Magazines and Databases

Your library provides you with online access to complete articles from thousands of magazines and journals, and that’s just the beginning. Also available are biographies, reports, pamphlets and additional reference materials.

ArticleFirst:  An OCLC index of articles that describe the Table of Contents pages of journals. The ArticleFirst database describes items listed on the table of contents pages individual issues of numerous journals. Each record describes one article, news story, letter, or other item from a journal. Most records provide a list of libraries that hold the journal title.

Ebooks:  An OCLC online catalog of over 295,000 electronic books available through libraries worldwide.  Contains all the online electronic books cataloged by OCLC member libraries.

ECO (Electronic Collections Online):  An OCLC collection of scholarly journals, some full-text, which includes all of the original content and images of articles.  Topics covered include:  agriculture, library science, anthropology, literature, business, medicine, economics, philosophy, education, political science, fine arts, psychology, geography, religion, history, science, language, social science, law, and technology.

Illinois Catalog:  An online catalog containing millions of bibliographic records cataloged by Illinois OCLC member libraries.  Materials cataloged include:  books, manuscripts, websites and internet resources, maps, computer programs, musical scores, films and slides, newspapers, journals and magazines, sound recordings, articles, chapters, papers, and videotapes held by Illinois libraries.

OAIster: This database ontains digital resources from open archive collections. It represents multidisciplinary resources from more than 1,100 contributors worldwide. The records contain a digital object link allowing users access to the object in a single click.

Open Access Content: An OCLC index of worldwide open access content. Search open access content, from familiar and authoritative collections, in libraries worldwide. Includes full-text links to open access resources.

WorldCat:  An OCLC catalog containing millions of bibliographic records about books and other materials in libraries worldwide.

MEDLINE:  A database covering all areas of medicine, including dentistry and nursing.  MEDLINE corresponds to the print indexes Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature, and International Nursing Index.  It includes thousands of records with substantial abstracts.  Subjects include:  clinical medicine, nutrition, dentistry, pathology, education, psychiatry, experimental medicine, toxicology, health services administration, veterinary medicine, and nursing.

ClasePeriodica:  CLASE indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities, while PERIODICA covers journals specializing in science and technology.  This database contains 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 focusing on Pan-American issues.

ERIC:  A guide to published and unpublished sources on education. ERIC contains more than 1.1 million annotated references to non-journal material and to journal articles. ERIC includes some full-text documents at no charge. The ERIC database is an initiative of the U.S. Department of Education.

GPO: GPO Monthly Catalog contains more than 600,000 records for documents printed by the U.S. government. It covers all types of U.S. government documents, including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; documents issued by executive departments (Defense, State, Labor, Office of the President, etc.). Each record contains a bibliographic citation. It is produced by the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

PapersFirst:  An OCLC index of papers presented at conferences worldwide.  Covers every published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop, and meeting received by the British Library Document Supply Centre.

Proceedings:  An OCLC index of worldwide conference proceedings.  Covers every published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop, and meeting received by the British Library Document Supply Centre.

WorldCatDissertations: OCLC catalog of dissertations and theses available in OCLC member libraries. This database provides fast and convenient access to the dissertations and theses available in OCLC member libraries. Many theses are available electronically, at no charge, directly from the publishing institution.