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All Electronic Resources

• ABI/INFORM Global. Indexes 2,830 business periodicals, with 1,850 available in full text, including Wall Street Journal 1984+.
• Academic Search Premier. General journal index of over 8,200 journals with about 4,500 journals in full text.
• AGRICOLA. 1970+ Index to agricultural journals by National Agricultural Library. Free to the pubic to search.
• AICPA's Accounting & Auditing Literature.
• Alternative Press Index 1991+. (1969-1990 archive at a separate link). Indexes journals covering cultural, economic, political & social change.
• American Accounting Association Journals. Bradley has access to 12 of the 15 journals published by AAA.
• American Chemical Society (ACS). Electronic journals from American Chemical Society.
• American Physical Society journals. See Physical Review Online Archive (PROLA).
• American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Journals. PROVIDED THROUGH THE GENEROSITY OF THE CATERPILLAR FOUNDATION.
• American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Journals. PROVIDED THROUGH THE GENEROSITY OF THE CATERPILLAR FOUNDATION.
• Applied Science and Technology Abstracts. 1983+.
• Art Abstracts. 1984+. Indexes more than 400 key international arts periodicals and some other arts publications.
• ARTFL Project. Over 2600 French texts from the 13th-20th centuries are included, ranging from classical works of French literature to various kinds of non-ficiton prose and technical writing.
• ArticleFirst. 1990+. Indexes articles from nearly 12,000 journals of all disciplines.
• Arts & Humanities Search. 1980+. Arts and Humanities Citation Index.
• ARTstor. Contains half a million images pertaining to art, architecture and archeology. It provides software tools that enable active use of the collections as well as the ability to save groups of images online for classroom and research use. Faculty who need to create folders to share should contact Ellie Hansen at 677-2591 or Xiaotian Chen at 677-2839 for password.

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• Basic BIOSIS. Current year and most recent four update years. Basic information about biology and other life sciences.
• BioDigest. 1989+. Life-science information written in a non-technical style.
• Biography and Genealogy Master Index. Comprehensive index of biography dictionaries and encyclopedias. 1 simultaneous user.
• BioMed Central. An independent publishing house providing free access to peer-reviewed biomedical research.
• BioOne. Over 130 full-text bioscience journals published by small societies and non-commercial publishers. Date range varies.
• Blackwell-Synergy Journals. Bradley has access to 2 collections with about 800 journals: Humanities and Social Sciences Collection and Science, Technology and Medicine Collection.
• Book Review Index. Various starting years. Maximum 2 simultaneous users. Please try later if busy.
• Books in Print. Updated weekly, it contains in-print and forthcoming books, as well as books declared out-of-print or out-of-stock-indefinitely since 1979.
• Business and Industry Information. 1994+. Business and industry facts, figures, and key events.
• Business and Management Practices. 1995+. Practical aspects and approaches to business management.
• Business Dateline. 1985+. Index of regional business information.
• Business Organizations, Agencies & Publications Directory. Current year.
• Business Source Elite. Provides full text for over 1,060 business journals.

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• Cambridge Journals Online. Bradley has access to all the journals published by Cambridge University Press.
• CCH Human Resources Research NetWork.
• Checkpoint (RIA). Accounting Research (AICPA, WGL, & FASB). Maximum 4 simultaneous users for FASB section and 35 users for other sections.
• Checkpoint (RIA). Primary tax documents and secondary analysis for federal, state, and local taxation, estate planning, pensions and benefits, international taxation, and payroll taxation.
• Chemical Abstracts. See SciFinder Scholar.
• Chicago Tribune.
  • 1985+
  • 1849-1985.
• Chronicle of Higher Education. 1995+
• CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health) with Full Text. 1982+. Maximum 50 simultaneous users.
• Clase and Periodica. 1975+. General index of Latin American journals of all disciplines in Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages.
• Cochrane Library. Maximum 1 simultaneous user. Please try later if busy. Provides information on the effects of interventions in health care. Published on a quarterly basis, it is designed to provide information and evidence to support decisions taken in health care and to inform those receiving care. It includes the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE), Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), Cochrane Database of Methodology Reviews (Methodology Register), Health Technology Assessment Database (HTA), and NHS Economic Evaluation Database (NHS EED).
• CollegeSource (College Catalogs). Maximum 3 simultaneous users for accessing college catalogs in PFD file. Please try later if busy.
• ComIndex and ComAbstracts. See Communication & Mass Media Complete.
• Communication & Mass Media Complete. Contents include 2 databases in communication and mass media studies -- CommSearch and Mass Media Articles Index.
• Compendex-- Engineering Index. 1969+. Maximum 3 simultaneous users. Subscription ending soon. Use Scopus.
• Congressional Universe. Now LexisNexis Congressional.
• Contemporary Women's Issues. 1992+.
• CQ Electronic Library.
  • Congress and The Nation. 1945+.
  • CQ Researcher. 1991+. Maximum 5 simultaneous user. Please try later if busy.
  • CQ Weekly. 1983+.
• Credo Reference. (fomerly XReferPlus) About 100 online Dictionaries and encyclopedias.
• Current Contents. 1997+. Maximum 3 simultaneous users. Tables of contents and bibliographic data from scholarly journals in
  • life sciences
  • clinical medicine
  • agriculture, biology, and environmental sciences

