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Databases Best for Journalism
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive scholarly, multidisciplinary full-text database, with nearly 9,100 full-text journals and magazines, of which more than 7,900 are peer-reviewed journals. This database offers indexing and abstracts for journals and magazines, as well as books/monographs, country reports, conference proceedings, etc. This scholarly collection offers unmatched full-text coverage of information in many areas of academic study.
- Communication & Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window Communication & Mass Media Complete provides quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media. It offers cover-to-cover ("core") indexing and abstracts for over 370 journals, and selected ("priority") coverage of over 230 more. Furthermore, this database includes over 3,000 author profiles, providing biographical data and bibliographic information, and covering the most prolific, most cited, and most frequently searched for authors in the database.
- CQ Researcher Plus Archive This link opens in a new window CQ Researcher Plus Archive features lengthy reports, including background information, pro/con discussions, tables, statistical data supporting sides of issues, and bibliographies of helpful resources used in preparing the reports. It provides users with original, comprehensive reporting on issues in a balanced, unbiased manner, along with tools to study how these topics have changed over time.
- Points of View Reference Center This link opens in a new window Provides pro/con arguments on over 280 topics, with over 1,300 essays, magazines, newspapers, news transcripts, & primary source documents.
- Public Affairs Index This link opens in a new window Covers all aspects of public policy issues, ranging from health, the environment, human rights, international conflicts, energy, etc.
- SIRS Researcher This link opens in a new window A general reference database for high school and college students containing thousands of full-text articles exploring social, scientific, health, historic, business, economic, political and global issues, done according to strict criteria with regard to content and age appropriateness.
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Newspaper Databases
- Global Newsstream (formerly Newsstand) This link opens in a new window Provides current access to full-text articles from over 1,300 newspapers, news websites and blogs. Major newspapers include the New York Times, USA Today, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and other national and regional titles.
- Newspaper Source This link opens in a new window Provides full-text coverage for more than 40 national (U.S.) and international newspapers, and selective coverage for over 330 regional (U.S.) newspapers, plus news transcripts from CNN, FOX News, etc.
- New York Times This link opens in a new window The New York Times provides full-text coverage of all articles from June 1, 1980 to date, including the current day's news.
- Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic) This link opens in a new window Full-text database of news, legal, business, and biographical information.
- USA Today This link opens in a new window USA Today provides full-text coverage of all articles by USA Today staff writers from Feb. 17, 1997 to date, including the current day's news.
- Wall Street Journal This link opens in a new window The Wall Street Journal provides full-text coverage of all articles by Wall Street Journal staff writers from 1984 to date, including the current day's news.
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Background Databases
- Encyclopedia of Journalism This link opens in a new window Encyclopedia of Journalism "covers all significant dimensions of journalism, including print, broadcast, and Internet journalism; U.S. and international perspectives; history; technology; legal issues and court cases; ownership; and economics."
- Encyclopedia of Science and Technology Communication This link opens in a new window Provides information on the issues surrounding communication and science, including communicating complex scientific information to persons who are not scientists. It is geared towards undergraduate and graduate students in journalism, communication, mass communication, and media studies, as well as towards working journalists, public information officers, and public relations specialists,
- Statistical Abstract of the United States This link opens in a new window This is the most current and authoritative summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States.
- World Almanac This link opens in a new window Essential Facts and Statistics on Hundreds of Fascinating Topics.
- World News Digest This link opens in a new window
