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Academic OneFile |
1980-present | Full Text | Vendor: Gale Group
Academic Search
Premier |
1975-present | Full Text | Vendor: EBSCO
Access World News |
Full Text | Vendor: NewsBank
Accessible Archives | Full Text | Vendor: Accessible
Archives Inc.
Atlanta Daily World see
Historical
Atlanta Daily World | 1931-2003 | Full Text | Vendor: ProQuest
Black Studies Center |
Some Full Text | Vendor: ProQuest
Campus Research: Law
(Formerly Westlaw
Campus)
| Full Text | Vendor: West
The Center for Research Libraries
Catalog | Vendor:
CRL
Chicago Defender see
Historical
Chicago Defender |
1910-1976 | Full Text | Vendor: ProQuest
Chicago Tribune
|
1985-present
| Vendor: NewsBank
Christian Science Monitor
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1988-present
| Vendor: ProQuest
Chronicling America: Historic
American Newspapers |
1690-present
| Some Full Text | Vendor: The Library of Congress and the National Endowment
for the Humanities
CQ Public Affairs Collection |
20th Century-present | Full Text | Vendor: CQ Press
CQ Researcher Plus Archive | 1923-present | Full Text | Vendor: CQ Press
EBSCOhost
| Vendor: EBSCO
Ethnic NewsWatch
| 1990-present | Full Text | Vendor: ProQuest Direct
Ethnic NewsWatch
and Ethnic NewsWatch: A History
| 1960-present | Full Text | Vendor: ProQuest Direct
Expanded Academic ASAP |
1980-present | Some Full Text | Vendor: Gale Group
FirstSearch | Vendor: FirstSearch
FirstSearch
| Vendor: FirstSearch
Florida Digital
Newspaper Library |
Full Text | Vendor: University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries
The Florida Times-Union |
1996-present | Vendor: NewsBank
Foreign Broadcast Information Service
(FBIS) Daily Reports, 1974-1996
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Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: Academic OneFile is the premier
source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals
and reference sources with extensive coverage of the physical sciences,
technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other
subjects. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to
1995.
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: Academic Search Premier, designed specifically for
academic institutions, is the world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full
text database containing full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including more
than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this
database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 8,200 journals in the
collection. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of
academic study including: computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry,
language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies,
and many more. Academic Search Premier is an enormous collection of the most
valuable peer-reviewed full text journals, offering critical information from
many sources unique to this database.
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: Access World News from NewsBank provides full-text
information and perspectives from over 600 U.S. and over 500 international
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: Accessible
Archives DATABASES contain the rich, comprehensive material found in leading
historic periodicals and books. [FAU Libraries has a one-year free
subscription to this resource, 10/26/2009.]
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info:
This database offers full page and article images with searchable full text. The collection includes digital reproductions
providing access to every page from every available issue.
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: Black Studies Center brings together
essential historical and current material for researching the past, present and
future of African-Americans, the wider African Diaspora, and Africa itself. This
resource is a fully cross-searchable gateway to Black Studies including
scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, and much
more. It combines several resources for research and teaching in Black
Studies: Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, International Index to Black
Periodicals (IIBP), The Chicago Defender, and the Black Literature Index.
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info:
A web-based legal research tool for undergraduate and graduate students who
need to research law-related issues. This resource includes access to the
complete laws and statutes of the federal government and all 50 states, federal
regulations, precedent-setting court decisions, KeyCite, American Law Reports,
American Jurisprudence, and current and archived articles from hundreds of
leading law reviews and journals.
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info:
The Center for Research Libraries (CRL)
is an international consortium of university, college, and independent research
libraries. Collection highlights include: 6,500 international newspapers; 2,500
U.S. newspapers, many dating to the colonial era; and 2,000 ethnic titles
indexed by language, state, culture, etc.
Also included are more than
38,000 international journals rarely held in U.S. and Canadian libraries, more
than 800,000 non-U.S./non-Canadian doctoral dissertations, and major collections
from Africa, Latin America, Middle East, Europe, Asia, and Southeast Asia.
As a member library, FAU provides
free access to materials held by CRL.
Check with your interlibrary loan department for more information on
availability of materials from CRL.
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info:
Black Studies Center provides the full text backfile, from 1910 to 1975, of the
influential black newspaper The Chicago Defender. Robert Sengstacke Abbott
founded the Defender in May 1905 and by the outbreak of the First World War it
had become the most widely-read black newspaper in the country, with more than
two thirds of its readership based outside Chicago. When Abbott died in 1940,
his nephew John Sengstacke became editor and publisher of the Defender, which
began publishing on a daily basis in 1956.