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• D&B Microcosm. Provides directory information for companies in the Greater Peoria area (currently the entire state of Illinois on a temporary basis). It can be used to generate a list of companies based on the following parameters: SIC; NAICS; location; number of employees; annual revenue; and legal structure.
• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). Free scientific and scholarly e-journals.
• Dissertation Abstracts. Index from 1861+; abstracts from 1980+; thesis abstracts from 1988.

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• EBSCOhost. Includes Academic Search Premier, Business Source Elite, CINAHL, Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition, Health Source: Consumer Edition, Military & Government Collection, Newspaper Source, PsycArticles, PsycInfo, SPORTDiscus, and some other databases.
• EBSCOhost Electronic Journals Services. Bradley campus has access to about 100 journals in full text.
• ECO--Electronic Collections Online.
• EconLit 1969+. Journals, books, and working papers on economics.
• Emerald. Online journals of various subjects.
• Encyclopædia Britannica.
• emusicquest. See Music-In-Print Series.
• Engineering Index (Compendex). 1970+. Maximum 3 simultaneous users. Subscription ending soon. Use Scopus.
• ERIC. Access to ERIC via 2 sites: EBSCO and FirstSearch. 1966+. Journal articles and reports on education topics.
• Euromonitor---Global Market Information Database. Demographic, economic and marketing statistics for countries all over the world. PROVIDED THROUGH THE GENEROSITY OF THE CATERPILLAR FOUNDATION.
• Expanded Academic ASAP. General periodical index of over 4,000 journals, magazines, and newspapers, with over 2,000 periodicals in full text.

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• Factiva (Will not work if bookmarked. Maximum 5 simultaneous users. Please try later if busy.) News and business information including company information and full-text major newspapers such as Wall Street Journal. PROVIDED THROUGH THE GENEROSITY OF THE CATERPILLAR FOUNDATION.
• Find-It! Illinois. Illinois State Library's statewide digital library program, including Virtual Illinois Catalog (VIC), Illinois Government Information (IGI) search engine, and periodical indexes and databases funded by the state.
• FirstSearch Databases. Over 40 databases of various subjects.

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• Gale Group databases (INFOTRAC). Expanded Academic ASAP, Biography and Genealogy Master Index, Book Review Index, Literature Resource Center, and Gale Virtual Reference Library.
• GEOBASE. 1980+. Worldwide literature on geography and geology.
• GPO Monthly Catalog. 1976+. U.S. government publications.
• Global Market Information Database. See Euromonitor: Global Market Information Database.
• Google Scholar. Users on Bradley campus or log in from off campus will have links to online full-text journals provided by Bradley library.
• Greenwood Books. Business reference books.
• Grove Dictionary of Art. Now Oxford Art Online. One simultaneous user. Please try later if busy.
• Grove's Dictionary of Music Musicians II. Now Oxford Music Online. One simultaneous user. Please try later if busy.
• Harper's Weekly, A 19th century journal.
• Health Source-Consumer Edition.
• Health Source-Nursing/Academic Edition.
• Historical Abstracts. Indexes world history journals and some other publications.

