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DATABASES

Academic Search Elite

A multi-disciplinary database offering full text for more than 2,050 scholarly journals. Covering virtually every area of academic study, it offers full text information for many of it's journals dating as far back as 1985.

NEW! Books In Print   

Find books, movies, and audio books in this user-friendly database of over 5 million titles.

Business Source Elite

Provides full text coverage for 1,133 scholarly business, management and economics journals, including more than 500 peer-reviewed publications and offers indexing and abstracts for more than 1,800 journals. Business Source Elite contains full text from the world's top management and marketing journals including Business Week, Forbes, Harvard Business Review, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Marketing Management, Journal of Marketing Research (JMR), Journal of Marketing, etc. Detailed company profiles for the world's 10,000 largest companies is also provided.

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe

Provides full-text documents from over 5,600 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications with a variety of flexible search options. Includes coverage of many newspapers, news wires, and news trancripts.

National Newspaper Abstracts

Provides abstracts and indexing for New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal. Select database from the database drop down menu.

Newspaper Source

Provides selected full text for 25 national(U.S.) and international newspapers, as well as full text television & radio news transcripts, and selected full text for more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers.

Regional Business News

Incorporates 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. Included in this database are Arizona Business, Business North Carolina, Crain's New York Business (and other Crain Communications editions), Des Moines Business Record, Enterprise Salt Lake City, Fort Worth Business Press, Orange County Business Journal, Westchester County Business Journal, and more.

WEB RESOURCES

Online Magazines & Newspapers

The Atlantic Online

An online magazine from the publishers of Atlantic Monthly. This site offers the content of the print edition with weekly updates of original web-only features, including interviews with writers, essays and reviews on books and culture, political commentary, and the Atlantic Monthly archive back to 1995. Site is searchable.

Harper's Magazine

Website of Harper's Magazine, an American journal of literature, politics, culture, and the arts published continuously from 1850. Site is searchable.

Time Magazine Online

Online edition of Time Magazine. About 50% of print articles make it to the website; the cover story is always included. Also includes original webcontent and is updated daily. Site is searchable.

Newsweek

Online version of Newsweek. New articles posted daily. Site is searchable.

New York Times

New York Times newspaper online. A password may be required to access some articles, however, there is no charge to create the password or view the articles.

Online News Sites

CNN.com

Offers news on national events, world events, business, sports, weather, politics, health, law, technology, science, etc. Now includes free video.

FOXNews.com

Google News

Google News gathers stories from more than 4,500 news sources in English worldwide, and automatically arranges them to present the most relevant news first. Topics are updated every 15 minutes. Allow you to search and browse 4,500 news sources.

MSNBC.com

Offers news on national events, world events, business, sports, weather, politics, health, law, technology, science, blogs, etc. Includes video.

Yahoo! News

Lets you search across thousands of news sources, stories from major wire services and and Yahoo! news partners. Breaks news down to US, Business, World, Entertainment, Sports, Tech, Politics, Science, Health, and Most Popular. The Full Coverage option is browsable by subject category.