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Article Databases, Indexes & Abstracts
Newspaper Databases

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window This database is a great place to get started with your research! It is a multidisciplinary database containing full-text articles from academic journals, popular magazines, and newspapers.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window Provides full text of back issues of the core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and basic sciences from the earliest issues to within a few years of current publication. Users may browse by journal title or discipline, or may search the full-text or citations/abstracts. Dates vary by publication title.
ERIC This link opens in a new window ERIC, the largest education database in the world, contains citations and full-text for journal articles, books, conference papers, and more.

ERIC (free use from Dept. of Ed.)
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ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window Includes science, medical, social science and business full-text journals. Also includes two full-text encyclopedias, the Encyclopedia of Mathematical Physics and the International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences.
Wiley Ebook Library This link opens in a new window Full-text access to scholarly ebooks in science, technology, medicine, humanities and social sciences. It also includes major reference works and other online books from the publisher Wiley and Wley Scientific.
Springer eBook & Journal Collection This link opens in a new window A multidisciplinary collection of full-text journals and books.
Business Source Premier This link opens in a new window Articles from regional, national and international business and trade journals on all aspects of business and finance. Also includes industry and company profiles, case studies, market research reports, SWOT analyses, and country reports.
Dissertations and Theses This link opens in a new window Includes dissertations from 1861 to the present from the U.S. and around the world. Provides the full-text of most dissertations added since 1997 plus the full-text of many older dissertations.
Wiley Journals This link opens in a new window Full-text access to scholarly journal articles and journals in science, technology, medicine, humanities and social sciences. Includes access to Wiley Current Protocols journals as well as other journal content from the publisher Wiley and Wley Scientific.

Newspaper Source This link opens in a new window Provides some full-text access to both national and international newspapers.

All Newspapers @ UIS Links to all of the news sources that UIS' Brookens Library subscribes to.

Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window Comprehensive source for local, regional and national newspapers in the United States, plus some international sources. Strong source for legal, company, and country research.

CQ Magazine A source for information on government, politics and public policy. Contains a comprehensive roundup of virtually all Capitol Hill activity from the previous week. Find the status of legislation, learn the motives and agendas of individual members and their parties, or find out how the president's agenda is faring in Congress.
CQ Researcher by Topic (UIS subscription ended in 2014)
Provides pro/con comparative essays on an issue

Dissertations and Theses This link opens in a new window Includes dissertations from 1861 to the present from the U.S. and around the world. Provides the full-text of most dissertations added since 1997 plus the full-text of many older dissertations.
Dissertations & Theses @ University of Illinois Springfield This link opens in a new window
This collection indexes masters projects and theses produced by UIS graduates. It also includes dissertations produced by doctoral candidates in the Public Administration program. Masters theses & projects do not circulate and are only available in print in the archives. Dissertations include an archived as well as a copy in the library's circulating collection.