LibGuides: SPCH-S 400 : Senior Seminar in Speech: Articles & Databases

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Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 10,506 journals, including full text for 3,229 non-open access peer-reviewed titles.
This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.
Black Thought and Culture This link opens in a new window
Black Thought and Culture provides monographs, essays, articles, speeches, and interviews written by leaders within the black community from the earliest times to the present.
Black Thought and Culture provides monographs, essays, articles, speeches, and interviews written by leaders within the black community from the earliest times to the present. Contains research in black studies, political science, American history, music, literature, and art.
Communication & Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window
Communication & Mass Media Complete provides a research solution in areas related to communication and mass media.
CMMC offers cover-to-cover (“core”) indexing and abstracts for 770 titles, and full text for over 450 journals.
CQ Researcher This link opens in a new window
The CQ (Congressional Quarterly) Researcher has full text reports about topics that are discussed in the media. Background information, trends, and forecasts are included.
Credo Academic Core This link opens in a new window
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Formerly Credo General Reference. Credo Reference is an online,cross searchable, full text suite of of encyclopedias, dictionaries, guides, companions, atlases, chronologies, Who's whos, and other reference resources.
Gale Opposing Viewpoints In Context This link opens in a new window
Covering many subjects, Opposing Viewpoints in Context offers research and tools including pro/con viewpoint essays, biographies, statistics, topic and court case overviews and more.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Formerly LexisNexis® Academic. Nexis Uni provides comprehensive access to credible news, business, and legal research for college students and faculty.

Black Thought and Culture This link opens in a new window
Black Thought and Culture provides monographs, essays, articles, speeches, and interviews written by leaders within the black community from the earliest times to the present.
Black Thought and Culture provides monographs, essays, articles, speeches, and interviews written by leaders within the black community from the earliest times to the present. Contains research in black studies, political science, American history, music, literature, and art.
Chatham House Online Archive This link opens in a new window
Chatham House Online Archive contains the publications and archives of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), a world-leading independent international affairs policy institute.
CQ Researcher This link opens in a new window
The CQ (Congressional Quarterly) Researcher has full text reports about topics that are discussed in the media. Background information, trends, and forecasts are included.
Cultural Policy and the Arts National Data Archive (CPANDA) This link opens in a new window
CPANDA, the Cultural Policy & the Arts National Data Archive, provides an interactive digital archive of policy-relevant data on the arts and cultural policy in the United States.
Encyclopedia Britannica Online This link opens in a new window
The Encyclopædia Britannica, published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.
Film Index International This link opens in a new window
Film Index International is an information resource for entertainment films and personalities produced in collaboration with the British Film Institute, with international coverage and a scholarly approach.
Gale Opposing Viewpoints In Context This link opens in a new window
Covering many subjects, Opposing Viewpoints in Context offers research and tools including pro/con viewpoint essays, biographies, statistics, topic and court case overviews and more.
IngentaConnect This link opens in a new window
IngentaConnect is a resource for a great deal of academic articles through journals electronically published on its site. Full text access available for journals to which IU Northwest subscribes.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR is a digital library of more than 1,500 academic journals, books, and primary sources.
Meet the Press This link opens in a new window
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Meet the Press from Alexander Street Press makes this broadcast journalism program, since its television premiere in 1947, available for viewing in streaming video format. Includes interviews, panels, and debates.
The Met Collection This link opens in a new window
This online database from the Metropolitan Museum of Art provides online access to photographs and information on hundreds of thousands of items in its collection. Around half of the images in this collection have been made available by The Met for public domain.
Opposing Viewpoints Critical Thinking This link opens in a new window
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center: Critical Thinking provides information on today's hottest social issues through viewpoint articles, topic overviews, magazines, academic journals, newspaper articles, statistics and more.
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center: Critical Thinking provides information on today's hottest social issues through viewpoint articles, topic overviews, magazines, academic journals, newspaper articles, statistics and more. It offers Lexile reading levels for periodicals and an integrated national and state curriculum standards search with content correlated to the standards.
Points of View Reference Center This link opens in a new window
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Points of View Reference Center is a full text database designed to provide students and schools with a series of controversial essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. Essays provide questions and materials for further thought and study and are accompanied by thousands of supporting articles from the world’s top political and societal publications.
ProQuest Databases This link opens in a new window
An inclusive, federated search engine of all ProQuest databases simultaneously, as a resource for finding academic articles.
Social Sciences Full Text This link opens in a new window
Social Sciences Full Text provides access and indexing for over 625 social science periodicals dating back as far as 1983—nearly 400 of which are peer-reviewed.
TOPICsearch This link opens in a new window
TOPICsearch contains full text for international and regional newspapers, periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, and government information.
Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new window
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Wiley Online Library hosts a broad and deep multidisciplinary collection of online resources, including e-books and journals, covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities. Full text available for IU Northwest subscriptions.

