LibGuides: The Research Process: Databases

Current Events Databases

These databases have special types of reports or articles that may be helpful for papers on topics related to current events and social issues.

Opposing Viewpoints in Context This link opens in a new window
Designed for students who are researching controversial topics, Opposing Viewpoints includes thousands of articles examining all sides of today's hottest social issues.
Gale in Context: Global Issues This link opens in a new window
Analyze important global issues and events through topic overviews, international viewpoints, news, and multimedia content. Users can browse by country or by subject to explore the database.

Biographical Databases

Gale In Context: Biography This link opens in a new window
Combines biographies of more than 380,000 people with related full-text articles from magazines and newspapers, images, and links to selected websites.
American National Biography Online This link opens in a new window
Biographies of more than 17,000 deceased Americans. It includes articles about men and women, from all eras and walks of life, whose lives have shaped the nation. There are hyperlinked cross-references and links to selected web sites.

Magazine Databases

Here is a list of databases that focus on articles from popular and general interest magazines.

MasterFile Premier This link opens in a new window
This multidisciplinary database contains full text general reference magazines and publications covering a wide-range of subject areas including business, health, education, general science and multicultural issues. It also includes an extensive image collection containing photos, maps and flags.
Gale General OneFile This link opens in a new window
Access millions of articles from general interest magazines and key serials in a single resource. Great for general research.

Health Databases

Health Source: Consumer Edition This link opens in a new window
This collection of consumer health information provides access to magazines and reference books covering a wide variety of subjects, including specific diseases as well as topics such as fitness, nutrition, diabetes, aging, women's health, children's health and more.
Gale Health and Wellness This link opens in a new window
Access to full-text medical journals, magazines, reference works, multimedia, and much more. This comprehensive consumer health resource covers a full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information to alternative medical practices

Social Science Databases

The following databases may be useful to you for your research about law enforcement and criminal justice (remember to use alternative search terms!).

Military & Government Collection This link opens in a new window
A collection of full-text journals and periodicals pertaining to all branches of the military and government. It is designed to offer current news to military members, analysts, policy makers, students and researchers.
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive database covering information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods with particularly strong coverage in child and adolescent psychology and counseling. Includes full text articles.

Scholarly Databases

These databases offer scholarly articles from peer-reviewed journals from a variety of fields.

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
This multi-disciplinary database provides full text articles to many journals and magazines, including peer-reviewed or scholarly titles. Academic Search Complete includes nearly every area of academic study such as the social sciences, natural science and more.
Gale Academic OneFile This link opens in a new window
A source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources, including coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences and the humanities.
Gale Academic OneFile Select This link opens in a new window
This database includes abstracts and full text from scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers across all academic disciplines from arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology.