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Interlibrary Loan
Search for physical books, DVDs, electronic articles, and more from libraries all over the country and request them to be sent to Blackburn for you to borrow. Search for your desired item and then submit a request form. Use this resource to order full-text versions of any “abstract only” articles found in other databases or online.
WorldCat Interlibrary Loan
Subscription Databases
Multidisciplinary Databases
Academic Search Complete offers an enormous collection of full-text journals, including peer-reviewed work in STEM research, the social sciences, and the humanities. Scholarly content covers a broad range of important areas of academic study, including anthropology, engineering, law, sciences and more. Content includes nearly 6,600 active full-text journals and magazines, nearly 6,000 active full-text peer-reviewed journals, more than 4,000 active full-text peer-reviewed journals with no embargo and nearly 4,000 active full-text journals indexed in Web of Science or Scopus.
Academic Search Complete
Multidisciplinary digital library containing academic articles, special collections, books, images, and primary resources.
JSTOR
Full text for more than 2,000 general reference publications dating as far back as 1922. Covers virtually every subject area of general interest, including: 1,000 reference books, over 164,400 primary source documents, over 502,000 photos, maps, & flags. Updated daily.
MasterFILE Complete
Contains resources that present multiple sides of an issue. Included content can help students assess and develop persuasive arguments and essays, better understand controversial issues, and develop analytical thinking skills.
Points of View Reference Source
Multidisciplinary source of academic journals. You can limit results to items we have access to using the provided search filters.
SAGE Journals
Including over forty academic journal titles, this collection from the University of Illinois Press is a strong source of humanities and social sciences content. The collection covers a wide range of disciplines including psychology, philosophy, Black studies, women’s studies, cultural studies, music, immigration, and more. Click “Browse Journals” to see what’s available.
University of Illinois Press
Discipline Specific
This database focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic, alternative and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It contains full text articles for more than 180 international, and often peer-reviewed, journals and reports dating back to 1990. Also included are abstracts, pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts.
Alt HealthWatch
Powered by the automotive experts at MOTOR, Auto Repair Source provides library users with the most accurate, authoritative, and up-to-date “do-it-yourself” service and repair information for thousands of domestic and imported cars, SUVs, vans, and light trucks.
Auto Repair Source:
Includes approximately 100,000 pages of non-fiction writings by major African American leaders (teachers, artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, war veterans, entertainers, and other figures) covering 250 years of history. Contains letters, speeches, prefatory essays, political leaflets, interviews, periodicals, and trial transcripts of over 1,000 authors.
Black Thought & Culture (Alexander Street Press)
This database provides full-text coverage of top business, management and economics journals and periodicals. Topics cover accounting, banking, finance, international business, marketing, sales and more. Content includes nearly 600 active full-text journals and magazines, more than 350 active full-text peer-reviewed journals, more than 180 active full-text peer-reviewed journals with no embargo, and more than 300 active full-text journals indexed in Web of Science or Scopus.
Business Source Elite
Business Source Premier is the industry’s most used business research database, providing full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles. It covers all disciplines of business including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics.
Business Source Premier
This collection is a repository for digital content created or purchased by participating Illinois libraries. It contains over 3 TB of data including images, print and manuscript materials, sound recordings, and maps. It allows patrons to seamlessly browse the digital collections of many different institutions at once.
Carli Digital Collections (Illinois History)
More than 342,000 records containing book reviews, journal abstracts, and a bibliography of thousands of technical reports, books, book chapters, theses and dissertations. Included are biomedical and social sciences sources that cover current and historical literature related to growth and development of children through the age of 21.
Child Development & Adolescent Studies
This collection offers full text and cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for journals covering communication, mass media, linguistics, rhetoric, language, logic, and other closely related fields.
Communication & Mass Media Complete
Supports the study of cultures, traditions, social treatment, and the lived experiences of various American sub-populations. Includes scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, historical documents, biographies, primary sources, and a robust collection of videos and e-books.
Ethnic Diversity Source
The Education Resources Information Center is an authoritative database of indexed and full-text education literature and resources sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (of the U.S. Department of Education). ERIC contains records and links to hundreds of thousands of full-text documents including journal articles, books, conference papers, curriculum guides, dissertations and policy papers. Limit search results by education level (such as Early Childhood Education) or by intended audience (such as Counselors or Teachers).
ERIC (Education)
Comprehensive coverage of research, policy, and practice literature in the fields of Family Science, Human Ecology, Human Development, and Social Welfare. Coverage spans from 1970 to the present.
Family & Society Studies Worldwide
Bibliographic records covering essential areas related to family studies, including marriage, divorce, family therapy, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. The index contains more than 53,500 records, which are carefully selected from the most important sources within the discipline.
Family Studies Abstracts
This database provides full-text articles from a wide range of publications (from specialized to general interest periodicals) covering science-related questions, topics and subjects.
General Science Full text
HarpWeek provides electronic access to Harper’s Weekly, the illustrated 19th century “Journal of Civilization” for a 56-year period: 1857-1912.
HarpWeek, 1857-1912 (Historical)
This full-text database covers a wide variety of subjects, including specific diseases and general health topics. Subjects include fitness, nutrition, diabetes, aging, women’s health, children’s health and more. Additionally, it includes Clinical Reference Systems reports (in both English and Spanish) and Merriam Webster’s Medical Desk Dictionary.
Health Source: Consumer Edition
Nursing and allied health topics include: pediatric nursing, critical care, mental health, nursing management, medical law and more. This database offers full-text scholarly journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Many of the journals are peer-reviewed.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Hobbies & Crafts Source is a DIY database of leading full-text hobby and craft magazines, hobby profiles, recipes, and videos to inspire creativity and nurture extra-curricular interests.
Hobbies and Crafts Source
Home Improvement Source is a DIY database of full-text content from leading home improvement magazines and reference books, plus a collection of images not found anywhere else online.
Home Improvement Source
Key content covering literary, scholarly and creative thought. It also includes hundreds of scholarly full-text journals cited in leading subject indexes to round out student research.
Humanities Source Ultimate
Organized into targeted learning centers, this resource offers interactive tutorials, practice tests, articles, e-books, and high-stakes test preparation modeled after official tests. LearningExpress Library is designed to help students and professionals at all levels of learning achieve their educational and career-related goals.
LearningExpress Library
Citations, abstracts, and indexing covering the diverse literature of the left dating back to 1900. Sources include political, economic, social, and culturally engaged scholarship inside and outside academia.
Left Index
Full-text coverage of the world’s most respected scholarly law journals, including: current issues, studies, and trends in law. Topics include criminal justice, international law, federal law, organized crime, medical law, labor & human resource law, ethics, the environment, and case citations.
Legal Information Source
Contains full text of historically significant LGBTQ+ journals, magazines and regional newspapers, plus full text for 150 monographs/books. The database includes comprehensive indexing and abstract coverage as well as a specialized LGBTQ+ Thesaurus containing over 10,000 terms.
LGBTQ+ Source
Subject coverage encompasses librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.
Library & Information Science Source
Literary Reference Source is a rich full-text literary database covering all genres and time periods. It includes thousands of synopses, critical essays, book reviews, literary journals, author biographies, full-text classic novels, short stories, and poems.
Literary Reference Source
Select Range of Science, Technology, Medicine, Engineering, and Biotechnology journals. You can limit results to items we have access to using the provided search filters.
Mary Ann Liebert Journals (STEM)
Full text for more than 540 popular high school magazines, over 440 reference books, 85,670 biographies, 105,786 primary source documents, over 502,000 photos, maps & flags, and color PDFs for select magazines.
MAS Complete (Education – High School)
Includes over 2,440 active full-text journals, including numerous top biomedical publications from around the globe. Covers biomedicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences and much more. This database uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) and offers ahead-of-print content to ensure currency of information.
MEDLINE Ultimate
Full text for more than 140 popular middle school magazines, including assigned reading levels (Lexiles). Also included are 84,774 biographies, 105,786 primary source documents, and a School Image Collection of photos, maps, and flags
Middle Search Plus (Education – Middle School)
Offers full text access to materials covering all branches of the military and government via periodicals, academic journals and related content.
Military and Government Collection
Access practice test questions, flashcards, and study guides for various Illinois Licensure Testing System (ILTS) exams. Multiple specializations are covered. You can also access job searching tips and tutorial videos based on different Education subjects.
Mometrix – Teacher Exam Prep
The New Play Exchange ® (NPX) is the world’s largest digital library of scripts by living writers.
