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Lexis-Nexis (newspapers)

• Pick the tab for Guided News Search
• Choose General News
• Choose Major Papers (use Source List to pick specific paper)
• Set time period

MORE newspapers, broadcast news...

Journals of Opinion

• The New Republic (moderate)
• The Nation (left-wing)
• Mother Jones (progressive)
• The Progressive (progressive)
• National Review (conservative)
• The Atlantic (moderate)
• Weekly Standard (conservative)
• American Spectator (conservative)
• American Prospect (liberal)
• The American Enterprise (conservative)
• Commentary (conservative)
• Foreign Affairs (liberal)
• The Washington Monthly

 

Websites

How to evaluate websites

• Evaluating Web Sites (from Cornell)
• Distinguishing Scholarly Journals from Other Periodicals (from Cornell)

Opinion polls

• Gallup Poll
• Kaiser Family Foundation
• The Pew Research Center for the Public and the Press

Health issues

• MedlinePlus
• CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• WHO (World Health Organization)
• Center for Science In the Public Interest (advocate for nutrition, health, sound

 

Scholarly Literature

Academic Search Premier

Comprehensive index to scholarly journals and general periodicals in all subject and interdisciplinary areas, including full text. Coverage prior to 1990 is sparse.

JSTOR

Full text of hundreds of scholarly journals in all disciplines dating back to the 1700s. Coverage ends 3-5 years before the present.

Periodicals Archive Online

Full text of 425 journals and magazines covering all topics dating back to the 1800s. Coverage ends at 1995.

BioOne

Coverage of a limited number of fulltext biology journals. Use this database for creationism.

Style Guides

• MLA Citation Style (from Long Island University)
• Create an MLA Works Cited Page (from University of Wisconsin)
• MLA "How do I document sources from the Web in my works-cited list?" (from MLA, Modern Languages Association)

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