Databases: News: Current News
- Britannica Online VCU
- Access to Encyclopaedia Britannica, news, magazines, journals, web sites, research tools, and multimedia.
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Dow Jones Factiva
VCU
- Comprehensive, full text up-to-the-minute news and business source from Dow Jones and Reuters. Replaces Dow Jones Interactive.
- ebrary: Academic Complete Collection VCU
- Over 33,000 recent electronic books from university presses and other scholarly publishers covering all disciplines.
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EBSCOhost Research Databases
VCU
- Databases covering education, health sciences, and social sciences.
- Ethnic NewsWatch VCU
- Full text newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, native and minority press.
- GenderWatch VCU
- Coverage: 1980 - present
- Database of publications on the evolution of gender roles as they affect both men and women. Includes coverage of GLBT studies; family studies; gender studies, and women's studies with a unique interdisciplinary approach.
- iPOLL VCU
- Coverage: 1935-
- Contains nearly a half-million questions from surveys conducted since 1935 by over 150 academic, commercial, and media survey organizations such as Gallup, CNN, Pew Research Associates, the Wall Street Journal, and others.
- LexisNexis Academic VCU
- Full-text legal, business and news information.
- New York Times VCU
- Coverage: 1851 - 2006
- More than a newspaper for an American city, the New York Times is an international record of national and world news, as well as personal stories of how events affect individuals.
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Newspaper Source Plus
VCU
- Full text for more than 130 national and international newspapers, including New York Times, Washington Post, Times (London). Selective full text for over 335 US newspapers. In addition, full-text radio and television news transcripts are provided.
- Opposing Viewpoints in Context VCU
- Coverage: 1980 - present
- Full text access to differing points of view on current social issues. Includes essays, overviews, primary source documents, biographies, articles, tables, charts, graphs, podcasts, and images.
- Stratfor VCU
- Coverage: 1995 - present
- Provides geopolitical intelligence on political, economic, and military developments around the globe.
- World News Connection VCU
- Compiled from thousands of non-U.S. media sources, covers significant socioeconomic, political, scientific, technical, and environmental issues and events.
Database Availability
- VCU Available on OR off-campus with EZProxy
- Libraries Available in either Library
- Cabell Available in Cabell Library
- Tompkins-McCaw Available in Tompkins-McCaw Library
- Sponsored by VIVA, The Virtual Library of Virginia
- Mobile-enabled