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ABI Inform                                                                              Search Tips Online Provider: FirstSearch | Note: Password Required

Description:  Covers nearly every aspect of business, including:  accounting, actuarial science, business communication, economics, finance, financial services, human resource management, industrial/organizational psychology, information systems, international business, management, marketing, and risk management.  Citations include abstracts of articles from over 1,800 current business periodicals. 

Academic OneFile                                                                  Search Tips
Full Text Available: Articles, Reviews

Online Provider: Gale Cengage (InfoTrac)   


Description:  Provides a combination of indexing, abstracts, images, and full text for scholarly and general interest journals embracing all academic disciplines.  Offers citations to articles in 8,000 scholarly journal titles, nearly 4,000 of which afford full text.  Full-text for some titles may be subject to publisher-imposed embargo periods.  Features a powerful Subject Guide to assist in searching.

Note:  This database vendor recommends using MS Internet Explorer; users may experience difficulty when using Mozilla Firefox or other web browsers.
Academic Search Premier                                                       Search Tips
Full Text Available: Articles

Online Provider: EBSCO   


Description:  This multi-disciplinary database offers full text for nearly 4,515 scholarly journals, including more than 3,630 peer-reviewed titles. Covering virtually every area of academic study, Academic Search Premier offers full text information dating as far back as 1985. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.
Academic Universe - Lexis-Nexis                                           Search Tips
Full Text Available: Articles
Online Provider: Lexis-Nexis

Description:  Provides searchable access to a comprehensive spectrum of full-text information from over 5,900 sources, selected to meet academic needs covering news, business, legal, medical, reference resources.  Includes: National and regional newspapers, U.S. Federal and state case law; Shepard’s® Citations for all U.S. Supreme Court cases; and business news journals, company financial information, SEC filings & reports...
Access World News                                                      Search Tips
Full Text Available: Articles

Online Provider: Newsbank, Inc.

Description:  Full text content for more than 2,400 local, regional, national, and international newspapers, including the following:  Chicago Sun-Times (1986 to present), Chicago Tribune (1985 to present), and New York Times (2000 to present).
ACM Digital Library                                                               Search Tips
Full Text Available: Articles

Online Provider: Association for Computing Machinery

Description:  Full text for every Journal, Magazine, and Transaction article ever published by ACM. 
However, the full-text of articles from the ACM's Special Interest Group newsletters and conference proceedings are not available. For computer science, information systems, telecommunications, and web technology systems research.
AGRICOLA                                                                                        Search Tips Online Provider: FirstSearch | Note: Password Required

Description:  Citations covering every major agricultural subject, including agricultural engineering and marketing, animal breeding, entomology, environmental pollution, farm management, foods and feeds, pesticides, rural sociology, veterinary medicine, and water resources. 
Alternative Press Index                                                             Search Tips Online Provider: FirstSearch | Note: Password Required

Description:  Citations for articles in almost 300 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines. Interdisciplinary and international in scope. Other features include selected abstracts, journal record information and hot links to Publisher websites. 
America: History and Life                                                                       Search Tips
Online Provider: EBSCO                              

Description: Abstracts only for over 1,700 periodicals covering U.S. and Canadian history from prehistory to present.  Some links to JSTOR.  For research in a variety of disciplines, including:  popular culture, economics, ethnic studies, history, literature, sociology, urban studies, women's and gender studies.
American Chemical Society                                                   Search Tips
Full Text Available: Articles
Online Provider: ACS Publications

Description:  Now includes the journal archives which provides full text searching of over 35 journals from 1879 to current ACS Web Editions
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American National Biography  
Full Text
Available: Biographical entries
Online Provider: Oxford University Press

Description:  Biographical sketches of famous deceased Americans.  Full text articles review subjects' lives chronologically with a descriptive bibliography.
Annual Reviews    
Full Text Available: Articles
 
Online Provider: Annual Reviews   
Biochemistry  |  Cell and Developmental Biology  |  Genetics 
Immunology |  Microbiology  | Psychology | Clinical Psychology

Description: Full text of scientific reviews published by Annual Reviews.  Biochemistry back to 1997; Cell and Developmental Biology back to 1996; Genetics back to 1996; Immunology back to 1996; Microbiology back to 1996; Psychology back to 1996; Clinical Psychology back to 2005.

