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Articles: Journals or Newspapers (10)

• Academic Search Complete

  Provides abstracts, indexing, and full-text for journals covering the social sciences, humanities, education, and more. Coverage: 1985-.

• ArticleFirst

  An index of articles from the table of contents pages of journals. Coverage: 1990-.

• Ethnic NewsWatch

  Contains the complete text of more than 250,000 articles, editorials, and reviews published in approximately 150 ethnic and minority newspapers, magazines, and journals published in the U.S. Coverage: 1995-.

• JSTOR

  A full-text database of archived issues of academic journals. Since JSTOR is a backfiles project, a typical coverage range is the beginning of a journal until three or five years ago. Supported in part by the Dail Endowment Fund. Coverage: Varies.

• LexisNexis Academic

  Contains full text access to a wide range of news, country profiles, business and company information, legal research databases, and some general medical/health and reference sources. Coverage: varies.

• MasterFILE Complete

  "Contains abstracts and indexing for more than 3,100 magazines, newspapers and journals. Full text is available for over 1500 periodicals. Subjects covered include general reference, business, health, literature, current events, and more. It includes Magill Books Reviews in fulltext." Coverage: indexing 1984- ; full-text 1990-.

• ProQuest

  Contains articles covering the humanities, social sciences, sciences, and business. Databases include Research Library, Ethnic NewsWatch, and ProQuest Religion. Coverage: 1970-.

• Readers' Guide Retrospective

  Indexes general interest magazines covering most of the 20th century. Coverage: 1890-1982.

• Research Library

  Contains articles from magazines, newspapers, and journals. Areas included: business, health, education, psychology, science, sports, and literature. Coverage: 1986-.

• TOPICsearch

  A current events database that allows researchers to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries, and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms, including controversial opinions and viewpoints. Includes periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, and government information.

Books, E-books (7)

• Directory of Open Access Books

  A searchable index to peer-reviewed monographs and edited volumes published under an Open Access business model, with links to the full texts of the publications at the publisher's website or repository. Coverage: 1985-.

• EBL (Ebook Library)

  ZSR Library's main source of academic e-books, covering a broad range of subjects. Books may be read online in any web browser. WFU user login required. Coverage: varies.

• eBooks on EBSCOhost

  Over 14,000 electronic books. (Previously called NetLibrary.) Coverage: varies.

• OneClick Digital Audiobooks

  Downloadable audio books, provided by NC LIVE. Titles are also linked individually from the ZSR Library Catalog. Note: Requires installation of the OneClickDigital Media Manager software (free download). This software is a Beta version and does not currently work on Mac computers; the publisher is still developing the Mac version. Coverage: varies.

• New! Open Access Theses and Dissertations

  Index of over 1.6 million freely-available electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) from over 800 colleges, universities, and research institutions. Coverage: 1964-.

• WorldCat

  The world's most comprehensive bibliography, with millions of bibliographic records representing 400 languages and covering information from 4,000 years of knowledge. Includes holdings information from the world's libraries. Coverage: 1200-.

• ZSR Library Catalog

  Data about the books, journals, films, manuscripts, and other materials owned by the ZSR Library. Coverage: 14th century-.

Encyclopedias, Reference (1)

• CQ Electronic Library

  Contains CQ Researcher, CQ Global Researcher, and CQ Weekly. CQ Researcher contains comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues in the news in the United States, while Global Researcher covers world news. Controversial topics are addressed in a balanced, unbiased manner. CQ Weekly covers the U.S. Congress: bills, votes and amendments, floor and committee activity, and backroom maneuvering. WFU access also includes Political Handbook of the World and the Supreme Court Compendium. Supported in part by the Paschal Library Endowment. Coverage: 1923-.

Multimedia (3)

• Academic Video Online

  Cross-searchable interface to all Alexander Street Press streaming video products. WFU access currently includes Counseling and Therapy in Video, Flimakers Library Online, Opera in Video, and Theatre in Video.

• Filmakers Library Online

  Streaming video collection of award-winning documentaries with relevance across the curriculum - race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more.

• PBS videos

  Streaming video from PBS

Primary Sources--Documents & Manuscripts (1)

• FDsys (GPO)

  The Federal Digital System of the Government Printing Office. Includes the Federal Register, Congressional Record, Congressional Bills, the Monthly catalog, US Government Manual, the US Code, GAO Reports, public laws and the Congressional Directory. The official site for this information. Coverage: Varies.

Primary Sources--Historical Newspapers & Periodicals (1)

• American Periodicals Series

  Includes digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century. Titles range from Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine and America's first scientific journal, Medical Repository; popular magazines such as Vanity Fair and Ladies' Home Journal; regional and niche publications; and groundbreaking journals like The Dial, Puck, and McClure's. Articles, advertisements, and illustrations are included. Coverage: 1740-1900.