Useful Web Sites at Jacobs Library
American Memory - the Library of Congress historical digital collection.
Bartleby.com - Great Books Online is a collection of free ebooks and includes fiction, non-fiction, reference and verse.
Drug information websites:
National Library of Medicine's MedlinePlus
Drugs.com
PDRhealth
Gale Literary
Index - master index of literary criticisms published by Gale
available in print form. For a list of what is available at
Jacobs Library, click here.
Also check the
Gale Virtual Reference Library for additional resources
available online.
Gale Virtual Reference Library (Logon required). This
database is available to IVCC patrons only. Your logon is the
number under the barcode on your ID. It is 14 digits and
begins with 24611.... This database is the ebook versions of
the following Gale resources:
| Drama for Students | |
| Literary Newsmakers for Students | |
| Literary Themes for Students | |
| Nonfiction Classics for Students | |
| Novels for Students | |
| Poetry for Students | |
| Short Stories for Students |
How to cite Gale resources
Gale resources
available at Jacobs Library
Global
Gateway - Portals to the World
Links to electronic resources from around the world compiled by the
Library of Congress.
Illinois Digital Archives - the Illinois State Library working with libraries, museums, and historical societies in Illinois provides this collection of materials related to Illinois history.
Infomine - Scholarly Internet Resource Collections
Internet Public Library - a subject directory. A special collection that may be of interest is the "Literary Criticisms".
Librarians' Internet Index - websites you can trust
Making of America: a digital library of primary sources in American social history
Maps: from the University of Texas at Austin collection. Includes historical and thematic maps.
NationMaster - a massive central data source and a handy way to graphically compare nations. It is a vast compilation of data from such sources as the CIA World Factbook, UN, and OECD.
Project Gutenberg - the first and largest single collection of free electronic books with currently over 20,000 ebooks available.
StateMaster - a unique statistical database which allows you to research and compare a multitude of different data on US states using various primary sources such as the US Census Bureau, the FBI, and the National Center for Educational Statistics. It uses visualization technology like pie charts, maps, graphs and scatterplots to provide the data.
Virtual Reference - Selected web resources compiled by the Library of Congress.