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• ICPSR. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Statistical data. Need SPSS to view the data.
• IEEE All Society Periodicals Package (ASPP) Online and IEEE Proceedings Order Plan (POP). 1998+. PROVIDED THROUGH THE GENEROSITY OF THE CATERPILLAR FOUNDATION.
• Illinois Alive. Archival primary resources documenting the development of Illinois from 1818-1918.
• Illinois APCO Historical Collection. 67 years of Governmental and Public-Safety Communications.
• Illinois Sanborn Maps.
• Informaworld. Journals published by Taylor & Francis.
• INFOTRAC, see Gale Group databases.
• IngentaConnect . A free index to about 28,000 periodicals, providing table of contents and fee-based online articles delivery.
• IOPscience. Journals from Institute of Physics Journals.
• I-Share Catalog. The union catalog of 71 academic libraries in Illinois.
• Jack Bradley Photojournalism Collection at Bradley University.
• JSTOR. Archive of scholarly journals. Most titles have 3 or 5 years moving wall, i.e., most recent 3 or 5 years not available. Bradley has access to all JSTOR collections.

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• LexisNexis Academic. Provides a wide range of full-text news, business, legal, and reference information. Includes New York Times.
• LexisNexis Congressional. Index from the 1970s and full text from the 1980s. Comprehensive US legislative information, including the full text of bills, reports, testimony, public laws, the Congressional Record, and members biography and voting records. Bradley campus only has access to the base edition.
• LexisNexis Statistical. Bradley campus has access to the base edition and ASI.
• Library Catalog. Bradley University Library Catalog.
• Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts. Free from EBSCOhost.
• Literature Resource Center. Inlcudes Scribner Writer's Series. Provides full-text access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analysis of authors and their works from every age and literary discipline. It covers thousands of novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers. Searchable fields include: Author Name, Title, Genre, Literary Movement, and Literary Themes.

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• Market Research Monitor. See Euromonitor: Market Research Monitor.
• Mary Ann Liebert E-journals. Online health science journals.
• MathSciNet. 1940+. Mathematical Reviews (covering the world's mathematical literature) on the Web.
• MediaMark Reporter.  To use the Web version, please see the user's guide. The library also has the CD version. It provides information on demographics, lifestyles, product and brand usage, and advertising media preferences to a sample of over 25,000 United States consumers. Procedures to start the CD: get the CD from Reference Desk and take it to the PC labeled "LIBREF13" or "PUBLICMICROFORM", insert the CD, click on MediaMark Reporter, click on OK, select "CD-ROM" and enter "D" in the box next to "CD-ROM".
• MEDLINE. 1965+. Access via 2 sites: PubMed and FirstSearch. Bradley users using the link provided here to PubMed can see links to Bradley's online journals.
• Mergent Online. Global company information, annual reports, EDGAR filings, current news stories, and some industry reports.
• Microcosm. See D&B Microcosm.
• Military & Government Collection. Current info pertaining to all branches of the military and government, it provides full text for 400 periodicals and indexing and abstracts for more than 500 titles.
• Mintel. Provides market and consumer research across multiple international markets and U.S. categories. Each study provides a synthesis of both primary and secondary data and analysis. Maximum 5 simultaneous users. Please try later if busy. PROVIDED THROUGH THE GENEROSITY OF THE CATERPILLAR FOUNDATION.
• MLA International Bibliography. 1926+. A bibliography of scholarship in literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. About 75% are language and literature journal articles.
• Music Index. 1976+
• Music (Classical and Jazz) Listening: Naxos Music Library.
• Music-In-Print Series.
• My Media Mall E Books (including digital audio books in the OverDrive Media Console™ format, eBooks in the Adobe® Reader® format and Mobipocket Reader format ). When checking out an E book, Bradley users should choose "Alliance Library System--CARLI" as the home library and use BU card bar code number as the library card number.

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• Naxos Music Library. A streaming music resource strong on classical music and jazz. Maximum 5 simultaneous users. Please log out when done.
• NCLEX Review 3500. NCLEX Review 3500 Study Software is designed to mimic the actual NCLEX-RN exam. More than 3,500 questions are included to help one prepare for the certification exam.
• netLibrary. Electronic Books.
• New York Times (historical backfile 1851 to 3 years ago. Check LexisNexis Academic for 1980-current.)
• NewsBank /Chicago Tribune. 1860-1984 selected coverage, 1985+ full coverage.
• Newspaper Source.
• NoveList. A readers' advisory database providing details about works of fiction.
• Nursing (see CINAHL)
• O'Dwyer's Public Relations News - odwyerpr.com. A PR services database.
• Oxford Art Online. Formerly Grove Art Online. One simultaneous user. Please try later if busy.
• Oxford English Dictionary.
• Oxford Music Online. Formerly Grove Music Online. One simultaneous user. Please try later if busy.