New Play Exchange (Theater)
Newspaper Source Plus includes more than 860 full-text newspapers, providing more than 35 million full-text articles. In addition, the database features more than 857,000 television and radio news transcripts.
Newspaper Source Plus
Formally LexisNexis Academic. Uni features more than 15,000 news, business, and legal sources. It includes U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790.
Nexis Uni (Business, Legal, News)
Database of book recommendations. NoveList uses unique story elements like appeal, genre, and theme to make it easy to find the kinds of books you are interested in, using easy-to-understand language.
NoveList
Database of book recommendations for younger readers. NoveList uses unique story elements like appeal, genre, and theme to make it easy to find the kinds of books you are interested in, using easy-to-understand language. Recommendations are crafted by experts in children’s literature and cover recommended reading levels.
Novelist K-8
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Access includes everything The New York Times offers: ● News: Understand the world with original reporting from 1,700 journalists ● Games: Spelling Bee, Wordle, The Crossword and more. ● Cooking: Recipes, advice and inspiration for any occasion. ● Wirecutter: Independent reviews for thousands of products ● The Athletic: In-depth, personalized sports journalism.
Includes full-text of popular children’s magazines, encyclopedic entries for kids, and images. Topics include endangered species, famous musicians, fitness, space exploration, and more. All full-text articles are assigned reading level indicators (Lexiles).
Primary Search (Educators)
Professional Development Collection is a highly specialized database of full-text electronic information especially for educators, professional librarians, and education researchers.
Professional Development Collection (Educators)
Comprehensive database covering emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods. This is the world’s largest full text psychology database offering full text coverage for nearly 400 journals.
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection
Extensive coverage of such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. Includes over 300 full text journals.
Religion & Philosophy Collection
Includes full-text regional business publications for the United States and Canada. Key resources include newspapers, radio and television news transcripts, trade publications, magazines, and newswires.
Regional Business News
Science Reference Source provides full text for hundreds of science magazines, journals, reference books, and high-quality videos. The database also contains science experiments, curriculum-aligned lesson plans, and a vast image collection.
Science Reference Source
Small Business Source offers exclusive full text for many top consumer small business reference books, as well as tools to understand and address a wide variety of small business topics. The database includes business videos, case studies, help and advice, a start-up kit, and tips for writing business plans.
Small Business Source
This reference database provides detailed and user-friendly repair guides for all manner of small engines, from motorcycles and ATVs to generators and outdoor power equipment.
Small Engine Repair Source
This source covers the latest concepts, theories, and methods (both applied and theoretical) of the social sciences. This full-text database includes the most important English-language social science journals. Topics include addiction studies, ethics, public welfare, urban studies, and more.
Social Sciences Full Text
The Time Magazine Archive consists of cover-to-cover processing dating back to issue number one in 1923 of the American popular magazine Time, published by Time Inc.
Time Magazine Archive
Citations and abstracts covering family violence, sexual assault, emotional abuse, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. This index contains more than 21,500 records.
Violence & Abuse Abstracts
This source is organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000. The collection currently includes 124 document projects and archives with more than 5,100 documents and 175,000 pages of additional full-text documents, written by 2,800 primary authors. It also includes book, film, and website reviews, notes from the archives, and teaching tools.
Women and Social Movements, Scholar’s Edition (Alexander Street Press)
Covers the latest scholarship in feminist research, including over 871,000 records spanning from 1972 to the present. This database supports curriculum development in the areas of sociology, history, political science & economy, public policy, international relations, arts & humanities, business and education.
Women’s Studies International
Academic eBook Collections
This ebook reference collection offers a rich selection of biographical eBook titles.
Biography Reference Source (EBSCO)
Encompasses a variety of business topics, such as marketing, finance, supply chain management and entrepreneurship, with additional focus on career growth, personal development, communication and networking.
Business Collection (EBSCO)
Abstracts and searchable full text for more than 4,100 popular nonfiction books. The database includes full text entries on core subject areas, as well as information on careers, health, sports, adventure, technology, life skills and more.
Book Collection: Nonfiction (EBSCO)
This ebook reference collection offers a rich selection of eBook titles covering a broad range of general health topics, including disease such as cancer and diabetes; weight management and exercise; allergies; senior care; social emotional health; developmental disorders; and natural health.
