Databases and Online Resources
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A-Z Journal List: Alphabetic list of journals represented in databases. Print holdings are not currently reflected in this list.
Academic Search Premier: General (all subjects); some full-text articles.
African American Music Reference: Full-text reference, including bios of African American composers, liner notes, iconography, collections of spirituals and slave lyrics.
America's Historical Newspapers: Full-text access to many American newspapers from 1690 to 1922.
ATLA Religion Database: Religion; index to articles, book reviews, and chapters in books (essays); some full-text articles. American Theological Library Association.
Black Thought and Culture: Full-text of 1297 African American non-fiction works spanning from colonial times to the present.
Business Source Elite: Full-text access to nearly 1000 scholarly business, management, and economics journals.
Chicago Defender (1905-1975): Search Chicago's African American newspaper online in full-text.
Chronicle of Higher Education: Higher education news, articles, and reports; includes full-text of the current Chronicle back through September 1989.
Chronicle of Philanthropy: Nonprofit news and research; includes full-text of the current Chronicle of Philanthropy back through October 1997.
CINAHL: Nursing; some full-text articles; mostly citations and abstracts.
Classical Music Reference Library: Full-text reference materials about Western classical music, including Baker's Dictionary of Music and Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians.
Classical Scores Library: Full-text of some of the most important classical scores and manuscripts; currently holds 1262 scores.
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews: Full text articles, as well as protocols focusing based on evidence-based medicine.
Communication & Mass Media Complete: Communication and mass-media articles index; some full-text.
Counseling and Therapy in Video: Vol. I: Streaming videos for students of counseling, social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling.
Credo: Searchable full-text of several reference books and encyclopedias. Good for intro-level summaries.
Criminal Justice and Public Safety in Video: Documentaries, training videos, and interviews demonstrate criminal justice and emergency response techniques.
CQ Researcher: Full-text coverage of current issues.
EBSCO eBook Collection: Full-text ebooks in a variety of subjects, including education.
Education in Video: Streaming videos on a variety of topics in education, including teaching demonstrations, lectures, documentaries, and primary-source footage of students and teachers in actual classrooms.
Education Research Complete: Full-text journal articles and book chapters on a variety of topics in education, including curriculum, standards, and special education.
Environment Complete: Ecology, pollution, urban planning, and related subjects; includes articles and book chapters. Some full-text available.
ERIC: Education; some full-text articles and ERIC documents; mostly citations and abstracts
Foundation Directory Online: a database of the 10,000 largest private and community foundations in the U.S. based on their annual giving.
Gale Virtual Reference Library: search the full-text of several encyclopedias and other reference works.
Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online: Online version of the print source. (4 of 10 vols so far)
Harper's Weekly: Search the full-text of this illustrated newspaper from 1857-1912.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Medical; some full-text articles and reference sources.
Historical Statistics of the United States: Full-text statistics drawn from a range of years in the history of the US; check out the economic, demographic, and crime data available.
Hoover's Online: Company reports and industry analyses.
Humanities E-Book: An online collection of thousands of high quality arts and humanities titles.
IOPscience: journals in the fields of physics, mathematics, engineering, chemistry and biology, with some full-text access.
IPA Source: International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts.
JSTOR: Full-text; complete back runs of scholarly journals in 15 different disciplines.
Kraus Curriculum Development Library: Full-text database of curricula, frameworks, and standards for all subjects covered in PreK-12 and Adult Basic Education.
Lexis-Nexis Academic: News, legal, business, medicine, full-text information. Includes New York Times and other major newspapers full-text
Library, Information Science, & Technology Abstracts (LISTA): Library Science and technology; indexes more than 600 periodicals and other materials.
Literary Reference Center: Background information about authors, literary works, literary movements, and historical events.
Mango Languages: language learning tutorials; includes 40 foreign languages, 15 ESL courses, and 4 ancient languages.
Medline: Medicine, some full-text articles; mostly citations and abstracts.
MLA: (Modern Language Association) Literature, languages, linguistics, folklore; no full-text, citations only.
Morningstar Investment Research Center: Research financial information such as the New York Stock Exchange prices, mutual fund ratings, and reports on exchange traded funds.
National Directory of Nonprofit Associations: Contact information for nonprofits in the United States.
Nature: The full-text of the scientific journal Nature from the current issue back to 2006, plus blogs, news feeds, and other breaking scientific news.
NAXOS Music Library: Streamed audio tracks from over 35,000 CDs of Naxos and numerous other labels.
New York Times (Historical): Full-text of the New York Times, including cartoons, photos, and ads, from the first edition published until 2008.
Nursing Education in Video: Videos cover the fundamentals of nurse training with demonstrations of technical procedures and complex patient interactions.
Nursing Reference Center: Data about anatomy and physiology, diseases and conditions, drugs and treatments.
Opera in Video: Contains five hundred hours of the most important opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries.
Ovid Nursing: Full text of articles from over 50 peer-reviewed nursing journals
Oxford English Dictionary: Historical dictionary that demonstrates how the definitions of words have changed over time.
Oxford Music Online: (formerly Grove Music Online) multiple music reference resources in full-text.
Primal Pictures Anatomy and Physiology Online: highly accurate, three-dimensional anatomy models, which focus on individual organs, regions of the body, and anatomical systems.
Professional Development Collection: A comprehensive collection of full-text education journals
Project Muse: Index to articles in humanities, arts, and social sciences; some full-text.
Proquest Business Collection: Full-text of a variety of scholarly journal articles and trade publications. Includes the Wall Street Journal in full-text.
Proquest Nursing and Allied Health Source: Full-text of over 600 journals,evidence-based medicine information from the Joanna Briggs Institute, and nursing videos with nursing content.
PsycInfo: Psychology and related subjects; some full-text articles; mostly citations and abstracts.
Regional Business News: Chicago-area publications
RILM Music Abstracts: RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
SAGE Premier: Full-text of 485 journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine.
Sage E-reference books: Full-text of several guides, dictionaries and encyclopedias
Saskia Digital Archive: Over 32,000 images documenting both Western and Eastern cultures.
Science Direct: Full-text of over 1000 journals in the health and life sciences and several hundred journals in the social sciences.
SciFinder: Search chemistry research across disciplines.You must register for a non-NPU username and password to access this database. Contact a librarian at (773) 244-5247 to learn more.
Sociological Abstracts: Sociology and behavioral sciences; citations and abstracts only.
Sports Medicine and Exercise Science in Video: Lectures and demonstrations of thousands of skills and techniques.
STAT!Ref: Full-text of several authoritative nursing reference books.
Women and Social Movements: Full-text images and text documenting women's social movements from 1963-present.
World Almanac: Full-text.
WorldCat: OCLC catalog of books, web resources, and other materials in libraries worldwide.
World History in Video: Critically acclaimed documentaries covering human history from the earliest civilizations to the late twentieth century.