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Books Articles Video Clips Websites Encyclopedias and Dictionaries Interlibrary Loan
Books
KCC Catalog - Catalog of items found in KCC's library. Need help? Watch a video tutorial.
I-Share Catalog - Catalog of the items of 76 academic libraries in the state of Illinois. Please only place requests after checking the KCC Catalog to make sure the item is not owned by KCC.
WorldCat - Catalog of items held by libraries worldwide. Contact the LRC for the user name and password to access this catalog. Please only place requests after checking the KCC Catalog and the I-Share Catalog.
Salem Press Literature - e-books covering classic authors and works of literature. Access from off campus is available using your KCC username and password.
Salem Press History - e-book edition of the five volume set 20th Century Musicians and Composers. Access from off campus is available using your KCC username and password.
Salem Press Science - e-book edition of the four volume set Encyclopedia of Global Warming. Access from off campus is available using your KCC username and password.
Infobase eBooks - Collection of 21 reference books about famous authors. Off-campus access is available using your KCC username and password.
Net Library - e-books available on a variety of topics.
SpringerLink - e-books available on a variety of topics.
NIAA Graves Collection - Books, pamphlets and videos in KCC's collection about natural history and environmental issues.
Articles
Journals
IDAL: EBSCOhost - Contains articles from a variety of areas such as humanities, business, social sciences, health care and education. Also includes the Auto Repair Reference Center. Access is available off-campus using your KCC username and password. Need help? Watch a video tutorial.
Expanded Academic ASAP - Provides access to scholarly journals, newspapers and magazines. Off-campus access is available using your KCC username and password. Need help? Watch a video tutorial.
Opposing Viewpoints - Features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, journal and newspaper articles and statistics on many of today's most controversial social issues. To access from off-campus, use your KCC username and password.
Literature Resource Center - Biographical information, literary criticisms and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods from around the world. Access is available off-campus by using your KCC username and password.
JSTOR - Digital library of more than 1,500 academic journals, books, and primary sources in all disciplines. Off-campus access is available using your KCC username and password.
Sage Deep Backfiles - Access to older issues of scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, technical and medical fields.
Journal of Chemical Education - journal of articles relevant to those interested in the teaching and learning of chemistry, including information on chemical content, classroom activities, laboratory experiments, and instructional methods.
Chronicle of Higher Education - source of news and information in the higher education field, and job listings for college and university faculty and administrators.
First Search - Use WorldCat to request articles not owned by KCC. Contact the LRC for the user name and password.
SpringerLink - Full and partial access to a number of journals dealing with the science and medical fields.
Search by Publication - An A to Z list of all the journals available in electronic format through KCC.
Newspapers
America's Newspapers - Electronic editions of local, regional and national U.S. newspapers, including 274 in Illinois and 175 in the Chicago area. Access is available off-campus by using your KCC username and password.
Harper's Weekly - Electronic images of this 19th century newspaper. Access is available on-campus only.
Kankakee Daily Journal - Limited online access to this local newspaper.
Proquest Historical - The New York Times and national newspaper abstracts. Off-campus access is available by using your KCC username and password.
Video Clips
Films on Demand - Searchable collection of more than 10,000 videos and video clips, on topics such as humanities, business, science, health, job searching, and much more. An account must be set up on-campus in order to use this resource off-campus.
Websites
ipl2 - High quality Internet sources grouped by subject. This collection is a result of a merger between the Internet Public Library and The Librarian's Internet Index. Selections for the collection are selected and evaluated for quality.
Internet Archives - A collection of more than 2 million full-text books, 500,000 audio recordings and 2.5 million moving images. Items in the collection range from very old texts to popular music recordings. Also includes the Wayback Machine, which allows you to see how almost any website has changed through the years.
Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
Gale Virtual Reference Library - Collection of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. To access from off-campus, use your KCC username and password.
Sage e-Reference - Encyclopedias on a wide variety of research topics. Access is available on-campus only.
Oxford English Dictionary - guide to the meaning, history and pronounciation of 600,000 words.
Bartleby Online - A collection of books, reference sources and quotations online.
Encyclopedia.com - A collection of encyclopedias from reputable publishers such as Columbia University Press and Oxford University Press.
Interlibrary Loan
I-Share - Catalog of the items of 76 academic libraries in Illinois. Please only place requests after checking the KCC catalog to make sure the item is not owned by KCC.
WorldCat - Catalog of items held by libraries worldwide. Contact the LRC for the user name and password to access this catalog. Please only place requests after checking the KCC catalog and the I-Share Catalog.
Policies - information about the interlibrary loan process, time requirements, eligibility and more.
Instructions - How to request an item through interlibrary loan.
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