Consumer Health Reference eBook Collection (EBSCO)
This collection offers full text titles with unlimited access designed specifically to support a quality learning experience for K-8 students. The collection comprises Cricket Media’s award-winning, short-form fiction and nonfiction ebooks geared towards the young adult.
Cricket Media Collection (EBSCO)
Academic eBooks related to diversity, anti-racism, ethnic studies, disability studies, gerontology & age studies, migration studies, gender and sexuality studies, cultural studies, and religious studies.
Diversity & Ethnic Studies (EBSCO)
Includes eBooks accessible to Lumpkin through our EBSCO subscription.
EbscoHost eBook Collection
This collection offers full text titles with unlimited access designed specifically to support a quality learning experience for High School students across all academic subjects from History, to Language and Literature, to Science & Technology.
High School Collection (EBSCO)
This ebook reference collection offers a rich selection of historical eBook titles covering global topics from the ancient world through today.
History Reference Source (EBSCO)
This collection offers full text titles with unlimited access designed specifically to support a quality learning experience for K-8 students across all academic subjects from History, to Language and Literature, to Science & Technology.
K-8 Collection (EBSCO)
This ebook reference collection offers a rich selection of eBook titles covering a broad range of general reference subjects. Topics include biography, history, careers, cooking, literature, genealogy, health, parenting, personal finance, politics, architecture, science, current events, social-emotional health, sports, and travel.
MasterFILE Premier Reference eBook Subscription (EBSCO)
This ebook reference collection offers a rich selection of eBook titles covering a broad range of general reference subjects for middle school students. Topics include social studies, math, history, language arts, technology, geography, culture, and science.
Middle Search Reference Collection (EBSCO)
General reference academic eBooks.
Oxford University Press eBooks
General reference academic eBooks.
ProQuest eBook Central
This collection offers full text titles with unlimited access. It features fiction and nonfiction titles for adults and juveniles as well as containing a wide range of subjects and topics to meet patron’s research and recreational needs.
Public Library Collection (EBSCO)
Mostly medical reference academic eBooks.
SAGE Knowledge eBooks
General reference academic eBooks.
Wiley eBooks
Free Academic Databases
Multidisciplinary Databases
Multidisciplinary collection of open-access scholarly resources. The Digital Commons Network brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide.
Digital Commons Network
Open access dissertations and thesis provided by the Digital Commons Network.
Digital Commons Network: Dissertations and Thesis
Multidisciplinary source of free and open-access academic journals.
Directory of Open Access Journals
Access to many full-text academic journal articles, author bio pages, and journal abstracts.
Google Scholar
Open access dissertations and thesis.
ProQuest: Dissertations and Thesis
Scholars upload their work to the public here for free. You may find the full-text version of the article you are looking for. Create an account to connect with authors and request articles that are not yet available.
ResearchGate
Federally funded scientific data for the STEM fields.
Science.gov
Discipline Specific Databases
This website is focused on Black Freedom, featuring select primary source documents related to critical people and events in African American history. Our intention is to support a wide range of students (see examples for using in teaching and learning), as well independent researchers and anyone interested in learning more about the foundation of ongoing racial injustice in the U.S. – and the fights against it. By centering on the experiences and perspectives of African Americans, we hope this collection imbues the study of Black history with a deeper understanding of the humanity of people who have pursued the quest for freedom, and the significance of movements like Black Lives Matter.
Black Freedom Struggle in the United States
The CGP is the finding tool for federal publications that includes descriptive information for historical and current publications as well as direct links to the full document, when available. Users can search by authoring agency, title, subject, and general keywords, or click on “Advanced Search” for more options.
Catalog of U.S. Government Publications
Peer reviewed and open access journal articles covering the science, technology, and research methodologies.
PLOS ONE (Public Library of Science)
Life sciences & biomedical academic sources. This source is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature. It is hosted by the U.S. National Institute of Health, and their National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).
PubMed Central
Other Free Resources
Catalog of over 40 million scanned books. Public domain items are freely accessible.
Google Books
Free digital library including videos, audio recordings, photographs, maps, and more. This is a great source of primary sources.
Library of Congress
Trusted source for data like polls, surveys, etc. used to track social issues & demographic trends.
PEW Research Center
Citation style guides, examples, and templates (MLA, APA, Chicago). Includes examples of in-text citations and work-cited lists with instruction on citing different formats.
Purdue Owl