Explore Current Issues and Events for Your Topic
- Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints This link opens in a new windowUse to explore opposing sides of the most important issues in science, the humanities, current events, technology and more. Great for argument essays, debates or speeches. Contains a list of some of the hottest social issues with links to full-text articles from scholarly journals, magazines and eBooks, viewpoints, infographics, news, images, statistics and more.
Best General Databases to Find Articles for your Paper
- Google Scholar This link opens in a new windowUse to find interdisciplinary articles from academic publishers, professional societies, institutional and preprint repositories posted on the web. Use the "Find @ Le Moyne Library" links in the search results as well as other links provided by the search engine to locate the full-text of articles. Contains full-text and abstracts of scholarly articles.
How to Use - Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new windowUse to find scholarly and popular articles in nearly every area of academic study. It is a great place to start your research on a topic and it’s also great for interdisciplinary research. Contains full-text articles and abstracts from peer-reviewed journals, magazines, reports, books, videos and images.
- JSTOR. Archival Journals This link opens in a new windowUse to find scholarly journal collections from leading academic journals from disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, mathematics and sciences. Contains full-text articles and abstracts from leading academic journals, eBooks and primary sources. Use JSTOR to find historical information rather than current articles.
- Gale Academic OneFile This link opens in a new windowUse to find information on a wide range of general topics, such as education, health, computers and technology, history, careers, personal finance and taxes, self-help/self-improvement and news and current events. Contains full-text articles, abstracts, and newspapers. Includes a topic finder.
- ProQuest Central This link opens in a new windowUse to find scholarly and popular articles, from all major subject areas. It is a great place to start your research on a topic and it’s also great for interdisciplinary research. Contains abstracts and full-text articles from scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, books, reports, links to websites, podcasts and newspapers.
For News Articles on your Topic
- Access World News This link opens in a new windowUse to find US and international news sources. Contains full-text newspapers and news sources from across the US and the world, including the Syracuse Post-Standard.
- Gale OneFile: News This link opens in a new windowUse to find major U.S. regional, national, and local news, as well as world news. Contains full-text and citations of newspaper articles, images, radio and TV broadcast transcripts. Includes a topic finder.
- New York Times. 1980 to current (ProQuest) This link opens in a new windowCoverage: 1980 - current
Includes: New York Times, Late Edition (East Coast), New York Times (Online), New York Times Book Review, New York Times Español, New York Times Magazine, and The Daily (Podcast). - ProQuest Central. US Newsstream This link opens in a new windowUse to find current U.S. news and archived U.S. news back to the 1980s. Contains newspapers, newswires, news journals, television and radio transcripts, blogs, podcasts, and websites.