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CQ Researcher (Full-Text): For controversial topics of public interest, each weekly issue provides background information, a clear statement of opposing positions, the outlook for the future, and an annotated bibliography.
Coverage started: 11/91.
CQ Weekly (Full-Text): Provides nonpartisan feature-length articles on a full array of policy topics confronting the U.S. Congress, as well as updates on committee activity, the status of bills and votes, side-by-side comparisons of competing versions of bills.
Coverage started: 1983. Updated weekly.
Detroit News & 4 Other Michigan Newspapers (Full-Text): In addition to the Detroit News (1999- ), other Michigan newspapers included are the Battle Creek Enquirer (May 2002- ), Grand Rapids Press (2002- ), Lansing State Journal (1999- ), Port Huron Times Herald (1999- ).
Note: After connecting to database, click on "America's Newspapers".
General BusinessFile ASAP (Some Full-Text): This business database indexes about 3,000 periodical titles, provides full-text for some of them, and offers 200,000 company profiles as well as more than 50,000 full-text Investext® reports.
List of periodical titles. Coverage started: 1980. Updated daily.
Factiva (Formerly Dow Jones Interactive) (Full-Text): Browse the latest issues of The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Barron's, Business Week, Fortune, and Forbes. Search and display the text of these as well as about 8,000 other local and global newspapers, newswires, trade journals, newsletters, magazines and transcripts.
Review Sources. Coverage started: varies by title. Updated daily.
Limited to 3 simultaneous users. To allow others to use the database when you complete your work please click "logout" on the right side of the navigation bar toward the top of the screen.
Facts.com (Full-Text): Answer questions about events, issues, statistics, and people of the last 20 years with selected content from seven databases, including Facts On File World News Digest, Issues and Controversies On File, Today's Science On File, Editorials On File, Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia, Reuters On-Line News Service, and World Almanac and Book of Facts. Delivers additional special features including maps, photographs, historic documents, and overviews of key issues, newsmakers and events.
Coverage started: 1940. Updated weekly.
General Reference Center Gold (Some Full-Text): An index to the contents of about 1000 periodicals, with about 60% available with full-text.
List of periodical titles. Coverage started: 1980. Updated monthly.
NOTE: There is a delay when adding new issues of certain titles to the database. List of embargoed titles and their database inclusion delays.
InfoTrac Custom Full-Text Newspapers (Full-Text): Includes the full-text of articles from the last 365 days of the New York Times. Other newspapers from around the United States as well as Australia, England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and Mexico have varying full-text coverage dates.
List of newspapers and coverage dates.
Issues & Controversies @ FACTS.com (Full-Text): This full text reference database "presents and enhances the full backfile of Issues and Controversies on File, which has probed more than 250 controversial topics in the news since its debut in September 1995. Chronologies, illustrations, maps, tables, sidebars, bibliographies and contact information augment the balanced, accurate coverage of current and historical events."
LexisNexis Academic (Full-Text): Access to a wide range of FULL-TEXT news, business, legal and government information sources, as well as company, country, financial, market research and industry reports, biographical and medical and health information.
List of titles. Updated daily.
LexisNexis Congressional (Full-Text): In addition to the indexing and abstracting of the CIS's Index to the Publications of the United States Congress, it provides the FULL-TEXT of Congressional hearings, committee reports, bills, selected committee prints, public laws, Congressional Record, Federal Register, U.S. Code.
National Journal Group's Policy Central (Full-Text): Includes the National Journal, a leading weekly on politics, policy and government; Markup Reports & Bill Status, comprehensive coverage of every House and Senate committee and subcommittee markup session; Technology Daily, monitoring news and trends in information technology politics and policy; Almanac of American Politics, analysis and data on every member of Congress and their states and districts; and a few other politics and policy databases.
Coverage started: 1977- (National Journal archives). Updated daily.
New York Times (June 1980- ) (Full-Text): Text-only articles from June 1980. When connected, click the word 'Sources' on the top right menu, type 'new york times' (without the quotes) in the Source List search box, click the 'Find Title' button, click 'Search This Title' below 'New York Times, The'. In the search dialog box that appears, fill in your search terms. (In Step Four, you might want to expand the time frame of your search beyond six months.)
New York Times Backfile (1851-2001) (Full-Text): Every backfile issue from 1851-2001 has been digitized from cover to cover in pdf format, including news stories, editorials, photos, graphics, and advertisements.
NewsBank-NewsFile (Full-Text): Full-text news resource containing coverage of current issues and events from over 500 US and Canadian newspapers, news sources and domestic and international newswires. More than 70,000 articles selected annually provide regional, national and international perspectives and coverage of the arts, and people and professions in the news.
List of titles. Coverage started: 1991. Updated daily.
