Controversial/Current Issues
Credo Reference [Full text | Credo | Off-campus access] *NEW*
Credo is an easy-to-use tool for starting research. Gather background information on your topic from hundreds of full-text encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, quotations, and subject-specific titles, as well as 500,000+ images and audio files and over 1,000 videos
Opposing Viewpoints in Context [Full text | Gale | Off-campus access]
Provides social issues viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.
General Databases
Academic OneFile [Full text | Gale | Off-campus access]
Provides news and periodical articles from more than 4,200 full text titles, many with images, on a wide range of topics from newswires, newspapers and periodicals including general interest and refereed journals.
Academic Search Complete [Full Text | Ebsco | Off-campus access]
A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database, with more than 7,000 full text periodicals, including nearly 6,000 peer-reviewed journals.
When you are ready to search for articles from magazines, journals, and newspapers on your topic, go to the following library webpage: epcc.libguides.com/onlinedatabases
Health Databases
Consumer Health [Full Text | Ebsco | Off-campus access] *NEW*
Designed to support patients' information needs and foster an overall understanding of health-related topics. CHC provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine.
ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source [Full text | ProQuest | Off-campus access]
More than 250 leading full text journals in Nursing and Allied Health.
Newspaper Databases
Access World News [Full Text | NewsBank | Off-campus access]
A comprehensive news collection is ideal for exploring issues and events at the local, regional, national and international level. Its diverse source types include print and online-only newspapers, blogs, newswires, journals, broadcast transcripts and videos.
http://iw.newsbank.com/
NexisUni [Full Text | LexisNexis® | Off-campus access] *REPLACES LexisNexis Academic*
This database provides access to more than 15,000 news, business, and legal sources —including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790.
Newspaper Source Plus [Full text | Ebsco | Off-campus access] *UPGRADED*
Provides selected full text for nearly 40 national (U.S.) and international newspapers. Also contains full text television & radio news transcripts, and selected full text for more than 389 regional (U.S.) newspapers including 15 from Texas. Updated daily.
http://search.ebscohost.com/
If your instructor ever asks you to find a magazine or a journal, you might be wondering, What is the difference?
Magazine
Journal