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Coverage: This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 9,000 journals, including full text for nearly 7,700 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.
Sources: See complete list of sources.
Dates covered: 1975 - present. Coverage varies by title.
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Coverage: In-depth articles on current and controversial issues. Each article offers a lengthy discussion of the issue, pros and cons, background information, a chronology, future outlook, a bibliography and links to related CQ Weekly stories. (Download a list of the articles in CQ Researcher.)
Sources: Articles written by CQ researchers and staff.
Dates covered: 1991 to the present; updated quarterly.
Subscription service: Congressional Quarterly, Inc.

Coverage: Over 75,000 articles on a wide variety of topics, including hundreds of articles not found in the print version of Britannica. Includes links to 166,000 related websites, over 27,000 images and maps, plus 3,300 animations, videos, and audio files. Contains Britannica Book of the Year, Britannica's Lives (23,000 biographies of famous people), Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, and, "Week in Review" articles.
Sources: Articles written by scholars and experts in their fields.
Dates covered: Updated continuously as events occur, with major revisions released three or four times a year. "Events of the Year" material from Britannica Book of the Year is added once per year.
Subscription service: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.

Coverage: This encyclopedia indexes over 25,000 records, covering an array of topics, and contains various images, offering brief biographies as well as information in a variety of subject areas.
Dates covered: Varies by topic. Updated annually.
Subscription service: EBSCO.

Coverage: JSTOR (short for Journal Storage) is a journal archive that holds the complete digitized collections of scholarly journals within several large collections. The collections cover a wide variety of topics in the arts, sciences, social sciences, and the humanities. All articles are included full text. Users can search the entire set at once or search subsets of journals by broad subject disciplines.

 

JSTOR does not include current journal issues. Because of JSTOR's archival mission, there is a gap, the so-called "moving wall" between the most recently published journal issue and the back issues available in JSTOR. Publishers determine the moving wall length in their license agreements with JSTOR. Moving walls may range from zero to ten years. In calculating the moving wall, the current, incomplete year is not counted.

 

Read JSTOR FAQs, about the Moving Wall and for more information, see Links to Recent Content.
Sources: See complete alphabetical list of journals. Browse complete list of journals by subject discipline.
Subscription service: JSTOR.

Coverage: Intended for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,700 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 502,000 photos, maps & flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.
Sources: See complete list of sources.
Dates covered: Varies by title.
Subscription service: EBSCO.

Coverage: Designed to assist researchers in understanding the full scope of a wide range of controversial subjects, this database features a series of full-text essays representing opposing viewpoints on a variety of important issues. Students can use this resource as a guide to debate, developing arguments, writing position papers, and for development of critical thinking skills.
Sources: Points of View Reference Center contains a balance of materials from all viewpoints, including 600 main essays, leading political magazines from both sides of the aisle, newspapers, radio & TV news transcripts, primary source documents and reference books.
Subscription service: EBSCO.