INFOBASE PUBLISHING

Infobase is one of America’s leading providers of supplemental educational materials to the school and library markets. Founded in 1941, our company has a long history of publishing award-winning and highly acclaimed resources for K–12 schools, academic institutions, and public libraries. We take pride in creating resources that engage, enhance, and enrich the learning experience of students at all levels. And while we still publish individual print and video titles, we fully embrace the efficiency and expediency of digital formats in the form of online databases, eBook collections, and streaming video collections.

AVAILABLE PRODUCTS & SERVICES

 American History Online
Ancient and Medieval History Online
Business & Economics Collection
Bloom's Literary Reference
Credo
Films on Demand Master Career & Technical Education Collection
Facts on File Reference Suite
Ferguson's Career Guidance Center
Family & Consumer Science Collection
Feature Films for Education
Health Collection
Health and Medicine Collection
History Resource Center
Health Reference Center
Humanities & Social Science Collection
Issues and Controversies
Master Academic Collection
Modern World History Online
Physical Therapy Collection
Science Online
Today's Science
Films on Demand Veterinary
World Almanac
World Geography & Culture Online
World News Digest
World Religions Online

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

AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION PUBLISHING

American Psychiatric Association Publishing is the world’s premier publisher of books, journals, and multimedia on psychiatry, mental health and behavioral science. We offer authoritative, up-to-date and affordable information geared toward psychiatrists, other mental health professionals, psychiatric residents, medical students and the general public.

APA Publishing is a division of the American Psychiatric Association. Its purpose is twofold: to serve as the distributor of publications of the Association and to publish books and journals independent of the policies and procedures of the American Psychiatric Association. APA Publishing has grown since its founding in 1981 into a full-service publishing house, including a staff of editorial, production, marketing, and business experts devoted to publishing for the field of psychiatry and mental health.

AVAILABLE PRODUCTS & SERVICES

• DSM Library

Participating Members 

College of Lake County

BLOOMSBURY

Bloomsbury Digital Resources

Bloomsbury Digital Resources provides essential and cutting-edge scholarly content in the Humanities, Visual Arts, and Social Sciences. Anchored by the award-winning Bloomsbury Fashion Central and Drama Online, BDR offers an impressive portfolio of resources to support academic research. 

 Whether it be primary documents, critical texts, historical archives, or the latest in video and audio resources, we are committed to enhancing the research experience with innovative, engaging, and dynamic digital resources of the highest quality.

 Bloomsbury offers special pricing for Community Colleges, as well as bundle pricing across all our platforms, with tiered discounts that increase the more collections you acquire.

AVAILABLE PRODUCTS & SERVICES 

NILRC members can take advantage of regular discounted pricing on all resources listed below:

ABC-CLIO Digital Solutions Databases

Bloomsbury Cultural History

Bloomsbury Education and Childhood Studies

Bloomsbury Fashion Central

Bloomsbury Food Library

Bloomsbury History: Theory & Method

Bloomsbury Medieval Studies

Bloomsbury Music and Sound

Bloomsbury Philosophy Library

Bloomsbury Video Library

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Churchill Archive

Cite Them Right

Drama Online

Fairchild Books Interior Design Library

Human Kinetics Library

Screen Studies

Skills for Study

Theology and Religion Online (TARO)

BRAINFUSE

Patrons access real-time assistance through the intuitive Brainfuse online classroom. Brainfuse tutors are trained to not provide answers, but to help users master a problem’s underlying academic concepts. Brainfuse offers tutoring and homework help services in Spanish for all subjects offered in English.

Participating Libraries

Triton Community College

EBSCO INFORMATION SERVICES

EBSCO Information Services is a division of EBSCO Industries, Inc., one of the largest privately held and family-owned companies in the United States. EBSCO Industries, Inc. has been in business since 1944. Starting out as a small subscription agency, EBSCO quickly became a pioneer in the library services industry. Through vision, action, innovation, and a commitment to continuous improvement, EBSCO continually invests in the library business to ensure the long-term growth of products, services, and technologies for our customers.

AVAILABLE PRODUCTS & SERVICES

Academic Search Complete Upgrade
Academic Search Premier/Business Source Premier
America: History & Life and Historical Abstracts
America: History & Life and Historical Abstracts w/FT
Applied Science and Technology Full Text
Art Full Text 
CINAHL Complete
CINAHL Database
CINAHL Plus with Full Text
CINAHL with Full Text 
EBSCO eBooks
Education Full Text
Education Source
eMO (Consortial EBSCO Ebook Subscription)
MLA International Bibliography
PsycARTICLES
PsycINFO
PsycTESTS  

PARTICIPATING MEMBERS
Elgin Community College
St. Charles Comm. College
Rend Lake College
John A. Logan College
Illinois Central College
Kankakee Community College

DOCUSEEK 2

Docuseek streams essential independent, social-issue and environmental films to colleges and universities, providing exclusive access to content from renowned leaders in documentary film distribution including Bullfrog Films, dGenerate Films, The Fanlight Collection, First Run Features, and many more. 

 AVAILABLE PRODUCTS & SERVICES

Docuseek Complete Collection 2nd Edition contains all the Docuseek titles. It will be filled out to 1800 titles by December 31, 2020. Select this collection for the most comprehensive set of documentary film.

Docuseek Essential Collection contains 800 of our most recent and most popular titles from our participating distributors. The collection is recalibrated annually at the beginning of the year to include new content and perennial favorites.

The Docuseek Select offering allows you to curate your 400-title collection by selecting subject-oriented modules to suit your institutional needs. You may include tokens in your selections to allow for additional customization.

Participating Libraries 
Rock Valley College
Highland Community College

NEWSBANK

NewsBank consolidates current and archived information from thousands of newspaper titles, as well as newswires, web editions, blogs, videos, broadcast transcripts, business journals, periodicals, government documents, and other publications. Using these online resources, researchers can easily explore tens of millions of current and archived news articles and obituaries in order to pinpoint information from primary sources at the local, state, regional, national and international levels. NewsBank also offers online educational resources covering all academic curricula. Aligned with state standards and targeting all subject areas, NewsBank’s school-focused solutions include primary sources and inquiry-based projects that support learning, enhance research and help develop critical thinking skills.

Participating Members
Rend Lake College
Rock Valley College
Elgin Community College

CENGAGE LEARNING SERVICES/GALE

For 60+ years, Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, has been a leading provider of research resources to libraries and businesses – we’re passionate about supporting their continued innovation and evolution.

Virtually every K-12 school, university, and public library in the United States uses Gale products, helping advance scholarship and support economic, cultural, and intellectual growth in the communities we serve.

AVAILABLE PRODUCTS & SERVICES

Literature Resource Center
Opposing Viewpoints in Context
Academic OneFile
World History in Context
Business Insights
National Geographic Magazine

Participating Members
Harper Community College
Lake Land College
Joliet Junior College
Carl Sandburg College