LingQ

LingQ 

LingQ is a Comprehensible Input (CI) based platform that enhances language learning through reading and listening to content of interest. Instuctors love the way LingQ lets their students access content that they’re interested in. By listening and reading to content from LingQ’s vast library, and reviewing vocabulary in context or using LingQ’s spaced repetition review system, students quickly start to grow their vocabulary while being immersed in interesting material in their target language.

 

LingQ is a great fit for community colleges and would be a perfect addition to any student's language learning needs. They offer features that other major language apps do not, and have been ranked by university professors as the most effective language learning app.

Instructors can track students' progress, upload lessons, and create forum discussions through an easy-to-use portal.

STATISTA

Statista is the global number one data platform with more than 3 million statistics on over 80,000 topics across 170 industries, including a plethora of data across academic departments like nursing, social sciences, and business, among 177 other disciplines.  Statista grants access to academic publication rights and citation features.

The statistics platform has become an integral part of the academic sector serving as a multidisciplinary data-finding aid that helps students, lecturers, and researchers discover relevant and reliable statistical data and analysis on over 80,000 topics from over 22,000 sources. The content is not only trusted among academic institutions but also to thousands of corporate and government establishments.

Simple keyword searches and full citations provide research time savings for your patrons. Whether it is valid data for term papers & theses, for daily tasks in research and teaching, or as a research tool in libraries, Statista always provides the most relevant content.

Consumer Insights (formerly Global Consumer Survey) offers a continuously updated and immediately available set of survey data on buying behavior and media usage worldwide. It is designed to help your patrons perform market research and understand consumer behavior and interactions with brands. Thanks to an interactive online analysis tool, patrons can select their own criteria to create cross tables and customize target groups.

 eCommerce Insights (formerly eCommerce Database) provides continuously updated and immediately available eCommerce store profiles in an intuitive user interface. Your patrons will be able to analyze the market trends of individual segments and quickly identify the major players.

 Company Insights (formerly Company Database) serves as a central point providing global company information on 20 million listed and privately held companies, allowing your patrons to detect key industry players instantly.  It’s the perfect tool to research basic data quickly and provides valuable insights Into foreign markets.

 Sales Contact:
Megan Drake
Megan.Drake@statista.com

NICHE ACADEMY

Niche Academy helps academic libraries show their direct contribution to student success by providing the ability to easily measure student learning outcomes. Our customers use Niche Academy to teach students how to conduct better research, use library resources, and much more.

We let you deliver library instruction at the point-of-need and allow you to embed tutorials in your website, your LibGuides, and within your existing campus LMS, where teaching faculty can assign them as a part of their regular course materials. Tutorials can even be pre-assigned to free up classroom time for more in-depth conversations and troubleshooting.

With the Niche Academy platform, your training is always available, but still interactive so you can give individual feedback and assess learning outcomes. You can create your own training or take advantage of our collection of ready-made and highly customizable training that’s been created by Niche, peer librarians, and other experts - all included in your subscription.

For an overview of Niche Academy, read this recent interview with COO - Jared Oates!

Participating Members
Carl Sandburg College
Illinois Central College
Joliet Junior College
Lake Land College

POWERNOTES

The best way to gather, organize, and keep track of your research.

 At a high level, PowerNotes is designed to help with three pervasive problems experienced by students:
PowerNotes helps with some of the most difficult and time-consuming parts of online research: gathering and keeping track of source materials, staying organized, and creating a research outline. Here’s how PowerNotes does it:

Participating Members
Kishwaukee College
Illinois Valley Community College

PowerNotes -Vendor Spotlight Video

IBISWORLD

For 50 years, IBISWorld has been a top industry intelligence database for academic institutions of all sizes — from community colleges to large universities. Business, finance, and marketing students use our forward-looking industry data while educators, librarians, and career advisors use IBISWorld’s wide selection of industry research reports to guide all levels of students.

AVAILABLE PRODUCTS & SERVICES

IBISWORLD for Librarians

Participating Members
College of Lake County

MINITEX

Minitex is state-funded organization located at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. Their mission is to strengthen libraries, cultural institutions, and the communities they serve. They offer discounted pricing on individual purchases of a wide variety of library products.

AVAILABLE PRODUCTS & SERVICES

3M Tattle Tapes

Participating Members
St. Charles Community College

 

OVERDRIVE

The NILRC OverDrive Consortium currently has 13 participating member libraries.  Their shared collection provides the opportunity for academic members to pool financial resources and work together to develop a collection that will grow over time from the extensive selection of eBooks and audiobooks available in the Overdrive Marketplace.  

NILRC OverDrive Consortium Member Libraries 

Black Hawk College
Oakton Community College
College of Lake County
Danville Community College
Highland Community College
Illinois Valley Community College
Joliet Junior College
Kishwaukee College
Lincoln Land Community College
Northwestern College
Illinois Central College
Triton Community College
Morton Community College
Carl Sandburg College
Parkland College

SMARTER SERVICES

SmarterServices is a full-spectrum assessment services company that solves unmet market challenges facing learners, instructors, institutions, and organizations by developing unique educational technology solutions to improve a learner’s success.

