On-line Databases
The CQ
Researcher Online
The CQ Researcher Online is the award-winning choice of
researchers seeking original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues in
the news. Controversial topics addressed in a balanced, unbiased manner in the
CQ tradition.
Factiva
Access to over 8,000
publications in 22 languages, including major newspapers, Dow Jones, Reuters,
Associated Press newswires, business and industry journals, 9,000 Web sites and
20,000 company reports.
Factiva, a Dow Jones & Reuters Company, provides
world class global content, including Dow Jones and Reuters Newswires and The
Wall Street Journal - unduplicated in a single service elsewhere. Factiva offers
the only single content solution with multiple language interfaces and
multilingual content covering nearly 8,000 sources.
Federal News Service
FNS provides
transcripts to testimony, briefings, press conferences and congressional
hearings with questions and answers. FNS also produces a daybook which details
significant events in Washington as well as cabinet officer schedules.
GPO Access
A service of
the U.S. Government Printing Office. Connection to GPO access allows you to
search in the official Federal Government databases. It now reaches more than 70
searchable databases that include congressional bills, the Federal Register,
Code of Federal Regulations; Congressional Bills; Congressional Record; Public
Laws; U.S. Code; Supreme Court Decisions, and the Weekly Compilation of
Presidential Documents. In addition to this impressive collection of databases,
GPO Access provides online gateways to the Federal Bulletin Board, and the Sales
Product Catalog. Most databases are updated by 6 a.m. est daily. The
Congressional Record is usually available by 11 a.m. est.
Lexis-Nexis
The Lexis
service contains major archives of U.S. federal and state case law, continually
updated statutes of all the states, and state and federal regulations. The Nexis
service is a leading news and business information service of more than 13,500
sources, including regional, national , and international newspapers, newswires,
magazines, trade journals, and business periodicals.
ProQuest Direct (Academic Research
Library)
ProQuest provides access to one of the world's largest
collections of information sources, including summaries of articles from over
8,000 publications (journals, periodicals, newspapers), with many in full text,
full image format.