Offers comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues in the news. Noted for its award-winning in-depth, unbiased coverage of health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the economy.
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Swank Digital Campus provides colleges and universities with a streaming collection of films, documentaries and TV shows, available both on and off campus.
Good Starting Point Databases
Don't know which database to choose? Try one of these multidisciplinary databases, which cover a variety of topics, as your starting point.
Academic OneFile (Gale)This link opens in a new windowAcademic OneFile provides extensive coverage to full text articles from a variety of academic disciplines.
Academic Search UltimateThis link opens in a new windowThis combination of academic journals, magazines, periodicals, reports, books and videos meets the needs of scholars in virtually every discipline ranging from astronomy, anthropology, biomedicine, engineering, health, law and literacy to mathematics, pharmacology, women’s studies, zoology and more.
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (BadgerLink)This link opens in a new windowComplete online version of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Additional features include videos, magazine and journal articles, dictionary, thesaurus, notable quotations, and relevant Web links.
Films on DemandThis link opens in a new windowFilms on Demand is a database that provides access to over 6,000 streaming videos appropriate for academic research.
Global Newsstream (ProQuest)This link opens in a new windowThe most recent global news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring content from newspapers, newswires, and news sites in active full-text format. Provides one of the largest collections of news from the US, Canada, Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Australia, and allows easy access to multiple perspectives, resources, and languages on topics.
Nexis UNI (formerly LexisNexis)This link opens in a new windowDatabase of full text online news, business, financial, legal, medical, biographical, government and domestic and international newspaper resources.
MasterFILE Complete (BadgerLink)This link opens in a new windowPopular full-text magazines, reference books and other sources from the world's leading publishers.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (1990-Current)This link opens in a new windowFind Milwaukee metropolitan, state and national issues and events including business, education, government, politics, sports and more.
America's News (Newsbank)This link opens in a new windowResearch current and archived news content for information on topics, events, issues, people, businesses, and more through this in-depth resource of more than 6,000 resources, including the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Newspaper Source Plus (BadgerLink)This link opens in a new windowFull-text coverage of today's major newspapers, for students and researchers. Includes 1570 full-text newspapers made up of US regional and national, international (mostly British Commonwealth) and campus papers; newswires; and TV/radio news transcripts (including ABC, CBS, NPR, CNN and others).
Opposing Viewpoints (Gale In Context)This link opens in a new windowOne-stop source for information on social issues. Provides current event topics and the facts as well as the arguments of each topic's proponents and detractors.
Oxford English Dictionary (OED)This link opens in a new windowThe Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world.
Keywords: Language, Etymology
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