AVAILABLE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES

SmarterMeasure

Participating Members
Carl Sandburg College

LYRASIS - LEXISNEXIS

  • Researchers can quickly and easily search full-text documents from over 17,000 credible sources of information and pinpoint relevant information for a wide range of academic research projects.

  • Comprehensive, authoritative news content, including current coverage and deep archives.

  • Extensive legal sources for federal and state cases and statutes, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions since 1790

  • Unparalleled business information on over 80 million U.S. and international companies and more than 63 million executives

  • Powerful search capability that operates behind simple, fill-in-the-blank search forms

  • Fast, easy—anywhere—access that can support unlimited users

  • Reliable on-demand support and training for librarians

    AVAILABLE PRODUCTS & SERVICES

LexisNexis Academic

Participating Members
Illinois Central College
Joliet Junior College
Moraine Valley Community College
Morton College 

SAGE - CQ PRESS

At the forefront of research and reporting in the fields of political science, international relations, public policy, mass communication, and journalism, SAGE | CQ Press publishes the work of leading scholars in groundbreaking textbooks, highly influential periodicals, must-have reference materials, and innovative digital resources across the curriculum. Instructors, students, researchers, and leaders alike trust and respect our quality content—known for uncompromising objectivity, breadth and depth of coverage, and high standards of journalistic and editorial excellence. 

AVAILABLE PRODUCTS & SERVICES

CQ Researcher Online
CQ Weekly
CQ Almanac
Politics in America
Sage Research Methods
Participating Libraries
Waubonsee Community College
City Colleges of Chicago
Oakton Community College

THE NEW YORK TIMES

The New York Times is known all over the world for unparalleled news coverage, analysis and high-caliber reporting. Each day hundreds of colleges and universities around the globe bring our content into the academic setting. Join this rapidly expanding group of academic institutions, and offer your student body NYTimes.com, on campus and off.

Participating Members
·Moraine Valley

 

SPRINGSHARE

Founded in 2007, Springshare is among the fastest-growing library technology vendors, serving many thousands of libraries worldwide. Springshare's tools help librarians provide more effective and efficient assistance to students (both online and on campus) in successfully completing their academic coursework. We help you turn students and faculty into successful - and frequent - library users.

AVAILABLE PRODUCTS & SERVICES

LibGuides
LibGuides CMS
Lib Seats
LibStaffer
LibWizard
LibInsight
LibCal
E-Reserves

Participating Members
Black Hawk College
Kankakee Community College
College of Lake County
Danville Area Community College
Illinois Valley Community College
Oakton Community College
Parkland College
Elgin Community College
Morton College
Rock Valley College
Rend Lake College
Kishwaukee College
Jefferson College
Spoon River College
St. Charles Community College
East Central College
Lake Land College

 

 

PROQUEST-CSA LLC

ProQuest is committed to empowering researchers and librarians around the world. The company's portfolio of assets - including content, technologies, and deep expertise - drives better research outcomes for users and greater efficiency for the libraries and organizations that serve them.

AVAILABLE PRODUCTS & SERVICES

Support vocational and technical studies and provide resources for students who plan to transfer: empower your researchers with the right information!

 Ebook Central – Titles from trade publishing giants Hachette Book Group and HarperCollins are now available on the platform. Learn more about Academic Complete – More than 6,000 titles added including 300+ award winners. Check out what’s new in our 2021 Review. Check out the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Ebook Central Subscription – 244+ new titles added in 2022 across multiple interdisciplinary subjects representing a spectrum of voices.

 Nursing & Allied Health Premium is a solution that supports the teaching, learning, and research needs of nursing and allied health students and educators.

 ProQuest Black Studies combines primary and secondary sources, including leading historical Black newspapers such as the Chicago Defender, archival documents and collections, key government materials, videos, writings by major Black intellectuals and leaders, scholarly journals, and essays by top scholars in Black studies.

 ProQuest One Literature is a comprehensive, diverse solution to support all aspects of literature research, teaching, and learning. Sign up for a 30-minute Demo to see engaging examples of how it aligns to a diverse curriculum and how the design and multiformat content bring forward the most relevant content for literary studies. See what’s new in 2022.

 ProQuest One Business, a comprehensive destination for business research, teaching, and learning, offers a mix of practical and theoretical content in an interface designed to help business students succeed. Charleston Advisor has rated it 4.75 out of 5 in a newly published review, calling it “Sleek and Intuitive.” How can we work together to prepare today’s business students for success? Register here to view the recording and find out. See what’s new here.

 Check out The Arts (Art, Design, Architecture, Film Studies, Music, Theatre) – The Artforum Archive has launched! Check out National Theatre Collection – Volume I includes Frankenstein, Hamlet, Jane Eyre, and more. Volume II includes contemporary video productions.

 Need to support a Diversity/Equity/Inclusion effort? Ask about videos, ebooks, and newspapers, magazines, and journals.

 Disability studies are on the rise, but resources can be difficult to find. Read the blog post: “Justice Not Charity”: A History of the Blind Marches. Explore Disability Studies.

 Engage, inspire, and inform with unmatched historical collections > Check out Primary Sources. 

