Following is an alphabetical list of databases containing scholarly journal articles as well as items from general news sources such as Time or Newsweek.
I suggest Academic Search Premier, the second database, as a good starting place because of the layout and the ease of use. It also covers contemporary issues more reliably than JSTOR.
Source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. Offers extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects.
Includes full-text coverage in biology, chemistry, economics, engineering, physics, political science, psychology, religion & theology, as well as other subject areas.
Index to scholarly literature on the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. It provides access to articles, books, and dissertations published since 1964.
Law Reviews are easy to find, and our only source for Legislative Histories. U.S. Presidential Library.
Collection consists of complete Code of Federal Regulations, English Reports, European Center for Minority Issues, Federal Register Library, Foreign & International Law Resources Database, International Law Association Reports, Law Journal Library, Legal Classics, New York Court of Appeals Records and Briefs, the Philip C. Jessup Library, the Treaties and Agreements Library, a collection of political journals and session laws, U.S. Attorney General Opinions, U.S. Federal Legislative History Library, U.S. Presidential Library, U.S. Statutes at Large, the U.S. Supreme Court Library, and the World Trials Library.
Over 65,000 documents related to homeland security policy, strategy, and organizational management from a wide range variety of sources including federal, state and local governments; international governments and institutions; nonprofit organizations and private entities. Members of the US Military may also register for access to a Restricted Collection of current CUI or U//FOUO intel releases, reports and summaries from federal, state and local sources.
JSTOR offers a high-quality, multidisciplinary archive to support scholarship and teaching. It includes archives of over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. The entire corpus is full-text searchable, offers search term highlighting, includes high-quality images, and is interlinked by millions of citations and references.
Provides access to full-text news, business, and legal publications. It includes deep backfiles and up-to-the-minute stories in national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources. Use the included Company Dossier module to retrieve detailed company information and financial performance measures or identify and compare companies matching specific criteria. This product also provides access to the renowned Shepard's Citations service for all federal and states court cases back to 1789.
Provides access to scholarly journals, magazines, and reports covering all aspects of the past and current state of military affairs. The database offers content in key subject areas including governmental policies, the socioeconomic effects of war, the structure of the armed forces, and more.
Abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, for peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health. Includes information about the psychological aspects of related fields such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, technology, linguistics, anthropology, business, law and others.
An interdisciplinary collection of e-journals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. These titles cover a variety of subjects with a focus on literature, political science, history and culture.
Find (baseline and long-term) projections of budgetary and economic outcomes based on the assumption that current laws regarding federal spending and revenues will generally remain in place, including the effects of demographic trends, economic developments, and rising health care costs on federal spending, revenues, and deficits. CBO provides formal, written estimates of the cost of virtually every bill approved by Congressional committees to show how the bill would affect spending or revenues.
CQ Magazine/CQ Weekly and CQ Researcher, some coverage back to 1983. Find unbiased and succinct information covering public policy, politics, congressional legislation, and elections.
Allows for searching content from CQ's Politics in America, CQ Supreme Court Collection, CQ Researcher, CQ Global Researcher, and CQ Weekly.