The Chicago School Library subscribes to a wide range of electronic journals, electronic books and other electronic resources. If you are accessing these resources off-campus please use the IT supplied username and password.
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Databases by subject area
Multi-discipline databases | E-Book Collections | Business & Industry | Dissertations and Theses | Education | Health and Medicine | News |Psychology | Tests, Trials, and Methodology
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In the Journal Quick Search option above you can look for specific journal titles. This will link to full-text articles if they are available.
EBSCO An easy-to-use interface to EBSCOhost databases including PsycINFO, PsycARTICLES and more. Advantages to this database include being able to create an account and save searches. Can also limit to full text and/or peer-reviewed journal articles
Proquest ProQuest Dissertations and Theses provides full text to almost all materials. ABI-Inform is a great database for those in the Business/Industrial Organizational field
Lexis Nexis Database designed specifically for those in the legal, risk management, corporate, government, law enforcement, accounting, and academic markets
Worldcat Check this database for books and other materials held in libraries throughout the world.
Multi-discipline databases
Academic Search Complete: Covers a wide range of academic fields, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to the full text of thousands of journal titles, this database provides access to other publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. (EBSCO)
ArticleFirst: Indexes articles from the table of contents of nearly 12,500 journals, along with a list of libraries holding the journal title. This database is not full-text. (OCLC)
Clase and Periodica: CLASE indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities. PERIÓDICA covers journals specializing in science and technology. This database is not full-text. (OCLC)
Electronic Collections Online: A collection of article abstracts from over 5000 scholarly journals across multiple disciplines. Coverage starts from 1995. This database is not full text. (OCLC)
OmniFile Full Text Select (H.W. Wilson): Articles are available from over 3000 publications across all disciplines in this full-text only database, many of which are peer-reviewed. (EBSCO)
PapersFirst: An index of over 580,000 papers covering multiple disciplines that have been presented at conferences worldwide. This database is not full text. (OCLC)
ProceedingsFirst: An OCLC index of worldwide conference proceedings. This database is not full text (OCLC)
Social Sciences Citation Index(Web of Science): A multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the social sciences. This database is not full text.
Worldcat: This database holds bibliographic records for millions of books and other materials held in libraries throughout the world. This database is not full-text. (OCLC)
E-Book Collections
eBook Collection: Search and view the full text of eBooks. This database used to be called NetLibrary. (EBSCO)
PsycBOOKS: Includes over 38,000 chapters in PDF from over 2,500 books, published by APA and other publishers dating from the 1600s. More than 1,500 authored entries from the APA/Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Psychology. (EBSCO)
Ebrary: Offers e-books from trusted publishers in all academic subject areas along with powerful research tools with Academic Complete™!
Business & Industry
ABI/INFORM Complete: Features thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, key newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal and The Financial Times, as well as country-and industry-focused reports and data. Also includes full-text sources from ABI/INFORM Global, Dateline, and Trade & Industry (ProQuest)
Business Source Premier: Provides full text coverage of more than 2,300 journal titles in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, accounting, finance and economics. (EBSCO)
Regional Business News: Contains full text coverage of more than 80 regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. (EBSCO)
Dissertations and Theses
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: Offers doctoral dissertations and master’s theses published by students at the Chicago School and around the world. (ProQuest)
Education
ERIC: The Education Resource Information Center provides full text access to education literature and resources. (EBSCO)
Professional Development Collection: Designed for professional educators, provides a highly specialized collection of full text education journals and reports. (EBSCO)
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Health and Medicine
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews: Contains full text articles, as well as protocols focusing on the effects of healthcare. (EBSCO)
Consumer Health Complete: Provides full text content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. (EBSCO)
Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE): Includes abstracts of published systematic reviews on the effects of health care from around the world. This database is not full-text. (EBSCO)
Health Source: Consumer Edition: Features access to the full text of a collection of consumer health publications. (EBSCO)
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition: Focuses on many medical disciplines. This database includes Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names. (EBSCO)
MEDLINE with Full Text: Provides comprehensive full text access to medical journals, providing authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. (EBSCO)
NHS Economic Evaluation Database (NHS EED): Provides access to information on the costs and effects of drugs, treatments and procedures. This database is not full text. (EBSCO)
News
LexisNexis Academic: provides access to full-text news, business, and legal publications. News coverage includes deep backfiles and up-to-the-minute stories in national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources.
ABI/INFORM Complete : Features thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, key newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal and The Financial Times, as well as country-and industry-focused reports and data. Also includes full-text sources from ABI/INFORM Global, Dateline, and Trade & Industry (ProQuest)
Military & Government Collection: Contains full text access to academic journals and current news pertaining to all branches of the military. (EBSCO)
Newspaper Source: Provides cover-to-cover full text for more than 40 U.S. & international newspapers. (EBSCO)
Regional Business News: Incorporates more than 80 regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. (EBSCO)
Psychology
PEP Archive: A source of peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles from the field of psychoanalysis. (EBSCO)
PsycARTICLES: Contains the full-text of peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology from 1894. (EBSCO)
PsycCRITIQUES: A database of full-text book reviews featuring current scholarly and professional books in psychology. (EBSCO)
PsycINFO: A resource for abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations. This database is not full text. (EBSCO)
Web Resources: A directory of free psychology resources on the Web. Includes links to journals, dissertations, statistics, and general information.
Tests, Trials, and Methodology
Cochrane Controlled Trials Register: A bibliography of controlled trials identified by contributors to the Cochrane Collaboration. Included are reports published in conference proceedings and in many other sources not currently listed in MEDLINE or other bibliographic databases. This database provides links to full text in other databases. (EBSCO)
Cochrane Methodology Register: A bibliography of publications which report on methods used in the conduct of controlled trials. This database is not full text. (EBSCO)
Health Technology Assessments (HTA): This full text collection provides details of completed and ongoing health technology assessments (studies of the medical, social, ethical and economic implications of healthcare interventions). Contains ongoing and completed research based on trials, questionnaires and economic evaluations. (EBSCO)
Mental Measurements Yearbook: provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. Includes Tests in Print; a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language. (EBSCO)