CQ ResearcherThis link opens in a new windowComprehensive reporting and analysis on issues in the news. Reader-friendly organization provides researchers with an introductory overview, which includes three pro-con debates; a background and chronology on the topic; an assessment of the current situation; tables and maps; a pro/con debate by representatives of opposing positions; and bibliographies of key sources.
Unbiased coverage of health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the economy.
Gale in Context: Opposing ViewpointsThis link opens in a new windowCovering today's hottest social issues, explore all possible sides and relevant perspectives.
Includes pro/con viewpoints, reference articles, interactive maps, and infographics. Periodical content covers current events, news and commentary, economics, environmental issues, political science with featured content from The New York Times, Newsweek, Foreign Policy, American Scientist, and Education Week.
Comprehensively covers these ethnic categories: African American/Caribbean/African, Arab/Middle Eastern, Asian/Pacific Islander, European/Eastern European, Hispanic, Jewish, and Native People. This database also contains Ethnic NewsWatch: A History, which provides historical coverage of Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals from 1959-1989, including primary source materials from the pivotal years of the 1960's, 1970's, and 1980's, including the civil rights struggle, Vietnam War protests, dramatic changes in immigration law, trickledown economics, and the status of migrant workers.
JSTORThis link opens in a new windowJSTOR is a highly selective digital library of academic content in many formats and disciplines. The collections include top peer-reviewed scholarly journals as well as respected literary journals, academic monographs, research reports from trusted institutes, and primary sources.
Subjects Include: Addiction studies; Anthropology; Communications; Economics; Ethics; Family studies; Gender studies; International relations; Law; Mass media; Minority studies; Political science; Psychology; Public welfare; Social work; Urban studies.
Subjects Include: Criminology; Criminal justice; Demography; Ethnic and racial studies; Gender studies; Marriage and family; Political sociology; Religion; Rural and urban sociology; Social development; Social psychology; Social structure; Social work; Socio-cultural anthropology; Sociological history; Sociological research; Sociological theory; Substance abuse; Violence
Social Services Abstracts provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. The database includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations as well as citations to book reviews.
Includes: Cases, Statutes and regulations, Secondary sources, Practice areas, News, Briefs, Trial court documents, Public records.
Newspapers Databases
19th Century U.S. NewspapersThis link opens in a new windowGale's 19th Century U.S. Newspapers -- a full-text searchable, facsimile-image database -- provides an as-it-happened window on events, culture, and daily life in nineteenth-century America.
In addition to coverage of the American Civil War, African American culture and history, westward migration, Antebellum-era life, and other major topics, the collection also includes scholarly essays on nineteenth-century American history written by prominent historians.
Los Angeles Times (1881-2013)This link opens in a new windowThe Los Angeles Times offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue (Dec. 4, 1881).
The chronicle of a century of America's westward expansion as rails connect East and West for the first time. Oil is discovered in Los Angeles. Immigrants come ashore from Japan and China, as former slaves arrive from the South and Latinos arrive from Mexico. Aviation and movie making take flight. Los Angeles hosts the Olympic Games — twice. Shipbuilding and citrus growing become major industries. Local companies Wham-O and Mattel give birth to the Hula Hoop and Barbie. The city hosts the first Super Bowl. The Los Angeles Times delivers unique coverage of the development of Southern California and the American West. Follow reporter Charles Lummis as he walks from Cincinnati to Los Angeles, recording his travels and providing a unique glimpse into Native American life. Read the Annual Trade Number Edition (published 1886-1962), which promoted Southern California to prospective immigrants from the East and Midwest. Review the “Noticias en Espanol” news summary column (published 1922-1933), which served the Times’ Spanish-speaking audience.
Los Angeles Times (current)This link opens in a new windowComprehensive coverage back to 1985 is available from one of the leading sources of national and international news.
Detailed indexed information about arts, sports, business, and popular culture, including editorials, editorial cartoons, obituaries, and letters to the editor.
U.S. NewsstreamThis link opens in a new windowSearch current U.S. news content, as well as archives that stretch back into the 1980s, as well as, providing key national and regional news sources from the U.S.
Features top newspapers, wires, broadcast transcripts, blogs, and news sites in full-text format including The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Newsday, and Chicago Tribune.
Streaming Video Databases
Black Studies in VideoThis link opens in a new windowBlack Studies in Video is an award-winning black studies portfolio that brings together seminal documentaries, powerful interviews, and previously unavailable archival footage surveying the black experience. The collection contains 500 hours of film covering African American history, politics, art and culture, family structure, gender relationships, and social and economic issues.
Digital Theatre+This link opens in a new windowDigital Theatre+ is used to encourage home research, flip the classroom, and even for rural access to the arts.
COVID-19 response complimentary access until April 20, 2020.
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Films on DemandThis link opens in a new windowBrowse the full collection of streaming videos.
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Latin America in VideoThis link opens in a new windowAmerica Latina en Video / América Latina em Vídeo / Latin America in Video gives instructors, students, and researchers of Latin American studies, Spanish, and Portuguese a comprehensive and unique perspective on the region. The first of its kind, the collection’s materials are presented in their original language with abstracts and indexing in Spanish, Portuguese, and English.
