Most of these databases can be accessed from home using your Glenview Public Library card number as username. A few are available only inside the library and are marked appropriately. History
Databases: By Subject By Title E-Journal Portal
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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. |
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Chicago Tribune Archive Useful for finding obituaries and news stories from 1849-1984. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Proquest Search The Chicago Tribune (1985-present), The Chicago Sun Times, The Daily Herald, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and several other nationally known magazines and journals. |
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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. |
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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. |
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World News Digest Facts On File World News Digest since 1940 and a live newsfeed from ReutersŪ to answer questions about events, people, issues, facts, and figures of the last 60+ years. |
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Gale Virtual Reference Library A cross searching platform of e-reference books on multiple topics. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Heritage Quest Research materials for tracing family history and American culture for beginning or professional genealogists. |
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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. |
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E-Journal Portal Find specific online publications by title or by subject. |
(847)729-7500 ext. 111 for further information about these databases.
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