Articles - SPE 103-015 - Sfikas/Oh - Spring 2024

Recommended Databases

Academic Search Complete EBSCO This link opens in a new window
Provides a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals - of which more than 7,300 are peer-reviewed journals.
Opposing Viewpoints in Context This link opens in a new window
Database of contemporary social issues with content structured to promote critical-thinking skills. It contains reference book titles, pro and con viewpoint articles, and a variety of periodicals, podcasts, reviewed Web links, images, statistical tables, charts, and graphs.

Newspaper Source EBSCO This link opens in a new window
Provides full text for more than national and international newspapers - including Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Times (London), Toronto Star - and selective full text for 390 U.S. regional newspapers in a searchable archive.
Chicago Tribune ProQuest This link opens in a new window
Provides searchable full-text daily Chicago Tribune articles from 1985 to the present.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Provides access to full-text news, business, and legal publications using a variety of flexible search options. Access over 15,000 news, business, and legal sources.

Statista This link opens in a new window
Business, marketing, demographic, and economic statistics along with content in the form of infographics, company/industry dossiers, market analytics, and forecasts.

Although library databases can look quite different from one another, most have these types of features:

Search filters that allow you to limit/narrow your search (date, format, subject matter, etc.)
Citation generators
Article abstracts (summaries) and/or full-text of articles
Options for printing, saving, and sharing articles