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CQ Researcher (Provider: CQ Press)
Description: special reports, published weekly, on current controversial topics

ERIC* (Provider: Ebsco)
Description: Index of education journals, reports, and dissertations, some with links to full-text.

Facts.com (Provider: Facts On File)
Description: news digests and reports on controversial issues, plus content from the World Almanac and World Almanac Encyclopedia

Literature Resource Center* (Provider: Gale)
Description: literary criticism, plot summaries, author biographies, bibliographies, links to web resources, and more

MagillOnLiterature Plus* (Provider: Ebsco)
Description: Literary content includes critical essays, author biographies, plot summaries, and overviews of literary genres and time periods.

MAS Ultra* (Provider: Ebsco)
Description: A basic reading level collection of journal articles, reference books, documents, and photos.

Primary Search (Provider: Ebsco)
Description: Basic reading-level articles from over 70 popular magazines.

General Article Databases

EBSCOhost* (Provider: Ebsco)
Description: Combined search of Ebsco’s academic, general, health, business, and vocational journal databases. Includes scholarly and peer reviewed articles as well as general interest and consumer information.

Gale Academic One File* (Trial) (Provider: )
Description: Online access to thousands of full-text academic and peer-reviewed journals.

JSTOR* (Provider: JSTOR)
Description: An archive of full-text articles from over 400 scholarly journals. JSTOR does not include the most recent few years of the journals.

NewsBank Access World News (Trial) (Provider: )
Description: Online access to local, state, national and international news sources, including newspapers, broadcast transcripts, newswires, news blogs, news web-only content and video.

ProQuest Newspapers (Provider: Proquest)
Description: "Offers full-text access to over 200 regional, national, and international newspapers including the San Diego Union-Tribune, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Washington Post, and the Times of London."

ProQuest* (Provider: Proquest)
Description: Combined search of Proquest’s academic, general, health, business, and vocational journal databases. Includes scholarly and peer reviewed articles as well as general interest and consumer information.

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