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Academic Search Complete, first stop for the beginning researcher, is our largest multi-disciplinary database, offering thousands of full-text journals, as well as indexing and abstracts for magazines, monographs, reports, and conference proceedings. Most of the periodicals are covered back to at least the early 1990s, but some content dates back as far as 1887. The database features some content going back as far as 1867, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. To cross-search additional subject-specific databases from this publisher, click on Choose Databases.
JSTOR is a digital archive of fully searchable back issues of scholarly journals in anthropology, Asian studies, Afro American studies, ecology, economics, education, finance, general science, history, literature, mathematics, philosophy, political science, sociology, and statistics. It also includes over 2 million rights-cleared images (fka ARTstor) from major collections around the world, discoverable alongside JSTOR’s electronic texts on one feature-rich platform. Learn more about the transition to JSTOR.
Multi-subject reference source covering general and academic periodicals; full-text is available for many articles.
Provides access to unique primary source materials that document political reform and revolution, nationalism and nation building, the expansion of empire and colonialism, growing literacy and education, and the flowering of both popular and high culture and consists of four parts: Children's Literature and Childhood; Women and Transnational Networks; Religion, Reform, and Society; Europe and Africa, Colonialism and Culture.
See also Gale Primary Sources and Archives Unbound
Digital reproductions of the New York Times (1851-2014). Individual articles or full pages may be viewed, and the newspaper text may be searched.
Digital reproductions of the Wall Street Journal (1889-2002). Individual articles or full pages may be viewed, and the newspaper text may be searched.
Digital reproductions of the Washington Post (1877-2002). Individual articles or full pages may be viewed, and the newspaper text may be searched.
Backfiles of The Times (London, England) newspaper from 1785 to 1985.
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With an unprecedented combination of global, regional and local news, including a unique merging of news formats (PDF image editions, web-only, full-text), this resource supports a diverse range of research needs across an array of academic disciplines for students and faculty. Includes current and archived news content from more than 12,000 sources spanning 200+ countries and territories. Easy-to-use interface.
Nexis Uni features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790. It offers an intuitive, engaging research experience on a wide range of devices and provides collaboration tools to make it easier to work on team research projects efficiently while ensuring that individuals stay accountable.
Cross-disciplinary source spanning the 20th century. Each volume in the set includes full or excerpted primary sources representing the seminal issues, themes, movements and events from a decade. Includes oral histories, songs, speeches, advertisements, TV, play and movie scripts, letters, laws, legal decisions, newspaper articles, cartoons, recipes, and more.
Provides nearly 16,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres.
Contains general essays that historically trace the major religious families and traditions, as well as directory listings that include contact and descriptive information on individual churches, religious bodies, and spiritual groups.
The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church is the indispensable reference work on all aspects of the Christian Church. It contains over 6,000 cross-referenced A-Z entries, and offers unrivalled coverage of all aspects of this vast and often complex subject, from theology; churches, and denominations; patristic scholarship; and the bible; to the church calendar and its organization; popes; archbishops; saints; and mystics.
The OED traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources.
Using the "FindIt" button in a database to locate the full text
When you find an interesting article in a database, if the database doesn't provide full-text of the article, and you find the button, click on it. A software will start to search all the databases that CU subscribes. If it finds databases that contain the full-text article, it will show you in a new window with the databases listed there. Click the database on the new window, it will bring you to the full-text article.
Using "e-Journal Finder" and Catalog to locate the full text if you have the citation of an article
If you have the citation of an article, first look for the journal title where the article was published. Then from our libraries home page click on "Journal Title Search", put in the journal title to see whether there are any databases that contains the full text for that journal. If so, pay attention to the year range of "full text available" to make sure the database includes the year in which the article was published. If the journal is not available electronically, search the journal title in Catalog to see whether CU or other consortium libraries have this journal in print. If that is the case you can make a Consortium Loan request to obtain the article. If the article you need is not available in the Catholic University Libraries or in any other consortium libraries, you can make an Interlibrary Loan request.
Start the research process early
Start your research as soon as possible. If you need to obtain an article from within the WRLC Consortium it takes between three to five business days to be filled. An Interlibrary Loan request may take a few weeks.