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- Credo Reference Academic Core This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive collection of subject encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, and reference handbooks. Also included are short reference videos and high-resolution images. Useful background information source.
- Oxford Reference Online: Premium This link opens in a new windowA comprehensive collection of scholarly encyclopedias and dictionaries published by Oxford University Press. A useful background information source for starting your research. Simultaneous user limit: 5.
- Britannica Academic This link opens in a new windowProvides access to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, an interactive world atlas, a world data analyst tool, images, timelines, videos, and primary sources.
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- Oxford Bibliographies This link opens in a new windowWritten and reviewed by scholars, these authoritative and scholarly annotated bibliographies serve as a great starting point for your research. Each article begins with an overview essay and recommends the most important scholarship on a topic. Includes recommendations to primary sources. Subscribed subjects include: Cinema and Media Studies, Classics, Communication, Education, International Law, International Relations, Latin American Studies, and Political Science.
The SAGE Handbook of Research Methods in Political Science and International RelationsCall Number: OnlineISBN: 1526459930Publication Date: 2020
Almanac of American PoliticsCall Number: Reference Main Level JK1012 .A44 2018ISBN: 9781938939563Publication Date: 2018
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics and International RelationsCall Number: OnlineISBN: 9780199670840Publication Date: 2018
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Newspapers with Both Current and Historical Coverage
- Nation Archive This link opens in a new windowContains all issues of The Nation, beginning with its first in 1865 to the present. Articles, editorials, letters, reviews, poems, and puzzles are included.
- Newspaper Source Plus This link opens in a new windowContains full-text access to major international and national newspapers. Also includes television and radio news transcripts.
- Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic) This link opens in a new windowFunded in part by the generosity of the Flora and Jeremiah Buckley Library Fund. Contains local, regional, national, and international news with deep archives. Provides extensive legal sources for federal and state cases and statutes as well as law reviews. Also includes business information on U.S. and international companies.
- US Newsstream This link opens in a new windowEnables users to search current U.S. news content, as well as archives that stretch back into the 1980s. It features top newspapers, wires, broadcast transcripts, blogs, and news sites in full-text format.
Newspapers With Only Historical Coverage
- African American Newspapers Series 1, 1827-1998 This link opens in a new windowA full-text collection of newspapers published by or for African Americans.
- Connecticut Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new windowA collection of eighteenth and nineteenth century newspapers published in Connecticut. Content includes general news, election returns, legislative acts, letters, poetry, shipping news, and advertisements.
- New York Times - Historical This link opens in a new windowProvides every issue in PDF format from 1851 (with a three year embargo). Includes news articles, editorials, obituaries, birth and marriage announcements, photos, advertisements, and more.
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Hartford Courant This link opens in a new windowAccess to digitized issues of the Hartford Courant from 1764-1922. Access to 1992-Present is available in U.S. Newsstream.
Magazines with Both Current and Historical Coverage
- Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
This multidisciplinary database contains peer-reviewed journals, magazines, newspapers, ebooks, and videos.
Magazines With Only Historical Coverage
- Life Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window
Collection of cover-to-cover format archives of Life Magazine, from the very first issue in November 1936 through December 2000.
- Sports Illustrated Archive This link opens in a new window
A cover-to-cover format archive of Sports Illustrated Magazine, from its very first issue in August 1954 through December 2000.
- Time Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window
A cover-to-cover format archive of Time Magazine, dating back to its first issue in March 1923 through December 2000.
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