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A broad, interdisciplinary database with full-text to more than 5300 scholarly and popular periodicals. Provides coverage for all undergraduate areas of study, including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts and literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
JSTOR [?]
Full-text to important journals in the fields of: African Studies, Anthropology, Art & Art History, Asian Studies, Biology, Business, Ecology, Economics, Education, General Science, History, Language & Literature, Law, Mathematics, Middle East Studies, Music, Philosophy, Political Science, Sociology, Statistics, and Zoology. Coverage is limited to journals that are usually at least 5 years old, but some more recent articles may be available.
LexisNexis General/Easy Search [?]
An outstanding source for researching news, business, and legal topics, LexisNexis contains more than 6,000 sources from all over the world. Use the Easy Search form if you just need a quick answer to a simple query, you're not familiar with advanced searching methods, or you're not sure which sources to use. Enter any terms or phrases, with or without connectors, and Easy Search will determine the best searching method (terms and connectors or natural language) based on what you entered.
Provides indexing for a much smaller number of magazines than Academic Search Complete, but full-text for a larger percentage of them. It includes full text of some reference and travel books, including book reviews, biographies, a dictionary, and a collection of images.
Project Muse [?]
Project MUSE provides 100% full-text, affordable and user-friendly online access to a comprehensive selection of prestigious humanities and social sciences journals. MUSE is also the sole source of complete, full-text versions of titles from many of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies. Currently, MUSE provides full-text access to current content from over 400 titles representing nearly 100 not-for-profit publishers.
Newspapers
Newspaper Source [?]
Provides cover-to-cover full text for 25 national and international newspapers, selected articles from over 260 regional U.S. papers, and some television and radio news transcripts, in addition to indexing for a far larger number of papers.
Full text of the complete run of New York Times from 1851 to three years ago, with page images, individual articles, ads, & illustrationss in downloadable PDF. Is searchable by articles, display & classified ads, cartoons, photos, maps, graphics, editorials, obituaries, & commentary.
Biography & Rhetoric Resources
Biography in Context (Formerly Biography Resource Center) [?]
A full-text database of biographical information on people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. It combines biographies from multiple Gale reference publications, such as Contemporary Authors, Encyclopedia of World Biography, Dictionary of American Biography, and Directory of American Scholars, with articles from more than 300 magazines, such as American History, The Christian Century, and U.S. News & World Report.
Biographical information on over half a million people from around the world, with articles from such biographical reference books as Current Biography and the World Author Series, as well as magazine citations from Biography Index Database after 1984. Some third party publications are included, such as a subset of the biographies from Oxford's American National Biography.
Pro/Con Resources
CQ Researcher [?]
Provides original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues in the news. Each issue reports in-depth on a single theme in the areas of political and social issues, health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy. Reports include a background and chronology; an assessment of the current situation; tables and maps; pro/con statements from representatives of opposing positions; and bibliographies of key sources.
Opposing Viewpoints in Context [?]
Covers today’s hottest social issues, from Offshore Drilling to Climate Change, Health Care to Immigration. Opposing Viewpoints in Context helps students research, analyze and organize a broad variety of data for conducting research, completing writing assignments, preparing for debates, creating presentations and more.




