Databases for Journalism
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For the most up-to-date list of databases, please go to the Find Database function of Brandeis Scholar.
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Key Databases
- LexisNexis Academic
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- Provides full-text news, business, industry and legal information
- Newspaper Abstracts
- Indexes and abstracts 25 major U.S. newspapers, 1989 to present
Additional Databases
- America: History and Life
- Indexes journals, books, and dissertations on U.S. and Canadian history and culture, 1964 to present
- American National Biography
- Full-text from 1999 edition, including nearly 17,500 biographies of men and women whose lives have shaped the American nation, with essays, bibliographies, illustrations and web links; subjects must have died prior to 1996
- Biography and Genealogy Master Index
- Indexes nearly 12 million biographies from current and retrospective reference books, covering both contemporary and historical figures throughout the world
- Keesing's Record of World Events
- Full text archive that contains comprehensive coverage of world events with the ability to search 40 years of global news reports, 1960 to present
- Historical Abstracts
- Indexes journals, books, and dissertations on European and world history, excluding the United States and Canada, 1955 to present
- PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service)
- Indexes over 1400 journals, books, and government documents on public policy aspects of business, economics, government and other social science topics, 1972 to present
- PolicyFile
- Indexes and abstracts, with some links to full-text, public policy research and publications from think tanks, university research programs, research organizations and publishers, 1990 to present
- World News Connection
- Full-text of translations to English of international foreign news sources by the U.S. Government
Multidisciplinary Databases
- Expanded Academic ASAP
- Indexes articles, with some full text links, to scholarly journals, popular magazines, and newspapers, 1980 to present
- Academic Search Premier
- Provides full text and indexing of thousands of journals in all academic fields. Dates vary according to publication
- WorldCat
- Books and other materials held in most academic, research and large public libraries worldwide
