IRIS: Illinois Reliable Information Sources
Discover a wealth of reliable information through the EBSCO research suite, IRIS. Available to all Illinois residents, this premium collection features thousands of full-text journals, newspapers, and ebooks, including dedicated resources for K-12 students and professional research in fields like law and medicine.
AtoZdatabases is a directory and marketing database that includes 30 million business & executive profiles, 240 million residents, and over 7 million real-time job listings. It is ideal for sales leads, mailing lists, market research, employment opportunities, background searches, and finding friends & relatives.
Business Source Complete is the industry’s most used business research database, providing full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles. This database provides full text back to 1886, and searchable cited references back to 1998.
FinancialFit is designed by experts in the financial industry and offers short, easy-to-understand lessons, videos and interactive tools to empower people to understand the fundamentals of personal finance and make sound financial decisions in order to achieve financial goals. With more than 160 microlessons, FinancialFit covers topics including how to borrow money, budgeting basics, managing debt, building credit, setting long term financial goals and more.
Legal Information Source contains thousands of legal forms and 225 full-text publications of many of the top consumer legal reference books. A majority of the full-text legal reference books are provided through Nolo, the nation’s oldest and most-respected provider of legal information for consumers and small businesses.
PressReader has the largest selection of newspapers and magazines from over 120 countries in over 60 languages. That’s 7,000 trusted publications on a single platform. It’s editorial from titles like USA Today, The Guardian, The Boston Globe, Daily Mail, Chicago Tribune, and New York Daily. And, it’s high-value pop culture magazines like Elle, Rolling Stone, New York Magazine, O – The Oprah Magazine, Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Vogue, and GQ.
Spanish & Portuguese eBook Collection offers more than 9,200+ high-quality e-books in key areas of study like Business and Economics, Computer Science, Fine Arts, History, Literature, Political Science, Science, and Technology.