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Scholarly databases with political and social science resources
Newspapers
Books

Scholarly Journals

Taylor and Francis Social Science and Humanities Library This link opens in a new window
Over 1,500 scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities areas.
Sage Journals This link opens in a new window
Sage provides current access to around 800 electronic journal titles, with particular strengths in the social sciences, including political science, international relations, and law.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
A full-text collection of over 3,400 major scholarly journals and over 100,000 scholarly monographs. The digitized archive includes the first issue published for each journal (some are from 1665 to the present); but excludes the most recent 2 to 5 years for most journals.
GreenFILE (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
GreenFILE offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the ecology by drawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology. Comprised of scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports.
Academic Search Elite (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
An excellent starting point for research across a broad stretch of academic subjects with thousands of full-text journals and abstracted and indexed journals. This database is sourced with PDF images for the great majority of journals; many of these PDFs are native (searchable) or scanned-in-color.
Replaced Academic OneFile in 2022.

Newpapers & Current News

US Newsstream (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Full-text access to over 950 US news publications, including The Des Moines Register, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, & Washington Post. 1980-present.
New York Times (NYTimes.com) This link opens in a new window
Full access to the New York Times online (1851-present). Includes international edition and Spanish and Chinese language editions. For full access and no monthly article limits, create an account using your Luther email address or register your account here: http://proxy.luther.edu/login?url=https://ezmyaccount.nytimes.com/grouppass/redir.

C-SPAN Video Archives
Free online access to over 2 decades of C-Span cable TV coverage. All programming that has aired on C-SPAN since 1987 (200,000 hours) is now available for viewing online. Many programs aired since 2003 have searchable text transcripts of the program’s closed captioning. Transcript text can be clicked on and the video will jump to that point.

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