| Database Name | Why Selected | Search Order |
| Academic Search Premier | Indexes and abstracts journal articles on a broad range of topics and provides the complete text (text and graphics) of many of the articles it indexes. Aimed at undergraduates, it provides scholarly journal articles along with articles from popular, technical/trade, and substantial news sources. | 1 |
| National Newspaper Abstracts | Citations and brief abstracts for articles in the New York Times, | 7 |
| Net Library | Provides a collection of electronic books on a wide range of topics. The ebooks in this collection may also be found by searching the Library Catalog of the Mundt Library and linking directly from the Catalog to the ebooks themselves. Off-campus access with your regular library ID and password can be problematic; the most reliable method to ensure access from off-campus is to create a personal NetLibrary account when on-campus. Use the "create an account" link at the very top of the screen. Distance students who are unable to login into NetLibrary can ask the Mundt Library staff to create an account for them. | 6 |
| Opposing Viewpoints | one-stop source for full-text information on current, controversial issues. Includes book chapters, magazine & journal articles, statistics, images, and more. | |
| Lexis Nexus – Business | Link to "Business" category for articles from regional and national business publications, reports, etc. Then select "Company News," "Company Financial Information," " Industry & Market News," or "Accounting, Auditing, & Tax." | 2 |
| AP Multimedia Archive | Provides photos and graphics which may be used for educational purposes in papers, presentations, and on the Web -- but may not be used for profit. The photo archive adds 800-1000 photos every day, and you will find up-to-the-minute photos of events as they are happening. Also, the archive includes photographs back to the 1860's. There are special search techniques that let you find images about concepts (e.g. friendship, power, cold), or with certain colors (e.g. red backgrounds), or from specific time periods and dates. | 3 |
| Alternative Press Index | Indexes journals covering cultural, economic, political & social change. Indexes over 250 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines. Includes selected abstracts from research journals. | 4 |
| Lexis Nexus – Legal Resources | Indexes and provides complete text of articles and other publications related to | 5 |
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
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