Databases in Journalism
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Database details Academic OneFile

Coverage: 1980-present
Scope: A huge and highly heterogeneous multidisciplinary mix of scholarly, journalistic, practitioner and popular sources, with much direct full-text included. Use the tabs to identify scholarly, newspaper or other sources as necessary.
Notes: Scholarly, journalstic, practitioner, popular sources. Thanks to Mel
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Database details America's Newspapers

Coverage: 1999 - present
Scope: Detroit News: 1/1/1999 to the present Grand Rapids Press: 8/1/2000 to the present Lansing State Journal: 1/1/1999 to the present
Notes: Three newspapers. Thanks to Mel
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Database details Humanities Abstracts

Coverage: 1984 to present
Scope: Abstracts covering diverse subject areas of the humanities. Includes feature articles, book reviews, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction (including dramas and poems), and reviews of plays and television and radio programs.
Notes: Scholarly.
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Database details Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe

Scope: NEWS: full text access to newspapers, magazines, trade journals, newsletters, news wires, and transcripts. News sources are never scholarly, but they can give you up-to-date information on current events. BUSINESS: access to financial and business information for specific companies. It's most accurate when you limit your search by sources, such as Hoover's Company Reports, S&P Corporate Descriptions, American Markeplace, and Tax Analysts Publications. LEGAL: you can search for legal information such as court decisions, legal codes, legal news, and law journals. The coverage includes information both at the state level and at the federal level.
Notes: Some scholarly.
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Database details New York Times Historical

Scope: Offers full-text, full-image articles from1851 – 2003 of The New York Times. The database can be used to search national and international news, editorials, obituaries, birth and marriage announcements, plus historical photos and advertisements. The documents are downloadable in PDF format
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Database details Newsbank - Michigan

Notes: Three newspapers. Thanks to Mel
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Database details Opposing Viewpoints

Scope: The premier full-text resource covering today’s hottest social issues, from Terrorism to Endangered Species, Stem Cell Research to Gun Control. Drawing on acclaimed series published by Greenhaven Press and other Gale imprints; brings together all the information that’s needed to fully understand an issue: pro and con viewpoint articles, reference articles that provide context, full-text magazines, academic journals, and newspapers, primary source documents, government and organizational statistics, multimedia, including images and podcasts, links to hand-selected web sites, and more!
Notes: Limit 4 users. Please log off when done.
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Database details Social Sciences Abstracts

Coverage: 1983-
Scope: Use this for sociology, anthropology,psychology and economics. Some links to full text.
Notes: Scholarly.
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Database details WilsonSelectPlus

Scope: A great place to get a few good articles. Almost all of the articles are available full-text or PDF.
Notes: Thanks to Mel
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