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Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
This multidisciplinary database is a good place to start your research. It covers popular, professional, and scholarly sources.
Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
This is the go-to database for business information including company profiles and SWOT analyses. Use the Company Profiles menu to search for company reports. Industry reports also available.
Communication & Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window
This is the premier database for communications and mass media. It covers both professional and scholarly journals.
CQ Researcher This link opens in a new window
CQ Researcher provides in depth coverage of current events and issues. Original reports are searchable or browsable by topic or date.
Statista This link opens in a new window
Statisa is a statistics portal that provides current data on over 80,000 topics from more than 10,000 different sources including agriculture, advertising, health, hospitality, and consumer goods. Ready made tables are available for downloading.
New York Times This link opens in a new window
Full text access to the New York Times 1980 - present. Pictures are not available. You can browse by date or search by topic.
Sage Journals Premier This link opens in a new window
Sage Journals provides citations and abstracts for articles across a variety of disciplines; many with full text.

No Operator	Searches words together as a phrase in the exact order in which you have typed them.
AND	Retrieves records containing both or all of the search terms joined by AND; the middle sliver of a Venn Diagram.
OR	Retrieves records containing either or any of the search terms joined by OR; everything included in a Venn Diagram
NOT	Retrieves records that do not contain a specific term.
( )	Groups words together so that you can relate phrases by operators or layer your operators. For example: (feminist or feminism) AND (literary (theory or criticism)) Just like high school algebra, parentheses must be in pairs, and the inner-most pair is worked first.

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