Documentaries and field recordings depicting the work of ethnographers studying human cultures and behaviors worldwide. More than 1,000 videos available.

The F.A. Davis AT collection includes over 30 athletic training textbooks and reference sources, brief multimedia tutorials, case studies, and review questions.

Provides PT reference ebooks, including Dutton’s Orthopaedic Examination, Evaluation, and Intervention and O’Sullivan, Physical Rehabilitation. In addition, there are case studies and videos for student learning.

Encyclopedias, dictionaries and other reference works covering many academic subjects

Citations for government documents, with links to government documents online

An interdisciplinary research database focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment, with popular and scholarly information on topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources and beyond.

Gun regulation in the United States is among the most controversial and heavily debated topics in American history. This collection includes federal legislative histories, Congressional hearings. Supreme Court briefs and more on this important topic.

Harper's Weekly magazine, 1857-1912, covering general topics during the Civil War, Progressive Era and Gilded Age

Consumer health, including full-text of magazines, reference books and pamphlets

Medicine and health for an academic audience, including 550+ scholarly journals in full-text

Historical statistics on population, labor, economics, and government

Search 89 college and research libraries across the state of Illinois for books not available at Oesterle Library.

IBISWorld provides an online database of research, analysis, and risk information on over 1480 US Industries and is searchable by NAICS code. IBISWorld gives a broad overview of the targeted industry, its product and market segmentation, cost structure benchmarks, competitive dynamics, supply chain map, the regulatory environment, macroeconomic drivers, and much more.

IEEE Xplore digital library is published by the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and its publishing partners. IEEE Xplore provides web access to more than 200 journals and five million full-text documents from some of the world's most highly-cited publications in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics.

Full-text of scholarly journals covering most academic subjects. We currently have expanded access through June 2022 to JSTOR Primary Source Collections (19th Century British Pamphlets, World Heritage Sites: Africa, Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa, Global Plants), Thematic Collections (Lives in Literature, Security Studies and Sustainability), as well as Archive Journal Collections (Business, Ecology & Botany, Hebrew Journals, Ireland, Jewish Studies)

A collaborative project between JSTOR Labs and the Folger Shakespeare Library. It’s a research tool that allows students, educators, and scholars to use the text of Shakespeare’s plays to quickly navigate into the scholarship written about them. Users simply click next to any line of text in a play and relevant articles from the JSTOR archive immediately load.

Developed based on librarian and educator feedback, the Kanopy BASE package includes a wide array of titles covering multiple courses of study, hand selected by Kanopy staff librarians. Films and documentaries in the Kanopy BASE collection range from core curricular subjects like Race and Class Studies, Sociology and Education, to subjects that cater to the whole student like Mental Health, Psychology and Health and Fitness.

Full-text access to the London Times covering major international historical events from the French Revolution to the Falkland War.

Database for educators including the full-text of 500+ popular magazines and reference works suitable for a high school audience

Contains full text for general reference magazines and publications covering a wide range of subject areas including business, health, education, general science, and multicultural issues.

Online publication offering access to a carefully maintained and easily searchable database of reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for much of the mathematical sciences literature.

The Medical Letter, Inc. is a nonprofit organization that publishes critical appraisals of new prescription drugs and comparative reviews of drugs for common diseases in its twice monthly newsletter.

MEDLINE provides access to indexes of all areas of medicine, including dentistry, nursing, and health services. Some content is full text, some is abstract only.

Merck Manuals are some of the most comprehensive and widely used medical resources for professionals and consumers. The Consumer Version is a free online resource containing credible information but should not be used instead of advice from a medical professional.

Database of full-text journals and periodicals pertaining to all branches of the military and government. It is designed to offer current news to military members, analysts, policy makers, students and researchers.

Comprehensive tool for research in all aspects of modern languages and literature. Includes MLA Directory of Periodicals and MLA Bibliography Thesaurus.

Full-text archive of the newspaper, 1851-2018, including PDF page images of all issues.

Full-text of nearly 300 national and regional newspapers, plus television and radio news transcripts.

Formerly Lexis Nexis. Global news in full-text, company information, business and industry news, legal sources, and more.

Full-text archive of the college's newspaper, 1873-present, including PDF page images of all issues.

