Databases

Full-image and fully searchable access to nearly every page and article of the Chicago Tribune, from its first issue as the Chicago Daily Tribune in 1849 through 1998

An authoritative source for the evaluation and review of scholarly resources and as the publisher of trusted research in areas of interest to the academic library community.

Primary resources such as letters, diaries, administrative records, photos, artifacts, and maps chronicling all aspects of the United States Civil War from both Northern and Southern perspectives. Coverage: 1861-1865 with some contextual documents before and after the war.

Provides indexing to journals in communication, mass media, and related fields of study. Offers cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts hundreds of journals with over half providing full text. Coverage: from 1915.

Official website for U.S. federal legislative information. Provides complete legislative information, searchable by keyword, law number, and other filters. Congress.gov supersedes THOMAS system. Coverage: 1973-present. Congressional documents from the first 100 years of the U.S. Congress (1774-1875) can be accessed through A Century of Lawmaking.

The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. Coverage: since 1995. Updated daily.

A resource for consumer-oriented health content that focuses on the areas of health, wellness, and mainstream medicine. Content updated weekly.

A database of in-depth, authoritative reports on a full range of political and social-policy issues extending back to 1923. Each report is footnoted and includes an overview, background section, chronology, bibliography and debate-style pro-con feature, plus tools to study the evolution of the topic over time.

Online collection of over 1,266 reference titles, providing useful definitions, background information, quotations, images, and biographical information.