ArticleFirst                                                                              Search Tips
Online Provider: FirstSearch


Description:  Citations only for items listed in the table of contents of over 12,000 journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture.  Offers searching and browsing of articles and journal tables of contents in one database.
Arts & Humanities Search                                                                       Search Tips
Online Provider: FirstSearch | Note: Password Required


Description:  The online equivalent of ISI's Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Citations only for over 1,300 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals in a broad range of disciplines. 
Biological Abstracts                                                                               Search Tips
Online Provider: EBSCO   

Description: Complete collection of bibliographic references covering life science and biomedical research literature published from more than 4,000 journals internationally. It provides access to the information in virtually every life science discipline and contains nearly 7.7 million archival records from as far back as 1969, with more than 370,000 citations added each year.

Biology Digest                                                                                            Search Tips
Online Provider: FirstSearch | Note: Password Required

Description: Covers all of the life sciences, including botany, environmental science, health, medicine, and zoology.  Specially created to meet the needs of college undergraduates and high school students. Gives easy access to new scientific developments, with comprehensive subject-oriented abstracts.
Black Thought and Culture             
Full Text Available:  Essays
Online Provider: Alexander Street Press

Description: Approximately 100,000 pages of non-fiction writings by major    African-American leaders. Primary source materials including letters, speeches, prefatory essays, political leaflets, oral histories, interviews, periodicals and trial transcripts covering 250 years.  Teachers, artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, veterans, entertainers, and others are represented.

Book Review Digest Plus       
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Online Provider: H. W. Wilson

Description:  Contains over 1.3 million citations, book summaries and review excerpts for more than 660,000 books, including more than 115,000 full text reviews. With coverage back to 1983, this database pulls reviews from over 4,000 journals in all subject areas covering arts, sciences, social sciences, business and the humanities.
Books In Print                                                                                             Search Tips
Online Provider: FirstSearch | Note: Password Required

Description:  Contains citations to in print, out-of-print, and forthcoming books, audios, and videos from North American publishers. Includes thousands of full-text book reviews from Choice, Kirkus, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journal.
Business Dateline                                                                  Search Tips
Full Text
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Online Provider: FirstSearch | Note: Password Required

Description:  Provides access to full-text articles from over 500 regional newspapers, city business magazines and U.S. and Canadian wire services.  An essential business information tool for monitoring the latest trends in industry, health, environmental issues, education, and much more. 
Business & Industry                                                               Search Tips Full Text Available: Articles, reports... 
Online Provider: FirstSearch | Note: Password Required

Description:  A multi­industry, international database that provides access to company, industry, market, and product information.  Full text of articles from over 1,100 trade magazines, newsletters, and other sources.
Business Organizations, Agencies & Publications Directory       Search Tips
Full Text
Available: Brief company information
Online Provider: FirstSearch | Note: Password Required

Description:  A unique guide to international business information sources. Lists contact name, address, phone, and fax numbers, and a description of the organization's founding, membership, activities, and sources. 
Business and Management Practices                                      Search Tips
Full Text
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Online Provider: FirstSearch | Note: Password Required

Description:  Provides information on business and management issues such as decision making; implementing new technology; planning for the future; dealing with internal and external issues; and expanding businesses. Covers business methodology with emphasis on case studies and practical applications. Approximately 60% of the records include full text.  Can limit results to "Accounting & Finance", "Human Resources", or "Marketing & Sales" in "Department Phrase" field.
Business Source Premier                                                        Search Tips
Full Text Available: Articles 
Online Provider: EBSCO


Description:  Provides full text for more than 2,300 scholarly business journals. With full text back to 1965, and searchable cited references back as far as 1998, this database covers all business fields: marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Additional full text, non-journal content includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses.
Chemical Abstracts  
Searching Chemical Abstracts through SciFinder Scholar is available on selected computers in libraries at both Downtown and Schaumburg Campuses. See SciFinder Scholar for more info.

