GENERAL RESEARCH DATABASES

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MasterFile Premier [EBSCOhost]
Multidisciplinary database covering virtually all topics of general interest. Includes newspapers, popular magazines, scholarly journals, business and trade publications, reference books, biographical sources, primary source documents, and an image collection of photos, maps and flags.

Academic OneFile [Thomson Gale]
Comprehensive, subscription-based database of more than 8,000 journals in all areas of academic study, the majority available in full text.

Academic Search Elite [EBSCOhost]
Offers full text for more than 2,000 journals, including more than 1,500 peer-reviewed titles. Covers virtually every area of academic study.

JSTOR Arts & Life Sciences Collections
Provides access to full text magazine and journal articles on a wide variety of humanities, social sciences, and general science topics including: art, architecture, business, biology, ecology, economics, education, film studies, geography, health sciences, history, law, mathematics, performing arts, political science, psychology, public policy, religion, sociology, and statistics. International in scope, with coverage from the seventeenth century to approximately five years ago.

EBSCOhost Web & EBSCOhost Español
Link to a list of all our EBSCOhost databases, using either an English or Spanish language interface.

CQ Researcher [CQ Press]
Comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues in the news. Controversial topics addressed in a balanced, unbiased manner. Covers a new topic each week.

LexisNexis® Academic-General
Full text news, business, and legal sources. Includes major regional, national and international newspapers, newswires, transcripts of radio and television news programs, arts and sports news, non-English language news, company information, law reviews, court cases and more.

Des Moines Register & Cedar Rapids Gazette [NewsBank]
Full text news stories from Iowa newspapers. Best choice for state and local news.

Newspaper Source [EBSCOhost]
Provides selected full text for 25 national and international newspapers. Also includes television and radio news transcripts, and selected full text for more than 260 regional U.S. newspapers.