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These are just a few suggested resources that might be helpful in your research for your demonstration, informative, and persuasive speeches. The guides below include even more resources and information on the research process. Ask a librarian for further suggestions depending on your topic.

Communications
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Recommended Library Databases

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A specialized encyclopedia or other reference book is a good place to start if you have a broad topic in mind and need to narrow it down.

Credo Reference
Online reference library that provides access to a growing selection of reference books.

Online reference library that provides access to a growing selection of reference books. Includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, books of quotations, and a range of subject-specific titles from art to accountancy and literature to law. Credo Reference generates a network of cross-references that provide an easy-to-follow trail to related information contained anywhere within the library.

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Reference Books & Databases
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Large, Multi-Subject Databases

Academic OneFile (Gale)
Religion, law, history, psychology, humanities, current events, sociology, communications and science.

Extensive coverage of all academic disciplines including astronomy, religion, law, history, psychology, humanities, current events, sociology, communications and the general sciences. Indexing is from 1977; full-text coverage from 1983. Academic OneFile also includes peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources, full indexing of some of the world's greatest newspapers, and access to wire services covering worldwide current events. Millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML, including full-text coverage of the New York Times since 1995.

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Academic Search Elite
Social sciences, humanities, general science, multicultural studies, education. (Access provided by MOREnet).

Academic Search Elite provides full text for nearly 2,000 publications, including nearly 1,600 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to the full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for all 3,505 journals in the collection. This database offers information in nearly every area of academic study including: social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts and literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies and more. The majority of full text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color. Full text information in this database dates as far back as 1985.

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ABI/INFORM Global
The latest business and financial information.

ABI/INFORM Global™ is a comprehensive business database, including business conditions, management techniques, business trends, management practice and theory, corporate strategy and tactics, and competitive landscape. ABI/INFORM Archive™ is included. This retrospective companion to ABI/INFORM provides cover-to-cover page images complete with illustrations and advertisements. The database contains complete runs of business and management journals for a historical perspective on corporate strategies, management techniques, marketing, product development, and industry conditions worldwide.

Titles include Academy of Management Journal, Foreign Affairs, Nation’s Business, Thunderbird International Business Review, Journal of Marketing.

Major publishers include Springer Verlag, Sloan Management Review, Sage Publications, Palgrave Macmillan, Oxford University Press, MCB UP Limited (Emerald), and Kluwer Academic Publishers.

ABI/INFORM Global also includes non-periodical content like EIU ViewsWire, ProQuest Business Dissertations, Author Profiles from Scholar Universe, and links to Safari Business Books Online™.

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Newspapers

Access World News
Articles from local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers, as well as international newspapers from around the globe.

Five full text databases are included. NewsBank Academic Library Collection provides contemporary articles from national and international newspapers, wire services and magazines from 1986 forward. Newsbank Retrospective covers 1970-1991 and focuses on contemporary American History. MOREnet offered Full-Text Newspapers includes local, regional and national newspapers in one searchable database. The Kansas City Star covers 1991-Current and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch covers 1988-Current.

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Newspaper Source
Full text of national and international newspapers. (Access provided by MOREnet).

Newspaper Source™ provides cover-to-cover full text for more than 40 national (U.S.) and international newspapers, including Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, The Times (London), Toronto Star, etc. The database also contains selective full text for more than 370 regional (U.S.) newspapers. In addition, full-text television & radio news transcripts are provided from CBS News, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, NPR, etc.

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News (Gale OneFile)
Access to full-text newspapers, including archives.

InfoTrac Newsstand provides access to full-text newspapers and allows users to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, newspaper section, or other fields. The database offers a source for current news and searchable archives.

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