Online Provider: CAS. Limited concurrent user access - if unable to connect, please try again at a later time.

Note:  Chemical Abstracts is also available via STN Easy. Please contact the library for logon ID and password.| Restrictions: Access only from 5:00 PM to 5:00 AM, Monday thru Friday. Access all day Saturday and Sunday.

Chicago Tribune                                                                   
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Available: Newspaper Articles
Online Provider: NewsBank Inc.

Description: Complete full-text of Chicago Tribune from 1985 to date. 
Choice Reviews Online  
Full Text
Available: Articles
Online Provider: American Library Association

Description: Authoritative reviews of academic books, electronic media, and Internet resources with coverage back to 1988.

Chronicle of Higher Education Online   
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The Chronicle of Higher Education

Description:  The Chronicle of Higher Education Online is a primary source of news and information for the college and university community. It is published every weekday and features the complete contents of the latest issue, daily news, advice columns, discussion forums, current job listings, etc. Articles published since September 1989 are fully searchable.

Contemporary Authors               
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Available: Biographies
Online Provider: Gale 


Description:  Contemporary Authors provides complete biographies on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors.
Contemporary Literary Criticism Select   
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Available: Essays
Online Provider: Gale


Description:  Contemporary Literary Criticism--Select is an extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary authors. Each CLC--Select entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, listing of principal works and sources for further study.
Contemporary Women's Issues                                              Search Tips
Full Text
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Online Provider: FirstSearch | Note: Password Required

Description:  Full text is available from more than 2,200 sources, including newsletters, fact sheets, research reports, books, and journals published by more than 100 organizations from around the world.  Focuses on timely, relevant topics and meaningful issues for women, including health, human rights, the workplace, legal status, and more.
CQ Researcher   
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Online Provider: Congressional Quarterly Press
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Description:  Explores a single current events topic in depth each week.  Reports range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education, science and technology. Objective and balanced, reports feature comments, pro and con, from all sides of an issue.  Coverage back to October 25, 1991. 
CQ Weekly  
Full Text
Available: Reports
Online Provider: Congressional Quarterly Press

Description:  CQ Weekly reports non-partisan analysis of news & events happening in the US Congress. Covers virtually every act of Congress, delivering nonpartisan news and analysis unavailable anywhere else.

Credo Reference
Full Text
Available: Encyclopedic and Dictionary Entries
Online Provider: Credo

Credo Reference is an online collection of many reference books covering a wide variety of subjects, with entries covering such subjects as medicine, art, technology, law and more, all aggregated and integrated in a robust search engine.  Searching by keyword will yield results from a number of different reference sources, and entries include cross references to related topics.  Credo Reference is your alternative to Wikipedia.

Criminal Justice Abstracts   
Online Provider: ProQuest

Description: Contains indexes and summaries of international journal articles, books, and governmental and non-governmental reports on a wide range of topics in criminal justice such as crime trends, crime prevention and deterrence, juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, police, courts, punishment and sentencing.  Coverage is from 1968 to present.

Current Biography Illustrated                                                 Search Tips
Full Text
Available: Biographies, obituaries...
Online Provider: EBSCO

Description:  Full-text access to more than 25,000 articles and obituaries on celebrities, politicians, actors, sports figures, writers, etc. that were initially published in the monthly magazine, Current Biography.  Coverage is from 1940 to present.  Features more than 19,500 images.
Dictionary of Literary Biography   
Full Text
Available: Essays
Online Provider: Gale


Description:  The 11,000 essays of DLB outline the lives and careers of authors from all eras and genres and summarize the critical response to their work.  In addition, each DLB entry contains personal information, a list of principal works, and suggested further readings.
Digital Sanborn Maps
Online Provider: ProQuest


Description:  Digital access to large-scale maps of Illinois towns and cities.

Dissertation Abstracts                                                                             Search Tips
Online Provider: FirstSearch | Note: Password Required

Description:  Covers every doctoral dissertation completed in the US at accredited institutions for the last 150 years. Includes some master's theses and foreign language dissertations. 

Dissertations & Theses @ Roosevelt University    
Full Text
Available: RU dissertations & theses published after 1996  
Online Provider: ProQuest

Description:  Full-text access to RU students' dissertations and theses submitted to UMI by Roosevelt University after 1996. Citations and abstracts are available for RU dissertations and theses published in 1996 or earlier.

DRAM 
Online Provider: DRAM

Description: Listen to streaming audio on your computer of important American music. DRAM contains folk, opera, Native American, jazz, 19th century classical, early rock, musical theater, contemporary, electronic and beyond. With over 1,500 CDs, DRAM includes recordings from labels New World Records, CRI, Albany, innova, Cedille, XI, Pogus, Deep Listening and Mutable Music labels.

EBSCOhost Databases  full text                                                          Search Tips
Full Text
Available: Varies by database
Online Provider: EBSCO

Description:  This link provides access to the EBSCO Homepage of the EBSCO databases to which the RU Library subscribes.  From this Homepage you can select various databases to search simultaneously.
EconLit                                                                                                         Search Tips
Online Provider: FirstSearch | Note: Password Required

Description:  Contains citations, with abstracts, to articles from over 600 economics journals.  Also indexes many books and dissertation titles.
Education Research Complete   full text
Full Text Available:  Articles, books and monographs, and conference papers
Online Provider:
EBSCO

Description: Education Research Complete is the definitive online resource for education research. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. Education Research Complete provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,870 journals, as well as full text for more than 1,060 journals, and includes full text for more than 133 books and monographs, and for numerous education-related conference papers

Electronic Collections Online (ECO)                                         Search Tips
Full Text Available:  Articles
Online Provider: FirstSearch

Description:  Citations only.  Access to a growing collection of journals in a variety of subject areas.  Full text for articles is provided only when available through another FirstSearch database.  Articles from many journals can be purchased on a per-article use basis.

Encyclopedia Britannica   
Full Text
Available: Encyclopedic Entries
Online Provider: Encyclopedia Britannica

Description:  In addition to the complete online encyclopedia, features online versions of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, Britannica Student Encyclopedia, Britannica World Atlas, and Britannica Year in Review.  Includes the Britannica Internet Guide with more than 300,000 links to Web sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors.
Encyclopedia of Associations (National & Regional, State and Local Organizations of the U. S. - part of the Gale Directory Library)
Online Provider: Gale

Description: Part of Gale's Digital Library Collection, the Encyclopedia of Associations Online is a source for locating professional societies, trade associations, labor unions, cultural and religious organizations, fan clubs, and other groups in all subject areas. Geographic coverage includes U.S. national and regional, state, and local organizations.

Encyclopedia of Science & Technology Online  
Full Text
Available: Encyclopedic Entries
Online Provider: McGraw-Hill's AccessScience
| Note:  Limited concurrent user access - if unable to connect, please try again at a later time. 

Description: McGraw-Hill's Encyclopedia of Science & Technology Online provides fully searchable content to over 8,500 online articles in the 10th Edition of the McGraw-Hill's Encyclopedia of Science & Technology. It covers all major areas of science and technology.

ERIC                                                                                                             Search Tips
Online Provider: EBSCO | Note: ERIC is also available from Online Providers
Ovid and FirstSearch.   ERIC from FirstSearch

Description:  ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, is a national information system supported by the U.S. Department of Education. ERIC contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional 
information and citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals.  EBSCO provides links to recent "ED" documents.

FactSearch                                                                                                 Search Tips
Online Provider: FirstSearch | Note: Password Required

Description:  Abstracts only for articles providing statistical data to emphasize a point or reinforce an argument.  Each record contains a full citation and a detailed abstract containing facts and statistics with references to original sources.  Information is excerpted from mainstream and alternative serials, including the Congressional Record and British Parliamentary Debates. 
Facts On File -World News Digest: 1940 to Current Year   
Full Text
Available: News reports
Online Provider: Facts On File


Description:  Brings together complete content from the Facts On File World News Digest since 1940 and selected content from six other core reference databases to answer questions about events, issues, statistics and people.
Facts On File -Issues & Controversies   
Full Text
Available: Essays  
Online Provider: Facts On File


