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Communication and Mass Media Complete (CMMC)

Provides an invaluable resource for students, researchers, and educators interested in any and all aspects of communication and mass media. This database originated with the acquisition and subsequent merging of two popular databases in the fields of communication and mass media studies -- CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association (NCA)), and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Pennsylvania State University).


LexisNexis Academic

Subjects: news, business, legal, and reference information. Contents: Provides access to a variety of full-text sources, including world-wide newspapers, magazines, news wires, and trade journals. Also features government documents, state & federal laws and regulations, case law, company and industry information, reference directories and biographical sources. Produced by Lexis-Nexis. Coverage: varies; strong for 1980s-present. Updated daily.


Library PressDisplay

With more than 500 newspapers from Algeria to Zimbabwe available the day they are published, PressDisplay offers current world news coverage like no other service out there. There are more than thirty newspapers from the UK alone. Not only can you read the latest edition of these papers online, you can print, email, or even blog an article. "Smart navigating" is available for select newspapers, a feature which allows you to activate an audio version of an article and create an English (or other) translation. (The title list indicates these options through an icon.) You can also search for keywords across the newspapers available through PressDisplay. For example, a search on "Putin and Iran" returns over 500 articles. The up-to-date coverage goes back 60 days, thus providing only the most current news.


Newspaper Source Periodical Provided by the INSPIRE Network

Contents: Provides full-text news and/or business articles from over 100 regional US newspapers, cover-to-cover full-text of 10 international newspapers, and the full text of The Christian Science Monitor. Abstracts and indexing for the New York Times (also NYT Magazine and NYT Book Review), Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, USA Today. Includes the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel. Coverage: varies. Updated daily.


Project MUSE

Project MUSE provides full-text access to current content from over 400 journal titles.These journals cover topics predominantly in the humanities and social sciences, specifically including subject areas like Latin American studies, International Relations, Religion, Politics, Philosophy, Literature, Film and Theater, as well as History and many more. Highlights of this collection include: 100% full-text article access with no black-out dates for coverage; decades of back files; scholarly, peer-reviewed journals; and a choice of HTML (web page) or PDF formats to read, print, and download.


Safari Tech Books Online

Safari Books Online provides electronic books in computer science, information technology, business, and related fields from O'Reilly, Pearson, and other IT and business publishers.


Last revised August 04, 2009 - 10:54 PM