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Useful Websites

Drug Information Websites

Drugs.com
Online drug information in an A to Z format. Includes information about clinical trials, latest news, drug interactions, and a pill identifier.

Medline Plus
National Library of Health's Medline Plus. A National Institute of Health website.

PDRhealth
Search or browse the over 2,300 drug guides by drug name to view trusted, reliable drug guides written for the patient and available on demand.

Health Sciences & Nursing Resources

AHRQ
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Alzheimer's Foundation of America - newsletter
The Alzheimer's Foundation of America (AFA) publishes a bi-weekly e-Newsletter that contains information and research related to Alzheimer's disease, and news about AFA. Archived editions are also available on the website.

Cyber Bullying
A free collection of e-books from ebrary plus additional reports and documents to help better understand, prevent and take action against this growing concern.

AHRQ's National Guidelines Clearinghouse
U.S. Department of Health and Human Service's Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality presents the National Guideline Clearinghouse, a public resource for summaries of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines.

PubMed
PubMed comprises more than 27 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.

Look for this button to link from your PubMed search results to full text at IVCC:

For instructions on how to create a PubMed “My NCBI Account” and set “Illinois Valley Community College, Library” as the preference in PubMed’s Outside Tool Option, see full instructions provided below.

Instructions for Linking PubMed to Full Text @ IVCC

U.S. Nationlal Library of Medicine
Maintains and makes available a vast print collection and produces electronic information resources on a wide range of topics. It also supports and conducts research, development, and training in biomedical informatics and health information technology.

Electronic Book Resources

Bartleby,.com
Great Books Online is a collection of free ebooks and includes fiction, non-fiction, reference and verse.

Google Books
Google Books searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database.

Project Gutenburg
The first and largest single collection of free electronic books with currently over 20,000 ebooks available.

Schmoop
Literature, U.S. history, and poetry information written primarily by Ph.D. and Masters students from top universities, like Stanford, Berkeley, Harvard, and Yale.

Virtual Reference Shelf
Library of Congress' general reference website.

Local History Resources

CARLI Digitized Resources
Internet Archive for the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI).

Digital History Project. "St. Paul Disaster – Cherry, Illinois."

Cherry Mine Disaster
(1910) Report issued by The State Board of Commissioners of Labor; State of Illinois Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Cherry Mine Disaster Table of Contents
Table of Contents for 1910 report.

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.
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History Websites with Primary Documents

AMDOCS: Documents for the study of American History

Library of Congress' American Memory
The Library of Congress' historical digital collection.

Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy
Yale Law School- Lillian Goldman Law Library. This expansive digital collection gives access to documents ranging from the The Twelve Tables (450 BC) to the 9/11 Commission Report (2004).

CARLI Digitized Resources
Internet Archive for the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI).

Chronicling America
Library of Congress' Historic American Newspaper Collection. Search and view pages from American newspapers from 1880 - 1922.

Internet Modern History Sourcebook: Colonial Latin America
Fordham University

Primary Sources
A LibGuide created by Jacobs' librarians to help students understand and use primary sources.

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.
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http://www.idaillinois.org/cdm/ref/collection/isl6/id/247

Internet Archive
A digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts.

Making of America
The University of Michigan's digital library of primary sources in American social history

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.

Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
From the University of Texas at Austin collection. Includes historical and thematic maps.

Library of Congress Resources

Library of Congress' American Memory
"Provides free and open access...to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. These materials, from the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions, chronicle historical events, people, places, and ideas that continue to shape America."

Chronicling America
Library of Congress' Historic American Newspaper Collection. Search and view pages from American newspapers from 1880 - 1922.

Global Gateway
The Library of Congress created the Global Gateway to help students access content about countries throughout the world. The national library of the United States does include materials from and about other countries in its collection.

Virtual Reference Shelf
Library of Congress' general reference website.

Statistical Resources

StateMaster
A unique statistical database which allows you to research and compare a multitude of different data on U.S. states using various primary sources such as the U.S. Census Bureau, the F.B.I., and the National Center for Educational Statistics. It uses visualization technology like pie charts, maps, graphs and scatterplots to provide the data.