For passwords or other help, call the Reference Desk at 847-735-5074.
Databases are for Lake Forest College affiliated users.

General Databases

• Academic Search Complete
• NexisUni (news) learn more
• ArticleFirst (scholarly articles)
• CareerShift (job hunting)
• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) (cross-disciplinary)
• Google Scholar

Arts & Humanities 
These databases are relevant to the study of Art, Communications, Literature, History, Music, Foreign Languages, Religion, Philosophy, and Theater.

• ArtAbstracts (art) 
• ATLA Religion
• Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) and RILA
  • Google Scholar
• Index theologicus (IxTheo) (religion) 
• JSTOR (cross-disciplinary) 
• MLA Bibliography (literature, language & linguistics) 
• Project MUSE (cross-disciplinary) 
  
  

  More Arts & Humanities Databases

• Academic Search Complete - EBSCOhost (cross-disciplinary) 
• Alexander Street Video
      New World Cinema: Independent Features and Shorts
      Theatre in Video
• America: History and Life (U.S. & Canada history) 
• American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection
• Anthropological Index Online (anthropology) 
• AnthroSource (anthropology) 
• ArchiveGrid
• Art Images Collection - SASKIA (art) 
• ArticleFirst (scholarly articles)  
• Black Thought and Culture
• ClasePeriodica (Latin America) 
• Classical Music Video
• Communication & Mass Media Complete
• Current Contents (science, social science, humanities) 
• Film Literature Index
• Google Scholar
• Harper’s Weekly (full-text & images,1857-1889) 
• Historical Abstracts (world history, excluding U.S.)
• Literary Index (Gale series) 
• Making of America (full-text 19th century American journals) 
• MDID (image database of Lake Forest College)
• Moving Image Resource
• Naxos Music Library
• New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Editions
• Newspaper Source (US & international newspapers) 
• Nexis Uni (replaces LexisNexis Academic; search news sources for book, movie, music, play, and other media reviews) 
• OED Online (Oxford English Dictionary)  
• Philosopher’s Index (philosophy) 

Business & Economics

Databases containing articles relevant to the study of Business, Economics, and Management

• Business Source Elite (business, management & economics) 
• EconLit (scholarly economics) 
• Nexis Uni (news articles and company reports)  
• Regional Business News (local newspapers) 
• Google Scholar
  

  
  More Business & Economics Databases

• EBSCOhost (Academic Search Complete) (cross-disciplinary)
• GPO (government publications) 
• Hoover’s (search Nexis Uni for in-depth reports from Hoover’s)
• NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research)  (limited full text) 
• Sage Reference Online (social sciences) 

Science & Technology

Databases containing articles relevant to the study of Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Math, and Physics

• American Chemical Society (ACS) Publications
• Web of Science (includes Current Contents, Medline, and Science Citation Index)
• BioOne (biology & ecology)
• BioRxiv (biology, neuroscience, ecology) 
• Current Contents (science & social science) 
• JSTOR (cross-disciplinary) 
• Nexis Uni
• MEDLINE (medical)
• PROLA (Physical Review Online Archive)
• PubMed (health, medicine & molecular biology) 
  
  

  Individual Journals

• Nature
• Science
• Scientific American Archive Online
  

  
  More Science & Technology Databases

• Academic Search Complete - EBSCOhost (cross-disciplinary) 
• Annual Reviews (science) 
• Anthropological Index Online (anthropology) 
• Electronic Collections Online (cross-disciplinary) 
• Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
• Google Scholar
• GPO (government publications) 
• GreenFILE (environment)
• Health Source: Consumer Edition (health & prescription info)
• Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (medical) 
• Highwire Press (free Stanford journals)
• Liebert Online (medical, law & science) 
• MathSciNet
• Nexis Uni (news articles and company reports)  
• National Climatic Data Center (weather data) 
• PapersFirst (conference papers) 
• PLoS Biology
• PNAS Online (biological, physical & social sciences) 
• Primary Search (education) 
• Proceedings (conference papers) 
• Project MUSE (cross-disciplinary) 
• PubMed Central (full-text) 
• Scientific American Archive Online
• SciFinder (chemistry) first time users must register 
• Scitable (science) 
• Wiley InterScience (cross-disciplinary) 
• WolframAlpha Computational Knowledge Engine (statistics and equations)

Social Sciences

Databases containing articles relevant to the study of Anthropology Communications, Education, Politics, Psychology, and Sociology

• ERIC (Education Resources Information Center)
  Search using one of these: EBSCO or Department of Education
• Sage Reference Online
• SocINDEX (sociology) 
• JSTOR (cross-disciplinary) 
• PsycINFO (psychology) 
• Black Thought and Culture
• Nexis Uni (newspapers) 
• America: History and Life (U.S. & Canada history) 
• Historical Abstracts (world history)  
• Political Science Complete
• AnthroSource (anthropology) 
• Web of Science
  
  

  More Social Sciences Databases

• Alexander Street Video
       American History in Video
       Art and Architecture in Video
       Education in Video
       Ethnographic Video Online
       LGBT Studies in Video
       Psychological Experiments Online
       Theatre in Video
       World Newsreels in Video
• Alexander Street: Women Studies Collection
• Annual Reviews (science)
• Anthropological Index Online (anthropology) 
• Anthropology, Abstracts in
• ArchiveGrid
• ArticleFirst (scholarly articles) 
• Chicago Tribune (full-text, 1985-present) 
• ClasePeriodica (Latin America) 
• Communication & Mass Media Complete
• Congress.gov 
• Electronic Collections Online (cross-disciplinary) 
• FDsys (Federal Digital Systems) 
• Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
• Google Scholar
• GPO (government publications) 
• GreenFILE (environment) 
• Harper’s Weekly (full-text & images,1857-1912)  
• Harvard Educational Review Online (education) 
• Historical Chicago Tribune (full-text, 1849 - 1985) 
• Historical Statistics of the United States
• ICPSR (datasets; registration required)
• Illinois Newspapers
• Internet Archive
• Legal Research (legal news) 
• Making of America (full-text 19th century American journals) 
• Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
• Military & Government Collection (military & FBI news)
• NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research)
• New York Times Article Archive (1851 - present, citations and first paragraphs only) 
• Primary Search (education)
• Professional Development Collection (educators) 
• PsycTESTS (psychology) 
• Teacher Reference Center
• WolframAlpha Computational Knowledge Engine (statistics and equations) 
• Women and Social Movements

Newspaper Articles

Databases with newspaper articles

• Academic LexisNexis
• Chicago Area News
• Chicago Sun Times
• Chicago Tribune (full-text, 1985-present)  
• Chicago Tribune (Historical, full-text, 1849 - 1985) 
• Illinois Newspaper Project
• Illinois Newspapers
• Lake Forester 
• New York Times Article Archive (1851 - present, 1851 - 1922 full text) 
• New York Times online for access: ask a librarian
• Newspaper Source (US & international newspapers)
• Regional Business News (local newspapers) 
• US Major Dailies (newspapers)  learn more
• Wall Street Journal online for articles: ask a librarian
• World Newsreels in Video
  
• World News

Streaming Video

• Kanopy Streaming Video
• Swank (registration required)