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Use Google Scholar to check if we have access to a specific article online, by searching for the full article title. This feature only works off campus for IU Northwest students, faculty and staff, and will require a login from off campus. Advanced Search available on Google Scholar's main page.

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Google News This link opens in a new window
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Comprehensive up-to-date news coverage, aggregated from sources all over the world by Google News.
Irish Newspaper Archives This link opens in a new window
Irish Newspaper Archives contains electronic versions of Irish newspapers from the 1700's to current day. The newspapers appear in black and white, gray and in colour. Via this website you can do a word search of all the published material on the site.
IUN Student Newspapers This link opens in a new window
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Digitized by the IUN Archives, this collection covers every Indiana University Northwest student-run newspaper from 1959 to 2012. Their names included The Centurion, The Northwest Student, The Northwest Phoenix, and The Redhawk Review.
Newspaper Source Plus This link opens in a new window
Newspaper Source Plus includes more than 860 full-text newspapers, providing more than 35 million full-text articles. In addition, the database features more than 857,000 television and radio news transcripts.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Formerly LexisNexis® Academic. Nexis Uni provides comprehensive access to credible news, business, and legal research for college students and faculty.
TOPICsearch This link opens in a new window
TOPICsearch contains full text for international and regional newspapers, periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, and government information.

17th and 18th Century Burney Newspapers Collection This link opens in a new window
Collection of newspapers, pamphlets and books from early English news media, gathered by Reverend Charles Burney.
17th and 18th Century Nichols Newspapers Collection This link opens in a new window
This database features the newspapers, periodicals, pamphlets, and broadsheets that form the Nichols newspaper collection held at the Bodleian library in Oxford, UK.
All 296 volumes of bound material, covering the period 1672-1737, are presented in digitized format here. The collection charts the history of the development of the press in England and provides invaluable insight into seventeenth and eighteenth century England.
19th Century Collections Online This link opens in a new window
Nineteenth Century Collections Online is a collection covering content from the 19th century. Primary sources cover industrialization, political change, colonialism, developing education, etc.
19th Century U.S. Newspapers This link opens in a new window
19th Century U.S. Newspapers provides access to primary source newspaper content from the 19th century, featuring full-text content and images from numerous newspapers from a range of urban and rural regions throughout the U.S.
19th Century U.S. Newspapers provides access to primary source newspaper content from the 19th century, featuring full-text content and images from numerous newspapers from a range of urban and rural regions throughout the U.S. The collection encompasses the entire 19th century, with an emphasis on such topics as the American Civil War, African-American culture and history, Western migration and Antebellum-era life, among other subjects.
American Indian Newspapers This link opens in a new window
American Indian Newspapers offers 200 years of Indigenous print journalism from the US and Canada.
Associated Press Collections Online This link opens in a new window
Associated Press Collections Online is a publishing program focusing on decades' worth of wire copy, correspondence, memos, internal publications, and more from Associated Press.
British Library Newspapers This link opens in a new window
British Library Newspapers delivers local and regional voices to reflect the social, political, and cultural events of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.
With more than 160 newspaper titles, the series is comprised of approximately 5.5 million pages of historic content, from articles to advertisements.
Caribbean Newspaper Digital Library This link opens in a new window
The Digital Library of the Caribbean provides online access to Caribbean cultural, historical and research materials held in archives, libraries, and private collections.
Catalog of Digital Historical Newspapers (NewspaperCat) This link opens in a new window
The Catalog of Digital Historical Newspapers (NewspaperCat) is a tool that facilitates the discovery of online digitized historical newspaper content from newspapers published in the United States and the Caribbean.
Chronicle of Higher Education This link opens in a new window
The Chronicle of Higher Education is a newspaper and website that presents news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty and Student Affairs professionals.
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Chronicling America provides enhanced and permanent access to historically significant newspapers published in the United States between 1836 and 1922.
Digital Military Newspaper Library This link opens in a new window
The Digital Military Newspaper Library is a pilot project to house, organize and preserve contemporary and historic military newspapers and periodicals.
The Digital Military Newspaper Library is a pilot project to house, organize and preserve contemporary and historic military newspapers and periodicals. These newspapers represent Naval and Air Force bases from many geographical regions around the state of Florida and will include Kennedy Space Center, a submarine base at King’s Bay Georgia, the Panama Canal Zone, and two newspapers in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Economist Historical Archive 1843 - 2015 This link opens in a new window
The Economist Historical Archive delivers a complete searchable copy of every issue of The Economist, a global news publication, from 1843 to 2009. Includes full-colour images and multiple search indexes.
Financial Times Historical Archive This link opens in a new window
Financial Times, an authoritative daily business newspaper, includes such topics as management, personal finance, the arts and other global financial and economic issues.
Gale NewsVault This link opens in a new window
Gale NewsVault is a search engine that can run searches on multiple news and newspaper databases simultaneously.
Gale Primary Sources This link opens in a new window
Formerly Artemis Primary Sources. Gale Primary Sources combines access to multiple digital archives into a single search. Includes sources such as newspaper archives, historical literature, maps, manuscripts and more.
Google News Archives This link opens in a new window
The Google News Archives database contains scanned newspapers ranging from the 1800s to the 2000s.
Harper's Weekly 1857-1912 This link opens in a new window
This online database provides access to Harper's Weekly, a major 19th century illustrated American newspaper.
Historical Newspapers: Chicago Tribune This link opens in a new window
Covers news articles of the Chicago Tribune.
Historical Newspapers: Detroit Free Press This link opens in a new window
Covers news articles of the Detroit Free Press.
Historical Newspapers: Los Angeles Times This link opens in a new window
Covers news articles of the Los Angeles Times.
Historical Newspapers: New York Times This link opens in a new window
Covers news articles of the New York Times.
Historical Newspapers: New York Tribune / Herald Tribune This link opens in a new window
Covers news articles of the New York Tribune / Herald Tribune.
Historical Newspapers: The Baltimore Afro-American This link opens in a new window
Covers news articles of The Baltimore Afro-American.
Historical Newspapers: The Baltimore Sun This link opens in a new window
Covers news articles of The Baltimore Sun.
Historical Newspapers: The Boston Globe This link opens in a new window
Covers news articles of the Boston Globe.
Historical Newspapers: Washington Post This link opens in a new window
Covers news articles of the Washington Post.
Hoosier State Chronicles This link opens in a new window
Hoosier State Chronicles provides free, online access to high quality digital images of Indiana's historic newspapers.
Illustrated London News Historical Archive (1842-2003) This link opens in a new window
Searchable database of full run of the newspaper Illustrated London News, with full color imaging.
Independent Historical Archive This link opens in a new window
The Independent is a major British daily national newspaper, and has taken strong campaigning positions on various political and social issues.
McClatchy-Tribune Collection This link opens in a new window
The McClatchy-Tribune Collection includes a 90-day archive of approximately 290 newspapers from the McClatchy-Tribune Information Services. This database is updated daily.
NewspaperCAT This link opens in a new window
The Catalog of Digital Historical Newspapers (NewspaperCat) is a tool that facilitates the discovery of online digitized historical newspaper content from newspapers published in the United States and the Caribbean.
Newspaper Source Plus This link opens in a new window
Newspaper Source Plus includes more than 860 full-text newspapers, providing more than 35 million full-text articles. In addition, the database features more than 857,000 television and radio news transcripts.
Newswires This link opens in a new window
EBSCO's Newswires provides near real-time access to top world-wide news from Associated Press, United Press International, PR Newswire, Xinhua, CNN Wire, and Business Wire on a continuous basis.
This collection includes AP Financial News, AP Top News, AP WorldStream, AP U.S. Politics & Government, AP 50 State Reports, UPI Security Industry, UPI Emerging Threats, UPI Business, UPI Entertainment, UPI Sports, UPI Top News, Arabia 2000, and more.
New York Times (Historic) This link opens in a new window
Covers news articles of the New York Times from 1851 to 2009, with an index for 1851 to 1993.
Picture Post Historical Archive, 1938-1957 This link opens in a new window
The Picture Post Historical Archive comprises the complete archive of the Picture Post, providing a snapshot of British life from the 1930s to the 1950s with ordinary people doing ordinary things.
Regional Business News This link opens in a new window
Regional Business News incorporates coverage of more than 80 regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
Sunday Times Historical Archive This link opens in a new window
Sunday Times Historical Archive is a database of one of the major British national Sunday newspapers.
Telegraph Historical Archive, 1855-2000 This link opens in a new window
The Telegraph Historical Archive has over 1 million pages of content and includes the Sunday edition from its inception in 1961. The archive offers insight into domestic and international affairs and culture over a timespan of almost 150 years.
Times Digital Archive This link opens in a new window
First published in 1785, The Times of London is widely considered to be the world's 'newspaper of record'. The Times Digital Archive allows users to search over 200 years of this historical source.
Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive (1902-2008) This link opens in a new window
The Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive is a publication on literary culture containing reviews, letters, and poems, along with biographical information about contributors.

Magazines, Collections, Periodicals Resources

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Archives Unbound This link opens in a new window
Archives Unbound presents topically-focused digital collections of historical documents that cover a broad range of topics from the Middle Ages forward-from Witchcraft to World War II to twentieth-century political history.
MAS Complete This link opens in a new window
Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full text for more than 540 popular, high school magazines. MAS Complete also provides more than 440 full text reference books, 85,670 biographies, 105,786 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of over 502,000 photos, maps & flags, color PDFs and expanded full text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines.
PAO Collection This link opens in a new window
Periodicals Archive Online is a major archive that makes the backfiles of scholarly periodicals in the arts, humanities and social sciences available electronically, providing access to the searchable full text of hundreds of titles.
Periodicals Index Online This link opens in a new window
Periodicals Index Online is a database of millions of article citations published in the arts, humanities and social sciences, across more than 300 years. Articles found here can be obtained with 360 Link to Full Text or ILLiad.

18th Century Collections Online This link opens in a new window
Digitized documents such as books, pamphlets and essays from the 18th century with significant coverage of the American Revolution, French Revolution and Industrial Revolution.
19th Century UK Periodicals This link opens in a new window
19th Century UK Periodicals provides an in-depth view of British life in the Victorian age through an online collection of British magazines, journals and specialty newspapers.
American Doctoral Dissertations 1933-1955 This link opens in a new window
This free research database indexes dissertations accepted by American universities between 1933 and 1955.
American Periodicals Series This link opens in a new window
This database contains periodicals published between 1740 and 1940, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines and many other historically-significant periodicals.
Annual Reviews This link opens in a new window
Searchable database and index of Annual Reviews publications, journals which are focused on the sciences.
Archives Unbound This link opens in a new window
Archives Unbound presents topically-focused digital collections of historical documents that cover a broad range of topics from the Middle Ages forward-from Witchcraft to World War II to twentieth-century political history.
Associated Press Collections Online This link opens in a new window
Associated Press Collections Online is a publishing program focusing on decades' worth of wire copy, correspondence, memos, internal publications, and more from Associated Press.
British Periodicals Collection This link opens in a new window
This database provides access to the searchable full text of hundreds of British periodicals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth, comprising millions of high-resolution facsimile page images.
Chatham House Online Archive This link opens in a new window
Chatham House Online Archive contains the publications and archives of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), a world-leading independent international affairs policy institute.
Digital Public Library of America This link opens in a new window
The Digital Public Library of America aims to make finding openly available information on the internet easier to find. This includes photographs, manuscripts, books and more. Information searchable by date, place, and exhibition.
Directory of Open Access Journals This link opens in a new window
Directory of Open Access Journals provides a searchable access point for open access scientific and scholarly journals.
Dissertations & Theses @ CIC Institutions This link opens in a new window
This database gives access to the dissertations and theses produced by students at your institution. The colleges and universities on the CIC (Committee on Institutional Cooperation) are located throughout the United States.
Indiana Magazine of History This link opens in a new window
Peer-reviewed articles, research notes, annotated primary documents, reviews, and critical essays that contribute to public and scholarly understanding of midwestern and Indiana history.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR is a digital library of more than 1,500 academic journals, books, and primary sources.
MLA Directory of Periodicals This link opens in a new window
MLA Directory of Periodicals lists the periodicals indexed in the MLA bibliography and includes information about their scope, addresses, editors, submission policies and acceptance rates.
National Geographic Magazine Digital Archive 1888-1994 This link opens in a new window
This collection brings together a complete archive of National Geographic magazine - every page of every issue - from 1888 to 1994.
National Geographic Virtual Library This link opens in a new window
Open Access Digital Library This link opens in a new window
The Open Access Digital Library provides free access to over 12,000 full text, scholarly journals in a variety of subjects.
Oxford Journals This link opens in a new window
The Oxford Journals Collection features 255 prestigious journals from a wide variety of subjects, from health to history and more.
PAO Collection This link opens in a new window
Periodicals Archive Online is a major archive that makes the backfiles of scholarly periodicals in the arts, humanities and social sciences available electronically, providing access to the searchable full text of hundreds of titles.
Periodicals Index Online This link opens in a new window
Periodicals Index Online is a database of millions of article citations published in the arts, humanities and social sciences, across more than 300 years. Articles found here can be obtained with 360 Link to Full Text or ILLiad.
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new window
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global contains dissertations and theses around the world, spanning from 1743 to the present day. Includes full text since 1997.
Smithsonian Collections Online This link opens in a new window
Smithsonian Collections Online provides digitized magazines and documents pertaining to the exhibits and collections held by the Smithsonian Institution.
Women's Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window
An archival research resource comprising the full backfiles of leading women’s interest consumer magazines. Coverage ranges from the late-19th century through to 2005.