All Research Databases

	African American Heritage (Service available at the library only.)
	Ancestry Library (Service available at the library only.)
	Biography Resource Center: biographical information on people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. (Access this from anywhere using your Carbondale library card.)
	Gale Virtual Reference Library: database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. (Access this from anywhere using your Carbondale library card.)
	General Reference Center: general interest database for finding articles on current events, popular culture, the arts and sciences, sports, hobbies, and more. (Access this from anywhere using your Carbondale library card.)
	HeritageQuest (Access this from anywhere using your Carbondale library card.)
	Morningstar Mutual Funds: One-page summaries, as well as detailed mutual fund, stock, and exchange-traded fund analysed reports, real-time data, and investment tools. (Access this from the library or anywhere using your Carbondale library card.)  Click here if you are using a library computer. Click here to access from anywhere using your library card.
	Something About the Author Online: access to all volumes ever printed in Gale's™ Something About the Author series, which examines the lives and works of authors and illustrators for children and young adults. (Access this from anywhere using your Carbondale library card.)
	Southern Illinoisan Archive: search news, obituaries, sports, local topics and more.

OCLC First Search Service: scholarly and general research

• ABI Inform:  Includes articles (some full-text) on business and management
  
• ArticleFirst:  An index of articles, some full-text, from magazines as well as scholarly journals.
  
• ClasePeriodica:  CLASE indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities, while PERIODICA covers journals specializing in science and technology.
  
• Ebooks: A catalog of over 295,000 electronic books available through libraries worldwide.
  

• ECO (Electronic Collections Online):  A collection of scholarly journals on a wide variety of subject areas.

• ERIC:  A collection of journal articles and reports in education.
• GPO:  U.S. federal government publications.
• Illinois Catalog:  A catalog of  books, manuscripts, websites and internet resources, maps, computer programs, musical scores, films and slides, newspapers, journals and magazines, sound recordings, articles, chapters, papers, and videotapes held by Illinois libraries.
• MEDLINE:  A database (with some full-text) covering all areas of medicine, including dentistry, nursing and veterinary medicine.
• PapersFirst:  An index of papers presented at conferences worldwide.
• PerAbs:  A database of periodical abstracts from general and academic journals, including many full-text articles.  Also contains records for transcripts of significant segments of more than 80 news and lifestyle TV and radio programs.
• Proceedings:  An index of worldwide conference proceedings.

• WilsonSelectPlus:  Contains full-text articles in the sciences, humanities, education, business.  Includes U.S. and international professional publications, academic journals, and trade magazines.

• WorldAlmanac:  Includes Funk & Wagnall's New Encylopedia, the World Almanac and Book of Facts, the World Almanac of the U.S.A., the World Almanac of U.S. Politics, and the World Almanac for Kids.

• WorldCat:  A catalog containing millions of bibliographic records about books and other materials in libraries worldwide.

• WorldCatDissertations: A database of all dissertations and theses available in WorldCat.