General/Multidisciplinary

• Current Events & Background Info
  • Britannica Online - Description
    

    Fulltext: Yes Source: Britannica

    Britannica Online contains the complete Encyclopedia Britannica, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and the Britannica Book of the Year. Like any general encyclopedia, it is a good place to begin research and understand the basic facts of your topic. The "World" link provides a particularly valuable collection of maps, linked to geographical data in the encyclopedia. There is also a dictionary available at the same site. "The Encyclopedia Britannica database includes more than 72,000 encyclopedia articles and year-in-review articles from recent yearbooks. Most articles are brief or of moderate length and discuss people, places, institutions, things, or concepts. Longer articles are divided into separate sections for easier access and more accurate searching." Drawn from the vendor's website.

  • CQ Researcher - Description
    

    Fulltext: Yes Source: CQ Press

    The CQ Researcher explores a single issue in depth each week. The issues are chosen based on current news. This database is easy to check. If there is a relevant report, it's a great way to jump start your research. There are 44 reports each year including four expanded reports. Every 12,000-word report features comments from experts, lawmakers and citizens on all sides of every issue. Numerous charts, graphs and sidebar articles -- plus a pro/con feature, a chronology, bibliographies and a list of contacts.

  • Credo Reference - Description
    

    Fulltext: Yes Source: Credo Reference

    A full-text online reference service that includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, quotations, and many other sources of factual information. Use Credo to get background information on a research topic or become familiar with a new subject. Subjects covered include art, business, food and beverage, geography, history, language, law, literature, medicine, music, philosophy, psychology, religion, science, social sciences, and technology.

  • Points of View Reference Center - Description
    

    Fulltext: Yes Source: EBSCOHost

    Provides a balanced series of articles representing multiple viewpoints to help understand the full scope of a wide range of controversial subjects. The database offers an overview of an issue and it's points and counterpoints, as well as a guide to Critical Analysis.

• Newspapers
  • LexisNexis Academic - Description
    

    Fulltext: Yes Source: LexisNexis

    LEXIS-NEXIS® Academic Universe provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information, including news from over 18,000 newspapers, magazines and news wires and company financial information.

  • National Newspapers Expanded - Description
    

    Fulltext: Yes Source: Proquest

    Proquest Newspapers includes the full text of The Atlantic Journal - Constitution, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post.

  • New York Times (Current) - Description
    

    Fulltext: Yes Source: Proquest

    New York Times is part of the Proquest Newspapers database. It includes the complete text of NYT from 2005 - current.

  • New York Times (Historical) - Description
    

    Fulltext: Yes Source: Proquest

    The Historical New York Times covers 1851-2005

  • Points of View Reference Center - Description
    

    Fulltext: Yes Source: EBSCOHost

    Provides a balanced series of articles representing multiple viewpoints to help understand the full scope of a wide range of controversial subjects. The database offers an overview of an issue and it's points and counterpoints, as well as a guide to Critical Analysis.

  • Wall Street Journal - Description
    

    Fulltext: Yes Source: Proquest

    Wall Street Journal is part of the Proquest Newspapers database. It includes the complete text of WSJ from 1984 - current.

• Scholarly Articles - Multidisciplinary
  • JSTOR - Description
    

    Fulltext: Yes Source: JSTOR

    A reliable and comprehensive archive of important scholarly journal literature. JSTOR is important if you are doing a research project that needs older information in the arts and sciences. Due to its very nature as a retrospective journal archive, JSTOR does not contain current journal articles. The JSTOR database is unique because the complete back files of core scholarly journals have been digitized, starting with the very first issues, many of which date from the 1800's. Over 4 million pages are available.

• Spanish Interface Databases
  • Informe! - Description
    

    Fulltext: Yes Source: Gale

    Infotrac's informe is the first electronic database in Spanish. Specifically designed to meet the research needs of Spanish-speaking users-allowing researchers to think about a topic and conduct searches in Spanish. Fifty Spanish-language and bilingual periodicals-including popular titles such as Actual, Latin and Siempre. Full text of the El Nuevo Herald (Miami, Fl.) Spanish-language newspaper.