Research Guides: EDUC 101: Finding Background Information

Non-Scholarly Library Sources

Biography - In Context
Discover the world's most influential people by searching narrative biographies, news, magazine, and multimedia content.
Credo Reference
An online collection of many reference books covering a wide variety of subjects, with entries covering such subjects as medicine, art, technology, law and more.

Credo Reference is an online collection of many reference books covering a wide variety of subjects, with entries covering such subjects as medicine, art, technology, law and more, all aggregated and integrated in a robust search engine.
Diversity Studies
Access a range of periodical content to explore cultural differences, contributions, and influences in the global community.
Educator's Reference Complete
Gain insight on issues in administration, funding, and policy. Best for educators, administrators, and education students.
Gale Academic OneFile
Quickly access articles from a database of scholarly journals and other trusted periodicals. Best for academic research.
Gale General OneFile
Access general interest magazines and key serials in a single resource. Best for general research.
Newspaper Source
Provides selected full text for more than 20 national and international newspapers and over 398 regional U.S. newspapers.

Features full text of radio and television news transcripts as well as indexing and abstracts for many other national newspapers.
New York Times
Full-text access from 1980 to present.
ProQuest Global Newsstream
The core of the database is the Major Newspapers collection, which includes national and leading regional papers such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA TODAY, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, The Atlanta Journal- Constitution, Barron's, The Boston Globe, The Guardian, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Washington Post.