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center (Full-Text): Provides full text information on about 70 controversial social issues. It "brings together viewpoint articles, contextual topic overviews, government and organizational statistics, court cases, profiles of government agencies and special interest groups, newspaper and magazines articles, as well as links to more than 1,000 reviewed and subject-indexed web sites."
NOTE: Two users at a time. Try again later if you cannot connect.
PAIS International (Some Full-Text): Index of articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, book chapters, and statistical directories about public affairs.
List of titles. Coverage started: 1972. Updated monthly. (via FirstSearch)
Periodical Abstracts Full-Text (Some Full-Text): Index to about 2000 general and academic journals, covering business, current affairs, economics, literature, religion, psychology, women's studies, and others.
List of periodical titles. Coverage started: 1987. Updated weekly. (via FirstSearch)
Readers' Guide Abstracts (Some Full-Text): Index to the contents of about 180 popular periodicals published in the U.S. and Canada.
List of periodical titles. Coverage started: 1983. Updated monthly (via FirstSearch)
Readers' Guide Retrospective (1890 - 1982): Index to the contents of popular magazines published in the U.S. and Canada.
List of periodical titles. Coverage: 1890-1982.
UnCover Plus (Ingenta): Search and browse the table of contents of about 25,000 periodicals.
Periodical titles. Coverage started: 1988. Updated daily.
Wall Street Journal (via Factiva) (Full-Text): Full-text of articles from January 1984. When connected, put a check next to "Your Current Source List" under 'Select Sources'; Click the phrase Source browser; Type wall street journal in the search box; Select Publication: The Wall Street Journal and click the Add Selected Sources button; Click the Add to Search button; set the range of dates you want to search, where to search, e.g., full article, headline and lead paragraph, and type your search terms.
Limited to 3 simultaneous users. To allow others to use the database when you complete your work please click "logout" on the right side of the navigation bar toward the top of the screen.
Wilson Select Plus (Full-Text): Index to the contents of about 1300 periodicals, all with ASCII full text online.
List of periodical titles. Coverage started: 1994. Updated weekly. (via FirstSearch)
World Almanacs (Full-Text): The World Almanacs database includes the contents of: The World Almanac and Book of Facts 1998; The World Almanac of the U.S.A.; The World Almanac of U.S.; Politics; The World Almanac for Kids.
Updated annually. (via FirstSearch)

Multidisciplinary Databases

ArticleFirst (Some Full-Text): Indexes 12,500 journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture and allows browsing of contents pages.
List of periodical titles. Coverage started: 1990. Updated daily. (via FirstSearch)
Associations Unlimited (Full-Text): Contains information for approximately 444,000 international and U.S. national, regional, state, and local nonprofit membership organizations in all fields, including IRS data on U.S. 501(c) nonprofit organizations. For some 2,500 major U.S. national associations, provides full-text association materials such as brochures, pamphlets, and membership application forms.
Blackwell Synergy (Some Full-Text): Blackwell Synergy holds the content for about 740 Blackwell Publishing journals, the majority of which are published on behalf of international scholarly and professional societies. While citations and abstracts for all articles can be searched and displayed, full-text is available only for articles from the 135 journals to which EMU subscribes.
List of EMU subscription titles. Coverage: varies with title.
Books in Print (via Bowker) (Some Full-Text): Descriptions of over 4.4 million books, 337,000 videos, and 157,000 audiobooks (new and forthcoming); 1.3 million out of print titles; 763,000 full-text reviews from 12 sources.
Updated weekly.
Dissertation Abstracts: Index of doctoral dissertation accepted at accredited institutions.
Coverage started: 1861. Updated monthly. (via FirstSearch)
Electric Library Elementary (K-6) (Full-Text): Geared to children in grades K-6, contains the full-text of selected articles from: about 30 magazines (e.g., Jack & Jill, Ranger Rick, Highlights for Children, Time for Kids, Entertainment Weekly); about 10 newspapers; about 50 books (e.g., Alaska Purchase, Battle of the Alamo, Gold Rush of 1849); as well as maps and pictures.
List of titles. Periodical coverage started: 1992. Updated daily.
Electronic Collections Online (ECO) (Some Full-Text): Index to the contents of over 2700 journals in a variety of subject areas. EMU is paying for access to online full-text for 664 of the titles. Articles are presented in page image formats (predominately PDF) that include all original content and images. The interface supports cross-journal searching and browsing within selected journals. Users can view bibliographic information for all journals and view full-text articles from journals to which their institution subscribes. Adobe's free Acrobat PDF viewer and CatchWord's free RealPage viewer are required to view the full-text articles.
