Online Databases Arranged by Subject
The databases in the following list contain many full-text resources (indicated by the image). These databases also contain some items for which full text is not available online. To find out if a magazine, journal or newspaper is available in full text, search the BHC Journal Holdings
Arts & Humanities | Biography | Books & eBooks | Business | Careers
Children | Countries & Cultures | Current Issues | Digital Resources
Education | General Resources | Government | History | Illinois/Quad Cities
Language & Literature | Legal | Librarians’ Resources | Medical & Health
Newspapers | Psychology | Reference | Science & Technology
Social Sciences
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Arts & Humanities
ARTstor – ARTstor
ARTstor is a digital library that offers collections of art images and descriptive information as well as the software tools to enable active use of the collections. ARTstor includes approximately 500,000 images covering art, architecture and archeology.
Camio – OCLC
Camio – Catalog of Art Museum Images Online. Camio is an online collection of art images from around the world, representing the collections of prominent museums, all rights-cleared for educational use. Includes photographs, costumes, paintings, posters, sculptures, jewelry, prints, utilitarian objects and decorative arts.
CARLI Digital Collections – CARLI
Provides 30,000 digital images of paintings, sculpture and architecture, including images from many important collections. Descriptive data includes references to the occurrences of these images in 19 major art history texts.
Credo Reference – Music – Credo Reference
Online encyclopedias and dictionaries of music.
Credo Reference – Philosophy – Credo Reference
Online encyclopedias and dictionaries of philosophy.
Credo Reference – Religion – Credo Reference
Online encyclopedias and dictionaries of religion.
Biography
American National Biography – Oxford University Press
Includes more than 19,000 biographies of persons no longer living, from colonial times to the present, who have been important and influential in the history of the United States. Updated quarterly.
Credo Reference – Biography – Credo Reference
Online encyclopedias and dictionaries of biography.
Encyclopedia of World Biography – Gale
A multicultural biographical source that covers notable individuals from every part of the world and from all time periods who have made significant contributions to human culture.
Books & eBooks
Credo Reference – Credo Reference
Features full-text content from hundreds of reference books from many different publishers, including encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, quotation sources and a wide range of subject-specific titles covering everything from art to technology.
Gale Virtual Reference Library – Gale
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
PrairieCat Library Catalog – Sirsi
Black Hawk College Quad-Cities Campus Library Catalog and the resources of 198 libraries across northern Illinois and eastern Iowa.
Resource Sharing Alliance (RSA) Library Catalog – CARLweb
Black Hawk College East Campus Library Catalog. Search for materials in the East Campus Library, up to six selected libraries, or more than 150 libraries in RSA.
WorldCat – OCLC
OCLC catalog of books, web resources and other material worldwide
Business
Business Source Elite – Ebsco
Provides full text for nearly 1,100 scholarly business journals, including nearly 450 peer-reviewed business publications. This database is updated on a daily basis and offers full text dating back to 1985.
Credo Reference – Business – Credo Reference
Online encyclopedias and dictionaries of business.
OECD Factbook – (Internet Resource)
OECD Factbook (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) includes comprehensive statistical indicators for OECD countries and some non-OECD countries. Covers the economy, agriculture, education, energy, environment, foreign aid, health and quality of life, industry, information and communications, population/labor force, trade and investment, taxation, public expenditure and R&D.
Regional Business News – Ebsco
This database provides comprehensive full-text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
Careers
CareerOneStop – Internet Resource
CareerOneStop is a U.S. Department of Labor-sponsored website that offers career resources and workforce information to job seekers, students, businesses and workforce professionals, including information on career exploration, salary and benefits, education and training, job search, resumes and interviews.
Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center – Facts on File
A comprehensive career research database, providing detailed and up-to-date profiles of more than 2,900 of today’s most popular jobs in 93 industries.
Occupational Outlook Handbook – U.S. Department of Labor. Bureau of Statistics
For hundreds of different types of jobs includes the training and education needed, earnings, expected job prospects, what workers do on the job, and working conditions.
Children
EBSCO Animals – Ebsco
Provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts and full-text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals.
Primary Search – Ebsco
Primary Search provides full text for more than 50 popular magazines for elementary school research. All full-text articles included are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full-text information dates back to 1990. Updated daily.
Searchasaurus – Ebsco
Access to the EBSCO databases for children and includes: Primary Search, Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, EBSCO Animals, a picture collection and a dictionary.
Countries & Cultures
AtoZMapsOnline – World Trade Press
Provides 4,000 world, continent, country and state maps, including political, physical, outline, population, precipitation, climate and other thematic maps. New maps are added to the collection every month.
Credo Reference – Geography – Credo Reference
Online encyclopedias and dictionaries of geography.
Culturegrams – Culturegrams
Concise, cultural reports for more than 175 countries of the world, including history, customs, lifestyle and government.
Daily Life Through History – Greenwood
A database of primary documents, reference works, monographs, images, maps, illustrations and timelines depicting daily life worldwide and throughout history.
Global Road Warrior – World Trade Press
Described as the “Ultimate Business Travel Guide,” with information on 175 countries, including key facts about each country and practical information for travelers. Includes cultural information such as business customs and social etiquette.
Worldmark Encyclopedia of Cultures and Daily Life
Covers cultural groups in Asia, Europe, the Americas and Africa. Volumes are organized by continent, covering history, politics, customs, religion, education, human rights issues, teen life and more.
Current Issues
CQ Researcher – CQ Press
Full-text articles on current and controversial topics, offering in-depth analysis of a contemporary issue, pro and con arguments by experts, a chronology, annotated bibliographies and more.
Issues & Controversies – Facts on File
Explores more than 800 hot topics in politics, business, education, science and popular culture, including pro and con statements, primary source documents and statistics.
Opposing Viewpoints in Context – Gale
A one-stop source for information on today’s hottest social issues from Greenhaven Press and other Thomson Gale imprints. Features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to websites.
Digital Resources
OAIster – OCLC
A catalog of more than 19 million digital resources from more than 1,000 organizations developed by the University of Michigan. Digital resources include: digitized books and articles, born-digital texts, audio files, images, movies and datasets. Collections include: theses, technical reports, research papers and image collections.
Education
ERIC – Ebsco
Journal articles and reports in education. Some full-text articles.
Professional Development Collection – Ebsco
Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of more than 515 full-text journals, including nearly 350 peer-reviewed titles.
Teacher Reference Center – Ebsco
Provides indexing and abstracts, including some full text, for more than 280 of the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals to assist professional educators.
General Resources
Academic OneFile – Gale
Provides coverage of more than 10,000 journals, including many peer-reviewed and full-text titles, as well as full text of the New York Times back to 1995. Includes current issues, general sciences, social sciences and humanities.
Academic Search Premier – Ebsco
The world’s largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary database, with full text for nearly 4,700 titles, including the largest collection of peer-reviewed full-text journals. Updated on a daily basis, offering full-text back files to 1975 or further for more than 100 journals.
General Reference Center Gold – Gale
Find articles on a variety of subjects from newspapers, reference books and periodicals, many with full-text and images. Coverage 1980 – present.
JSTOR – JSTOR
JSTOR is a full-text electronic archive of the complete back issues of core scholarly journals covering a wide variety of disciplines, including economics, history, political science and sociology, as well as in other key fields in the humanities and social sciences.
LexisNexis Academic – LexisNexis
Comprised of news, business, legal, medical and reference information, LexisNexis Academic covers nearly 5,300 titles, many of which are full text. Excellent source for regional, U.S. and international newspapers.
MasterFILE Premier – Ebsco
Contains full text for nearly 1,700 popular magazines covering reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and much more. Also includes full text for reference books and primary source documents, as well as an image collection of photos, maps and flags.
MAS Ultra–School Edition – Ebsco
Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database provides full text for more than 500 popular general interest and current events publications with information dating to 1975 for key magazines. Also provides nearly 550 full-text pamphlets, 150 full-text reference books, nearly 100,000 biographies, 76,000 primary source documents, and an image collection of 116,000 photos, maps and flags. Updated daily.
Government
Browse Topics – Internet Resource
Browse Topics is a list of U.S. government sites arranged by broad subject areas.
FDsys – Internet Resource
GPO’s Federal Digital System (FDsys) provides digital access to government information from Congress and federal agencies.
GPO – OCLC
U.S. government publications. Most have links to full text of document.
Military & Government Collection – Ebsco
Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, with an emphasis on engineering. Provides full text for nearly 300 periodicals, 245 pamphlets, plus full-text country reports.
