Search the Knox Library Catalog for books, films and other materials:
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If your course has a research guide, start there:
Or, choose a subject guide to get started:
Databases and digital resources:
Find more resources: A-Z list with subject categories | Research Guides by Subject
Popular e-journals collections at Knox: JSTOR and Project Muse.
Students
See this guide on using library services during the pandemic closure.
Faculty
See this guide to connect to librarians and library services during the pandemic closure.
Many library vendors and and information providers are offering freely accessible resources during Spring 2020. Note: Some of these resources require authentication to our proxy server first. If prompted to login to the proxy server, do that with your Knox email username (without the @knox.edu) and your Knox email password.
When working from off-campus it is important to connect to our library databases and other online library tools from the Knox Library web site. When you make a remote connection to our library resources you will be prompted to log into the proxy server first. Do this using your Knox email username (without the @knox.edu part) and your Knox email password.
From EBSCO Information Services
Via partnership with the Center for Research Libraries EBSCO is providing free access to 21 historical/retrospective databases. To access any of these, click on any link to an EBSCO database found on our web site, then, once you land on the EBSCO search page, click on the link at the top to "Choose databases." Additionally, these major databases are also freely available this spring:
From Ithaka/JSTOR
Project MUSE
Project MUSE supports free materials from: Johns Hopkins University Press (all books and journals), Ohio State University Press (all books and journals), University of Nebraska Press (all books and journals), University of North Carolina Press (all books), Temple University Press (all books), and Vanderbilt University Press (selected books), and many more.
HeinOnline Academic
Materials for studying the law: Brennan Center for Justice Publications, CFR, Federal Register Library, FRUS, GAO reports, US Statutes at Large, Congressional Serial Set, Law Journal Library, US Federal Legislative History Library, US Supreme Court Library, and much more.
Cambridge
Cambridge is allowing free access (html view only) to several collections: Textbooks, Elements, and Companions through May 31.
Springer Textbooks
Springer is providing free access to about 400 textbooks through the end of July. Most of the titles are in the sciences, engineering, medicine, mathematics, and computer science. (View a list of the free textbooks here.)
Gale
Through a partnership with the Center for Research Libraries, Gale is providing free access through June 30th to many primary source collections, including 19th century UK and US newspapers, early printed books from the US and UK, 300+ archives collections, and more.
Brepols
Brepols offers read-only access to its ebook collection, primarily in the humanities: history, medieval studies, religion, philosophy, languages & literature.
De Gruyter
De Gruyter publishers offer free access to its book collection through June 30th.
The Internet Archive has a National Emergency Library
"A collection of books that supports emergency remote teaching, research activities, independent scholarship, and intellectual stimulation while universities, schools, training centers, and libraries are closed."
The Knox College Bookstore provides free access to some ebooks.
Visit the Special Collections and Archives pages for more about these unique and interesting collections in Seymour Library:
The Archives holds the record of the life of Knox College, including the history of the college's founding in 1837.
The Rare Books collections feature works about early America, the Civil War, Hemingway, children's literature and much more.
The Manuscripts collection is comprised of over 300 separate collections.
The Local History collections tell the story of Galesburg's development and the founding of Knox College.
The Art Collection is composed of works on canvas, prints, ceramics and sculpture.
The Allen Ayrault Green Photograph Collection
The Art of the Book: Personal and Institutional Bookplates
The Grace Ward 19th Century Photograph Collection
The Harold Way Photograph Collection
Knox College Experiences the First World War
Muralism in Revolutionary Nicaragua: The Henry Houser Collection
Netsuke Ivory Carvings
Outside the Shadow of Rembrandt
Railroads in the Midwest
Seeing America: Vision and Visual Culture in America
Struggle and Progress: African Americans in Knox County
The Way to Knox
