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Proquest Central This link opens in a new window
Includes databases across all major subject areas, including business, health and medical, social sciences, arts and humanities, education, science and technology, and religion. The collection includes thousands of full-text scholarly journals, trade and professional titles, newspapers, magazines, dissertations, working papers, case studies, and market reports.
Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
Provides full text for nearly 3,970 journals covering the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education, and much more.
Opposing Viewpoints This link opens in a new window
Covers timely issues, from capital punishment to immigration to marijuana. This cross-curricular resource supports science, political science, current events, and language arts classes. Informed, differing views help learners develop critical-thinking skills and draw their own conclusions.
Global Issues In Context This link opens in a new window
Focuses on broad issues, such as war, genocide, terrorism, human rights, poverty, famine, globalization, world trade, nuclear proliferation, and global warming, as well as more specific events and topics that are related to these broader issues.

Search using keywords for your topic:

Instead of: gender differences in media
Try: gender AND media (the content should tell you about the differences)

Connect terms with AND, OR, NOT and use quotes around phrases:

Ex: your topic AND (diar* OR letter* OR interview* OR speech*)

Ebooks are great for broadly researched topics and often provide great background of a topic.

Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
Online books for download or print, by chapter or page. Complete Collection of Academic titles available for download to your computer, or reading device, or you can print by chapter or page (limit varies).

World Press - World Headlines & Newspapers
One of the web’s largest and most comprehensive directories of World Newspapers and Magazines, sorted by Country, region, and political affiliation.
ABYZ Newslinks
Lists over 15,600 newspapers and other news sources by country and by region within each country. There is a language code next to each newspaper and separate links to alternative language versions if they are available. *Shows an error because of http url, but can continue to site

Boston Globe This link opens in a new window
Coverage from 1980 to current, with full-text articles published from 1997 to current.
Wall Street Journal This link opens in a new window
Searches 1984- present editions of the WSJ online. It contains only text. We have the current WSJ issues in the Newspaper area of the Library.

New York Times
The library has the print and keeps for 6 month. Also available online through several databases. Check "Journals by Title" on the Library website.
Today's Front Pages - Newseum
Links to the front pages of over 800 newspapers worldwide. Provided by the Newseum, a Washington, D.C. museum dedicated to news.