Information Resources for Current Events

Best Resources for Finding Articles

• Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost)
  • Indexes 7,800+ scholarly journals, with full text for 4,000 titles. Covers social sciences, humanities, education, computer science and engineering, general science, medicine, ethnic studies, and more. 1965- present for selected titles. (To search multiple EBSCOhost databases, click the "Select Databases" tab.)
• LexisNexis Academic
  • Index and full text to news, business, legal, medical, and reference materials and links to congressional and statistical information.
• Access World News
  • From the index page, click the link that reads, "America's Newspapers".
    Index and full-text of international print and broadcast news. 1996- present.
• CQ Electronic Library
  • Full text of Congressional Quarterly's premier print publication CQ Researcher (from November 1991).
• LexisNexis Congressional
  • Index to U.S. Congressional publications; text of bills, laws, regulations, Congressional testimony and publications; legislative histories; members and committees of Congress. 1789 - present
• Wall Street Journal, Eastern Edition
  • Financial and business newspaper. 1984- present.

Selected Current Events Web Sites

• Yahoo! News
  • Search by topic or browse the latest news from wire services and other sources.
• CNN Web Site
  • The latest from CNN with access to backfiled articles.
• New York Times
  • Requires a one-time registration (for free), and allows access to today's paper with some limited access to past archived articles.