 Need streaming video? To learn more about Academic Video Online, which offers unlimited access, predictable subscription cost, automatic perpetual rights feature, FREE media hosting, easy administration, and more, sign up for a demo.

 Need to think critically about global cultures? CultureGrams takes you beyond facts and figures to understand daily life, customs, and culture in countries of the world.

Participating Members
Carl Sandburg College
College of Lake County
Elgin Community College
Illinois Central College
Illinois Valley Community College
Joliet Junior College
Lake Land College
Lincoln Land Community College
Moraine Valley Community College
Oakton Community College
Rock Valley College
Triton College
William Rainey Harper College

ALA/RDA

AVAILABLE PRODUCTS & SERVICES

RDA | Resource Description and Access is an international standard for the creation of library and cultural heritage metadata for use in the ever-expanding digital environment. RDA is designed to address a wide range of data collection and access needs.

Participating Members
Danville Area Community
Elgin Community College
Harper Community College
Joliet Junior College
Lincoln Land Community College
Moraine Valley Community College
Oakton Community College
Rock Valley Community College
Parkland Community College

SWANK

Digital Campus by Swank Motion Pictures, Inc.® allows students the flexibility to legally view course-assigned films outside the classroom. Providing digital access to course-related films allows educators to enhance the learning experience without taking up valuable class time.

Digital Campus provides a flexible and custom solution to fit your campus’ needs by distributing films through your Learning Management System. Select and pay only for the films you need! We have exclusive distribution of thousands of films, making us the largest repository of digital film content to complement the curriculum of any course.

AVAILABLE PRODUCTS & SERVICES

Swank Digital Campus is available in a variety customizable and subject specific packages. 

Participating Members
Black Hawk College
Oakton Community College

WORLD TRADE PRESS

World Trade Press is a publishing and information products company dedicated to providing reliable, up-to-date digital media essential for researchers, educators, travelers, and logistics and international trade professionals. These products draw from our Global Knowledgebase of digital reference information, which complements our printed offerings that include maps, books, and atlases.

AVAILABLE PRODUCTS & SERVICE

A to Z Food America
A to Z World Food
Global Road Warrior
A to Z Maps Online
A to Z World Travel
A to Z World Culture
A to Z USA
A to Z World Business

Participating Members
Oakton Community College
Harper Community College
Joliet Junior College
College of Lake County
Elgin Community College
Illinois Central College
Illinois Valley Community College
McHenry County College
Shawnee College

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

With origins dating back to 1478, Oxford University Press (OUP) is the world's largest university press with the widest global presence. Our Global Academic Publishing program spans the entire academic and higher education spectrum, including a wide array of scholarly and general interest books, journals, and online products.  The Academic Division of OUP comprises journals publishing, research and reference publishing, Higher Education, and academic dictionaries. We also publish Sheet Music.

AVAILABLE PRODUCTS & SERVICES

African American Studies Center
American National Biography Online
Benezit Online
Grove Art Online
Grove Music Online
Oxford Bibliographies Online
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online
Oxford Dictionaries Online Pro
Oxford English Dictionary Online
Oxford Islamic Studies Online
Oxford Language Dictionaries Online
Oxford Reference Online
Oxford Quick Reference
Social Explorer 

Participating members
Black Hawk College
College of Lake County
Elgin Community College
Illinois Central College
Joliet Junior College
Lake Land College
Moraine Valley Community College
Morton College
Oakton Community College
Parkland College
Rock Valley College
St. Charles Community College
Triton College
Waubonsee Community College

OVID TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

Cost-effective access to 6 premium journals that best meet the curriculum needs of 2-year nursing programs.  Nursing professionals face many challenges in their mission to improve patient care and, more than ever before, their education on nursing fundamentals is essential to the success of their continuing education, practice, and professional development. This compact collection includes 6 key journals from the industry gold standard—Lippincott Williams & Wilkins—carefully selected and backed by Ovid’s practicing nurse professionals.

Participating Members
Kishwaukee College
Illinois Central College
Shawnee Community College
East Central College

NOODLE TOOLS

NoodleTools is an online research management platform that promotes critical thinking and authentic research. Students stay organized as they evaluate information, build accurate citations, archive source material, take notes, outline topics, and prepare to write. Three differentiated levels support individual students across grades and abilities. The classroom environment allows librarians and teachers to provide feedback, monitor individual contributions to group work, and view statistics about source use. In contrast to an auto-cite, auto-evaluate product, we support students to engage deeply in research and produce original work. NoodleTools is also designed with online student privacy in mind.

 

Participating Members 
College of Lake County
Carl Sandburg College
Danville Area Community College
Elgin Community College
Heartland Community College
Illinois Central College
Illinois Valley Community College
John Wood Community College
Oakton Community College
Kishwaukee College

 

 

MANGO LANGUAGES

Mango teaches learners to think critically in new languages and retain what they’ve learned. When it comes to the language-learning content your campus will encounter, we keep it real. Students, faculty, staff, and alumni will learn from conversations between native speakers and culture-packed films they might see in theaters in the country where their new language is spoken.

Participating Members

Lake Land Community College