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All eResources require a 14-digit Northbrook Public Library card number for access. Questions? Call the library at (847) 272-6224.

  • Covers key disciplines such as finance, information technology, management, marketing, etc.  Along with hundreds of industries and focus areas such as oil, energy, environment, and healthcare management, etc.  And has an ever growing range of content from around the globe.

  • Contains bibliographic citations describing items listed on the table of contents pages of more than 16,000 journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture.

  • A collection of encyclopedias, dictionaries and reference titles regarding art, music, fashion, movies, etc.

  • Is that old painting valuable?  Find out with AskART, the eResource that covers more than 87,000 American artists from all periods and all regions of the country.  Pricing information, biographies, and more. 

  • Repair information on more than 28,000 domestic and imported vehicles, with drawings, photos, wiring diagrams, and more.

  • Provides in-depth reports on thousands of insurance companies. 

  • Biographical encyclopedias and dictionaries featuring people across the ages, from around the world and from all walks of life.

  • Full-text articles of hundreds of thousands of individuals spanning history and geography.

  • Finds the right titles, and provides all known format options, including e-book sources.

  • Covers most controversies of U.S. concern from a supremely authoritative publisher on U.S. politics and public affiars.This stands out for its depth of background, supporting data, and balance.

  • Search for biographical and bibliographical information and references on U.S. and international authors.

  • A comprehensive history in the U.S. and Canada in the 20th Century, divided into decades.

  • Literature Criticism Online includes: Drama Criticism and Short Story Criticism: Critiques of authors of short fiction and major dramatists that span all time periods.

  • OCLC catalog of online electronic books available through libraries worldwide.

  • Provides coverage on subjects such as librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.

  • ECO

    A searchable database of a growing collection of journals in a variety of subject areas. Searching across multiple journals and browsing within journals is possible. Bibliographic information is available for all journal issues. Full-text articles, including original text and image content, are available for issues included in the institution subscription.

  • A collection of reference books with information on the history of education worldwide as well as information on scholarships and loans.

  • Comprehensive, authoritative information on nearly every subject.

  • Covers speciifc events, laws, organizations and Supreme Court rulings, as well as essays from prominent immigrants who have made a significant impact on the United States.

  • ERIC is a Web-based digital library of free education-related sources of interest to educators, researchers, and the general public, and consists primarily of electronic bibliographic records describing journal and non-journal literature. The collection is to be expanded to include full-texts of articles and other electronic resources such as audio and video materials.

  • The world's largest digital library of education literature.

  • Search for titles similar to the ones you enjoy by entering the title, author or characteristics like location, genre time frame and more.

  • Worldwide literature on geography, geology and ecology.

  • GPO

    Consists of references to congressional committee reports and hearings, debates, documents from executive departments, and judiciary materials.

  • This details the most important events throughout history, worldwide.

  • Contains persons, from ancient times to the present, who were merely controversial and those who were extremely infamous.

  • A collection of encyclopedias and reference books providing information on different historial periods.  Includes some primary sources.  From Gale Virtual Reference Library.

  • A collection of reference books, all primary sources of historically significant people and events.

  • U.S. history information, including primary documents, timelines, and in-depth coverage of events and people.

  • Lessons and tests for 4th - Grad.- School and job licensing. Includes ACT, SAT, TOEFL, LSAT, MCAT Real Estate Civil Service and more.  Tutorials for Microsoft Office and Adobe products.

    Registering with a username and password is required.

  • Our library's online catalog

  • A collection of reference books on all aspects of literature: biographies, criticism, etc.

  • Provides basic and in-depth lessons for English speakers with 35 languages, some with Basic and Complete courses and ESL for 15 languages, some with Basic and Complete courses. Click on "Start Learning" to begin OR create a profile to save your session.

  • Masterplots analyzes the most important works in all genres - fiction, poetry, drama and nonfiction.

  • Read the New York Times from the Lexis Nexis interface  The database contains articles from 06/01/1980 to present .

  • Search for narrative nonfiction titles similar to the ones you enjoy by entering the title, author or characterisitcs like location, genre time frame and more.

  • Fiction and Non-Fiction summaries and readalikes.

  • OAIster is a union catalog of digital resources isproduced by the University of Michcigan and includes items such as: digitized (i.e., scanned) books and articles, born-digital texts, audio files, images, movies, and datasets.

  • Indexes over two million papers presented at conferences worldwide. Also covers congresses, expositions, workshops, symposiums, and other meetings.

  • OCLC index of worldwide conference proceedings.

  • A collection of encyclopedias and reference books with information on animal life, conservation, weather and more.

  • The curriculum-oriented database offers a comprehensive, authoritative overview of a broad range of scientific disciplines through extensive essays, definitions, diagrams, videos, animations, illustrations, images, biographies, experiments, activities, and current news articles.

  • Full-Text from 1984-present.

  • A collection of reference books on wars around the world.

  • The standard for providing accuracy, objectivity, and reliability in research materials.

  • A general reference source that includes biographies, encyclopedia entries, facts, and statistics. The World Almanac database includes the contents of: the World Almanac and Book of Facts, the World Almanac of the U.S.A., the World Almanac of U.S. Politics, the World Almanac for Kids, and Funk & Wagnall's New Encyclopedia.

  • World-wide catalog of millions of books, multimedia, web resources, and other materials.

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