Publicly Available Research Resources

IDEALS collects, disseminates, and provides persistent and reliable access to the research and scholarship of faculty, staff, and students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Faculty, staff, and graduate students can deposit their research and scholarship - unpublished and, in many cases, published - directly into IDEALS. Departments can use IDEALS to distribute their working papers, technical reports, theses, dissertations, or other research material.

The Illinois Digital Newspaper Collection (IDNC) contains digital facsimiles of historic Illinois newspapers. You can browse the newspapers by date or search by keyword across articles, advertisements and photo captions. You can print, download, or e-mail individual articles.

This guide provides an overview of the collections the University of Illinois has digitized, including archival collections, Illinois history, maps, science collections, and more.

The University Archives houses many interesting collections, including the Board of Trustees Proceedings, course catalogs, copies of the Illio yearbooks, and alumni and faculty biographical files.