News & Current Events Databases
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4,700+ full text scholarly journals covering a wide range of topics.
Full-text documents from over 5,600 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications.
Full text for 139 regional U.S. newspapers, eighteen international newspapers, six newswires, nine newspaper columns, and citations for four national newspapers.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2008) with Index
Provides search capability using subject terms and topics for focused and targeted results in combination with searchable full text, full page, and article-level images from the New York Times (1851-2007)
Original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy.
Full text of articles, editorials and reviews from newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.
Opposing Viewpoints in Context
Information on social issues, including articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary sources, and websites.
A collection of full text newspapers containing the Atlanta Journal & Constitution; the Boston Globe; the New York Times; USAToday; the Wall Street Journal; the Washington Post; and the Christian Science Monitor.
Local and regional news coverage from newspapers around the United States
Comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications incorporating coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from the United States.
Periodicals in a broad range of general reference subjects including arts, business, humanities, social sciences, and the sciences.
An online legal research service, providing fast and easy access to an extensive collection of legal resources, news, business, and public records information.
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