The Art Institute of Chicago

ECO Electronic Collections Online

Abstracts and some full text of a wide range of scholarly journals. Can be searched by publisher or subject collections—arts, history, geography, social sciences, political science.

Types of material covered: Journal articles.
Dates covered: 1995 to the present.

ERIC

Premier national educational database sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI). Abstracts with some full text.

Types of material covered: Research documents (ERIC documents), journal articles, technical reports, program descriptions and evaluations, and curricular materials in the field of education.
Dates covered: 1966 to the present.

EThOS

The British Library's electronic theses online service provides access to over 300,000 theses and dissertations. Many UK institutions support Open Access to their theses, so their digital and digitized theses are free to the researcher. A small number of participating institutions may not be able to offer Open Access and in this case the researcher may have to pay for the digitization.

Access note: Some content is fee based.

Encyclopaedia Britannica

Provides access to more than 72,000 articles from the print version of the Encyclopedia, as well as access to more than 75,000 definitions from Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary.

Types of material covered: Encyclopedia articles, timelines, atlases, statistics.
Dates covered: Current edition.

Essay and General Literature Index

Citations from collections of essays and miscellaneous works published in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. Subjects covered: all areas of the humanities and social sciences.

Types of material covered: Essays and miscellaneous works
Dates covered: 1985 to the present