Find News Sources and Encyclopedias - ENG 101: English Composition I - Wilder

Use the newspaper and magazine databases below to access articles about current events and debates.

Boston Globe 1980- This link opens in a new window
The Boston Globe database offers complete full-text content of local and regional news, including community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community.
InfoTrac Newsstand This link opens in a new window
InfoTrac Newsstand provides access to more than 1,100 major U.S. regional, national and local newspapers as well as leading titles from around the world. It also includes thousands of images, radio and TV broadcasts and transcripts.
New York Times This link opens in a new window
The New York Times database provides access to full-text articles from the New York Times starting from 1995.
Popular Magazines This link opens in a new window
Popular Magazines provides access to the most searched magazines across the InfoTrac products. All of the titles are selected based on actual publication searches performed by library patrons and the database includes many titles recommended by Bowker's "Magazines for Libraries".

Encyclopedias can be useful for getting an overview of an issue or a brief biography of a person.

Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
Credo Reference provides access to hundreds of in-depth subject encyclopedias and handbooks covering every major subject from accounting to art history, and Shakespeare to Einstein.
Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia This link opens in a new window
Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia is a reference database that provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries.

ENG 101: English Composition I - Wilder