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info:
Complete full-text content of local and regional news, including
community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities,
local companies, state industries, and people in the community. Paid
advertisements are excluded.
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: Full text coverage of the Christian Science Monitor.
Open Access
Contents/Info: This site allows you to search and read newspaper pages
from 1900-1910 and find information about American newspapers published between
1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment
for the Humanities and the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital
Newspaper Program (NDNP).
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: Provides in-depth reports on vital issues, statistical and historical
analyses, historic documents and primary source materials, as well as a
directory of key government, non-profit, and private organizations in each of
the major policy areas. Organized by 22 key public affairs subject headings,
such as Advocacy and Public Service, Education, Energy, the Environment, Health,
and Transportation.
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: The CQ Researcher explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week. Topics range from
social and teen issues to environment, health, education and science and technology. There are 44 reports
produced each year including four expanded reports.
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: Provides access to CINAHL Plus with Full Text and Pre-CINAHL (nursing and
allied health journals); EconLit (economic literature); RILM Abstracts of Music
Literature; Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts; Academic
Search Premier; Film & Television Literature Index; Business Source Premier;
and Regional Business News.
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: Ethnic NewsWatch is an interdisciplinary, bilingual
(English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of the newspapers,
magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Designed to
provide the "other side of the story," ENW full text titles offer additional
viewpoints from those proffered by the mainstream press.
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: Ethnic NewsWatch is an interdisciplinary, bilingual
(English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of the newspapers,
magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Designed to
provide the "other side of the story," ENW full text titles offer additional
viewpoints from those proffered by the mainstream press.
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info:
Includes scholarly journals, news magazines and newspaper articles
regarding arts and humanities, social
sciences and science and technology disciplines.
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: A collection of databases provided by OCLC via
WebLUIS Web Gateway for FAU.
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: A collection of databases provided by OCLC via
LINCCWeb Gateway for Florida Community Colleges.
Open Access
Contents/Info: Florida’s newspapers are a state treasure, the
historian's and genealogist's best friend, and the community's collective
memory. In the world of newspapers, today's news is already history, from the
moment their stories are printed. The Florida Digital Newspaper Library exists
to provide access to the news and history of Florida.
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info:
Indexes Northeast Florida regional news (including Baker, Clay, Duval, Nassau,
Putnam and St. Johns Counties), Florida legislative news, etc. from 1986-1997
in the Florida Times Union.
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: FBIS Daily Reports consists
of translated broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals
and government statements from nations around the globe.
GenderWatch
| 1970-present | Full Text | Vendor: ProQuest Direct
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: A full text database of unique and diverse publications
that focus on how gender impacts a broad spectrum of subject areas. With its
archival material, dating back to 1970 in some cases, GenderWatch is a
repository of an important historical perspective on the evolution of the
women's movement and the changes in gender roles. Publications include scholarly
journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books, and
NGO, government and special reports.
Historical Atlanta Daily World
| 1931-2003 | Full Text | Vendor: ProQuest
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info:
This database offers full page and article images with searchable full text. The collection includes digital reproductions
providing access to every page from every available issue.
Historical
Chicago Defender |
1910-1976 | Full Text | Vendor: ProQuest
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info:
Black Studies Center provides the full text backfile, from 1910 to 1975, of the
influential black newspaper The Chicago Defender. Robert Sengstacke Abbott
founded the Defender in May 1905 and by the outbreak of the First World War it
had become the most widely-read black newspaper in the country, with more than
two thirds of its readership based outside Chicago. When Abbott died in 1940,
his nephew John Sengstacke became editor and publisher of the Defender, which
began publishing on a daily basis in 1956.
Historical Los Angeles Sentinel
| 1934-2005
| Full Text | Vendor: ProQuest
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info:
This database offers full page and article images with searchable full text. The collection includes digital reproductions
providing access to every page from every available issue.
Historical Los Angeles Times |
1881-1985 | Full Text | Vendor: ProQuest
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info:
This database offers full page and article images with searchable full text back
to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing
access to every page from every available issue.
Historical New
York Amsterdam News |
1962-1994 | Full Text | Vendor: ProQuest
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info:
The Amsterdam News was founded as a six-page weekly covering local news by James
Henry Anderson in 1909. Under the ownership of C. B. Powell and Philip M. H.
Savory from 1938, it became the largest black community weekly in the United
States. Contributors to the newspaper have included W. E. B. Du Bois, Roy
Wilkins and Malcolm X.
Historical New York Times |
1851-three years before the current date | Full Text | Vendor: ProQuest
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info:
This database offers full-page-images and article images from the New York
times from its first issue in 1851 to three years before the current date. The
collection includes digital reproductions of every page from every issue, cover
to cover, in downloadable PDF files. The database is an ongoing project.
