Washington and Lee University
Academic Search Complete (Info)
Connect to: Academic Search Complete
| Producer: | Ebsco | |
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| Description: | 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. | |
| Usage Tips: | Here is help with searching, navigating, printing, and more.
Here is additional assistance on setting up automatic alert searches in this database. | |
| Librarian: | Dick Grefe | |
| Descriptors: | Music Theater .General (any topic) | |
Connect to: Accessible Archives
| Producer: | Accessible Archives | |
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| Sources: | Sources | |
| Description: | A collection of American newspapers, magazines, and other primary source materials, mostly from the 19th century, but with some 18th century items. Newspapers and magazines nclude the Virginia Gazette, Pennsylvania Gazette, The Liberator, Godey's Lady's Book, and a selection of African American newspapers. Books include a large collection of county histories, Civil War memoirs and regimental histories, and more. | |
| Usage Tips: | You may search the entire database or select individual titles or groupings.
For more help with using the Accessible Archives database interface (searching, printing, etc.), see this page. | |
| Librarian: | Dick Grefe | |
| Descriptors: | History -- United States .General (any topic) | |
American Periodicals Series (Info)
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| Producer: | ProQuest | |
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| Sources: | Sources | |
| Description: | Covering about 1,500 periodicals, this database contains "digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from Colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century" (1740-1940), including selected years of such popular titles as Vanity Fair, Ladies' Home Journal, The Dial, McClure's, African Repository, and the Southern Planter. This resource was purchased with funds from the Irving B. (Buck) Bricken Library Endowment Fund. | |
| Usage Tips: | For help with using the ProQuest database interface (searching, printing, etc.), see this page. | |
| Librarian: | Dick Grefe | |
| Descriptors: | Journalism and Mass Communications .General (any topic) | |
| Producer: | Dow Jones Reuters Business Interactive | |
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| Sources: | Sources | |
| Description: | International business and news coverage from over 8,000 sources including newspapers, news wires, 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. | |
| Usage Tips: | Factiva searches for the exact phrase you enter. For example, "speech recognition software" will find articles that contain those three terms adjacent to each other and in that order. Combining Terms: Use AND, OR, NOT. For example, "mci communications AND speech recognition software" will find articles containing both "mci communications" and "speech recognition software." Truncation: Add an asterisk (*) to the end of a word to search for all forms of that term. Example: congress*. NOTE: When finished with Factiva, please click on the "logout" selection in the top right corner of the screen to keep all available accounts open for other users. | |
| Librarian: | John Tombarge | |
| Descriptors: | Economics and Business - General Accounting Company Information Marketing .General (any topic) Business Administration | |
| Producer: | JSTOR | |
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| Description: | 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. | |
| Usage Tips: | Searching The opening Advanced Search page presents 4 options for searching through the full text of all articles. You can change one or more these options to search through authors' names, words in article titles, words in article abstracts, or words in captions.
To search for forms of a word, use an asterisk (*) to substitute for missing letters. Example: modern* finds modern, modernism, moderns, modernistic, etc. To find articles containing two or more words, connect the search terms with AND. Example: terror* AND nationalis* To search for a multi-word phrase, enclose search terms in quotation marks. Example: "vernacular architecture" Results and Printing The list of articles resulting from a search is displayed in order of relevance (the number of appearances and prominence of your search terms), but can be re-sorted by publication date. To print an article, click on the "PDF" option. | |
| Librarian: | Dick Grefe | |
| Descriptors: | Music Economics and Business - General History -- United States Humanities - General Anthropology and Archaeology Sociology Journalism and Mass Communications Politics -- American Politics Politics -- Elections and Voting Politics -- Legal and Constitutional Politics -- Foreign and International Politics -- Congressional Research Politics -- General Economics Theater .General (any topic) Women's and Gender Studies History -- Outside U.S. Islamic Studies Politics -- Political Philosophy | |
Connect to: LexisNexis Academic
| Producer: | LexisNexis | |
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| Sources: | Sources | |
| Description: | Massive full-text database, containing millions of documents from over 12,000 sources, primarily newspapers, general-interest magazines, and trade publications, along with an extensive collection of legal and business publications. | |
| Usage Tips: | The interface opens with a selection of six quick options: "Search the News": "Look Up A Legal Case"; "Get Company Info"; "Research Countries"; "Research People"; and "Combined Search."
These options can be useful for quick research needs; note that you may need to use drop-down menus to specify certain specific publications or publication groups. More sophisticated search options are available by clicking in the column on the left: * News -- subdivided into various categories of publications. * U.S. Legal -- subdivided into Federal & State Cases and Law Reviews, among others. * International Legal * Companies -- includes Company Profiles, SEC Filings, and more. Search Terms The database automatically searches for both singular and plural forms of words. The trucation symbol ! (exclamation mark) can be used to substitute for several letters to search for forms of a word. Example: child! will find child, children, childhood, etc. To search for a multi-word term or phrase, enclose the words within quotation marks. Example: "campaign finance" Here is more detailed information on combining search terms. | |
| Librarian: | Dick Grefe | |
| Descriptors: | .General (any topic) | |
New York Times, Historical (Info)
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| Producer: | ProQuest | |
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| Description: | The historical New York Times database offers full page and article images from 1851 through 2008, with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
Other newspaper databases offer online access to more recent issues of the New York Times. | |
| Usage Tips: | For help with using the ProQuest database interface (searching, printing, etc.), see this page.
