Popular Databases at UW-L
The following databases have a few things in common:
- Most contain substantial full text (except FirstSearch)
- Most are multidisciplinary
- Many are available from off campus with a password
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 Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost):
Provides access to citations and abstracts for over 8,000 magazines and journals, with full text access to over half these titles. For scholarly publications, full text is available for more than 3,600 titles covering subjects such as social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
- Search Guide - Quick Tips: Find Book Reviews | Auto-Generate Citations | Create a Permalink to Your Search |
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 CQ Researcher (Congressional Quarterly):
Full-text articles on the most current and controversial issues of the day with complete summaries, insight into two sides of the issues, bibliographies and more.
Quick Tips: How to browse for topic ideas. | How to get quick citations | How to cite APA style using KnightCite |
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LexisNexis
Academic:
Over 5,600 full text sources.
News: 350 newspapers, 400 magazines/journals, 600 newsletters, broadcast transcripts, campus news, wire services. Business: news, accounting literature, company information, directories. Legal Research: secondary literature, case law, codes & regulations, tax law, international legal materials, patent research, career information. - Guides: Finding a Case, Tax Research |
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MasterFILE
Premier (EBSCOhost):
Full-text from nearly 3,000 general reference, business, consumer health, general science, and multi-cultural periodicals.
- Quick Tip: Find Book Reviews |
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Newspaper Source
Plus (EBSCOhost):
Daily news content (e.g. New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal) is delayed; and is available 2 days post-publication. This resource includes full-text from 1,520 newspapers and over 600,000 news transcripts from tv and radio broadcasts, as well as video and podcasts. Articles and transcripts are from: The New York Times (from January 1985 to present), The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, The Daily Mail (UK), The Irish Times (Ireland), The San Francisco Chronicle, The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia), The Times of London, The Toronto Star, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, NPR, ABC News, CBS, CNBC, CBC, Fox News, CNN, and PBS. - Quick Tip: Find News Transcripts |
