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"Notre Dame Libraries license and pay for access to most of these resources. They are intended for your individual educational use only. Excessive use, such as downloading entire journal issues, is prohibited by contract and may result in loss of access for the entire Notre Dame community." [Acceptable Use Policy]

 Current News: 7 Databases


Academic Universe
    (Use LexisNexis Academic)
EBSCOhost  
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: A database of publisher-provided citations and table of contents information. Provides access to electronic journals and full text of articles for those journals managed through EBSCO Online.
Factiva
Type: Indexes & Articles
* Factiva can only be used with IE 5.01 or greater on the PC and with IE 5.1 or greater on the Mac (does NOT work with Netscape).
Description: Successor to Dow Jones News Service, Factiva provides access to global news and business information, including newspapers, same-day newswires, company reports, and media programs.
LexisNexis Academic
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: Provides full-text documents from over 5,600 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications, covering current news, business information, company directories, federal and state laws, regulations, legal cases, etc.
New York Times (LexisNexis Academic)  
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: Latest 2 years
Description: Comprehensive coverage of national, foreign, business and local New York news from The Times' bureaus in the U.S. and foreign news network. Access to certain freelance articles and other features (i.e. photographs, classifieds, etc.) may not be available. Coverage from June 1, 1980 through current.
* 1851-three years before present New York Times, via ProQuest Historical Newspapers
Newspaper Source (EBSCO)  
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: Provides selected full text for 23 national (U.S.) and international newspapers, including USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor, The Washington Post, The Times (London), The Toronto Star, etc. Selected full text for more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers, including The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The Detroit Free Press, The Miami Herald, The New York Daily News, The San Jose Mercury News, etc. Full text television & radio news transcripts provided from CBS News, FOX News, NPR, etc.
Television News Archive, Vanderbilt University
Type: Indexes & Articles
* ALL USERS MUST REGISTER TO USE THIS DATABASE. Click on "Enter TV-NewsSearch" at the bottom of the page then complete the Customer Registration form. Our Status is: Member of Sponsoring Institution.
Description: Provides descriptive summaries of the Vanderbilt University collection of network television news programs and other news-related programming collected in its archive since August 5, 1968. Loan copies of videotapes in 3/4 inch U-matic & 1/2 inch VHS format are available for a fee from the Archive. Users from educational institution subscribers to the Archive may freely view online video from the Archive's collection of CNN nightly news broadcasts back to 1998 (requires RealOne media player); new material added daily with a 72-hour delay.
Vanderbilt University Television News Archive
    (Use Television News Archive, Vanderbilt University)
World News Connection  
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: A successor to the Daily reports from the Foreign Broadcasting Information Service and the JPRS reports from the Joint Publications Research Service provided through the National Technical Information Service. The material is obtained from non-U.S. open-source political speeches, television programs, radio broadcasts, newspaper articles, periodicals, and books. The content focuses primarily on military, political, environmental, scientific, technical, and socioeconomic issues and events.
Users: Licensed for one simultaneous user.

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