Primary Navigation
  • About
  • Academics
  • Continuing Education
  • Admission
  • Student Life
  • Student Services
  • Library
  • News and Events
  • Giving

All Subjects - Databases with Journal, Magazine & Newspaper Articles on All Subjects

To access Oakton Library databases from an off-campus computer, click on the database name and then use your Oakton username and password to login.

Questions? Call (847) 635-1644.

 

ASAP - Expanded Academic ASAP InfoTrac

Includes more than 3,500 indexed and full-text titles - of which 2,100 are peer-reviewed - in all disciplines.

 

Academic Search Complete EBSCO

Provides a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 7,000 full-text periodicals - of which 6,000 peer-reviewed journals - in all disciplines.

 

CQ Researcher

Each issue examines a single "hot" topic with comments from experts, lawmakers and citizens on all sides of every issue. Includes charts, graphs and sidebar articles -- plus a pro-con feature, a chronology, lengthy bibliographies and a list of contacts.

 

LexisNexis Academic

Includes more than 32,000 full-text sources including international news, company news, financial information, transcripts of major TV and radio programs, market research, industry reports,

 

NewsBank Newspapers

Includes full text of local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers. Coverage of local and regional news, including companies, politics, sports, industries, cultural activities, and people in the community is included. Paid ads are excluded.

 

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center Gale

Database of contemporary social issues with content structured to promote critical-thinking skills. It contains more than 400 reference book titles, more than 8,700 pro and con viewpoint articles, and a variety of periodicals, podcasts, reviewed Web links, images, statistical tables, charts, and graphs.

 

Points of View EBSCO

Includes 600 main essays, leading political magazines, newspapers, radio and TV news transcripts, primary source documents, and reference books. The database also offers guides pertaining to debating, developing argum​ents, and writing position papers.

 

Wilson Select Plus OCLC

Provides more than 2600 full-text periodicals - includes US and international professional publications, academic journals, and trade magazines.

Library Hours

Library
Des Plaines Campus
Monday - Thursday:
7:30 a.m. - 10 p.m.
Friday: 7:30 a.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Saturday: 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Sunday: 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Skokie Campus
Monday - Thursday:
7:30 a.m. - 10 p.m.
Friday: 7:30 a.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Saturday: 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Sunday: closed

Contact Us | Staff Directory