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Communication & Mass Media Complete   - Ebsco               1985-                    Updated Monthly
Provides full text for over 200 titles and contains citation coverage for additional sources. In total, several hundred valuable sources are covered. Offers the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media.  Search Guide | Video Tutorial

ProQuest Social Science Journals -  ProQuest CSA    1990s-    Updated Daily
Provides access to a variety of social science journals. The database includes over 510 titles, with more than 280 available in full text.  Coverage extends back to the early 1990s. Search Guide

ProQuest Telecommunications  - ProQuest   1995 - current
Search the full text of top telecommunications industry publications. Includes magazines, journals, and newsletters for the latest in this fast changing industry. Search Guide

LexisNexis Academic                                                       Updated Daily
Provides the full text of current and back issues for 7,000+ titles including journals, major newspapers, newsletters, reference materials, and legal materials, both state and federal.  WWW. 
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Ad*Access - Duke University Library            1911-1955                Closed File
A searchable and browseable database with access to digitized versions of more than 7,300 advertisements printed between 1911 and 1955. The advertisements are divided into 5 major categories: Beauty and Hygiene, Transportation, Radio, Television, and World War II.

MLA International Bibliography - Modern Language Assn.     1963-            Updated Quarterly
Indexes 3,000 journals plus books in language, literature, and folklore. Includes the MLA Directory of Periodicals providing addresses, advertising rates, and information about submissions for publication.Search Guide | Video Tutorial

Film Literature Index Online- Indiana University                            1976-2001        Closed File
Indexes 150 film and television periodicals from 30 countries cover-to-cover and 200 other periodicals selectively for articles on film and television. The periodicals range from the scholarly to the popular. More than 2,000 subject headings provide detailed analysis of the articles.  The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded Indiana University a grant in 2002 to convert the print version of the Film Literature Index (FLI) to electronic form. The FLI Online contains approximately 700,000 citations to articles, film reviews and book reviews published between 1976-2001.

Academic Search Premier  Ebsco               1975-                    Updated Daily
The world's largest scholarly, multi-discipline, full text database designed specifically for academic institutions. With a collection of 4,000 peer-reviewed, scholarly full text journals, this database offers critical information from many sources found in no other database. The database includes full-page images as well as color embedded images.  Scholarly, full text resources are provided for nearly all academic areas of study: social  sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. Search Guide | Video Tutorial

Academic OneFile - Gale                     1995-                                     Updated Daily
Contains more than 3,000 full text journals, including peer-reviewed journals and reference sources with extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995.  Search Guide

General OneFile  -  Gale                1980-                Updated Daily
Provides desktop access to more than 6,000 full text periodical titles including 121 wire services; full indexing of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and The Christian Science Monitor newspapers; and a total of more than 10,000 periodical titles with 25 years of backfile coverage from 1980 to present.  The database uses the same search engine as our other InfoTrac databases.  Content includes more than 508 million records from  periodical and news content and indexing from a variety of mainstream and specialized sources including refereed academic journals. WWW Search Guide

Expanded Academic ASAP - Gale                      1980-                Updated Daily
Access to 3,500+ journals and magazines including more than 2,100 in full text. WWW. Search Guide

General BusinessFile ASAP - IAC                  1982-                  Updated Daily
An index of 3,366 general business and finance magazines, trade journals, and local business journals, with full-text of 2,673 titles. Company Profiles, a directory of 180,000 public and private companies, and over 50,000 investment reports are also included. WWW Search Guide

Business Source® Premier - Ebsco               1965-                    Updated Daily
Provides full text for 3,298 business periodicals including scholarly journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and much more. Periodical coverage ranges from Business Week, Forbes, Fortune, and American Banker to journals such as Harvard  Business Review, Journal of Management, and Academy of Management Review. Full text coverage begins in 1965 for many journals and includes PDF images and embedded images for many of these journals. In addition, the database provides company information for over 200,000 companies from such sources as Dun & Bradstreet, Thomas Register and Disclosure. Search Guide | Video Tutorial

Other Periodical Indexes and Databases
ABI/INFORM Dateline - ProQuest   1985-current
Search a unique resource focusing on hard-to-find local and regional business news coverage of large corporations, privately held companies, local start-ups, executive profiles, marketing, finance, and industry news. Provides access to business information not typically found in national news sources. Contains news and analysis, information on local markets, and more gathered from major business tabloids, magazines, daily newspapers, wire services, and city, state, and regional business publications. Search Guide

ABI/INFORM Global - ProQuest    1971 - current
Most scholarly and comprehensive way to explore and understand business research topics. Search nearly 3000 worldwide business periodicals for in-depth coverage of business and economic conditions, management techniques, theory, and practice of business, advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more. Expanded international coverage. Fast access to information on 60,000 + companies with business and executive profiles. Includes The Wall Street Journal. Search Guide

ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry - ProQuest    1971 - current
Search more than 1200 business periodicals with a trade or industry focus. Provides users with the latest industry news, product and competitive information, marketing trends, and a wide variety of other topics. Contains publications on every major industry, including finance, insurance, transportation, construction, and many more. Search Guide

New York Times - New York Times, Inc.           1980 -         Updated Daily
Offers full text of published The New York Times newspaper articles. Includes all articles for delivery as ASCII full­text documents. Accessible via General News on LexisNexis Academic Universe.    Web Version with Daily Paper.

New York Times Historical Collection - ProQuest Historical NewspapersT          Current File         1851-1998
Provides full-text and full-image articles for newspapers dating back to 1851. The historical collection includes digital reproductions of every page from every issue--cover to cover--in downloadable PDF® files. The database is an ongoing project with digitization being done by decade. Search Guide

Boston Globe - Boston Globe, Inc.                      1980 -              Updated Weekly
Electronic ASCII version of the newspaper, without images or graphics. WWW.

Newspaper Source - Ebsco                                 1995-                       Updated Daily
A comprehensive news source with full text for 194 newspapers including The Christian Science Monitor, The Los Angeles Times, 159 regional newspapers, 18 international newspapers, 6 newswires, and 9 newspaper columns. Search Guide | Video Tutorial

Population Index - Princeton University                         1986-1998              Updated Monthly
A searchable and browsable database containing 41,103 abstracts of demographic literature published in Population Index from 1986-1998. Population Index, published since 1935, is the primary reference tool to the world's population literature. It presents an annotated bibliography of recently published books, journal articles, working papers, and other material on population topics. WWW.   Search Guide

Sociological Abstracts - ProQuest    1963-    Updated Monthly
Abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,700 serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers. Records added after 1974 contain in-depth and nonevaluative abstracts of journal articles. Many records from key journals in sociology, published since 2001, also include the references cited in the bibliography of the source article. Each individual reference may also have links to an abstract and/or to other papers that cite that reference; these links increase the possibility of finding more potentially relevant articles. Search Guide


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