Research Databases

Resource	Group	Description
Mango Languages	All	Online language-learning system teaching actual conversation skills. By listening to and repeating after material designed from native conversations, you'll not only learn the individual words and phrases, you'll know how they're used in practical situations and conversations. You'll learn more than grammar, vocabulary and conjugation, you'll learn how to communicate.
AllData Pro	Consumers	Resource for automotive diagnostic and repair information. NO HOME ACCESS AVAILABLE. Quick Tour (pdf)
America's Genealogy Bank	Genealogists	Easily search and browse millions of genealogies, obituaries, marriage and birth announcements, and more from 1652-the present. Includes historical newspapers, books and documents, along with modern obituaries and the social security death index. Quick Tour (pdf)
America's Newspapers on Newsbank	News Seekers Students	Local, State and National Newspapers including Elgin Courier News (1997-current), Chicago Tribune (1985-current), Chicago Sun-Times (1986-current), Daily Herald (1995-current), and Kane County Chronicle (12/9/05-current). Search by name, date, or text such as institutional name, social affiliation, and geographic location.
America's Obituaries and Death Notices	Genealogists News Seekers	Search newspaper obituaries and death notices from around the United States.
Ancestry Plus	Genealogists	Genealogy Resource. Gain instant access to more than 1 billion names, more than 3,000 databases,and a variety of genealogical research features. NO HOME ACCESS AVAILABLE.
Chicago Area News	News Seekers	Full text articles from 170 sources of News covering Chicago and surrounding suburbs.
Chicago Sun-Times From (1986-Current)	News Seekers	Search unique coverage of local and regional news including companies, politics, sports, industries, cultural activities, and people in the community.
Courier News	News Seekers	Access news articles from 1997.
eLibrary	Researchers Students	Search a variety of sources such as newspapers, encyclopedias, etc.
ERIC Educational Database	Researchers Students	Journal articles and reports on education topics.
Facts.com	News Seekers Researchers Students	Brings together complete content from the Facts On File World News Digest since 1940 and selected content from six other core reference databases to answer questions about events, issues, statistics and people of the last 60+ years.
FirstSearch	Researchers Students	Links to many indexes and full-text resources and scholarly articles including ArticleFirst, ClasePeriodica (Latin America), ECO (Journals), PapersFirst (Conferences), PerAbs (Periodical Abstracts), and WorldCatDissertations.
Gale Virtual Reference Library	Business Users Researchers Students	Search and read online some of our most popular reference books including business, medical, and educational titles.  Alphabetical list of titles.
GPO	Consumers Researchers	U.S. government publications.
Heritage Quest	Genealogists Students	Genealogy Resource: Start your family history search here. Includes complete US Federal Census images.
Hoover's	Job Seekers Business Users	Covers public and private companies along with detailed company and industry information. Includes information from Hoover's Industry Database and D&B Company Database. NO HOME ACCESS AVAILABLE.
Hoover's First Research	Business Users	Search by SIC or NAICS codes for industry profiles (ex. employment, unemployment, personal income, tax revenues, and exports) across state boundaries. NO HOME ACCESS AVAILABLE.
Illinois Clicks	Students	It is an information website with quality internet resources, reviewed and selected by Illinois librarians, well-organized for easy access by all Illinois citizens.
Infotrac General Reference Center Gold	Researchers Students	Find the latest current events, popular culture, business and industry coverage, the arts and sciences, sports, hobbies, etc. Quick Tour (pdf)
Kane County Chronicle From (12/9/05-Current)	News Seekers	Search unique coverage of local and regional news Including companies, politics, sports, industries, cultural activities, and people in the community.
Learning Express Library.com	Job Seekers Students	(formerly Learnatest.com)-Interactive practice exams and test preparation. Follow directions about how to become a new user or access your tests. Quick Tour (pdf)
Medline Health Database	Consumers	All areas of medicine, including dentistry and nursing.
Morningstar.Com	Business Users	Identify stocks, mutual funds, and ETFs that meet your needs. Quick Tour (pdf)
Newspapers on Newsbank	News Seekers Students	Local, State and National Newspapers including Elgin Courier News (1997-current), Chicago Tribune (1985-current), Chicago Sun-Times (1986-current), Daily Herald (1995-current), and Kane County Chronicle (12/9/05-current). Search by name, date, or text such as institutional name, social affiliation, and geographic location.
NoveList & NoveList K-8	Fiction Readers Kids	Explore by fiction types, describe a plot, match a novel, or best fiction. You can choose level of adult, young adult, children, or easy. Quick Tour (pdf)
Record Information Services	Consumers	Find local public information in Kane and surrounding counties on new homeowners and businesses, foreclosures and auctions, and bankruptcies. Quick Tour (pdf)
Reference USA	Business Users Job Seekers	Gain Business and Residential Database Information. Quick Tour (pdf)
Thomas Register	Business Users	The most comprehensive resource for industrial information. Go straight to the source of product, company information, CAD drawings and more...
Value Line Research Center	Business Users Investors	Includes on-line access to Value Line's leading publications covering stocks, mutual funds, and more. NO HOME ACCESS AVAILABLE.
WorldCat	Business Users Researchers Students	Find Books in Library Catalogs all over the world.
World Book Online	Kids Students	Offers more than 25,000 encyclopedia articles, more than 14,000 Web sites, dictionaries, atlases, etc. that are carefully edited to suit the educational level of the users most likely to use them, from grades 4 through 12 and adults.