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• PapersFirst. 1993+. Index of papers presented at conferences worldwide.
• Peoria Public Library Catalog.
• Periodical Abstracts. 1987+. Periodical abstracts from general and academic journals, with some recent articles in full text.
• Philosopher's Index. 1940+. Indexes over 560 journals from more than 40 countries in 30 languages. Covers all major fields of philosophy such as aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, logic, metaphysics, etc., and philosophy of related interdisciplinary fields such as education, history, law and religion.
• Physical Review Online Archive (PROLA). Journals from The American Physical Society.
• Play Index. Searches over 30,000 plays written from Antiquity to the present.
• ProceedingsFirst. 1993+. Index of worldwide conference proceedings.
• Professional Development Collection. Provides a specialized collection of more than 550 education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports.
• Project MUSE. Mid or late 1990s to current. About 250 full-text journals in humanities and social sciences.
• ProQuest. ABI/INFORM, Historical backfiles of Chicago Tribune, New York Times, and Wall Street Journal.
• PubMed @ Bradley. The BU version of PubMed has links to BU's online journals.
• PsycArticles. Dates vary, mostly from the 1990s. About 50 journals from APA.
• PsycINFO. 1887+. Psychology abstracts from journals, dissertations, and book chapters.
  

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• RIA. See Checkpoint (IRA).
• RILM Abstracts of Music Literature. 1969+.
• The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Journals.
• Safari Books Online. 300 business and tech books. Maximum 2 simultaneous users per book.
• Sage Journals Online. Bradley has access to all the volumes of all the journals published by Sage.
• Sanborn Maps, Illinois.
• Saskia digital image archive from Scholars Resource. Contains 30,000 digital images of paintings, sculpture and architecture from collections including the Prado, the Kunsthistorisches Museum, the Uffizi, and the Louvre as well as archaeological sites in Greece, Italy, Turkey and Egypt.
• SciFinder Scholar. Chemical Abstracts. Access is available on the computer named LIBREF13 in the library reference area and on chemistry faculty office computers. Use is limited to academic research by Bradley students, faculty, and staff only. PROVIDED THROUGH THE GENEROSITY OF THE CATERPILLAR FOUNDATION.
• ScienceDirect. Bradley has access to some Elsevier journals on ScienceDirect.
• Scirus. A search engine of scientific, scholarly, technical and medical Web sites and publications. To see links to full text articles available at Bradley, Bradley users can select "Bradley University" from the the list of institutions and select "Enable" radio button for "Library Partner Links."
• Scopus. PROVIDED THROUGH THE GENEROSITY OF THE CATERPILLAR FOUNDATION. 1966+ A multidisciplinary journal index of over 14,000 peer reviewed journals in science, technology, medicine, and social science. It provides cited reference searching from 1996 to the present. It allows searching by authors' affiliation.
• Simmons Choices III (CD-ROM) Study of Media & Markets. Available on computer named LIBREF13 by the public laser printer. View user's guide in MS Word document.
• Sociological Abstracts. 1963+. contains citations from more than 1900 sociology and other social science journals.
• SPORT Discus. 1949+. International index of sports literature. Maximum 4 simultaneous users. Please try later if busy.
• SRDS Radio Advertising Source.
• Stat USA. Includes statistics from State of the Nation, GLOBUS and National Trade Data Bank.
• Statistical Universe. Now LexisNexis Statistical.

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• TumbleBooks Library---a collection of TumbleBooks (animated, talking picture books) TumblePuzzles, and TumbleQuizzes, as well as TumbleResources for teachers.
• UnionList (OCLC Periodicals List)
• Wall Street Journal.
  • 1984-Current.
  • 1889-1989.
• WebFeat.
• Wiley InterScience Journals online. Bradley has access to over 250 journals.
• WilsonSelectPlus. 1994+. About 4,000 full-text periodicals in all subject areas..
• World Almanac.
• WorldCat. Union catalog of thousands of libraries.
• WorldCat Dissertations and Theses.
• Xreferplus. Now Credo Reference.

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