Best bet for general research. Covers many topics, millions of articles. Peer-reviewed (scholarly) and general interest periodicals. Much of this is full text.
Directory of Open Access Journals is a service that indexes and provides access to quality-controlled Open Access Journals and their articles. The Directory aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use an appropriate quality control system, and it will not be limited to particular languages or subject areas.
Films on Demand provides online, streaming access to thousands of documentaries, educational films and news reels.allows you to browse collections--well-indexed sets of videos organized by topics--or search for specific films. You can search by a film's title and description, a section of a film's title and description, and even a film's entire transcript.
Both multidisciplinary and discipline-specific journal collections are offered. Make sure “Content I can access” option is selected to see free and open access content.
Search the full text of The New York Times starting in 1995. (Does NOT include the Book Review.)
Great database to browse for topic ideas!
Covers today’s hottest social issues, from Offshore Drilling to Climate Change, Health Care to Immigration. Opposing Viewpoints helps students research, analyze and organize a broad variety of data for conducting research, completing writing assignments, preparing for debates, creating presentations and more.
This database indexes and abstracts articles from periodicals published in the U.S. and elsewhere plus the full-text of selected periodicals. Subjects covered include addiction studies, community health and medical care, corrections, criminal justice, economics, environmental studies, and urban studies.