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The collection also contains award-winning documentaries, featuring dramatic reenactments and engaging analysis from prominent scholars and experts. Early newsreels, including the complete series of United Newsreel and Universal Newsreel capture history as it was made and reported to viewers of the time.

journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields

Covers environmental issues

Replaces Dow Jones Interactive, Company & Industry Reports, Stock Information, Business Newstand & Publications Library - quotes, market data, analysis, international news, fulltext articles from newspapers and periodicals

Full text journals, many back to the original issue. Provides access to journals in the arts & sciences, business, ecology & botany, and languages & literature. JSTOR's coverage typically begins 3 -5 years after the current year.

Subscribers to both U.S. Company Data and International Company Data will enjoy the ability to seamlessly access reports on companies based around the world, searching by company name or ticker symbol, or searching across all global boundaries to find companies that match specific financial and/or textual search criteria.

indexes professional literature of the social sciences

Sociology, contains full text for more than 860 journals dating back to 1908.

"Nexis Uni features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790." Users will find full-text legal, business, medical, and news sources in Nexis Uni.

“… [contains] more than 182 million pages and 281,000 titles of historical and government documents in a fully searchable, image-based format. … [provides] comprehensive coverage from inception of more than 2,800 law-related periodicals. In addition to its vast collection of academic journals, HeinOnline contains the entire Congressional Record, Federal Register, and Code of Federal Regulations, complete coverage of the U.S. Reports back to 1754, and entire databases dedicated to treaties, constitutions, case law, world trials, classic treatises, international trade, foreign relations, U.S. Presidents, and much more.”

This database contains full text for more than 250 of the world's most respected, scholarly law journals. Legal Collection is an authoritative source for information on current issues, studies, thoughts and trends of the legal world.

Google Scholar offers an extensive database of state and federal cases.

Formerly Europa World Yearbook -- contains "reference works, covering political and economic information in over 250 countries and territories, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe."

"... essential facts of the news as reported in the major newspapers, news magazines, and online news outlets of the U.S., Canada, Britain, Australia, and elsewhere in the world." Date range from1940 to current. Data includes UN resolutions, Nielsen ratings, sports records, Nobel Prize winners, etc.

Covers today's hottest social issues, from Offshore Drilling to Climate Change, Health Care to Immigration.

Brings together language and subject reference works from one of the world's biggest and most trusted reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource.