LIBRARY GUIDE TO JRN 2000 - Introduction to Journalism & News Writing

Factiva
Factiva is a premier business and general reference resource with a broad collection of sources that reach across disciplines from business and current events to communications and technology, politics, foreign policy, and more. Factiva.com combines more than 28,000 sources to give users access to premium content from 159 countries in 22 languages.
Regional Business News
Provides full-text coverage for regional business publications, including titles from Crain Communications.  Thanks to MeL.
Newspaper Source Plus
Newspaper Source Plus provides a full-text digital collection of the world's major news content. It includes articles from newspapers, newswires, and news magazines. In addition, it offers television and radio transcripts and ongoing daily updates from popular news sources.  Thanks to MeL.

Accessible Archives: African American Newspapers Collection
Includies articles from: The Christian Recorder (1861–1902)The Colored American (1837–1841) Frederick Douglass’ Paper (1851–1855; 1859–1863) Freedom’s Journal (1827–1829) The National Era (1847–1860) The North Star (1847–1851) Provincial Freeman (1854–1857) Weekly Advocate (1837–1837)
Chicago Defender (Proquest Historical Newspapers)
Covers several editions of the Chicago Defender newspaper from 1909-1975.

Chronicling America - from the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Explore newspapers from 1777-1963
Detroit Free Press Historical
Covers several editions of the Detroit Free Press from 1831-1999.
New York Times Historical
Offers full-text, full-image articles of The New York Times, going back to 1851. The database can be used to search national and international news, editorials, obituaries, birth and marriage announcements, plus historical photos and advertisements. The documents are downloadable in PDF format. How to export to RefWorks
Women's Magazine Archive
An archival research resource comprising the full backfiles of leading women’s interest consumer magazines. Titles are scanned from cover to cover in high-resolution color and feature detailed article-level indexing. Coverage ranges from the late-19th century through to 2005 and these key primary sources permit the examination of the events, trends, and attitudes of this period.
Women's Magazine Archive, Collection II

The Collection II archive includes the following titles:

• Cosmopolitan (1886 to 2005)
• Essence (1970 to 2005)
• Seventeen (1944 to 2005)
• Town and Country (1846 to 2005)
• Woman’s Day (1937 to 2005)
• Women’s International Network News (1975 to 2003)

Communication & Mass Media Complete
This resource "offers cover-to-cover (“core”) indexing and abstracts for more than 550 journals, and selected (“priority”) coverage of nearly 200 more, for a combined coverage of 737 titles. Furthermore, this database includes full text for over 440 journals."
Opposing Viewpoints in Context
The premier full-text resource covering today’s hottest social issues, from Terrorism to Endangered Species, Stem Cell Research to Gun Control. Drawing on acclaimed series published by Greenhaven Press and other Gale imprints; brings together all the information that’s needed to fully understand an issue: pro and con viewpoint articles, reference articles that provide context, full-text magazines, academic journals, and newspapers, primary source documents, government and organizational statistics, multimedia, including images and podcasts, links to hand-selected web sites, and more!  Thanks to MeL. How to export to RefWorks

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