Full-text articles on core subjects including art, education, humanities, law, social sciences and technology. It also includes graphical content, podcasts, foreign language article translations and article read-alouds.

Performances, interviews and documentaries for popular operatic compositions. Many performances include liner notes and searchable subtitles.

Provides context and pro/con arguments related to a variety of topics and social issues. Includes resources like news articles, magazine articles, and opinion articles.

OTseeker is a database that contains abstracts of systematic reviews, randomised controlled trials and other resources relevant to occupational therapy interventions. Most trials have been critically appraised for their validity and interpretability. In one database, OTseeker provides fast and easy access to information from a wide range of sources to inform occupational therapy.

A nursing and allied health database offering scholarly, peer-reviewed literature supporting research and evidence-based practice.

Database containing academic journals and eBooks, mainly from Oxford University Press, with a few dozen other university presses contributing scholarly content.

The definitive record of the English language.

Citations for papers presented at academic conferences worldwide.

PEDro is a free database of over 63,000 trials, reviews and guidelines evaluating physiotherapy interventions.

Database of carefully curated content for elementary school libraries. It includes full text for the most popular children's magazines, e-books, and easy-to-read encyclopedic entries written specifically for kids.

Proceedings of academic conferences, including lists of papers presented at academic conferences.

PQDT Open provides the full text of dissertations and theses, free of charge, from authors who have opted to publish under open access.

Full-text of major national newspapers including the New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, and the Wall Street Journal.

U.S. government medicine database, including citations and links to some full-text.

PubMed Central® (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine.

ON CAMPUS USE ONLY

Full-text and citations for regional and metropolitan business publications.

More than fifty reference encyclopedias covering a wide range of academic subjects.

Sage journals provide discipline coverage spanning the humanities, social sciences, and science, technology, and medicine.

Highly detailed historical maps of cities and towns in the United States. The maps were created by the Sanborn Map Company for the time period of 1867 – 1980.

The collection contains 30,000 digital images of paintings, sculpture and architecture, including images from many important collections: the Prado, the Kunsthistorisches Museum, the Uffizi, and the Louvre as well as archaeological sites in Greece, Italy, Turkey and Egypt. The images can be displayed and downloaded in high-resolution format.

Full-text and citations in biological and medical sciences, business and economics.

SciFinder is a chemistry databse from Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS). First time users need to register here.

Essential legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world, including every statute passed by every colony and state on slavery, every federal statute dealing with slavery, and all reported state and federal cases on slavery. Cases go into the 20th century because long after slavery was ended, there were still court cases based on issues emanating from slavery.

SocINDEX is the authoritative bibliographic database for sociology research. It offers indexed records from top sociology journals covering many related studies.

Full text access to leading database for sports and sports medicine research.

Sports Medicine and Exercise Science in Video is an extensive video collection in the areas of fitness and health assessment, disease management, injury treatment, nutrition, medical fitness, sport science, work-site wellness, exercise adherence, and much more.

Millions of scientific documents from journals, books, series, protocols, reference works and proceedings.

Recordings of theatre performances from the 1930s to the 20th century. Includes the BBC Shakespeare series.

Full-text of major national newspapers including the New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, and the Wall Street Journal, from 1980 to the present.

University Press ebooks available from eighteen university publishers on the University Press Scholarship Online platform. The collection will grow quarterly with newly published titles added.

UpToDate is a point-of-care medical resource. The UpToDate system is an evidence-based clinical resource. It includes a collection of medical and patient information, access to Lexi-comp drug monographs and drug-to-drug interactions, and a number of medical calculators. UpToDate is written by over 7,100 physician authors, editors, and peer reviewers.

Current and reliable investment research on companies, industries, markets and economies.

Visible Body provides 3D models, illustrations, and animations for anatomy & physiology, physiology & pathology and more. Students must Sign Up and Register with Visible Body.

FIRST TIME USER? YOU MUST CREATE AN ACCOUNT BY CLICKING "SIGN UP". YOUR ACCOUNT IS NOT AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED.

YOU MUST USE YOUR @NOCTRL.EDU EMAIL ADDRESS

Once registered click on "My Apps" to view the Visible Body 3D virtual human anatomy models and other content.

Full-text of the newspaper's business, financial and general news coverage, from 1984 to the present.

Science and medicine journals and eBooks in full-text.

Worldwide catalog of library holdings