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- Academic Search Premier
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- The world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary, full text database designed specifically for academic institutions. This scholarly collection provides full text journal coverage for nearly all academic areas of study - including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, etc. and currently counting 3,834 full text scholarly publications.
- American Journalism Review
- American Journalism Review is a national magazine that covers all aspects of print, television, radio and online media. The magazine, which is published six times a year, examines how the media cover specific stories and broader coverage trends.
- Columbia Journalism Review: Journalism Tools
- Columbia Journalism Review's guide to what the major media companies own, language corner, and studies guides.
- Communication Studies: A SAGE Full-Text Collection
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- Communication Studies: A SAGE Full-Text Collection includes the full-text of 19 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back 52 years, encompassing over 12,800 articles. It covers such subjects as Journalism, Public Opinion, Political Communication, Mass Communication, Interpersonal Communication, Cultural Studies / Intercultural Communication, Television / Film Studies, Media Studies, Business Communication, Organizational / Management Communication, Written Communication, Rhetoric, and Literacy Studies.
- Corporate ResourceNet
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- Corporate ResourceNet provides access to news and articles on topics in business, banking, law, finance, management, advertising, human resources and more. This database indexes nearly 1,900 scholar journals, legal sources, news services and magazines.
- EBSCOhost Family of Databases
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- Ebscohost family of databases include Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, EconLit, among others.
- Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia
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- The Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia database indexes over 25,000 records, covering an array of topics. Full text for each record may be easily accessed by double clicking on the topic from the display. The database contains various images, offers brief biographies as well as information in a variety of subject areas. This database is updated annually.
- GovEngine.com
- The premier federal, state, and local government site on the web.
- HLAS (Handbook of Latin America Studies) Online
- The Handbook is a bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities.
- JSTOR
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- With participation and support from the international scholarly community, JSTOR has created a high-quality, interdisciplinary archive of scholarship, is actively preserving over one thousand academic journals in both digital and print formats, and continues to greatly expand access to scholarly works and other materials needed for research and teaching globally
- LexisNexis Academic
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- LexisNexis' web-based research services provide solutions to fit your needs, including comprehensive access to government, news, business and legal information.
- Librarians' Index to the Internet: Media
- Librarians' Internet Index to Internet Media contains vetted web-links to a large number of websites related to journalism and media studies.
- McClatchy-Tribune Collection
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- 90-day archive of approximately 100 newspapers from the McClatchy-Tribune Collection. Titles include: The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, The Orlando Sentinel, and The Sacramento Bee.
- Military & Government Collection™
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- The Military & Government Collection™ provides full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals. The database also includes full text for 245 pamphlets and offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 titles.
- NCJRS (National Criminal Justice Reference Service)
- NCJRS is a federally funded resource offering justice and substance abuse information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide.
- Political Science: A SAGE Full-Text Collection
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- Political Science: A SAGE Full-Text Collection includes the full-text of 25 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back 24 years, encompassing over 10,000 articles.
- Regional Business News
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- Corporate libraries that purchase Business Source® Corporate or Corporate ResourceNet® (CRN) will also receive access to Regional Business News™.
- Sociology: A SAGE Full-text Collection
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- Sociology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection includes the full-text of 33 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back 24 years, encompassing over 12,700 articles. It covers such subjects as Childhood, Contemporary Sociology, Comparative Sociology, Consumer Culture, Classical Sociology, Ethnic Studies, Gender Studies, Leisure Studies, Social Theory, Sociology of Sport, and Sociology of Work and Employment (Labor Studies).
- TOPICsearch™
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- This current events database allows researchers to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms including controversial opinions and viewpoints.
- Wikipedia
- Wikipedia is a multilingual, Web-based, free content encyclopedia project. The name Wikipedia is a portmanteau (combination of words and their meanings) of the words wiki (a type of collaborative Web site) and encyclopedia. Wikipedia's articles provide links to guide the user to related pages with additional information.