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Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center

Provides information on social issues, including viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.

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Points of View Reference Center

A full-text database with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. The database provides 250 topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument), and counterpoint (opposing argument).

Alternative Press Index

Indexes nearly 300 alternative, radical and left periodicals that report and analyze the practices and theories of cultural, economic, political and social change.

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Covers 1991 to present; 1969-1990 is covered in the Archive.

America's News Magazines

Full text for 26 of the top news magazines, including: Time, Newsweek, U.S. News & World Reports, People Weekly, Entertainment Weekly, Fortune, and Sports Illustrated.

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Custom Newspapers

Over 50 full text newspapers, both national and international. Searches may be limited by title. Dates covered vary by title.

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LexisNexis® Academic

News, business, and legal information. Indexes legal periodicals and law reviews; federal and state case law; federal, state and European codes and regulations; U.S. tax law; patents; legal career resources.
Detailed company financial information from sources such as Disclosure and Standard & Poor's. Also accounting and income tax regulations, articles and other accounting sources.

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Full-text documents from over 5,600 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications.

ProQuest National Newspapers Premier

Includes a balance of national and regional newspapers chosen for their journalistic excellence and regional representation. All titles are available in full text. Papers include national titles such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post along with a selection of titles from across the U.S. such as the South Florida Sun Sentinel, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Denver Post, The Sacramento Bee plus other important U.S. papers.

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Varies by publication.

Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature
(ref index AI 3 R4)

Provides citations to articles in about 250 popular or general magazines.

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1900 - present.

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle

Covers 1/1/1999 through current.

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Funding for this service is provided by the Rochester Regional Library Council through a grant from the New York State Education Department.

GEOG 123: The Developing World

A course guide geared to an assignment where students locate current newspaper articles (with very specific criteria) on a global topic concerning countries of the developing world.

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Last updated for Spring 2006

SPAN 301: Spanish Composition

A course guide leading students to print and electronic reference sources to get them started on a research topic. Additionally serves as a gateway to many book and article databases accessible through Milne Library.

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Last updated for Spring 2006

Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World

”Looks at Islam's role in the modern world, doing so in the context of the religion's history and development over the last 13 centuries. Containing thematic articles, biographies of key figures, definitions, illustrations, maps and more, this new encyclopedia fills a need in this key area of religious studies.” -- Publisher

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New York: Macmillan USA, 2004. 2 vols.

Encyclopedia of the Social and Cultural Foundations of Education

The Encyclopedia of the Social and Cultural Foundations of Education. It is intended to provide a comprehensive background for those interested in
issues involving schools and society. The Social and Cultural Foundations of Education is an interdisciplinary
field, including disciplines (to name just a few) such as history and sociology, as well as topical areas such as globalization and technology.

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This eBook consists of three volumes. The first two volumes include more than 400 A–Z entries. The third volume contains 130 biographical entries on important men and women in education, as well as a visual history of American education. This history is organized into 25 chapters and contains images from the colonial period through the 1950s.

Terrorism: Questions and Answers (Encyclopedia of Terrorism)

An online encyclopedia of terrorism from the Council on Foreign Relations.

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Academic Search Complete

A recommended multidisciplinary resource to begin your research in all subject areas. Contains full text for more than half the journals covered.

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Indexing for over 10,000 publications, with full text for more than 6,100. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.

ArticleFirst

Indexes 12,500 journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture.

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1990 to the present.

Google Scholar

Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.
On-campus users will see additional links to ”Full Text” and ”IDS (ILL)” which will lead to resources available from Milne Library. To have these links available off campus, use ”Scholar Preferences” to set ”SUNY Geneseo” as the ”Library Link.”

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JSTOR

JSTOR, a multidisciplinary database, provides the full text of many scholarly journals in the humanities, sciences and social sciences back to their beginning.

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Full text beginning as far back as 1665.

ProQuest

A recommended multidisciplinary resource to begin your research in all subject areas. Abstracts and full text for both popular magazines and scholarly journals.

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Includes ABI/INFORM Global, American Medical Association, Platinum Periodicals, ProQuest Education Journals, ProQuest Health Management, ProQuest Psychology Journals, ProQuest Social Science Journals, and ProQuest Reference & Research Library.

Scopus

Scopus is an extensive database for scholarly journal articles in the scientific, technical, medical and social sciences fields.

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Scopus covers titles continuously from 1996 onwards, including citation data. Some content is available back into the 1960s. Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database. It covers:

• Life Sciences >3,400 titles
• Health Sciences > 5,300 titles (including 100% coverage of Medline titles)
• Physical Sciences > 5,500 titles
• Social Sciences > 2,850 titles