Description:  Full text essays on the most prominent and hotly debated issues of the day.  A dependable online source of up-to-date, in-depth and objective information.  Allows keyword searching of full text on any topic.
Facts On File - World Almanac Encyclopedia   
Full Text
AvailableEncyclopedic entries 
Online Provider: Facts On File


Description:  Complete full text of the more than 26,000 articles in Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia with additional reports and content.
Facts On File -Today's Science   
Full Text
Available: Brief news reports
Online Provider: Facts On File


Description:  Drawing on major scientific journals, magazines and newspapers in the United States and abroad, this database covers all the topics that today’s students study: health, the environment, technology, life science, physical science, earth and space science, and science and society.
Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text     full text      Search Tips
Full Text
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 Articles, movie reviews, and images                                   
Online Provider: EBSCO

Description: Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text is a comprehensive full-text database covering the entire spectrum of television and film. The database will provide indexing and abstracts for more than 600 publications, as well as full text for more than 90 journals and nearly 60 books. It includes Variety Movie Reviews and a collection of excellent motion picture images.

FirstSearch Databases  full text                                                          Search Tips
Full Text
Available: Varies by database 
Online Provider: FirstSearch | Note: Does not include FirstSearch databases requiring password access


Description:  This link provides access to the FirstSearch Homepage of the FirstSearch databases to which the RU Library subscribes.  From this Homepage you can search multiple databases simultaneously.  You can also view a table showing Available Titles in FirstSearch.
Foundation Directory
Online Provider: Foundation Center | Note: Password Required | Restrictions: Faculty Use In Library Only. 

Description: A web-based subscription service, providing searchable access to the Foundation Center's information database of foundations. 
Gale Literary Databases full text
Full Text
Available: Biographies, Essays  
Online Provider: Gale 

Search up to three databases at once; Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, and Dictionary of Literary Biography. 
Contemporary Authors provides biographical and bibliographical information on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors. Contemporary Literary Criticism--Select collects more than 11,000 critical essays on contemporary authors, with biographical, critical, principal works, and further study information. Dictionary of Literary Biography provides nearly 10,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of influential literary figures from all eras and genres.

Gale's Literary Index
Online Provider: Gale

Description:  Integrates indexes from Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography and Gale's five Literature Criticism series.
Gale Virtual Reference Library     
Full Text
AvailableEncyclopedic entries 
Online Provider: Gale

Description: The Gale Virtual Reference Library is an online full-text collection of valuable reference books in multiple subject areas. This collection includes many multidisciplinary reference e-books, including some with primary source documents.  The collection can be browsed by subject or searched by keyword.  Individual titles can also be accessed from the RU Library Catalog.   

GEOBASE                                                                                                     Search Tips
Online Provider: FirstSearch | Note: Password Required

Description:  Abstracts only.  Covers worldwide literature from over 2,000 journals on geography, geology, ecology and their related disciplines. 
Google Scholar                                                                                                   
Online Provider: Google

Description:  Google Scholar provides a broad search that includes selected research papers, professional society and interest group publications, conference reports, book summaries, and media reports.  Results include abstracts and citations, drafts, works in progress, reprints, and peer-reviewed journal articles.  Not everything in Google Scholar is free.  This link to Google Scholar connects you to the full-text of articles provided through RU Library journal subscriptions. 
Government Printing Office (GPO)                                                         Search Tips
Online Provider: FirstSearch

Description:  Providing citations only for records published by the GPO since July 1976, this is the online version of the GPO Monthly Catalog.   Includes references for documents to congressional committee reports and hearings, judiciary materials, documents issued by executive departments, and more.
GreenFILE                                                                            Search Tips
Full Text Available: Articles

Online Provider: EBSCO   


Description: Providing indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes all aspects of human impact to the environment such as global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, etc.
Grove Music Online (see Oxford Music Online)
HarpWeek (Harper's Weekly)    
Full Text Available: Articles 
Online Provider: HarpWeek


Description:  The full text of Harper's Weekly magazine, Ame