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Academic Search Complete
Multidisciplinary article database offers access to more than 9,500 journals, magazines, and newspapers, including over 8,500 peer-reviewed journals, as well as over 5,500 full-text periodicals. Also includes selected report, monographs, conference proceedings, and more. Updated daily and includes some coverage back to 19th-century articles.
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Alternative Press Index
Index to articles from about 300 "alternative" magazines and newspapers, along with selected journal articles. Coverage extends back to 1991.
The database is updated quarterly.
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Dissertation Abstracts
Lists over 1.5 million doctoral dissertations and masters theses from institutions in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. Coverage extends back to the 1860's, with abstracts provided since 1980. The database is updated monthly.
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International business and news coverage from over 8,000 souces including newspapers, newswires, magazines, trade journals, radio and television transcripts, and websites. Company information and data. Up to 5 years of historical market data. Photographs and pictures from Reuters and Knight Ridder.
Internet Explorer is recommended for Factiva.
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Historical New York Times
The historical New York Times offers full page and article images from 1851 to 2001, with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
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Historical Washington Post
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JSTOR
A digital archive of over 1,100 important scholarly journals. All issues of each journal are included in full-text except for the most recent 2-to-5 years, based on JSTOR's agreement with the journal's publisher.
August 2009 update: JSTOR is developing Data for Research, a tool for analysis of the content of the database.
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LexisNexis Academic
Massive full-text database, containing over one billion documents from over 18,000 sources, primarily newspapers, general-interest magazines, and trade publications, along with an extensive collection of legal and business publications.
An alternative interface will be made available in the fall of 2009; please feel free to try it and let us know what you think.
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NewsBank Access World News
A database of articles from 1,700 U.S. and international full-text information sources, mostly newspapers and wire services. Very useful for access to state-by-state coverage.
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Newspaper Source Plus
Full-text, cover-to-cover coverage of over 130 U.S. and international newspapers, plus selective full-text coverage for an additional 335 U.S. newspapers and transcripts from broadcast news sources. In most cases, chronological coverage extends back only several years, although some coverage begins in the 1990's.
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Periodicals Index Online (PIO)
An index to millions of articles published in over 4,000 periodicals in the humanities and social sciences with deep chronological coverage going back over 200 years.
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Project Muse
Full-text access to recent issues of over 220 journal titles from 37 scholarly publishers. Covers literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and other disciplines.
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