Online Resources
Argosy University, Chicago Library subscribes to the following database collections which can be used to find citations, abstracts and full text content from variety of journal articles, books, dissertations, and other resources.
These password protected resources are available to currently enrolled students, faculty & staff only.
Campus Based Resources (currently not available through the student portal)
Academic Search Premier -Provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles.
Business Source Elite - Full text for over 1,000 business publications.
ERIC -Contains more than 1,300,000 records and links to more than 317,000 full-text educational and education related documents.
Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia – Includes over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.
Health Source-Consumer Edition - Provides access to nearly 80 full text consumer health magazines.
Health Source/ Nursing Academic Edition - Includes nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines.
MasterFILE Premier - Multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,750 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest.
Military & Government Collection - Cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for more than 400 titles, pertaining to all branches of the military.
Newspaper Source -Provides selected coverage for over 375 regional US & international newspapers, newswires. Updated daily.
Primary Search - Provides full text for more than 70 popular magazines for elementary school research.
Professional Development Collection - Highly specialized collection of nearly 520 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports.
Regional Business News - Coverage of more than 80 regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States
Includes over 48,000 full-text electronic books in Psychology, Business and Education, as well as Marketing, Economics, Information Technology, Health, Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, History and Humanities, Life and Physical Science, and Social and Behavioral Sciences.
Full-text documents from over 5,600 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications with a variety of flexible search options
Net Library (no password required to access on-campus)
Includes 358 full text online books in a wide-range of topics including social sciences, humanities, education, science and technology. Off-campus access is unavailable at this time
OCLC First Search
Article1st: Index of articles from nearly 12,500 journals (full text)
ERIC: Journal articles and reports in education
GPO: U.S. government publications
MEDLINE: Abstracted articles from medical journals (partially full text)
NetFirst: OCLC database of Internet resources
PapersFirst: An index of papers presented at conferences worldwide
Proceedings: An index of conference publications
WorldAlmanac: The World Almanacs
WorldCat: Books and other materials in libraries worldwide
PEP (Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing)
Spans a period of 120 years. Includes the full text of the Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud and the full text of eighteen premier journals in psychoanalysis (current three years are not available full-text)
Includes full-text access to the DSM-IV-TR, APA Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders, and other texts. Full-text articles from the American Journal of Psychiatry, Psychiatric Services, Psychosomatics and other journals published by the American Psychiatric Publishing Inc. are also available.
Off-campus access (password required to access Psychiatry Online off-campus)
Core Collection Resources
the following databases must be accessed through the student portal, or by clicking here
ABI/INFORM Complete - A comprehensive business database containing thousands of journals. Offers full-text titles covering business and economic conditions, corporate strategies, management techniques, as well as competitive and product information. International coverage provides complete picture of companies and business trends around the world.
ABI/INFORM Dateline - Local and regional business publications focusing on hard-to-find local and regional business news coverage of large corporations, privately held companies, local start-ups, executive profiles, marketing, finance, and industry news. Provides access to business information not typically found in national news sources. Contains news and analysis, information on local markets, and more gathered from major business tabloids, magazines, daily newspapers, wire services, and city, state, and regional business publications.
ABI/INFORM Global - Most scholarly and comprehensive way to explore and understand business research topics. Search nearly 3000 worldwide business periodicals for in depth coverage of business and economic conditions, management techniques, theory and practice of business, advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers and more. Information on 60,000+ companies with business and executive profiles.
ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry - Search more than 1200 business periodicals with a trade or industry focus. Provides users with the latest industry news, product and competitive information, marketing trends, and a wide variety of other topics.
Academic Search Elite - Indexes over 2,900 publications, including scholarly journals in the social sciences, humanities, general science, education and multicultural studies,as well as popular magazines published from 1990-present. Full-text articles are provided for over 1,300 periodical titles.
Avery Index to Acrhitecture Periodicals - Offers a comprehensive listing of journal articles published worldwide on architecture and design, archaeology, city planning, interior design, landscape architecture, and historic preservation. Coverage is from the 1930s (with selective coverage dating back to the 1740s) to the present. The Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals is updated weekly.
Accounting & Tax - Premier accounting research database providing centralized access to top journals, reference reports, proceedings, dissertations and more, including over 2,300 publications with hundreds in full text.
Arts and Humanities Full-Text - 500 titles featuring both scholarly peer-reviewed journals and selected trade and consumer titles relevant to applied arts and cultural studies. Related fields also covered by these indexes include ethnic and area studies, politics, economics and women’s studies.
Asian Business & Reference - Offers detailed information on companies, economies, markets, international trade, and overall business conditions throughout the Eastern Hemisphere.
Banking Information Source - Brings together leading journals from the most important international markets and provides access to articles from 360 full-text sources.
Biology Journals - Provides access to a wide range of biology topics from over 370 titles, with more than 325 available in full text.
Canadian Business & Current Affairs - The nation's largest and most comprehensive bibliographic full-text reference and current events database. Features articles, daily news sources, and periodicals on current events, business, science, the arts, and academic information as produced in Canada.
Career & Technical Education - Definitive source for vocational information from over 600 titles, with more than 500 available in full text.
Computing - Comprehensive coverage of computer topics from over 430 titles, with more than 350 available in full text. Includes product reviews, database design and management, software, hardware, e-commerce, Web site development, intranets and extranets, and technology management.
Criminal Justice Periodicals - Includes abstract and indexing for 250 titles, with more than 100 available in full text. Provides research support for students interested in careers in criminal justice, law enforcement, corrections administration, drug enforcement, rehabilitation, family law, and industrial security.
CultureGrams - Leading reference for concise and reliable cultural information on the countries of the world. Individual reports covering 200+ countries, all 50 United States, and the Canadian Provinces, are written and reviewed by in-country experts and are updated several times each year.
Design and Applied Arts Index - Contains over 130,000 annotated references from more than 500 design and craft journals and newspapers published from 1973 onwards, and data on over 50,000 designers, craftspeople, studios, workshops, firms, etc. Research articles are covered, along with topical news items, conference and seminar reports, and book, video and exhibition reviews. Each reference includes full bibliographic details and a brief abstract.
Digital Dissertations and Theses - The single, authoritative source for information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses. The database represents the work of authors from over 1,000 graduate schools and universities. 47,000 new dissertations and 12,000 new theses to the database each year. Includes bibliographic citations for materials ranging from the first U.S. dissertation, accepted in 1861, to those accepted as recently as last semester. Citations for dissertations published from 1980 forward also include 350-word abstracts written by the author. Citations for master's theses from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. The full text of more than 1.7 million of these titles is available in paper and microform formats.
Education Journals - Provides access to over 790 top educational publications, including more than 615 of the titles in full text. Covers literature on primary, secondary, and higher education, special education, home schooling, adult education, and related topics.
eLibrary Academic - Collection of periodical and digital media content. Researchers use the powerful, yet easy-to-use search interface to find the answers they need from more than 2,000 full-text magazines, newspapers, books, transcripts--plus thousands of maps, images, web links, and audio/video titles.
Entrepreneurship - Full-text articles covering entrepreneurial topics and subject areas - from business to technology, to medical and beyond. Also, includes videos and templates.
ERIC - ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center, provides access to education literature and resources. The database provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. The database contains more than 1,282,000 records and links to more than 314,000 full-text documents.
European Business - Find the latest European business and financial information. Includes quality resources such as The Economist, Fortune, European Business Journal, and many more.
Family Health - Includes general medical journals, consumer and news magazines on a range of subjects from sports injuries to women’s health, from food and nutrition to midwifery, from eye care to dentistry.
Health & Medical Complete with Medline Connections - Provides in-depth coverage from over 1,530 publications with over 1,270 available in full text and of these, over 910 include MEDLINE® indexing. Journals cover all major clinical and healthcare disciplines, including medical sciences, immunology, pharmacy and pharmacology, nursing, physical fitness and hygiene, surgery, and others.
History Study Center - Covers global history from ancient times to the present day. Contents include reference books, essays, journal articles, historical newspaper and magazine articles, maps, rare books, government documents, transcripts of historical speeches, images and video clips. Study Units offer editorially selected material on over 500 historical topics. Provides over 40,000 documents and articles, over 50 reference works, 3,000 images, and links to 2,000 websites.