List of titles available full-text to EMU community. List of all titles available. Coverage started: 1995, but varies by journal. Updated daily. (via FirstSearch)
Expanded Academic ASAP (Some Full-Text): This multidisciplinary database indexes about 3,200 mostly academic titles and offers full-text from about 2,000 of the titles.
List of periodical titles. Coverage started: 1980. Updated daily.
FactSearch (Some Full-Text): Contains full-text statistical statements on current social, economic, political, and environmental public policy issues. Entries come from more than 1,000 print sources as well as a wide range of Web-based resources.
List of publication titles. Coverage started: 1984. Updated quarterly. (via FirstSearch)
GenderWatch (Full-Text): GenderWatch (GW) is a full-text collection of international journals, magazines, newsletters, regional publications, special reports, and conference proceedings that focus on how gender impacts on a broad spectrum of subject areas.
List of titles. Coverage started: 1970.
General Reference Center Gold (Some Full-Text): An index to the contents of about 1000 periodicals, with about 60% available with full-text.
List of periodical titles. Coverage started: 1980. Updated monthly.
NOTE: There is a delay when adding new issues of certain titles to the database. List of embargoed titles and their database inclusion delays.
InfoTrac OneFile (Some Full-Text): This multidisciplinary database indexes nearly 8,000 titles and includes more than 4,200 full-text titles. It includes indexing of The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and Christian Science Monitor; full-text from 89 wire services covering agriculture, general news, broadcast news, government, business press releases, industry topics, sports and current events from all over the world; and indexing and some full-text from general interest magazines; refereed academic journals; business publications; technology periodicals; plus specialty titles in law, health care and computers.
List of titles. Coverage started: 1980. Updated daily.
InfoTrac Student Edition (Some Full-Text): This database is comprised of a variety of full-text sources that support the curriculum needs of secondary school students. It offers 330+ indexed and 270 full-text periodical titles, more than 40,000 full-text newspaper articles, 14 full-text reference books, 500 historical images and more than 300 full-color maps.
List of titles. Coverage started: 1985. Updated daily.
Ingenta (Some Full-Text): Search and browse the contents of over 27,000 periodicals. Full text of some articles available via EMU Library subscriptions.
Periodical titles. Coverage started: 1985. Updated daily.
JSTOR (Full-Text): Complete text of the backfiles of about 600 core scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, and the social sciences.
List of full text periodicals by title and discipline.
Kluwer Online (Full-Text): Complete contents of about 265 Kluwer journals in subjects including sciences, social sciences, technology, and humanities.
List of full text titles and start dates.
netLibrary (eBooks) (Full-Text): eBooks are electronic versions of printed books. Through this service we now have access to about 14,000 copyrighted books in addition to about 4,000 public domain titles.
Complete list of titles is available as two Excel spreadsheets: eBooks Michigan and MEL Ebooks
Oxford English Dictionary Online (Full-Text): "The OED Online contains the complete text of the 20-volume Second Edition, first published in 1989, together with its 3-volume Additions Series, published in 1993 (volumes 1 and 2) and 1997 (volume 3)...The OED is currently being revised, with the aim of producing a completely updated third edition by the year 2010. Draft material from the revision programme will also be published online..."
Updated quarterly.
PapersFirst: Index to papers included in every congress, conference, exposition, workshop, symposium, and meeting received at The British Library.
Coverage started: 1993. Updated 24 times per year. (via FirstSearch)
ProceedingsFirst: Index of every congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received at The British Library.
coverage started: 1993. Updated 24 times per year. (via FirstSearch)
Project Muse (Full-Text): Project Muse is an online journal collection containing the full-text of 112 titles in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.
List of periodical titles. Coverage: varies with journal; often starts with 1995. Updated when new issues are available.
Union List of Periodicals: Lists the periodical holdings of thousands of libraries.
Updated semiannually. (via FirstSearch)
Who's Who on the Web (Full-Text): Over 1 million biographies taken from 20 Marquis Who's Who print titles. Updates to biographies made daily, and new biographies added daily.
NOTE: Up to two users at a time. Try again later if you cannot connect.
World Almanacs (Full-Text): The World Almanacs database includes the contents of: The World Almanac and Book of Facts 1998; The World Almanac of the U.S.A.; The World Almanac of U.S.; Politics; The World Almanac for Kids.
Updated annually. (via FirstSearch)
WorldCat: WorldCat is the OCLC Online Union Catalog, containing more than 35 million records describing items owned by the Library of Congress, EMU, and about 19,000 libraries around the world; each record contains library holdings.
Coverage started: 1000 A.D. Updated daily. (via FirstSearch)

Alphabetical List of Databases | Databases with Some Full-text | Multidisciplinary Databases

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Last Updated: March 27, 2004
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