English as a Second Language: Article Databases

Find books, magazines, journals, newspapers, and audio visual materials.

A comprehensive database that provides a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and time frames.

An online resource that includes articles from academic journals, newspapers, magazines; audio; videos; opinion essays; and primary sources on current controversial issues. A good source of topic ideas for papers and speeches.

Contains full-text articles on topics in multiple disciplines, useful as a starting point for most subjects.

Pros and cons on today’s complex social issues. Includes critical current issues and enduring social issues with full-text articles, multimedia, primary sources, government documents and reference material from over 1,800 national and international sources.

Full-text coverage of the US newspaper. Offers superb coverage of national and international news, plus coverage of important speeches and documents, Supreme Court decisions, and presidential press conference transcripts.

Provides full text of popular magazines covering general reference, business, consumer health, general science, and multi-cultural topics.

Biographical information on approximately half a million people, from antiquity to the present, along with thousands of images; offers substantive narrative profiles, each about 2,000 words long.

Covers all aspects of human impact on the environment. Includes scholarly, government, and general-interest titles with content on environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and how to minimize negative impact. Topics include global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.

An easy to use resource for starting your research. Provides background information from dictionaries and encyclopedias on a wide array of topics ranging from Art to Technology.

Provides full text articles from French language business journals, useful for both academic and professional researchers.