Databases for GENERAL Research

• Academic Search Premier provides FULL TEXT for scholarly articles in over 3400 journals, plus citations to many more. Click Here for complete list of journal titles indexed.
• AccuNet AP Multimedia Archive Over 700,000 from the Associated Press's current year's photo report, together with a selection of other 20th Century and contemporary images from world wide sources.
• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1901) collects phrases and proverbs from sources as far back as the ancient world, but nothing from the twentieth century here.
• Biography Index contains citations to yearly interviews, obituaries, and bibliographies from more than 3,000 periodicals and over 2000 current books; covered from 1984 to present.
• Book Review Digest contains citations and provides excerpts of reviews of current English-language books since 1983 in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences.
• Communications and Mass Media Complete This database provides an invaluable resource for students, researchers, and educators interested in any and all aspects of communication and mass media
• Country Studies - Information about countries world-wide from the Library of Congress, updated from their printed publications.
• CQ Researcher Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education and science and technology. There are 44 reports produced each year including four expanded reports.
• CQ Weekly Each issue of CQ Weekly - fully archived to 1983 on the Web - looks forward and back. Readers get in-depth reports on issues looming on the congressional horizon, and more.
• Encyclopedia Britannica Online FULL TEXT articles, with more than 231,000 index entries and relevant Internet links from the print edition plus more; Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Britannica Book of the Year.
• Ethnic Newswatch is a FULL TEXT collection of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Click here for the Tutorial.
• Funk & Wagnalls new World Encyclopedia with FULL TEXT articles on a wide range of topics.
• JSTOR has FULL TEXT articles from the first issue of several hundred journals in the Arts & Sciences I & II, General Science, Language & Literature collections. Click here for a list of the journal titles included.
• Lexis-Nexis Academic is a FULL TEXT database that provides a wide range of news, business, legal and reference information from over 5000 sources, compiled specifically for the research needs of academic institutions. Guides are available from the site, and tutorials from Duke or Yale.
• MasterFile Premier 1,880 FULL TEXT periodicals, plus biographies and primary sources. Click here for a list of the journal titles indexed.
• Military and Government Collection is a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. The database provides cover-to-cover full text for more than 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for more than 400 titles.
• NEWSPAPERS:
  The New York Times Historical from 1851 Searchable FULL TEXT from the first issue with page format results from 1851-2001. (Recent issues available from Lexis-Nexis)
  New York State Newspapers FULL TEXT Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin, Buffalo News, New York Observer, New York Post, New York Times, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, Syracuse Herald-American, Syracuse Herald-Journal, Syracuse Post-Standard, and Westchester Journal News.
  Custom Newspapers Full Text includes the FULL TEXT of 150 national and international newspapers; for the list click "Browse" and select up to 10 titles to search.
  ! Informe ! (Revistas en Espanol) includes the FULL TEXT of over 100 national and international newspapers; for the list click "Browse" and select up to 10 titles to search.
  National Newspaper Index Five major newspaprs indexed: Christian Science Monitor (from 1/1979); Los Angeles Times (from 1/1982); New York Times (from 1/1979); New York Times Book Review (from 1/1977); New York Times Magazine (from 2/1977); Wall Street Journal (from 1/1979) Washington Post (from 2/1980).

  New York Public Library Resources - Additional databases like "Facts.com," "Books in Print," "World Book." Find out how to get a NYPL card for anywhere.

  Readers Guide Abstracts (1983 to present) Index and abstracts to a range of popular magazine articles. Click here for a list of the journal titles indexed.

  Readers Guide Retrospective (up to 1982) The complete database will cover the years1890 through 1982. The current coverage includes the years 1963 through 1982.

  THOMAS: Congressional Information contains FULL TEXT of public bills and laws, committee reports, etc.

  TOPICsearch is a current events database for social, policial, economic, and scientific issues, with FULL TEXT to over 64,000 articles from more than 3000 diverse sources.

  UlrichsWeb Periodical Database provides data on over 210,000 regularly published and irregularly issued serials including over 47,000 cessations since 1979.