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News and Current Events Databases

All off campus access is through Researchport. See the Guide to Researchport for more information.

  • Academic Search Premier  [on-campus] [help]
    Coverage: 1990 - present. Provides full-text for over 3,400 scholarly journals covering the social sciences, humanities, education, sciences, and more. Funded by the Maryland Digital Library (MDL).
  • Baltimore Sun [on-campus] [help]
    Coverage: Sept 16, 1990 - present. Full text of Baltimore Sun.
  • Christian Science Monitor [on-campus] [help]
    Coverage: N/A.
    See National Newspapers.
  • Chronicle of Higher Education [on-campus]
  • CQ Researcher [on-campus] [help]
    Coverage: 1991 - present. Provides full text essays on social and political topics, including chronologies, overviews of issues, opposing viewpoints and bibliographies.
  • Lexis-Nexis Academic [on-campus] [help]
    Coverage: 1970 - present. Features full text of many newspapers and periodicals.  Also offers business news, legal materials such as federal & state codes, case law and legal journals.
  • National Newspapers (NA5) with Washington Post [on-campus]
    Coverage: Varies with each title back to 1984. Full text of
    5 newspapers:
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    ltimore Sun, Christian Science Monitor, New Yirk Times Wall Street Journal, Eastern edition and the Washington Post.
  • New York Times [on-campus]
    Coverage: N/A.
    See National Newspapers.
  • New York Times Historical Coverage (Proquest) [on-campus]
    The New York Times (1851-2003) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. Coverage: Sept 18,1851-Dec 31, 2003
  • Opposing Viewpoints (Gale) [on-campus]
    Covers social issues, such as Gun Control, Genetic Engineering, Censorship, Endangered Species, and Terrorism. Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center brings together viewpoint articles, contextual topic overviews, government and organizational statistics, biographies of social activists, court cases, profiles of government agencies and special interest groups, newspaper and magazines articles, as well as links to more than 1,800 reviewed and subject-indexed web sites. It takes its name from the Opposing Viewpoints print series published by Greenhaven Press, an imprint of the Gale Group.
  • Wall Street Journal [on-campus]
    Coverage: 1984 - present. Includes full text of Eastern edition of Wall Street Journal newspaper.
  • Washington Post [on-campus]
    Coverage:1996 - current.
  • Washington Post Historical Coverage (Proquest) [on-campus]
    The Washington Post (1877-1990) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. Coverage: Dec 12, 1877-Dec 31, 1990