USA.gov – Internet Resource
The official U.S. Government portal providing one-stop access to all online federal government resources.
History
American History Online – Facts on File
Covers more than 500 years of political, military, social and cultural history, including biographies, events and topics, primary sources, timeline, images, maps and charts.
Ancient and Medieval History Online – Facts on File
Provides the histories of eight civilizations from the ancient world through the 1500s, including biographies, events and topics, primary sources, timeline, images, maps and charts.
Credo Reference – History – Credo Reference
Online encyclopedias and dictionaries of history.
Daily Life Through History – Greenwood
A database of primary documents, reference works, monographs, images, maps, illustrations and timelines depicting daily life worldwide and throughout history.
Digital Sanborn Maps of Illinois, 1867 – 1970
Historical maps of Illinois towns and cities, including building outlines, street names, property boundaries and other information.
HarpWeek
HarpWeek provides electronic access to Harper’s Weekly, the illustrated 19th century “Journal of Civilization” for a 56-year period (1857-1912).
JSTOR – JSTOR
JSTOR is a full-text electronic archive of the complete back issues of core scholarly journals covering a wide variety of disciplines, including economics, history, political science and sociology, as well as in other key fields in the humanities and social sciences.
Modern World History Online – Facts on File
Covers the full scope of world history from the mid-15th century to the present, including events and topics, biographies, images, maps and charts, primary source documents and timeline entries.
New York Times, 1851-2007 (updated annually) – Proquest
Proquest Historical Newspapers – The New York Times (1851-2007) offers full-page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. Updated annually.
Pop Culture Universe – Greenwood
Pop Culture Universe: Icons, Idols, Ideas is a digital library of information on American and world popular culture, past and present, from hundreds of authoritative titles. Includes the arts, business and advertising, fashion, film, food, literature, music, politics, recreation, religion, sports, TV and radio, and technology and media.
Illinois/Quad Cities
Digital Sanborn Maps of Illinois, 1867 – 1970
Historical maps of Illinois towns and cities, including building outlines, street names, property boundaries and other information.
Electronic Documents of Illinois – Illinois State Library
Electronic Documents of Illinois provides permanent public access to official publications of the State of Illinois which have been deposited in electronic form.
Find-It! Illinois – Internet Resource
Illinois governmental and library information on the web.
IllinoisCLICKS! – Internet Resource
Illinois CLICKS! is an information website with quality internet resources, reviewed and selected by Illinois librarians, well-organized for easy access by all Illinois citizens.
infoLINK – Internet Resource
InfoLINK is a database of Quad-Cities area social service agencies and contact information maintained by United Way of the Quad-Cities.
Language & Literature
Bloom’s Literary Reference Online – Facts on File
In addition to Facts On File’s extensive print literature reference collection, the database includes hundreds of literary critic Harold Bloom’s essays, which examine the lives and works of great writers throughout history and the world. Also contains an archive of more than 40,000 characters, as well as extensive entries on literary topics, themes, movements and genres.
Credo Reference – Language – Credo Reference
Online encyclopedias and dictionaries of language.
Literature Criticism Online – Gale
Includes full content of the literary reference book series, Poetry Criticism and Short Story Criticism. Provides substantial excerpts from criticism on the works of poets and short fiction writers throughout the world.
Literary Index – Gale
Starting point for literary research. Index to biographical and critical information on authors and their works.
Legal
Credo Reference – Law – Credo Reference
Online encyclopedias and dictionaries of law.
Legal Research – LexisNexis
U. S. federal and state case law, codes, regulations, legal news, law reviews and international legal information. Shephard’s Citations for all U.S. Supreme Court cases back to 1789.
Librarians’ Resources
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts – Ebsco
Indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.
WorldCat – OCLC
OCLC catalog of books, web resources and other material worldwide
Medical & Health
Consumer Health Complete – Ebsco
A comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine.
Credo Reference – Medicine – Credo Reference
Online encyclopedias and dictionaries of medicine.
Health Source – Consumer Edition – Ebsco
Features searchable full text for more than 190 journals including Consumer Reports on Health and Men’s Health, as well as abstracts and indexing for more than 205 general health, nutrition and professional health care publications.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition – Ebsco
All areas of medicine, including dentistry and nursing. Some links to full-text articles.
