- Chicago Sun Times
- This newspaper has a daily subscription circulation of over 500,000. It was founded in 1948. Since then it has provided award-winning, comprehensive coverage of issues that affect Chicago, Illinois and the nation.
URL: http://infoweb.newsbank.com - Chicago Tribune
- The Chicago Tribune covers international and national news with 20 bureaus, including offices in Moscow, London, Jerusalem, Beijing, Mexico City, Johannesburg, Washington DC, New York and Los Angeles. Noted for extensive coverage of business news, the Tribune provides in-depth profiles of the more than 85 Fortune 500 companies headquartered in the Chicago region, along with superb biographical sketches, criticism and comment of research-worthy topics, coverage of social issues, urban affairs, sports, politics and government, cultural affairs, and the important issues and events in Chicago, Illinois and the entire Midwest. The Tribune celebrated its 150th anniversary in 1997 and counts 18 Pulitzer prizes among its many awards.
URL: http://infoweb.newsbank.com - Chronicle of Higher Education
- Full text access to the Chronicle of Higher Education updated daily with the latest news in academe. Includes all the text from the current print edition, a searchable archive of back issues going back to September 1989, commentary and essays from the weekly magazine, The Chronicle Review, as well as data from the annual Almanac.
URL: http://chronicle.com - Encyclopedia Britannica
- Encyclopedia Britannica is the world’s most comprehensive reference product, a distinction it has held since its first publication in 1768. Encyclopedia Britannica Online includes the complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, Britannica Student Encyclopedia and the Britannica Book of the Year. You can also use Encyclopedia Britannica Online to search an Internet directory that includes more than 300,000 links to Web sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors.
URL: http://www.search.eb.com/ - Ethnic News Watch
- Ethnic NewsWatch is an interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Designed to provide the "other side of the story," ENW titles offer additional viewpoints from those proffered by the mainstream press. Coverage begins in 1990.
URL: http://proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=SU5UPTAmVkVSPTImREJTPTM4M0U@&clientId=45998 - FACTS.com
- FACTS.com presents the full text of a live news feed from Reuters® and thousands of in-depth features, images, charts, and primary documents using more than half a million internal hyperlinks. Facts.com also provides full text access to Issues & Controversies and Today’s Science Database.
URL: http://www.fofweb.com/Direct2.asp?ItemID=WE00&ID=95663 - Historical New York Times
- A complete backfile of this prestigious newspaper is now available electronically. Full page images preserve context and meaning, allowing unprecedented access to the historical record.
URL: http://proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=SU5UPTAmVkVSPTImREJTPTFBQ0Q@&clientId=45998 - Issues and Controversies
- In-depth investigations of today's top issues
URL: http://www.2facts.com/Direct2.aspx?ItemID=WE57&ID=95663 - Newsbank
- provides full-text articles from the electronic editions of record for nearly 1,000 U.S. newspapers — including the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Chicago SunTimes.
URL: http://infoweb.newsbank.com - Newspaper Source
- Newspaper Source provides selected full text for 25 national (U.S.) and international newspapers, including USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor, The Washington Post, The Times (London), The Toronto Star, etc. The database also contains selected full text for more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers, including The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The Detroit Free Press, The Miami Herald, The New York Daily News, The San Jose Mercury News, etc. In addition, full text television & radio news transcripts are provided from CBS News, FOX News, NPR, etc.
URL: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.asp?profile=web&defaultdb=nfh
General Interest Databases
Academic Search Complete—is the world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for over 5,300 scholarly publications, including more than 4,400 peer-reviewed publications. Offers indexing and abstracts for 9,300 journals on nearly every area of academic study.
Gale Virtual Reference Library—is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely at all times.
JSTOR Arts and Sciences 1 (119 titles) is JSTOR’s first collection—includes core journals in economics, history, political science, and sociology, as well as in other key fields in the humanities, social sciences, ecology, mathematics, and statistics. Arts and Sciences IV (112 titles) has a strong focus on the professions of business, education, and law, and also includes titles in psychology, public policy and administration.
Newsbank—provides full-text articles from the electronic editions of record for nearly 500 U.S. newspapers – including the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Chicago Sun Times.
