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   Academic Search Premier
Service = EBSCO

The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,500 journals, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for 1,000 titles. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost. Academic Search Premier
   AP Images
Service = EBSCO

Primary source database of photographs, audio, graphics and text spanning over 160 years of history. Over 2 million photographs dating back 1826, more than 1 million sound bites dating from the 1920’s, 2 million AP news stories from 1997, and collections of maps, graphs, charts, logos, flags and illustrations are included. Updated with more than 3 thousand photos daily. AP Images
   Chicago Tribune (Current)
Service = ProQuest_Platform 2011

Provides reporting and analysis of Midwest regional, national, and international news. Chicago Tribune (Current)
   Chicago Tribune (Historical)
Service = ProQuest_Platform 2011

The Chicago Tribune (1848-1988) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. Chicago Tribune (Historical)
   Chronicle of Higher Education (current issue)
Service = Chronicle of Higher Education, The

The Chronicle is published every weekday and is the top destination for news, advice, and job listings for people in academe; the web site articles date from September 1989; also contains vibrant discussion forums, career-building tools such as online CV management, salary databases, and more. Chronicle of Higher Education (current issue)
   Communication and Mass Media
Service = EBSCO

A research and reference resource encompassing the breadth of the communication discipline. Cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for over 370 journals, and selected coverage of over 230 more. Includes full text for more than 240 journals. Communication and Mass Media
   Harper's Weekly
Service = Alexander Street Press

A 19th century illustrated newspaper, searchable by keyword, subject headings and additional finding aids. Harper's Weekly
   Lexis Nexis
Service = LexisNexis

Academic (Lexis-Nexis) provides full text and citation access to information in the reference, business, medical, and legal disciplines. Newspapers, magazines, wire services, federal and state court opinions, federal and state statutes, federal regulations, and SEC filings such as 10-K's and 10-Q's. News information is updated daily and wire services several times daily. Lexis Nexis
   New York Times (Historical)
Service = ProQuest_Platform 2011

The New York Times (1851-2008) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. Coverage: Sept 18, 1851-Dec 31, 2003. New York Times (Historical)
   Newspaper Source
Service = EBSCO

Cover-to-cover full text for 25 national & international newspapers, including The Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, The Times (London), and Toronto Star. Contains selected full text for more than 260 regional newspapers, including The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Detroit Free Press, The Miami Herald, Daily News (New York), San Jose Mercury News, etc. In addition, full text television & radio news transcripts are provided from CBS News, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, and NPR. Newspaper Source
   Regional Business News
Service = EBSCO

Regional Business News incorporates 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. Included in this database are Arizona Business, Business North Carolina, Crain's New York Business (and other Crain Communications editions), Des Moines Business Record, Enterprise Salt Lake City, Fort Worth Business Press, Orange County Business Journal, Westchester County Business Journal, etc. Regional Business News

Selected eJournals

   Chronicle of Higher Education (EBSCO)
Service = EBSCO

The Chronicle is published every weekday and is the top destination for news, advice, and job listings for people in academe; the web site articles date from September 1989; also contains vibrant discussion forums, career-building tools such as online CV management, salary databases, and more. Chronicle of Higher Education (EBSCO)
   New York Times
Service = LexisNexis

Takes you to a page where it is set up to limit the search to only the New York Times. Coverage is from 6/1/1980 to the present.New York Times
   Wall Street Journal (Eastern Edition)
Service = ProQuest_Platform 2011

Eastern Edition of the Wall Street JournalWall Street Journal (Eastern Edition)

Other Resources

Websites
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
Service = Library of Congress

Contains more than 226,000 pages of public-domain newspapers from California, Florida, Kentucky, New York, Utah, Virginia and the District of Columbia published between 1900 and 1910. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers Google News NewsVoyager

NewsVoyager.com is the ultimate "newspaper portal," a comprehensive gateway to newspaper Web Sites around the world. Newspapers are the leading providers of local information online, including news, classifieds, arts and entertainment guides, community information, sports, shopping and much more.

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Dictionaries
 Credo Reference: Dictionaries
Service = Credo Reference

Search resources related to Dictionaries in Credo Reference, a customizable ready-reference solution for learners and librarians. Its full text, aggregated content covers every major subject from over 50 publishers of reference materials. Credo Reference: Dictionaries
 Oxford English Dictionary
Service = Oxford University Press

According to The Times, the Oxford English Dictionary is "the ultimate authority on the English language as well as a history of English speech and thought from its infancy to the present day." It is a unique source of scholarly information on the meaning, history and pronunciation of words both past and present. The OED provides authoritative definitions of over 500,000 words, traces the usage of words from their first recorded occurrence to the modern period through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international language sources, offers etymological analysis and detailed listings of variant spellings, and uses the International Phonetic Alphabet to show pronunciation. Oxford English Dictionary
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