Historical Pittsburgh Courier
| 1911-2002 | Full Text | Vendor: ProQuest
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info:
This database offers full page and article images with searchable full text. The collection includes digital reproductions
providing access to every page from every available issue.
Historical Wall Street Journal |
1889-1987 | Full Text | Vendor: ProQuest
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info:
The paper is considered the preeminent publication for business news and
information on financial markets worldwide. Each issue of every newspaper
is indexed thoroughly, so researchers can access not only top news stories but
also detailed information from all the paper's sections. For each article cited
in the database, an abstract of up to 75 words helps the researcher know if the
complete text will meet his or her needs. This
resource offers full-page-images from the entire run of the paper,
dating back to the first 1889 issue.
Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL)
| Some Full Text | Vendor: U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: HSDL is the nation’s
premier collection of homeland security policy, strategy and organizational documents. This resource
includes thousands of
key, selected HS documents; full-text advanced search, hundreds of subject categories;
direct links to important U.S. policy documents;
online
databases and journals;
cutting edge NPS thesis and research reports;
breaking news stories and newly
released reports.
Informe
| 1994-present | Full Text | Vendor: Gale Group
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: A collection of Spanish
language journals in full text. (Una colección de revistas hispánicas con textos
completos. Abarca negocios, salud, tecnología, cultura, temas de actualidad y
otras materias.)
InfoTrac OneFile | 1980-present | Some Full Text | Vendor: Gale Group
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: A one-stop source for news and
periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current
events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies,
humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports,
technology, and many general interest topics.
JSTOR | Full Text | Vendor: JSTOR
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: Journal Storage (More than 500 scholarly journals in education, humanities, mathematics, science
[including the General Science Collection and Ecology and Botany Collection], and social science disciplines)
LexisNexis Academic | Full Text | Vendor: LexisNexis
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info:
Accesses over a billion full text news, magazine, legal, and business articles
and reports, including newspapers, magazines and government documents, state and
federal laws and regulations, case law, newsletters, company and industry
information.
Los Angeles Sentinel
see
Historical Los Angeles Sentinel
| 1934-2005
| Full Text | Vendor: ProQuest
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info:
This database offers full page and article images with searchable full text. The collection includes digital reproductions
providing access to every page from every available issue.
Los
Angeles Times | 1985-present | Full Text | Vendor: ProQuest
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: Major daily
newspaper from Los Angeles. With the nation's largest editorial department,
it offers extensive coverage of national, international, and local news. [Also see
Historical Los Angeles Times:
This database offers full page and article images with searchable full text
back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions
providing access to every page from every available issue.]
The Miami Herald
| 1983-present | Full Text | Vendor: NewsBank
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: The Miami Herald is a general
circulation daily newspaper providing local, national, and international news
coverage.
The Nation Archive |
1865-present
| Full Text | Vendor: EBSCO
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info:
The Nation is America's oldest weekly magazine and one if its premier journals
of opinion since its inception in 1865. The Nation has long been regarded as one
of the country's definitive journalistic voices of writing on politics, culture,
books and the arts and continues to stand as the independent voice in American
journalism. James Baldwin, Ralph Nader and Hunter Thompson published their first
pieces in The Nation. Other contributors have included Martin Luther King Jr.,
Albert Einstein, Eleanor Roosevelt, Emma Goldman and Jean-Paul Sartre. The
Nation has a proud literary history as well, having published the work of W.H.
Auden, Langston Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Henry James, Willa Cather, Thomas Mann and
hundreds of other major writers. This database contains indexing & abstracting
and full text for the complete archive of The Nation beginning with its first
issue in 1865 through to the present.
New York Amsterdam News see
Historical New
York Amsterdam News |
1962-1994 | Full Text | Vendor: ProQuest
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info:
The Amsterdam News was founded as a six-page weekly covering local news by James
Henry Anderson in 1909. Under the ownership of C. B. Powell and Philip M. H.
Savory from 1938, it became the largest black community weekly in the United
States. Contributors to the newspaper have included W. E. B. Du Bois, Roy
Wilkins and Malcolm X.
New York Times | Full Text | Vendor:
ProQuest
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: Provides
coverage of national and
international news, plus coverage of important speeches and documents, Supreme
Court decisions and presidential press conference transcripts. [Also see
Historical New York Times: This
database offers full-page-images and article images from the New York times
from its first issue in 1851 to three years before the current date. The
collection includes digital reproductions of every page from every issue,
cover to cover, in downloadable PDF files.]
NewsBank | Full Text | Vendor: NewsBank
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: Menu of NewsBank databases and major newspapers.
