GPL Online Databases - Complete List

Complete List of Databases
Most of these databases can be accessed from your home using your Glenview Library card number as username. A few are available only inside the library and are marked appropriately.

Databases: By Subject By Title E-Journal Portal

	Ancestry Library Edition (Available in library only) Genealogy and local history research: digitized images of the U.S. Federal Census from 1790 forward, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index.

	Biography and Genealogy Master Index Biography and Genealogy Master Index indexes biographical dictionaries and who's whos, subject encyclopedias, and literary criticism. It also acts as an index to other indexes. BGMI indexes only reference works containing multiple biographies; it does not index periodical articles or books of biography about a single individual.

	Biography Resource Center The Biography Resource Center combines biographies from over 130 sources such as Contemporary Authors, Encyclopedia of World Biography, Historic World Leaders, Notable Twentieth-Century Scientists, Contemporary Black Biography, Religious Leaders of America, International Dictionary of Art and Artists, and Writers Directory, with full-text biographical articles from more than 265 magazines.

	Books In Print Comprehensive database of 5 million book, audio book, and video titles containing publisher information and book reviews.

	Catalog Use the catalog to search for books, sound recordings, CD-ROMs, videos, and reference materials in the Glenview Public Library.

	Chicago Tribune Archive Useful for finding obituaries and news stories from 1849-1984.

	Cooperative Computer Services Search the IBistro catalog of a consortium of local North and Northwest suburban libraries.

	CultureGrams Online CultureGrams offers concise, reliable, and up-to-date country reports on 190 cultures of the world. It goes beyond mere facts and figures to deliver an insider's perspective on daily life and culture, including the history, customs, and lifestyles of the world's people.

	EBSCOhost A variety of full text databases from leading information providers. *Premier Search* contains journals, magazines, newspaper, and reference materials.

	Facts.com Facts On File World News Digest since 1940 and a live newsfeed from Reuters® to answer questions about events, people, issues, facts, and figures of the last 60+ years.

	Facts for Learning For elementary students, parents and educators seeking homework and reference information on a wide variety of topics. Includes books, reference tools and website links.

	Gale Virtual Reference Library A cross searching platform of e-reference books on multiple topics.

	Grolier Online Grolier Online is published by Scholastic Library Publishing, Inc., a division of Scholastic Inc. It includes five encyclopedia databases: Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, The New Book of Knowledge, Amazing Animals of the World, Lands and Peoples, and The New Book of Popular Science.

	Heritage Quest Research materials for tracing family history and American culture for beginning or professional genealogists.

	History Study Center History Study Center provides digitized primary and secondary sources with documents and articles organized under widely-studied topics, with reference works, images, video clips and links to 2,000 Web sites.

	Issues and Controversies Issues and Controversies features up-to-date, in-depth and objective information on the most prominent and hotly debated issues of the day.

	Kids Search Search for full-text articles and pictures in this kid-friendly database especially for students in kindergarten through 5th grade.

	Learning Express Library LearningExpress Library is a comprehensive, interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help patrons—students and adult learners—succeed on the academic or licensing tests they must pass. You'll get immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of your results. Each user must establish an LEL account if they want to return to the exam to accumulate results.

	Library PressDisplay NewspaperDirect Press Display provides library users, from the casual reader to the formal researcher, access to over 500 newspapers from more then 70 countries in 37 languages. Read or listen to today's news articles or browse page by page, section by section with color photos, images, display ads and more.

	LitFinder Stories, poems, plays, speeches and essays searchable by genre, subject, or author.

	Live Homework Help Online tutors are available to help students from 4th grade to 12th grade and college introduction level. Subjects include: Math, Science, Social Studies and English, 2:00pm-10:00pm daily. En Español: Matematicas y Ciencias, domingo a jueves 2:00pm-10:00pm.

	Morningstar Identify stocks or funds to find out what analysts have to say about that investment, or input two or more stocks and/or mutual funds to see how they work together as a portfolio.

	Newsbank: America's Newspapers The electronic editions of record for local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers including: the Chicago Sun-Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Daily Herald, the Glenview Announcements, the New York Times, major metro Newspapers, and local newspapers throughout Illinois.

	Novelist A readers' advisory resource that assists fiction readers in finding authors, titles, genres, or "read-a-likes" by subject, author, or plot description. NoveList contains materials for all ages including picturebooks, children's "chapter" books, young adult titles and books for adult readers. NoveList has full-text reviews, book discussion guides, and links to author websites.

	Novelist K-8 Novelist K-8 contains materials for all K-8 grade levels and includes picture books, children's "chapter" books and young adult titles. It offers reading recommendations by reading level and reading tips for parents. Discover fiction titles that are popular with young readers as well as titles to use in the classroom. You can find stories that are set in a particular country for use with geography units, books about different cultures and relationships, as well as titles to help students develop their appreciation of literature.

	OCLC FirstSearch A gateway to multiple online research databases. Search WorldCat for books and other materials from libraries worldwide. It also includes records representing 400 languages.

	Online Magazine and Newspaper Locator Find specific online publications by title or by subject.

	Proquest Search The Chicago Tribune (1985-present), The Chicago Sun Times, The Daily Herald, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and several other Midwest regional newspapers, as well as nationally known magazines and journals.

	Proquest Psychology Journals Proquest Psychology Journals with full text is designed for both undergraduate and graduate level and contains psychological, psychiatric, and related publications.

	Record Information Services The Record Information Services' Database can provide you with public records of new homeowners, new business licenses, foreclosures, and bankruptcies in Cook, Dekalb, Dupage, Kane, Kendall, Lake, McHenry and Will Counties.

	ReferenceUSA An online telephone directory database used for residential and business listings nationwide searchable by name, geographic location, yellow page heading, business size or sales volume.

	Searchasaurus A fun, colorful interface for students. Choose from "Primary Search" (for kindergarten through 5th grade) or "Middle Search" (for 6th grade through high school).

	SIRS Knowledge Source An excellent database for student assignments on social, scientific, health, historic, economic, business, political, and global issues. Full text articles archived from 1989 to present many with graphics, charts, maps, and diagrams.

	S&P NetAdvantage Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage is a comprehensive source of business and investment information, offering on-line access to popular Standard & Poor's research products such as Stock Reports, Corporation Records, The Register of Corporations, Directors and Executives, The Outlook, Mutual Fund Reports, and Bond Reports.

	Student Edition Formerly SuperTOM, this database is designed for high school students, with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.

	Student Resource Center A fully integrated database containing thousands of curriculum-targeted primary documents, biographies, topical essays, background information, critical analyses, full-text coverage of over 450 magazines, newspapers, over 20,000 photographs and illustrations, and more than 8 hours of audio and video clips.

	Today’s Science Today’s Science presents the latest scientific discoveries and the fundamental concepts that underlie them covering: health, the environment, technology, life science, physical science, earth and space science, and science and society.

	TumbleBook Library The TumbleBook Library is a collection of TumbleBooks (animated, talking picture books) TumblePuzzles, and TumbleQuizzes, as well as TumbleResources for teachers. TumbleBooks are created from existing picture books which we have licensed from children's book publishers and converted to the TumbleBook format.

	Westlaw Public Library Edition (Available in library only) Online access to Westlaw legal information from: Illinois Forms Legal and Business, Nichols Civil Practice with Forms, Illinois Law and Practice, Illinois Practice Series, American Law Reports, and Illinois Personal Injury Forms.

	World Book Encyclopedia Designed for school-aged students, this encyclopedia contains every article from the 22-volume print set plus state-of-the art multimedia and editor-reviewed Web sites.