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Found 35 Civic Communication and Media databases

Academic Search Complete

full text  dates: 1965 - present

Provides full text for more than 8,500 academic, social sciences, humanities, general science, education and multi-cultural journals. It offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 12,500 journals. Over 7,300 of the full text journals are peer reviewed.

Access World News

full text  

Full-text content of over 2,200 North American newspapers and more than 1,200 international newspapers, plus 300 wire services and over 200 broadcast news transcripts. Covers local, regional, and world issues, politics, government policies, sports, industries, cultural activities, schools, and the people and events in the community.

America's Historical Newspapers

full text  dates: 1690-1876

Provides full text to over 700 historical newspapers. Hatfield Library has series 1, which covers newspapers that began publishing in the colonial period, with some titles providing coverage into the later 1800s.

American Periodical Series Online

full text  dates: 1740-1900

Provides indexing and full text to over 1,100 periodicals that first began publishing between 1740 and 1900. Included are special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, and other historically-significant periodicals.

Canadian Newsstream

full text  

Provides local and regional coverage of Canada.

Chronicling America

full text  dates: 1836-1922

Provides access to information about historic newspapers and select digitized newspaper pages. Produced by the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Library of Congress (LC). Eventually, it is hoped that it will contain newspapers from all U.S. states and territories.

Communication and Mass Media Complete

full text  

Provides robust coverage of quality research in areas related to communication and mass media studies, linguistics, rhetoric and discourse.

Ethnic NewsWatch

full text  dates: 1984 - present

Provides a rich collection of articles, editorials and reviews with a broad diversity of perspectives and viewpoints from the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic and minority press.

Historic Oregon Newspapers

full text  dates: 1846-2017

This full-text searchable database contains over 900,000 pages of Oregon newspapers dated 1846 - 2017, and the ODNP is continually adding new titles.

Historical Statistics of the United States

full text  

The fourth edition of Historical Statistics of the United States. The Millennial Edition is published by Cambridge University Press, with the permission of the Census Bureau.

iPOLL (Roper)

full text  dates: 1935-

A comprehensive, up-to-date source for public opinion data in the United States.

MasterFile Premier

full text  dates: 1984 - present

Provides full text for over 1,830 general reference, business, consumer health, general science, and multi-cultural periodicals. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 2,800 periodicals.

MLA International Bibliography

full text  dates: 1926 - present

Indexes critical material on the modern languages, literature, linguistics, and folklore. Provides access to over 3,000 journals, as well as to book chapters, proceedings, and working papers.

New York Times (1980 - present)

full text  dates: 1980 - present

Provides searchable full text.

New York Times Historical (1851-2010)

full text  dates: 1851-2009

Provides full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. Includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.

News (Gale OneFile)

full text  

A full-text newspaper database which allows users to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, newspaper section or other assigned fields. Includes over 1000 papers, both domestic and international, including the New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, and the San Francisco Chronicle.

Newspaper Source

full text  dates: 1984 - present

Provides selected full text articles from 143 U.S. and international newspapers.

Opposing Viewpoints

full text  

A one-stop source for information on current social issues. Drawing on acclaimed series published by Greenhaven Press and other Gale imprints, OVRC features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to Websites. New to the database are Lexile reading levels for periodicals and an integrated national and state curriculum standards search with content correlated to the standards.

Oregon Index

dates: 1985-2004

Selectively indexes articles on local and regional topics from the following Oregon newspapers: The Oregonian, Salem Statesman Journal, Eugene Register Guard, Coos Bay World, Corvallis Gazette Times, Klamath Falls Herald & News, The LaGrande Observer, and Willamette Week.

Oregon Index Online

dates: 1900-1980

It contains over 700,000 cards with citations to articles published in Portland and Salem newspapers, magazines, book chapters, and more. Topics cover events and issues important to Oregon's history and state government.

Oregon Newspaper Sources

full text  

A collection of Oregon-based newspapers and journals, including the Oregonian and Eugene Register-Guard that can be searched simultaneously or individually.

Oregonian (Newsbank)

full text  dates: 1861 - present

Full text access to the Oregonian, the newspaper of record for the state of Oregon. It is the largest newspaper in Oregon and the Pacific Northwest by circulation.

Oregonian Index (U of O)

dates: 1852-1987

Provides an online index to articles in The Oregonian. The database covers 1852-1987 and contains more than 839,000 records.

PAIS Index

dates: 1972 - present

Offers access to topics with an international focus, including public policy, public administration, government relations, governmental effectiveness, nonprofit organizations, political structures and international relations. Provides selective coverage of magazine and journal articles, books, book reviews, conference proceedings, government documents, and statistical directories.

Politics Collection

full text  dates: 1984 - present

Provides articles on international relations and political science.

Popular Magazines

full text  

Includes full text coverage of 1000 of the most searched magazines across the Gale databases. Topics covered include sports, science, health and current events.

Proquest Social Sciences Premium Collection

full text  dates: 1871 - present

Provides articles on the social sciences, including politics, sociology, education and criminal justice.

Readers Guide Retrospective

dates: 1890 - 1982

Contains comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America.

Register Guard Index

dates: 1963 - present

Maintained by the Eugene Public Library it provides citations to Register Guard articles related to local (Lane County, Oregon only) issues and people.

Scopus

partial full text  dates: 1995 - present

Scopus is a major citation database for over 20,000 peer-reviewed journals. It also covers conference proceedings, select book series and trade journals, plus U.S./international patents. It features smart tools to track, analyze and visualize the world's research in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities. To access full-text articles when they are available, log into your library account before using Scopus.

Social Science Database

full text  

Provides journal articles on the social sciences.

Statesman Journal

full text  dates: 1999 - present

Provides access to Salem's newspaper, covering local news and events, Oregon state government.

Telecommunications Database

full text  dates: 1995 - present

Provides journal articles, magazines and newsletters on the field of telecommunications.

U.S. Newsstream

full text  dates: 1984 - present

Enables users to search the most recent premium U.S. news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring top newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites in active full-text format.

Wall Street Journal

full text  dates: 1984 - present

Provides full text coverage of the worlds leading financial newspaper. Useful for current and historical information on international finance and economics, the stock market, and world events.
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