Medlineplus – Internet Resource
Consumer-friendly, up-to-date, quality health care information from the National Institutes of Health and other reliable, non-commercial sites.
Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy – Internet Resource
Standard medical reference source containing essential information on diagnosing and treating medical disorders. Written by medical experts in all fields of medicine and continuously updated.
Merck Manual of Medical Information Home Edition – Merck
Explains disorders, who is likely to get them, their symptoms, how they’re diagnosed, how they might be prevented, and how they can be treated; also provides information about prognosis.
Micromedex – Thomson Reuters
Provides information about drugs, toxicology, diseases, acute care and patient education.
Nursing Reference Center – Ebsco
Comprehensive reference tool for nurses, nursing faculty and students, and other health care professionals. Provides clinical evidence and knowledge on conditions and diseases from thousands of full text documents, including drug information, patient education, practice resources and continuing education.
PsycArticles – Ebsco
PsycARTICLES, from the American Psychological Association (APA), is a definitive source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles from more than 70 psychology-specific journals from 1894 to present.
Springer Medicine eBook Collection – Springer
Contains more than 1,300 English language medical ebooks published by Springer from 2005-2010.
Newspapers
Illinois Newspaper Project – University of Illinois and Chicago History Museum
Part of the U. S. Newspaper Program designed to identify, catalog and preserve historic newspapers. Useful in locating newspaper title and holdings information.
LexisNexis Academic – LexisNexis
Comprised of news, business, legal, medical and reference information, LexisNexis Academic covers nearly 5,300 titles, many of which are full text. Excellent source for regional, U.S. and international newspapers.
Moline Dispatch / Rock Island Argus – Internet Resource
Regional newspapers online: Dispatch from Moline, Rock Island Argus, and the Leader from Davenport
New York Times, 1851-2007 (updated annually) – Proquest
Proquest Historical Newspapers – The New York Times (1851-2007) offers full-page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. Updated annually.
Newspaper Source – Ebsco
Provides selected full text for more than 200 regional U.S. newspapers, international newspapers, newswires, newspaper columns and other sources as well as indexing and abstracts for national newspapers. Updated daily.
Quad-City Times – Internet Resource
Newspaper covering the Quad Cities. Based in Davenport, Iowa. Click on “Advanced Search” at the top of the page to access archives.
Kewanee Star Courier – Internet Resource
Newspaper for the Kewanee, Ill., area.
Psychology
Credo Reference – Psychology – Credo Reference
Online encyclopedias and dictionaries of psychology.
PsycArticles – Ebsco
PsycARTICLES, from the American Psychological Association (APA), is a definitive source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles from more than 70 psychology-specific journals from 1894 to present.
Reference
AtoZMapsOnline – World Trade Press
Provides 4,000 world, continent, country and state maps, including political, physical, outline, population, precipitation, climate and other thematic maps. New maps are added to the collection every month.
Credo Reference – Credo Reference
Features full-text content from hundreds of reference books from many different publishers, including encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, quotation sources and a wide range of subject-specific titles covering everything from art to technology.
Culturegrams – Culturegrams
Concise, cultural reports for more than 175 countries of the world, including history, customs, lifestyle and government.
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia – Ebsco
This database provides more than 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.
Gale Virtual Reference Library – Gale
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
Oxford English Dictionary – Oxford University Press
The OED online, the world’s leading authority on the history and development of the English language since 1150.
World Almanac – OCLC
Contains full-text content from Funk & Wagnall’s New Encyclopedia, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, The World Almanac of the U.S.A., The World Almanac of U.S. Politics and The World Almanac for Kids.
Science & Technology
Credo Reference – Technology – Credo Reference
Online encyclopedias and dictionaries of technology.
GREENR – Gale
GREENR (Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources) focuses on the development of emerging green technologies, covering issues on the environment, sustainability and more. Search by topic/issue, organization and country portals for current news, magazines, refereed journals, video, primary source documents and more.
ScienceOnline – American Association for the Advancement of Science
Provides access to Science magazine, including peer-review and research articles, news, perspectives, reviews, plus additional enhanced material only available online. Includes archive of full text back to 1997.
Social Sciences
Credo Reference – Social Sciences – Credo Reference
Online encyclopedias and dictionaries of social sciences.
