PLSC 205/SOC 205: Research Methods and Analysis
Current Online Newspapers
- New York Times Online This link opens in a new windowAll current PC students, faculty, and staff have FREE access to current news from NYTimes.com. **You must first create an account using your PC email address. For instructions on how to do this, go to http://lib.presby.edu/NYTimes. Once you have an account, you can login in the upper right corner of the website to receive unlimited access to content. You can also download the app for easy access via your mobile device or tablet!
- Wall Street Journal This link opens in a new windowAll current PC students, faculty, and staff have free online access to the Wall Street Journal and the WSJ mobile app.
**You must first create an account at http://wsj.com/presby [be sure to use your PC email address]. Once you have registered for an account, you can sign in on a laptop using the prompt in the upper right corner of the WSJ website, or you can download the mobile app and sign in using your account credentials.
The Washington Post
The Washington Post is available at PC through the following database:
- Newspaper Source Plus This link opens in a new window
- Full-text available from 2003 - present [with a few day delay].
- In the advanced search, you can limit by publication title.
- Or, using the "publications" tab, search for The Washington Post to access articles by publication date.
Archival Wall Street Journal
- Newspaper Source Plus This link opens in a new window
- Indexing only, NO full-text access.
- September 1994 - January 2016.
- Use the "Search within this publication" to search by keyword or select a date on the right to browse all articles in a specific issue.
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- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new windowMultidisciplinary, scholarly database with nearly 9000 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,700 peer-reviewed journals
- HeinOnline: Academic This link opens in a new windowHeinOnline is the world's largest fully searchable, image-based government document and legal research database. It contains comprehensive coverage from inception of both U.S. statutory materials, U.S. Congressional Documents and more than 2,400 scholarly journals, all of the world's constitutions, all U.S. treaties, collections of classic treatises and presidential documents, and access to the full text of state and federal case law powered by Fastcase. This Government, Politics & Law HeinOnline package offers special collections on Criminal Justice, Religion and the Law and Women and the Law among others.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowA growing digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources covering a variety of disciplines
- Political Science Complete This link opens in a new windowPolitical Science Complete (PSC) provides full text for more than 520 journals, and indexing and abstracts for over 2,900 titles, (including top-ranked scholarly journals), many of which are unique to the product. The database also features over 340 full-text reference books and monographs, and over 36,000 full-text conference papers, including those of the International Political Science Association.
- Project MUSE This link opens in a new windowThis database contains 111 core journals in the humanities and social sciences.
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- Atlanta Constitution Archive This link opens in a new windowExplore full text and full image articles from 1868 – 1984.
- Newspaper Source Plus This link opens in a new windowIncludes more than 860 full-text newspapers, including The Washington Post.
- New York Times Archive This link opens in a new windowFull-text & full-image of NYT articles with coverage from 1851 to 2015.
- Nexis Uni [formerly LexisNexis] This link opens in a new windowComprehensive, authoritative news content, including current coverage and deep archives
- Times (London) Digital Archive 1785-2014 This link opens in a new windowAn online archive of every headline, article, editorial, announcement, image and advertisement published in The Times (London) from 1785 until 2014
Looking for a Specific Journal?
- Journal SearchProvides access to PC's electronic and print journals, magazines, and newspapers in one convenient location.
*You MUST sign-in to gain access to all electronic resources!
Browse Journal Search by category. When browsing or searching, you can read articles from any journal that is available in the Full-text resources online group of results. Choose a database in this group based on the dates available and the time frame in which you are interested.