Databases for GENERAL Research

• Academic Search Premier provides FULL TEXT for scholarly articles in over 3400 journals, plus citations to many more.
• AP Images 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.
• Biography Reference Bank contains some FULL TEXT as well as 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.
• Britannica World Data Analyst View PDFs with up-to-date information for individual countries; Create tables and charts comparing countries across multiple statistical categories, or focus on statistics for a single country. Data reflects the most recent available statistics.
• 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.
• 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.
• Funk & Wagnalls new World Encyclopedia with FULL TEXT articles on a wide range of topics.
• Google Scholar Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Google Scholar helps you identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research."
• In the First Person Is an in-depth index of more than 3,350 collections of personal narratives in English from around the world. It lets you keyword search more than 650,000 pages of full-text by more than 15,000 individuals from all walks of life. It also contains pointers to some 3,500 audio and video files and 30,000 bibliographic records.
• JSTOR has FULL TEXT articles from the first issue of several hundred journals in the Arts & Sciences I & II, General Science, Language & Literature collections.
• 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.
• MasterFile Premier Includes periodicals, biographies and primary sources, with nearly 500 FULL TEXT reference books, 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 235,186 photos, maps and flags.
• 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.
• NetLibrary E-Books Browse or check out an electronic book after you Create an Account on campus only, then accessible from home or off-campus with FULL TEXT of entire books online.
• NEWSPAPERS:
  The New York Times Historical from 1851 Searchable FULL TEXT from the first issue with page format results from 1851-2003. (Recent issues available from Lexis-Nexis)
  New York Times Some content is available back to 1981; free registration is required to view articles.
  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.

  Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center provides information on top social issues such as birth control, civil rights, crime, Women's rights and more. Available material for each topic includes articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to web sites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.

  Oxford English Dictionary - "The Definitive Record of the English Language" with the complete 2nd edition online, plus updates as entered.

  Readers Guide Full Text (1983 to present) Index and abstracts to a range of popular magazine articles.

  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.

  WORLDCAT Includes over 40,000,000 records of any type of material cataloged by thousands of OCLC member libraries. Includes manuscripts written as early as the 12th century.