Articles & Databases: News & Current Events
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Highly Recommended
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| Academic Search Elite | Indexes major scholarly journals and popular magazines in all academic disciplines. More Details... | 1984 to present |
| OmniFile Full Text Mega | Indexes major popular magazines and scholarly journals covering general topics, business, humanities, general science, education, and the social sciences. More Details... | 1982 to present |
Also Recommended
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| California Newspapers | Provides fulltext of approximately 50 California newspapers, including Sacramento Bee, San Francisco Chronicle, San Diego Union-Tribune, and San Jose Mercury News. More Details... | Dates varies by newspaper with earliest coverage from 1983 to present |
| CQ Researcher | Weekly in-depth report on a current events topic. Each report includes an abstract, overview, background summary, current situation, outlook, special focus, chronology, pro/con, and bibliography. More Details... | 1991 to present |
| CQ Weekly | Weekly fulltext report of legislation and other activities in the U.S. Congress, including the status of bills, votes and amendments, and floor and committee activity. More Details... | 1983 to present |
| Ethnic NewsWatch | Fulltext collection of newspapers, magazines, and journals from the ethnic, minority, and native press. More Details... | Date varies by publication, with earliest coverage from 1984 to present |
| Factiva | Provides fulltext coverage of general and business news and information sources including local and regional newspapers, magazines, trade publications, business newswires, press release wires, media transcripts and news photos. More Details... | Date varies by publication |
| LexisNexis Academic | Fulltext of newspapers and magazines; in addition to news, a good source for reviews of films and festivals, interviews with contemporary actors and filmmakers, etc. More Details... | Vary for each publication; most begin in the 1990s |
| New York Times - Historical File | Provides searchable full page image access to the New York Times newspaper. For articles 2004 to the present use either LexisNexis Academic or ProQuest Newsstand. More Details... | 1851 to 2006 |
| ProQuest Newsstand | Index with accompanying fulltext to over 500 U.S. and international general and business newspapers. More Details... | Date varies by publication with earliest coverage from 1985 to present |
| ProQuest Statistical Insight | Comprehensive index to statistical tables found within publications produced by U.S. government agencies and a more selective index to statistical tables from intergovernmental organizations, commercial publishers, independent research organizations, state government agencies, and universities. Selectively includes table images, excel spreadsheets and publication fulltext. More Details... | Publication/table abstracts from 1973 to the present. Tables from 1999, spreadsheets from 2006 and fulltext from 2004 |