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ABC-CLIO ebooks
55 volume collection covering current topics, culture and medicine.

Academic OneFile
Academic journals; podcasts and transcripts from NPR, CNN, and CBC; full-text New York Times back to 1995.

Academic Search Premier
Wide coverage scholarly database covering many academic areas. Full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles.

CQ Researcher
Current affairs and controversial issues. Authoritative resources in American government, politics, history, public policy.

Global Issues in Context
International viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together a variety of specially selected, highly relevant sources for analysis of social, political, military, economic, environmental, health, and cultural issues.

Issues and Controversies
In-depth investigations of today's top issues.

Lexis-Nexis
Regional, national and international business news sources; New York Times (1980-); legal resources.

Libguides
Research assistance, subject guides, and useful resources compiled by your friendly librarians. Know what we know - find it in LibGuides!

Massachusetts Newsstand
Boston Globe (1980-), Boston Herald (1991-) and other Massachusetts newspapers.

Newspaper Source
Regional, national and international newspapers; television & radio news transcripts.

Opposing Viewpoints in Context
Access pro/con articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.