Topic Search

Formats: Articles, short-entry reference works
Full Text: All
Years: Current
Vendor: EBSCOHost
Number of Users: Unlimited
Description: Current events, controversial issues, social, political & economic issues. Full text for over 64,000 articles from more than 3,000 diverse sources, including nearly 1,600 full text periodicals. Sources are: periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, government information and EBSCO's Current Issues database.

PAIS - Public Affairs Information Service

Formats: Articles, books, government documents, statistics, directories, reports
Full Text: Some linked full text to other EBSCOHost databases
Years: 1972 - current
Vendor: FirstSearch
Number of Users: Unlimited
Description: International and national affairs, government, geopolitics, political science, elections. Provides selective subjects and bibliographic access to periodicals, books, hearings, reports, gray literature, government publications, Internet resources, and other publications from 120 countries. Contains 500,000 records, each with bibliographic information and brief, descriptive abstracts. Includes materials in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish with English language abstracts and subject headings. Links to web resources and publisher websites.

Newspaper Source Plus

Formats: Articles
Full Text: All
Years: 1995 - current
Vendor: EBSCOHost
Number of Users: Unlimited
Description: Newspaper Source Plus includes 1,520 full-text newspapers, providing more than 28 million full-text articles. The database contains comprehensive full text for major newspapers such as The New York Times (from January 1985 to present), The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, The Daily Mail (UK), The Irish Times (Ireland), The San Francisco Chronicle, The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia), The Times of London, The Toronto Star, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, and others.

In addition, Newspaper Source Plus features more than a half-million television and radio news transcripts, videos & podcasts, including: ABC News (American Boadcasting Company), ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation), CBS News, CNBC, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, MSNBC, National Public Radio, PBS, and more.

LexisNexis

Formats: Articles, short-entry reference works, law codes
Full Text: Most
Years: Current
Vendor: LexisNexis
Number of Users: 99 concurrent users
Description: LexisNexis offers information in the following areas:

Law: Federal and state case law, statutes, codes, regulations, legal news, law reviews, and international legal information. Includes full text journal articles from law reviews and accounting, auditing, and tax information.

News: Full text newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts (news sources include non-English language). News information is updated daily and wire services several times daily.

Companies: Company financial information, SEC filings and reports, and industry and market news, SEC filings such as 10-K, 10-Q, and their exhibits; company, industry, and market news; company financial information.

LexisNexis also offers minor coverage of country information and brief biographical information, primarily on prominent people in business and law.

Biography Master Index

Formats: Reference work
Full Text: None
Years: 1984 - current (biographical information for people from antiquity to present)
Vendor: Gale Group
Number of Users: Unlimited
Description: Citations for biographical information on more than 5 million people. Indexes articles, books, and autobiographies for graphical subjects from antiquity to the present. Includes individual and collective biographies from all fields and nationalities.

Biography Reference Bank

Formats: Short-entry reference work
Full Text: Most, with links to external resources
Years: Antiquity to present
Vendor: WilsonWeb
Number of Users: Unlimited
Description: Biography Reference Bank contains more than 95,000 short biographies and obituaries and 26,000 photographs from more than 100 volumes of biographical reference books, including Current Biography, the World Author Series, Nobel Prize Winners, World Artists, World Film Directors, American Reformers, and others. Includes all entries from Biography Index Plus, biographical material appearing in periodicals, current books of individual and collective biography, and incidental biographical material in otherwise non-biographical books. These entries are enhanced with abstracts and the full text of articles where available.

CQ Researcher Global

Formats: Reference work
Full Text: All
Years: Current
Vendor: CQ
Number of Users: Unlimited
Description: Each CQ Researcher report offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy. Each report includes a background and chronology; an assessment of the current situation; tables and maps; pro/con statements from representatives of opposing positions; and bibliographies of key sources.

CQ Researcher Global expands CQ Researcher to include international topics such as separatist movements and global hunger. Content from CQ Global contains a green "G" beside the report title.

MAS Ultra (School Edition)

Formats: Articles, short-entry reference works
Full Text: Most
Years: 1975 - current
Vendor: EBSCOHost
Number of Users: Unlimited
Description: General interest, current events. Includes 550 popular magazines and publications, 550 full text pamphlets, 237 full text reference books, 91,600 biographies, 75,000 primary source documents, and an image collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags. Designed for K-12 schools.

Oklahoman Archives

Formats: Articles
Full Text: All
Years: 1901 - current
Vendor: OPUBCO
Number of Users: Not listed
Description: All information from every issue of the Oklahoman, including articles, photos, and advertisements. 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 included.

Oxford Reference: History

Formats: Online reference works
Full Text: All
Years: Current
Vendor: Oxford Reference
Number of Users: 5 concurrent users
Description: These 22 specialized reference works cover topics relating to history, including archaeology, dynasties, politics, lineages, military campaigns and strategies, biographical sketches, and government.

Oxford Reference: Politics & Social Sciences

Formats: Online reference works
Full Text: All
Years: Current
Vendor: Oxford Reference
Number of Users: 5 concurrent users
Description: These nine specialized reference works cover topics such as geography, political biography, political systems, sociology and social systems, psychology, and government.

Academic Search Complete

Formats: Articles
Full Text: Some
Years: Varies; most publications are full run
Vendor: EBSCOHost
Number of Users: Unlimited
Description: Multi-disciplinary, general database covering most academic topics. Includes more than 7,000 full-text periodicals, including nearly 6,000 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 11,000 journals and a total of more than 11,600 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.

ArticleFirst

Formats: Articles
Full Text: Some links to full text in other databases
Years: 1990 - current
Vendor: FirstSearch
Number of Users: 20 concurrent users statewide
Description: Multidisciplinary database indexing over 16,000 journals, more than any other library database. Contains citations for articles taken from the tables of contents of each issue of the journals covered.

CQ Researcher Global

Formats: Reference work
Full Text: All
Years: Current
Vendor: CQ Researcher
Number of Users: Unlimited
Description: Each CQ Researcher report offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy. Each report includes a background and chronology; an assessment of the current situation; tables and maps; pro/con statements from representatives of opposing positions; and bibliographies of key sources.

Europa World Year Book

Formats: Short-entry reference work
Full Text: All
Years: Current
Vendor: Europa Publications
Number of Users: 1 concurrent user
Description: Europa World Year Book publishes ten well-regarded reference works on political and economic information in over 250 countries and territories, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. Each article has an introductory survey of recent history; government; economic affairs; defense; education; social welfare; statistics; a directory of essential names and addresses and other information covering such areas as the constitution, government, legislature, political organizations, diplomatic representation, religion, the media, finance, trade, industry, transport and tourism. Europa World Year Book also provides information on 1,650 international organizations.

Complete coverage of these books is included in the online Europa World Year Book:
The Europa World Year Book
Africa South of the Sahara
Central and South-Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia
The Far East and Australasia
The Middle East and North Africa
South America, Central America and the Caribbean
South Asia

Opposing Viewpoints

Formats: Short-entry reference work
Full Text: All
Years: Current
Vendor: Thomson Gale
Number of Users: Unlimited
Description: Opposing Viewpoints is a source for information on social issues. Sections include viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.