The document provides summaries of specialized databases available at WIU, including America: History and Life, Historical Abstracts, Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center, ABI/Inform, JSTOR, Academic Search Complete, NCJRS Abstracts Database, SportDiscus, PsycINFO, Access World News, MEDLINE/PubMed, Sociological Abstracts, GPO Monthly Catalog, International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance, and CQ Researcher. Each database covers literature, journals, reports and other materials on specific subject areas such as history, business, social issues, criminal justice, sports, psychology, medicine, sociology, government publications, performing arts, and current events.

1. Specialized Databases at WIU

2. America: History and Life
 America: History and Life is a comprehensive
bibliography of articles on the history and culture of
the United States and Canada from prehistory to
the present. (For coverage of history outside of
North America.
 Each volume offers abstracts and citations for some
8,000 articles appearing in over 2,000 journals
published worldwide in history, related humanities,
and the social sciences.
 The coverage of America: History and Life also
includes citations to book reviews from
approximately 100 major journals of American
history and culture and relevant dissertations from
Dissertation Abstracts

3. Historical Abstracts
 Historical Abstracts is your complete reference guide to
the history of the world from 1450 to the present
(excluding the United States and Canada, which are
covered in America: History and Life). This database is
packed with annotated references to information on
topics from the Renaissance to Tiananmen Square --
over half a million entries in all.
 Historical Abstracts includes over 2,000 journals
published throughout the world, approximately 3,000
citations to useful historical books as reviewed by the
most prestigious journals in the field, and citations to
abstracts of dissertations completed worldwide of
particular interest for historical research. Historical
Abstracts on the Web also includes in-process English-
language article entries (those entries for which
abstract, subject terms, and chronologies are not yet
available).

4. Opposing Viewpoints
 Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is the premier full-
text resource covering today’s hottest social issues, from
Terrorism to Endangered Species, Stem Cell Research to Gun
Control. Drawing on acclaimed series published by Greenhaven
Press and other Gale imprints, Opposing Viewpoints
Resource Center brings together all the information that’s
needed to fully understand an issue: pro and con viewpoint
articles, reference articles that provide context, full-text
magazines, academic journals, and newspapers, primary
source documents, government and organizational statistics,
multimedia, including images and podcasts, links to hand-
selected web sites, and more!
 Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center helps to develop
critical thinking and information literacy skills by assisting
students with researching, analyzing, and organizing various
types of data for research assignments, persuasive essays, and
debates. It features Lexile reading levels for its periodicals as
well as an integrated national and state curriculum standards
search with content correlated to high school and middle
school social studies and science standards.

5. ABI / Inform
 Combining the foremost business
journals and the leading sources of
online business news with exclusive,
international and scholarly content,
ABI/INFORM delivers a remarkable
variety of content results to meet the
needs of researchers at all levels.

6. JSTOR
 JSTOR offers a high-quality, interdisciplinary
archive to support scholarship and teaching. It
includes archives of over one thousand leading
academic journals across the humanities, social
sciences, and sciences, as well as select
monographs and other materials valuable for
academic work. The entire corpus is full-text
searchable, offers search term highlighting,
includes high-quality images, and is interlinked
by millions of citations and references.

7. Academic Search Complete
 This scholarly collection provides
journal coverage for most academic
areas of study, including biological
sciences, economics,
communications, computer sciences,
engineering, language and linguistics,
arts and literature, medical sciences
and women's studies.

8. NCJRS: National Criminal Justice
Reference Service Abstracts Database
 The NCJRS: National Criminal Justice Reference
Service Abstracts Database is published by the
Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of
Justice's National Criminal Justice Reference
Service, an information clearinghouse for
people around the U.S. and the world involved
with research, policy, and practice related to
criminal and juvenile justice, and drug control.

9. SportDiscus™
 SportDiscus™ is the world's leading database
in sport, health, fitness and sports medicine.
For over 30 years, SIRC has been providing
access to fulltext and bibliographic references
in such areas as sport medicine, physical
education, coaching and training, arts and
history, corporate wellness, engineering and
health and safety.

10. PsycINFO
 PsycINFO is an abstract database that
provides systematic coverage of the
psychological literature from the 1800s to
the present. (The database also includes
records from the 1600s and 1700s.)
 PsycINFO contains bibliographic citations,
abstracts, cited references, and descriptive
information to help you find what you need
across a wide variety of scholarly
publications in the behavioral and social
sciences.

11. Access World News
 The electronic editions of record
for valuable local, regional, and
national U.S. newspapers--all in
one easy-to-search database.
Each paper provides unique coverage
of local and regional news, including
companies, politics, sports,
industries, cultural activities, and
people in the community.

12. MEDLINE/PubMed
 MEDLINE is the largest component of
PubMed (http://pubmed.gov), the freely
accessible online database of biomedical
journal citations and abstracts created by
the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
 Approximately 5,200 journals published in
the United States and more than 80 other
countries have been selected and are
currently indexed for MEDLINE. A
distinctive feature of MEDLINE is that the
records are indexed with NLM's controlled
vocabulary, the Medical Subject Headings.

13. Sociological Abstracts
 CSA Sociological Abstracts abstracts and
indexes the international literature in
sociology and related disciplines in the
social and behavioral sciences. The
database provides abstracts of journal
articles and citations to book reviews drawn
from over 1,800+ serials publications, and
also provides abstracts of books, book
chapters, dissertations, and conference
papers.

14. GPO Monthly Catalog
 The GPO Monthly Catalog (Government
Printing Office) is the machine-readable
equivalent of the printed Monthly Catalog of
United States Government Publications. It
contains records of reports, studies, fact
sheets, maps, handbooks, conference
proceedings, etc., issued by all U.S. federal
government agencies, including the U.S.
Congress. Also included in this database
are records of all of the Senate and House
hearings on private and public bills and
laws.

15. International Bibliography of
Theatre & Dance
 International Bibliography of Theatre &
Dance with Full Text contains all of the
content available in International
Bibliography of Theatre & Dance as well as
full text for 100 titles, including Canadian
Theatre Review, Dance Chronicle, Dance
Teacher, Modern Drama, PAJ: A Journal of
Performance and Art, Research in Dance
Education, Research in Drama Education,
Studies in Theatre and Performance, TDR:
The Drama Review, Theater, and many
more. Additional full text available includes
more than 50 books & monographs.

16. CQ Researcher
 The CQ Researcher is your #1 source for original,
comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues
shaping our world. CQ Researcher is used by
students, teachers, librarians, journalists, and more,
who need to complete an assignment, prepare for a
debate, or become a quick expert on a topic. Each
12,000-word report is a unique work, investigated
and written by a seasoned journalist. Published 44
times a year, each single-themed CQ Researcher
report offers in-depth, unbiased coverage of a
pressing political or social issue. Reports features
cover topics in health, international affairs, education,
public policy, the environment, technology, and the
U.S. economy.