Communication Arts Databases

ABI/Inform Business Databases - contains databases : Global (business topics worldwide), Dateline (local and regional business publications), Trade & Industry, Hoover's company capsules, Proquest Newspapers and National Newspaper Abstracts (New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA today), and Banking Information Source. In ABI/Inform, use the databases selected link to search any combination of the ABI/Inform Business databases.

Academic Search Premier - funded by the New Jersey State library, it provides full-text for nearly 3,180 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts and literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.

Lexis-Nexis Academic - provides access to a wide range of news from English and Non-English sources, business, legal, and medical information. Contains the full text for most of the articles.

New York Times, 1995-Present - full-text articles offering superb coverage of national and international news, plus coverage of important speeches and documents, Supreme Court decisions, and presidential press conference transcripts.

New York Times, Historical - covers the time period 1851 to 2001.

Omni Full-Text - a cross-disciplinary database which combines and searches Education Abstracts, General Science Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts, Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature, Business Abstracts, and Social Science Abstracts. Contains the full text for some articles.

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center - contains articles, topic overviews, primary documents and links to websites for a variety of social issues. All full-text articles.

Points of View Reference Center is a full-text database designed to provide students with a series of controversial essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. Essays provide questions and materials for further thought and study, and are accompanied by supporting articles from the world’s top political and societal publications. Funded by the New Jersey State Library.

SIRS - SIRS Government Reporter contains current and historic government documents, directories and almanacs. SIRS Renaissance contains current perspectives on the arts and humanities. SIRS Researcher contains selected articles from popular journals and newspapers regarding current social issues, health, science, and business.