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• Academic Search Premier
  Scholarly journal articles and popular magazines covering all topics. A great database for beginning searches. 1980s-present (dates may vary).
  

  

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  Topics include news and current events, politics, literature, communication science, business, medicine, psychology, the arts, and many more.

  • Summaries of articles in over 8,000 journals, magazines, and newspapers
  • Full-text of articles in over 4,000 journals
  • Summaries of scholarly articles in over 6,000 journals
  • Full-text of scholarly articles in over 3,000 journals

  While subject-specific databases may offer more depth, this one may be more up-to-date.

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• Film & Television Literature Index (FTLI)
  Citations to articles in film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews. varies; some 1970s; through current..
  

  

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  Publications include Film Journal International, Journal of British Cinema & Television, Film Criticism, Post Script, Variety, and more as well as technical publications such as SMPTE. Mirroring the international film & television industries and cultures, FTLI also includes publications such as Cahiers du Cinema, Filmihullu, SegnoCinema, and Kinetoscopio.

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• LexisNexis News
  National and international newspapers, news transcripts from TV and radio, and company financial reports. 1980s-current.
  

  

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  Includes national and international newspapers, popular and general-interest magazines, economics and trade journals, company financial reports, and the 'Public Opinion Online' database, produced by the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research. See also LexisNexis Legal and LexisNexis Business Publication groups within LexisNexis News include:

  • Today's news
  • U.S. and International news
  • News transcripts from television and radio
  • Arts & sports information
  • Campus newspapers
  • Business news
  • Company financial information
  • SEC filings
  • Industry & market news and reports
  • Patents
  • Biographical information from Marquis Who's Who
  • Country profiles
  • Polls & surveys
  • Quotations
  • World Almanac

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• MLA International Bibliography
  Scholarly articles in literature and linguistics. Indexes over 6,000 national and international journals, as well as books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies. From the Modern Language Association. 1926-current; selective coverage 1886-.
  

  

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  Subjects include:

  • Literature and drama (English and world)
  • Linguistics
  • Literary Theory
  • Folklore
  • Rhetoric, composition, and pedagogy

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• Vanderbilt University Television News Archive
  Largest repository of television news in the world: over "30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN, and over 9,000 hours of special news-related programming." 1968 to present (ABC, CBS, NBC), 1995 to present (CNN). UConn users can view all CNN materials without charge.

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  • Television News Archive (Vanderbilt University)

  

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  Updated daily. Over 30,000 evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN, and more than 9,000 hours of special news-related programming including ABC's Nightline since 1989. These special reports and periodic news broadcasts cover presidential press conferences and political campaign coverage, and national and international events such as the Watergate hearings, the plight of American hostages in Iran, the Persian Gulf war, and the terrorist attack on the United States on September 11, 2001.

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