Welcome to the databases section of our web site! If you know the name of the database you want to search, select the applicable letter in the "Databases by Name" section. Otherwise, use the "Databases by Subject" section for a list of databases that could be helpful for that research in that subject area, or the "Multi-Disciplinary Databases" for general databases that cover several subject areas.

Off campus users: Unless otherwise noted in a database description, databases are accessible from off-campus with your Millikin network username and password.

Databases by Name

Databases by Subject

General / Multi-Disciplinary Databases

Academic Search Premier Includes some full-text. Multidisciplinary topics, 1975 - .

PerAbs (Periodical Abstracts) Includes some full text. Covers a variety of subject areas from 1987 - .

Wilson Select Plus Includes some full-text. Science, humanites, education and business topics from US and international professional publications, academic journals, and trade magazines, 1994 - .

JSTOR Full-text. Complete digitized back-runs of core scholarly journals in the arts and sciences. Note: This is not a current issues database.

Lexis-Nexis: Academic Mostly full-text. Business, legal, medical, news, reference & statistics.

CQ Researcher Full-text. Reports offer in-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues, 1991-.

America's Newspapers Full-text of over 700 local, regional, and national newspapers. Includes Decatur's Herald and Review, Springfield's State Journal Register, plus many more. Years of coverage varies by title.

Access World News Full-text information and perspectives from over 600 U.S. and over 700 international news sources.

CREDO Reference A searchable collection of 100 reference titles in a range of subjects including: art, bilingual dictionaries, biography, business, conversions, dictionaries, encyclopedias, geography, history, language, law, literature, medicine, music, philosophy, psychology, quotations, religion, science, social sciences, and technology. Entries range from short to medium length and may include images and/or audio. 

Multi-Search Search Staley Library's databases, plus the library catalog simultaneously.

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