LibGuides: WRIT 101: Communication Skills: Database/Journals

Wikipedia Project (Kirsch) - Databases

Art & Architecture Complete This link opens in a new window
This replete database provides full-text coverage of hundreds of periodicals and books as well as an immense Image Collection provided by Picture Desk and others.
Britannica Academic This link opens in a new window
Britannica Academic provide timely, relevant, and trustworthy information and instructional products used in universities throughout the world.
In a world where questionable information is rampant, they provide products that inspire confidence, with content people can trust. They do this by collaborating with experts, scholars, educators, instructional designers, and user-experience specialists; by subjecting their work to rigorous editorial review; and by combining it all into learning products that are useful, reliable, and enjoyable.
Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
Reference is the foundation of research. Credo Online Reference Service enhances the research experience by combining authoritative reference content with a one-stop exploratory search platform that drives usage of all trusted library resources.

New York Times
Click on New York Times link to open the database.

Newspaper Source This link opens in a new window
This database provides cover-to-cover full text for more than 40 national and international newspapers. The database also contains selective full text for more than 330 regional (U.S.) newspapers.
In addition, full-text television and radio news transcripts are provided from CBS News, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, and NPR.
Oxford Music Online: Grove Music Online This link opens in a new window
Oxford Music Online is the gateway offering users the ability to access and cross-search multiple music reference resources in one location.
With Grove Music Online as its cornerstone, Oxford Music Online also contains The Oxford Companion to Music (revised 2011), which offers more than 8,000 articles on composers, performers, conductors, instruments and notation, forms and genres, and individual works; and The Oxford Dictionary of Music, 2nd edition (revised 2006), which supplements Grove's more-extensive articles with content geared toward undergraduates and general users.

Library Databases

Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
A scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed journals. In addition, this database offers monographs, reports, and conference proceedings.
Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
Reference is the foundation of research. Credo Online Reference Service enhances the research experience by combining authoritative reference content with a one-stop exploratory search platform that drives usage of all trusted library resources.
Global Issues This link opens in a new window
Designed to support global awareness, Global Issues In Context ties together a wealth of authoritative content that empowers students to critically analyze and understand the most important issues of the modern world.
Newspaper Source This link opens in a new window
This database provides cover-to-cover full text for more than 40 national and international newspapers. The database also contains selective full text for more than 330 regional (U.S.) newspapers.
In addition, full-text television and radio news transcripts are provided from CBS News, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, and NPR.
Opposing Viewpoints This link opens in a new window
It offers contextual information and opinions on today's hottest social issues. Drawing on the acclaimed Greenhaven series, the new solution features continuously updated viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text periodical articles, primary source documents, statistics, media files, and links to vetted websites.
Research Library This link opens in a new window
This site provides one-stop access to all the scholarly journals, books, videos & audio, dissertations & theses, and newspapers distributed by ProQuest.
Taylor & Francis Journals This link opens in a new window
Over 1,100 journals by Taylor & Francis and Routlege are available in this e-journal collection. The full-text content is covered from 1997 to present.