OmniFile Full Text Mega Edition
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Some Full Text | Vendor: H. W. Wilson
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: Wilson
OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition is a multi-disciplinary database providing the
complete content - indexing, abstracts, and full text - from six of Wilson's
full-text databases: Education Full Text,
General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text,
Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text. Full-text articles
from five additional periodical databases are also included when available:
Applied Science & Technology Full Text, Art Full Text, Biological & Agricultural
Index, Index to Legal Periodicals & Books, and Library Literature & Information
Science Full Text. Full-text
coverage begins in 1994. Each database has its own start dates for indexing,
abstracting, and full text; start dates for full-text rights to individual
journals vary within a database.
The Orlando Sentinel
| 1985-present | Full Text| Vendor: NewsBank
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: Full text articles from the The Orlando Sentinel.
The Palm Beach Post
| 1989-present | Full Text | Vendor: NewsBank
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info:
Complete full text of local and regional news.
Pittsburgh Courier see
Historical Pittsburgh Courier
| 1911-2002 | Full Text | Vendor: ProQuest
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info:
This database offers full page and article images with searchable full text. The collection includes digital reproductions
providing access to every page from every available issue.
ProQuest Direct |
Some Full Text | Vendor: ProQuest
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: Provides access to ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Trade &
Industry, Criminal Justice Periodicals and ProQuest Newspapers.
ProQuest Newspapers
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Full Text | Vendor: ProQuest
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: Coverage of 5 major U.S.; newspapers, including The New York Times (1999 to
date), Wall Street Journal (1984 to date), Washington Post (1987 to date), Los
Angeles Times (1985 to date) and the Christian Science Monitor (1988 to date).
St. Petersburg Times | 1987-present | Full Text | Vendor: NewsBank
Sun-Sentinel (Ft. Lauderdale) | 1986-present | Full Text | Vendor: NewsBank
Tallahassee Democrat | 1994 - present | Full-Text | Vendor: NewsBank
The Tampa Tribune | 1991-present | Full Text | Vendor: NewsBank
Times
Digital Archive | 1785-1985 | Full Text |
Vendor: Gale Group
USA Today |
1988-present | Full Text | Vendor: NewsBank
Wall Street Journal
|
1984-present | Full Text | Vendor: ProQuest
The Washington Post |
1977-present | Full Text | Vendor: NewsBank
The Washington Post
|
1987-present | Full Text | Vendor: ProQuest
Westlaw Campus see
Campus Research: Law | Full Text | Vendor: West
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: Complete full-text content of local and regional news,
including community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural
activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community. Paid
advertisements are excluded.
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: Complete full-text content of local and regional news,
including community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural
activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community.
Paid advertisements are excluded.
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: Covers Florida's capital city and surrounding
counties. The newspaper has developed a strong reputation for government
reporting, sports coverage (Florida State University--the 1999 college football
national champions, Florida A&M University and Tallahassee Community College are
located here) and photography.
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: Since 1895, The Tampa Tribune has been the leading news
source for what is now a 23-county region in west central Florida -- more than
one-third of the state's total area. With daily circulation of 320,000, and over
400,000 on Sundays, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Tampa Tribune is considered one
of the top newspapers in the southeastern U.S.
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: Researchers can search through the complete digital
edition of The Times (London), using keyword searching and hit-term
highlighting to retrieve full facsimile images of either a specific article
or a complete page. The entire newspaper is captured, with all articles,
advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories to
facilitate searching.
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: With daily circulation
exceeding 2 million in all 50 states, USA TODAY is the most widely read
newspaper in the country.
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info:
The paper is considered the preeminent publication for business news and
information on financial markets worldwide. Each issue of every newspaper
is indexed thoroughly, so researchers can access not only top news stories but
also detailed information from all the paper's sections. For each article cited
in the database, an abstract of up to 75 words helps the researcher know if he
complete text will meet his or her needs. [Also see
Historical Wall Street Journal :
This resource offers the complete pages images from the entire run of the
paper, dating back to the first 1889 issue.]
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: With daily
circulation of more than 800,000, and over 1.1 million on Sundays, The
Washington Post ranks as one of the top five newspapers in the U.S.
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info: Coverage
of national, international, and local news. The Washington Post is renowned for
its political reporting, editorials and columnists.
Off Campus Connect (EZproxy)
Contents/Info:
A web-based legal research tool for undergraduate and graduate students who
need to research law-related issues. This resource includes access to the
complete laws and statutes of the federal government and all 50 states, federal
regulations, precedent-setting court decisions, KeyCite, American Law Reports,
American Jurisprudence, and current and archived articles from hundreds of
leading law reviews and journals.
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