News & Issues

MasterFILE Premier is a multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 2,050 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also includes more than 350 full text reference books, 82,968 biographies, 90,915 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags.

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Newspaper Source provides selected full text for 25 national (U.S.) and international newspapers. The database also contains full text television & radio news transcripts, and selected full text for more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers.

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This current events database allows researchers to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms. TOPICsearch contains full text for over 78,000 articles from more than 3,000 diverse sources, including more than 1,550 full text periodicals.

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This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

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Points of View is designed to assist researchers in understanding the full scope of controversial subjects. Students can use Points of View as a guide to debate, developing arguments, writing position papers, and for development of critical thinking skills. Each Points of View Essay includes a series of questions and additional material to generate further thought. Also included are thousands of supporting articles from the world’s top political and societal publications.

Readers' Guide Full Text provides access to hundreds of popular periodical resources with full text. This index contains current events coverage, curriculum support, and quality periodicals research for students, educators, and library patrons.

ProQuest Newspapers database provides access to thousands of current periodicals and newspapers, many updated daily and containing full-text articles from 1986. The Spokesman Review is included in the ProQuest news databases.

FACTS.COM offers historical news (dating back to 1940) and current news, analysis of issues & controversies, country profiles and maps, historical documents, obituaries and profiles of historical figures, and also a collection of photographs and charts. Users should find this to be a good resource for researching issues in society with an historical and cultural context.

Published in print and online 44 times a year, the single-themed CQ Researcher report offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy.

CQ Global Researcher offers researchers international perspectives on the most vital world issues with original, single-topic reports, written in the same balanced, unbiased style as the CQ Researcher.

Campus Research™ is a research database containing news information including top titles such as The New York Times, USA Today, Atlanta Journal and Constitution, Boston Globe and Financial Times. This database also includes full-text information from international publications, over 400 newswires, newsletters, broadcast transcripts, and foreign language publications.