HCC Library Databases

When you select a topic area on the left, you will see the list of databases which cover the topic you have selected. Each of the databases is described briefly. A few of our databases are broad enough in subject coverage that they are recommended for several different categories. Try the databases that look the most useful.

If you haven’t found all the information you need, ask the library staff for assistance!

General Topics

Academic Search Premier

The world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. This database is updated on a daily basis.

America's Newspapers

The electronic editions of record for valuable local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers--all in one easy-to-search database. Each paper provides unique coverage of local and regional news, including companies, politics, sports, industries, cultural activities, and people in the community.
Over 600 newspapers are covered. Search states, regions or individual papers.

MAS FullText Ultra

Designed specifically for junior college libraries, this database provides full text for over 500 popular general interest and current events publications with information dating back as far as 1975 for key magazines. This database is updated daily.

ArticleFirst

Citation index (not full text) of articles from the contents pages of journals.

Books & Literature

Highland Online Catalog: PrairieCat Catalog of books and other library materials at Highland Community College and 130 other norther Illinois and eastern Iowa libraries. Use your library card to request and renew books online!

NoveList

NoveList is a great resources for finding good fiction reading. It provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations, and much more for over 125,000 fiction titles. It also includes other content of interest to fiction readers, such as Author Read-alikes, What We’re Reading, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, and Annotated Book Lists.

WorldCat

OCLC catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide.

NetLibrary

Online Books! Select from the library's collection or the "public" collection of online books. This collection is small but growing. Browse as much as you like. Register (from a campus computer) to check out online books from anywhere you have Internet access. We have access to NetLibrary via a grant. Let us know what you think! You may also run into books from NetLibrary when you are searching our library Online Catalog.

Business

Wall Street Journal

Full text access to America's business and finance newspaper of record.

Regional Business News

This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and news wires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis.

Business Source Elite

This business database provides full text for more than 1,100 scholarly business journals, including full text for more than 450 peer-reviewed business publications. The rich collection of titles in Business Source Elite provides information dating back to 1985. This database is updated on a daily basis.

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe

Search for business and legal information, foreign and U.S. newspapers, t.v. and radio transcripts, magazines and trade journals, federal and state case law, accounting information, medical news and abstracts, law reviews, state and country profiles, and more.

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Current Events

America's Newspapers

Newspaper Source

Selected full text for over 180 regional U.S. newspapers, international newspapers, newswires, newspaper columns and other sources as well as indexing and abstracts for national newspapers. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.

MAS FullText Ultra

Elementary School Resources

Primary Search

Primary Search provides full text for more than 60 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990. This database is updated daily.

EBSCO Animals

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.

Historical Information

Historical New York Times

Full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue in 1851. To search select "Historical New York Times" from the ProQuest search drop box.

Chicago Tribune Historical Archives

Images and full text of historical local, regional, national, and international issues and events including major wars, prohibition, Chicago gangsters, the Great Depression, inventions, sports, and the arts from the Chicago Tribune Morgue clippings file. Extensive front page coverage.

Illinois Sanborn Maps

Digital Sanborn Maps of most Illinois towns and cities from 1867 - 1970. The maps contain information such as street names; property boundaries; building uses, size and materials; house and block numbers. Extensive information on building uses is given including details on commercial property, who owned it and when. Even individual rooms and the uses to which they are put are recorded on some maps. Maps were created by the Sanborn Map Company, a primary American publisher of fire insurance maps for nearly 100 years. Digital versions of the map can be viewed, magnified, and layered over different years. Maps were created every five to ten years, showing the progress of the nation over time. They are of interest to local historian, genealogists, city planners, environmentalists, geographers, architects and others interested in the history, growth and development of Illinois cities, towns and neighborhoods.

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Health & Medicine

ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health

ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source^TM provides users with reliable healthcare information covering nursing, allied health, alternative and complementary medicine, and much more. This versatile database is designed to meet the needs of researchers at healthcare facilities as well as nursing and allied health programs at academic institutions. ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source provides abstracting and indexing for more than 780 titles, with over 650 titles in full-text, plus more than 11,000 full text dissertations representing the most rigorous scholarship in nursing and related fields.

MEDLINE

Citations & Abstracts from research journals covering all areas of medicine, including dentistry and nursing. This is not a full-text database, but it is a critical resource in medical research. If you would like the full-text of an article cited in Medline, speak to the library staff.

Health Source Consumer

With Health Source - Consumer Edition you can search for information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source -Consumer Edition features searchable full text for over 190 journals including Consumer Reports on Health and Men's Health, as well as abstracts and indexing for over 205 general health, nutrition and professional health care publications.

Health Source Nursing

This database provides nearly 600 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. This database is updated on a daily basis.

Thomson Micromedex & Carenotes

Thomson Micromedex & Carenotes are substantial databases which may be of interest to you. "Micromedex" is wide range of clinical databases including unbiased, referenced information about drugs, toxicology, diseases, acute care, and alternative medicine. "Carenotes" is complete, easy-to-understand information for patients about all aspects of their care, medications and health, in English or Spanish.

Mary Ann Liebert Journals

Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. provides access to authoritative peer-reviewed journals in biotechnology, biomedical research/life sciences, clinical medicine and surgery, and law.

Military/Government

GPO Monthly Catalog

Citation Index ( not full text) to U.S. government publications (updated monthly).

Military & Government Collection

Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for more than 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for more than 400 titles.

News

America's Newspapers

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe

Illinois Newspapers

Full-text access to the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun Times and other Illinois newspapers full-text from the Rockford Register Star to the Southern Illinoisan.

New York Times

Full-text access to the New York Times articles from 1985- yesterday. For older articles, select the "Historical New York Times" database, under the topic "Historical Information."

Newspaper Source

Wall Street Journal

Full text access to America's business and finance newspaper of record.

Reference Works/ Encyclopedias

Credo Reference

Credo Reference is a digital reference library that places a world of factual information at your fingertips. Containing a selection from 240 high-quality reference books from the world's leading publishers, Credo Reference is the ideal place to start any research.

OED (the Oxford English Dictionary)

As the most authoritative dictionary of the English language, the Oxford English Dictionary is a unique source of scholarly information on the meaning, history and pronunciation of words both past and present.

World Almanac

Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia and four almanacs.

Britannica Online

Search the entire Encyclopedia Britannica here. Search the EB's Internet Guide for recommended web pages on your topic!

Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia

This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.

Global Road Warrior

Excellent information for travelers and students of geography, politics, demographics, international health and medicine, business, sociology and religions worldwide. Originally collected to benefit the business traveler, Global Road Warrior data includes information from the CIA World Factbook and unique data collected by World Trade Press researchers.

Science & Technology

Agricola

Materials relating to all aspects of agriculture, forestry, and animal science.

Academic Search Premier

Social Issues

Academic Search Premier

MAS Fulltext Ultra

Agriculture

Agricola

Materials relating to all aspects of agriculture, forestry, and animal science.

Geography/Maps

Illinois Sanborn Maps

Education

ERIC (via EBSCO)

Journal articles and reports in education.

Professional Development Collection

Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of over 500 full text journals, including nearly 350 peer-reviewed titles. Professional Development Collection is the most comprehensive collection of full text education journals in the world.

Chronicle of Higher Education

As the leading newspaper for faculty members and administrators in Higher Education. The “Chronicle” provides access to current news, commentary and jobs in higher education.

The daily online Chronicle issue is available only from computers on the Highland campuses. The text of Chronicle articles is searchable off campus via Academic Search Premier.

Which periodical titles are online at HCC?

A to Z

Check for magazines, journals and newspapers available by title in the Highland Community College online journal collection.