Please note the availability of an "Obituaries" search option, near the top of the screen. | |
| Librarian: | Dick Grefe | |
| Descriptors: | History -- United States .General (any topic) History -- Outside U.S. | |
NewsBank Access World News (Info)
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| Producer: | NewsBank | |
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| Sources: | Sources | |
| Description: | 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. Chronological coverage varies among sources, but many extend back to the 1990's. | |
| Usage Tips: | Important note: The opening search screen is set up to search only U.S. news sources. If you want international coverage, click on the "World" link in the column on the left.
To focus on sources from a particular region or state, click on the desired area on the map or click on the name of the region. To search for forms of a word, you can use an asterisk (*). Example: riot* finds riot, riots, rioting, rioter, rioters, etc. To search for articles containing two or more words, connect them with AND. Example: france AND riot* To search for articles containing a multi-word phrase, enclose the words within quotation marks. Example: "mock convention" Here is additional assistance on setting up automatic alert searches in this database. | |
| Librarian: | Dick Grefe | |
| Descriptors: | .General (any topic) | |
Connect to: Newspaper Source Plus
| Producer: | Ebsco | |
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| Sources: | Sources | |
| Description: | 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. | |
| Usage Tips: | Here is help with searching, navigating, printing, and more.
Here is additional assistance on setting up automatic alert searches in this database. | |
| Librarian: | Dick Grefe | |
| Descriptors: | .General (any topic) | |
ProQuest Dissertations And Theses (Info)
Connect to: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
| Producer: | ProQuest | |
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| Description: | Described as "the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses," this database contains over 2.7 million citations to dissertations and theses from around the world, dating back to 1861. About 1.2 million items are provided in full-text (PDF) form.
An option for U.K. dissertations and theses is the British Library's Ethos database, which includes some online full-text access. (Free registration is required.) | |
| Usage Tips: | For help with using the ProQuest database interface (searching, printing, etc.), see this page. | |
| Librarian: | Dick Grefe | |
| Descriptors: | .General (any topic) | |
| Producer: | Johns Hopkins University Press | |
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| Sources: | Sources | |
| Description: | 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. | |
| Usage Tips: | Combining Terms Use the search button options ("All of these words," "Any of these words," and "The exact phrase") under the "Search Terms" box to control the combination of terms. Truncation You can search for the various forms of a term by adding an asterisk (*) to the end of a word or portion of word. Example: artis* would retrieve artist, artists, artistic, artisan, etc. Full Text All articles are provided in full-text form. | |
| Librarian: | Yolanda Merrill | |
| Descriptors: | Humanities - General .General (any topic) | |
Readers Guide Retrospective (Info)
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| Producer: | H. W. Wilson / Ebsco | |
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| Sources: | Sources | |
| Description: | Derived from the venerable Readers Guide to Periodical Literature, this database lists approximately 3 million articles from about 375 leading magazines, such as Time, Newsweek, and the New Yorker, roughly covering the time span from 1890 to 1982. Note: This database format was changed on 12 December 2011. Purchase of this database was made possible by the Hal F. and Barbra B. Higginbotham Fund. | |
| Usage Tips: | Here is help with searching, navigating, printing, and more in Ebsco databases. | |
| Librarian: | Dick Grefe | |
| Descriptors: | .General (any topic) | |
Wall Street Journal Historical Archive (1889-1995) (Info)
Connect to: Wall Street Journal Historical Archive (1889-1995)
| Producer: | ProQuest | |
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| Description: | The Wall Street Journal (1889-1995) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. Access to articles after 1993 is available from Dow Jones Factiva | |
| Usage Tips: | Searching The default search option is to search through all citations and the texts of all articles. Other options, such as searching through article titles, are available.
Truncation To search for various forms of a word (or part of a word), place an asterisk (*) at the end of the word. For example, exhibit* will retrieve exhibit, exhibits, exhibition, exhibitionist, etc. Combining Terms Find citations containing two or more words by connecting them with the word "AND." Example: pollut* AND potomac. To search for a phrase, enclose the words in quotation marks. Example: "washington and lee university". Search Results Results are arranged with the oldest articles first. Use the "Sort results by" option to re-arrange to have the most recent articles first or to have the most relevant articles first. Full-text copies of most articles are provided in PDF format, which requires Adobe Acrobat reader software installed on your computer. | |
| Librarian: | Tombarge | |
| Descriptors: | Economics and Business - General .General (any topic) Business Administration | |
Washington Post, Historical (Info)
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| Producer: | ProQuest | |
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| Description: | The historical Washington Post offers full page and article images from 1877 to 1995 with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
Other newspaper databases offer online access to more recent issues of the Washington Post. | |
| Usage Tips: | For help with using the ProQuest database interface (searching, printing, etc.), see this page.
Please note the availability of an "Obituaries" search option, near the top of the screen. | |
| Librarian: | Dick Grefe | |
| Descriptors: | History -- United States .General (any topic) History -- Outside U.S. | |