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Database |
Description |
Help/Off-Campus Access |
| Academic
OneFile via Gale InfoTrac |
A collection of indexed and full-text content from a variety
of mainstream and specialized sources, updated daily.
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ID is library card number. No ID needed on campus. |
| Academic
Search FullTEXT Premier via EBSCOhost |
Database of journals covering the arts, social sciences, humanities,
multi-cultural studies, and education with many full-text articles. |
ID is library card number. No ID needed on campus. |
| African American Song |
A database of 16,000 tracks of historical recordings from Document
Records, including jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and
narratives. |
Access is limited to Oakton on-campus computers. |
| Chicago
Defender Historical via ProQuest |
Chicago Defender from 1905 to 1975 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers).
Some articles include page images with photographs. |
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| Classical Music Library |
Contains 50,000 tracks of MP3 files in a multi-label database
of Classical music recordings, playable using Macromedia Flash.
The interface features playlist and download capabilities. |
Access is limited to Oakton on-campus computers. |
| Communications
and Mass Media Complete |
Contains journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related
fields of study. |
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| CQ
Historic Documents |
More than 2,500 primary sources covering current events around
the world from 1972 to present. Click on title to access. |
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| CQ
Researcher |
Full-text in-depth reports on social issues and current events. Click
on title to access. |
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| CultureGrams Online |
Summary descriptions of the world's countries and peoples. |
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| Digital Past (Northern
Illinois) |
DigitalPast Project members of the North Suburban Library System
and Prairie Area Library System include academic, public, school,
and special libraries in north suburban Cook, Kane, Lake, and
McHenry counties.
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Access is open. No ID needed. |
| Encyclopaedia
Judaica |
Provides articles on historic topics as well as extensive new
treatments of contemporary Jewish life. |
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| FactsonFile:
African American History & Culture |
Five hundred years of African-American history including biographies,
primary sources, images, timelines, and maps and charts. |
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| FactsonFile:
Ancient & Medieval History Online |
Africa, Egypt, Greece, Rome, Mesoamerica, and Mesopotamia from
the early Hominids 3 to 5 million years ago through 1522 CE including
subject entries, biographies, primary sources, images, maps and
charts, and timelines. |
ID is library card number. No ID needed on campus. |
| FactsonFile:
Modern World History Online |
Civilizations and cultures of world history from prehistoric
times through the modern era including biographies, maps, primary
source documents, and timelines, all searchable by topic, era,
and activity. |
ID is library card number. No ID needed on campus. |
| Grove
Art Online |
Grove Art Online comprises the full text of The
Dictionary of Art and The Oxford Companion to Western
Art. |
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| Grove
Music Online |
Grove Music Online comprises the full text of The
New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition,
The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and The New Grove
Dictionary of Jazz, second edition. |
ID is library card number. No ID needed on campus. |
| HarpWeek |
Harper's Weekly magazine illustrations, cartoons, news,
literature, editorials, and ads from the Civil War Era, Reconstruction
and Gilded Age I & II (1857-1889) in full text and indexed
by subject. |
Access is limited to Oakton on-campus computers. |
| Humanities
International Complete via EBSCOhost |
This database includes all data from Humanities International
Index (over 2,000 titles and 2 million records) as well as
full text for more than 770 journals. |
ID is library card number. No ID needed on campus. |
| Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy |
Original contributions by specialized philosophers around the
Internet. |
Access is open. No ID needed. |
| LexisNexis
Academic |
Full-text newspaper and media coverage of issues and events
in the arts. |
ID is library card number. No ID needed on campus. |
| Literature
Resource Center |
Biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors
from every age and literary discipline covering more than 120,000
novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers. |
ID is library card number. No ID needed on campus. |
| Military
& Government Library Collection via EBSCOhost |
Full text for over 320 social and military issue related periodicals
and general interest magazines. |
ID is library card number. No ID needed on campus. |
| Opposing
Viewpoints via InfoTrac |
Full-text "pro" and "con" viewpoint book chapters, magazine,
journal, and newspaper articles about current social issues. |
ID is library card number. No ID needed on campus. |
| Oxford
African American Studies Center |
Over 7,500 articles from Oxford's authoritative reference program,
including primary source documents, images, maps, charts and tables. |
ID is library card number. No ID needed on campus. |
| OED
- Oxford English Dictionary |
Authoritative definitions of over 500,000 English words, including
the usage of words from their first recorded occurrence to the
modern period. |
ID is library card number. No ID needed on campus. |
| Oxford Islamic Studies |
Islamic scholarship containing over 3,000 A-Z reference entries, chapters from scholarly and introductory works, Qur'anic materials, primary sources, images, and timelines. |
Access is limited to Oakton on-campus computers. |
| Periodical
Abstracts via OCLC FirstSearch |
Abstracts and full-text journal articles in the humanities and
social sciences. |
ID is library card number. No ID needed on campus. |
| Project
MUSE |
Project MUSE is a collaboration between libraries and publishers
providing 100% full-text, user-friendly online access to over
100 humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly
publishers. |
Access is limited to Oakton on-campus computers. |
| Saskia
Art Images Collection |
30,000 digital images of paintings, sculpture and architecture,
including the entire collection of photographer C. William "Doc"
Horrell and The Jack Bradley Photojournalism Collection. |
Access is open. No ID needed. |
| Schomburg Studies on the
Black Experience |
A database detailing the African experience throughout the Americas.
Includes timelines, images, and film clips |
Access is limited to Oakton on-campus computers. |
| Smithsonian Global Sound |
A virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions,
including African, Asian, folk, and Native American genres. |
Access is limited to Oakton on-campus computers. |
| Stanford Encyclopedia
of Philosophy |
An archives of refereed articles on philosophy, updated quarterly
by experts and groups of experts. |
ID is library card number. No ID needed on campus. |
| Women and Social Movements |
More than 28,000 pages of documents pertaining to the history
of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000. |
Access is limited to Oakton on-campus computers. |
| World Conflicts
Today |
History, background, implications, timelines, and statistics
regarding areas of conflict and dissention in the modern world.
PowerPoint presentations are included for classroom use. |
Access is limited to Oakton on-campus computers. |