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General and News Research Guide

Academic Search Premier
EBSCO
Indexes 8,000 magazines and journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences (1975-present).
Articles - Some full text
Access World News
NewsBank
Local, regional, national, and international newspapers, including the Omaha World Herald. Years vary by source.
Newspapers - Full text
Alternative Press Index
FirstSearch
Radical and left periodicals with cultural, economic, political and social commentary (1991-present).
Articles - Some full text
Book Review Digest
Wilson
Book reviews of current English-language fiction and nonfiction, including a summary of the book.
Article Excerpts
Books in Print
Bowker
Bibliographic information and reviews for in-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming book, audio, and video titles.
Books - Citations only
CollegeSource
Career Guidance Fdn.
Library of 35,000 college catalogs for 2-year, 4-year, graduate, professional, and international schools.
Directory
CountryWatch Political, economic, social, and environmental overviews, statistics, and news for approximately 200 countries.
Reference Entries
CQ Researcher
CQ Press
Summary reports of current political, economic, social, cultural, and health issues in the news (1991-present).
Reference Entries
CSA (Proquest-CSA)
Gateway to indexes for philosophy, sociology, political science and others, plus SAGE e-journal collections.
Articles - Some full text
Dissertation Abstracts
FirstSearch
Catalog of masters theses and dissertations from schools in the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, and Europe.
Dissertations - Summaries only
ebrary
Collection of 32,000 academic e-books for business, education, health sciences, history and humanities, the sciences, and social science areas. About ebrary.
E-Books
eLibrary
Proquest
General resource for news articles, books, maps, pictures, audio/video, TV and radio transcripts.
Mixed Media - Full text
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Thomson Gale
Collection of encyclopedias and reference works in the humanities, social sciences, sciences, and business.
Encyclopedias & Reference
IngentaConnect Indexes 29,000 magazines and journals (1988-present). Open access.
Articles - Some full text
JSTOR Archive of core scholarly journals in all academic disciplines (all years except the most recent).
Articles - Full text
LexisNexis Academic Newspapers from the U.S. and around the world, plus company and industry news and legal information.
Newspapers - Full text
NetLibrary
Collection of more than 6,000 e-books, plus e-audiobooks of popular fiction. About NetLibrary.
E-Books
New York Times
Includes 1987 to the present, plus 1851-1922 articles in the public domain.
Newspapers - Full text
Oxford Reference Online Dictionaries and reference works for the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as for languages.
Encyclopedias & Reference
Reader's Guide Retro
Wilson
Historical citations from more than 500 leading U.S. news and general interest magazines (1890-1982).
Articles - Citations only
ReferenceUSA
InfoUSA
Detailed directory of businesses, households, and health care providers, primarily for the U.S. and Canada.
Directory
SAGE Reference Online
Collection of encyclopedias in a range of social sciences disciplines.
Encyclopedias & Reference
Wall Street Journal
ProQuest
Full text of the Eastern edition (1984-present).
Newspaper - Full text
Wilson Omnifile
Wilson
Includes 1,900 periodicals in the humanities, social sciences, sciences, business, and news (1994-present).
Articles - Full text
World News Connection
Dialog
Current international news from non-U.S. media in English translation, from the Open Source Center. Call 280-2227 for login. One user at a time.
Newspapers - Full text
WorldCat
FirstSearch
Combined catalogs of 9,000 libraries worldwide, including books, serials, media, computer files, and manuscripts.
Books - Citations only

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