Databases for Journal, Magazine and Newspaper Articles - INQ 110 - You're Not As Right As You Think You Are

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Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with full-text periodicals, peer-reviewed journals, monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. It features PDF content going back as far as 1887.
Newsbank This link opens in a new window
Full text access and image access to more thank 10,000 newspapers from the U.S. and worldwide. Access includes both historical and current day's news which includes the Roanoke Times, from 1990 to the current day.
Newspaper Source Plus This link opens in a new window
Provides cover-to-cover full text for more than 70 national (U.S.) and international newspapers including the Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, The Times (London), Toronto Star, etc. and television & radio news transcripts from CBS News, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, NPR, etc. The database also contains selective full text for more than 330 regional (U.S.) newspapers.
Opposing Viewpoints in Context This link opens in a new window
Covers today's hottest social issues, from Offshore Drilling to Climate Change, Health Care to Immigration.
Social Science Index This link opens in a new window
indexes professional literature of the social sciences
SocINDEX with full text This link opens in a new window
Sociology, contains full text for more than 860 journals dating back to 1908.

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INQ 110 - You're Not As Right As You Think You Are: Databases for Journal, Magazine and Newspaper Articles

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