Hoover’s Company Reports - One of the world’s leading electronic distributors of information about companies, industries, and the people who lead them. Featuring profiles of more than 40,000 companies, 600 industries, and 225,000 key executives.
International Index to Music Periodicals - Index to periodical articles in music, with full-text articles for selected journals. Dates of coverage: 1874 to present
International Index to Performing Arts - A performing arts journal resource with more than half a million indexed articles, plus detailed abstracts from 1864 to the present on subjects including dance, theatre, film, television and opera. In addition, IIPA Full Text offers 100 full-text journals, with nearly 160,000 full-text articles.
Literature Online - Fully esarchable library of more than 357,250 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose fiction from the seventh century to the present, 200 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources.
Medical Evidence Matters - Allows you to find the evidence for the effectiveness of therapies in data from thousands of research articles from leading peer-reviewed journals.
Mental Measurements Yearbook - Indexes over 2000 standardized tests complete with references and test reviews. Does not include the text of any test.
Military Collection - Includes over 545 titles, with more than 400 available in full text, on topics across all government and military branches, including international relations, political science, criminology, defense, aeronautics and space flight, communications, civil engineering, and more.
Newsstand Complete - Includes international, national and regional papers such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Washington Post, and The Guardian. Over 900 newspapers are indexed and more than 850 are full text.
Nursing & Allied Health - Provides abstracting and indexing for more than 850 titles, with over 715 titles in full text, plus more than 12,000 full-text dissertations representing the most rigorous scholarship in nursing and related fields.
Pharmaceutical News Index - Contains bibliographic information and indexing for 22 key U.S. and international pharmaceutical, healthcare, biotechnology, medical device, and cosmetic industry newsletters.
PsycARTICLES - From the American Psychological Association (APA), is a definitive source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. The database contains more than 137,000 articles from 66 journals.
PsycINFO - American Psychological Association’s (APA) resource for abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations, and literature in behavioral science and mental health. Covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines including (but not limited to): anthropology, business, education, law, linguistics, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, physiology, psychiatry, and sociology.
Psychology Journals - Journals and magazines with complete full-text coverage from top psychology and related publications, this database meets the needs of both students and mental-health professionals.
Religion - Features more than 150 journals covering formal theological studies and commentary on topics of general interest from the perspectives of many, worldwide religions. In addition, there are many titles from religious publishing bodies and nondenominational organizations.
Research Library - Search for basic coverage of a broad range of subject areas including: arts, business, children, education, general interest, health, humanities, international, law, military, multicultural, psychology, sciences, social sciences and women’s interests.
Science Journals - Features over 1,145 titles, with more than 965 available in full text, dating back to 1986. Covers topics relating to all major fields of study including engineering, astronomy, biology, earth science, chemistry, and more.
SIRS Issues Researcher - Offers full-text article selections from more than 1,600 sources—exploring social, scientific, health, historic, economic, political, and global issues.
SIRS Renaissance - Provides full-text articles from more than 1,200 domestic and international publications on the following topics: architecture and design, culture, literature, multimedia, music, performing arts, philosophy and religion, and visual arts.
Snapshot Series - Includes over 8,890 market reports across 43 industries in 40 countries, spanning the UK, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Asia Pacific, North America, and Latin America. It is a unique source for market research data, offering worldwide market data for a broad range of industries and regions.
Social Science Journals - Includes over 570 titles, with more than 340 available in full text, on topics including addiction studies, urban studies, family studies, international relations, and more.
SPORTDiscus with Full Text -is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for sports & sports medicine journals, providing full text for more than 350 journals indexed in SPORTDiscus, as far back as 1985.
Telecommunications - Includes over 140 titles, with more than 115 available in full text, on topics including computer applications, data communications and data transmission systems, electronic data processing, information science and information theory, and radio and television.
Tests in Print - Produced by the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements at the University of Nebraska, Tests in Print (TIP) serves as a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language. TIP provides vital information to users including test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s).
Westlaw Campus Research - Contains news, business and law-related information sources and provides access to 4,300 news sources including newspapers, trade, business and professional publications, newswires, broadcast transcripts, foreign language publications and company information. The legal databases include federal and state case law, statutes and administrative rules and regulations as well as law reviews and journals.