ENG 109 English Composition: Research Writing: Research Databases & Web Portals

A premier online resource covering today's hottest social issues! Opposing Viewpoints in Context helps students research, analyze and organize a broad variety of data for conducting research, completing writing assignments, preparing for debates, creating presentations and more (Formerly Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center).

A single source for eReference aimed at students, researchers, professionals, and general readers. It offers thousands of titles from more than 100 publishers covering the most-studied subject areas on one platform.

The Congressional Quarterly explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week. Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education and science and technology. Offers online access dating back to October 25, 1991.

Offers full-text content from encyclopedias, dictionaries and thesuari, and covers such subjects as art, history, literature, medicine, technology and more.

Free online access to official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government.

Provides full text for 4000 academic social sciences, humanities, general science, education and multi-cultural journals.

Daily newspaper from Baltimore, Maryland (1990 - Current).

Provides full text for nearly 3300 scholarly business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and much more.

The definitive research tool for all areas of nursing and allied health literature.

Collection provides full text access or abstracts for periodicals in criminal justice and law enforcement.

Offers in depth information on myriad educational topics from nearly 400 leading journals in the field. The database covers not only literature on primary, secondary, and higher education but also special education, home schooling, adult education, and hundreds of related topics.

Offers deep coverage in areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more. It contains full text for 400 journals and 80 monographs.

ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center contains full text of more than 2,200 digests as well as citations and abstracts from over 980 educational and education-related journals.

Provides over 600 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also abstracts and indexing for over 850 journals.

The Historical Baltimore Sun (1837-1985) offers full page and article images with searchable full text dating back to its first issue.

The Historical New York Times (1851-2006) offers full page and article images with searchable full text dating back to its first issue.

Full-text access to the archives of over 390 academic journals in the arts and sciences.

Full-text criticism, biographical and other information on 2,500 of the most-studied authors.

Offers superb coverage of national and international news, plus coverage of important speeches and documents, Supreme Court decisions, and presidential press conference transcripts.

This database is designed to meet the needs of researchers at health-care facilities as well as students enrolled in nursing programs at academic institutions. Search full-text journals and dissertations in ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source alongside Systematic Reviews, Evidence Summaries, and Best Practice Information Sheets from the renowned Joanna Briggs Institute.

This is an online version of the massive, multi-volume dictionary. Modern as well as historical definitions of words are given. Every three months, new additions are added and revisions are made.

Provides abstracts and indexing for more than 460 titles, with over 380 titles available in full text. Users get access to charts, diagrams, graphs, tables, photos, and other graphical elements essential to psychological research.

This resource covers publications on the arts (music, theater, film, dance, architecture, art & design) for researchers of all levels.

Search full text and images for the leading periodicals in science and technology. Subject coverage includes computers, engineering, physics, telecommunications, and transportation.

Includes full-text for 400 core journals in the field of sociology, as well as the full-text of more than 700 books.

Provides reporting and analysis of local, regional, national, and international news. Newspapers included are: The New York Times (1980- Present), The Wall Street Journal, USA TODAY, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Barron's, The Boston Globe, The Guardian, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Washington Post.