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Popular Databases
- Communication & Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new windowArticles on communication and mass media from scholarly journals. Coverage: 1900 - present.
- ComAbstracts via CIOS This link opens in a new windowAbstracts of articles on communication and journalism from scholarly journals. Coverage: 1915 - present.
- Mintel Reports This link opens in a new windowResearch reports on consumer markets and products in the United States. Includes related demographic data and analysis, market opportunities and strategies, and articles on trends in global consumer markets. Coverage: new reports added weekly. Create an account for access using your Loyola ID.
- Kanopy Streaming Video This link opens in a new windowDocumentaries, independent and classic feature films, educational videos, and award-winning films and shorts. Distributors include PBS, Media Education Foundation, Documentary Education Resources, California Newsreel, Criterion Collection/Janus Films, Psychotherapy.net, and more.
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- Opposing Viewpoints in Context Opposing Viewpoints in Context covers today’s hottest social issues, from Offshore Drilling to Climate Change, Health Care to Immigration. Opposing Viewpoints in Context 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 resource helps students explore issues from all perspectives, and includes: More than 14,000 pro/con viewpoint essays 5,000+ topic overviews More than 300 primary source documents 300 biographies of social activists and reformers More than 775 court-case overviews 5 million periodical articles Nearly 6,000 statistical tables, charts and graphs Nearly 70,000 images and a link to Google Image Search Thousands of podcasts, including weekly presidential addresses and premier NPR programs A national and state curriculum standards search, correlated to the content that allows educators to quickly identify material by grade and discipline.
- CQ Almanac This link opens in a new window Full-text articles on the coverage and analysis of US congressional legislation, includes how bills are changed, derailed, or ultimately passed during an annual session of Congress. Coverage: 1945 - present.
- HRAF World Cultures This link opens in a new window Index of cross-cultural and ethnographic descriptive information on all aspects of cultural and social life. Collection is organized by cultures and ethnic groups.
- Gale Virtual Reference Library This link opens in a new window Multidisciplinary collection of full-text reference ebooks.
- Oxford Reference Online This link opens in a new window Full-text multidisciplinary encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other reference titles. Limited to five simultaneous users.
- Reference Universe This link opens in a new window Multidisciplinary index of terms from specialized encyclopedias and scholarly handbooks.
- Sage Knowledge (Sage Reference Online) This link opens in a new window Full-text encyclopedic entries covering topics in social sciences.