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Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) Academic Search Complete is a scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 4,600 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,500 journals and a total of more than 10,000 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for nearly 1,000 journals.

ComAbstracts     1979-current ComAbstracts indexes and abstracts journals and books in the primary literature of communications, mass media, and speech. Dates of coverage vary by journal.

Communication and Mass Media Complete     1915 - present Communication & Mass Media Complete incorporates the content of CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study to create a research and reference resource for the discipline of communication. CMMC offers cover-to-cover ("core") indexing and abstracts for more than 420 journals, and selected ("priority") coverage of nearly 200 more, for a combined coverage of more than 600 titles. This database includes full text for 301 journals. Many major journals have indexing, abstracts, PDFs and searchable cited references from their first issues to the present (dating as far back as 1915). CMMC contains a Communication Thesaurus and comprehensive reference browsing (i.e. searchable cited references for peer-reviewed journals covered as "core"). In addition, CMMC features over 3,000 Author Profiles, providing biographical data and bibliographic information, and covering the most prolific, most cited, and most frequently searched for authors in the database.

HeinOnline HeinOnline is a legal research collection that features full-text searching of the complete historical run of scholarly legal and criminal justice periodicals. Other sources covered in full-text include published and unpublished treaties; The Federal Register (1936-present), U.S. Supreme Court Reports, and U.S. Attorney General Opinions. The U.S. Code of Federal Regulations CFR)is available full-text from inception in 1938 through the 1983 edition. Site License.

PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service)     1972-current PAIS contains over 400,000 citations and abstracts of journal articles, books, book chapters, conference proceedings, government documents, and statistical directories. Site License. Location: Haggard 2 -Reference HB1.A1 P822 Check Catalog

Web of Science     1995-current The Web of Sciences includes three citation indexes: Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index and the Arts and Humanities Citation Index. Over 8,000 scholarly, peer-reviewed journals published from 1995 to the present are included in the indexing. Building on the list of cited sources (or footnotes) for each entry, this database can search for works that have cited a specific author or a specific article. Web of Science is also searchable by keyword, author, journal, address and other fields. Consortium (12 Libraries) Share 15 Simultaneous Users.

Westlaw Campus Research     1789- West Law Campus Research provides the fulltext to West's legal reporters that include all federal and state case law (Courts of Appeals and higher), statutes and regulations for all 50 states, Code of Federal Regulations, The Federal Register, administrative rulings, and legal coverage of the European Union. Included are over 700 law revews and journals, American Jurisprudence 2nd, and American Law Reports. The business collection includes Hoover's Company Records, SEC reports, and trade journals. Includes news and information databases, newspapers, newsletters, trade journals, newswires, and broadcast transcripts.

General Reference Sources

    Government Information, State

Find-it! Washington An online search tool developed to help citizens find government information. Web documents from around the state, government publications available at public and state libraries, and government information and services maintained by the State Dept. of Information Services are included.

    Laws and Legislation

Cornell Law School. Legal Information Institute Cornell University's Legal Information Institute provides brief summaries of law topics with links to key primary source material, other Internet resources, and useful references.

Historic Supreme Court Decisions Supreme Court cases are searchable by topic, popular title, Supreme Court Justice decisions, and by time period. Traces cases cited in each decision. Available on individual computers within the library. Location: Haggard 2 -Reference KF 4549 .S423 1996

Supreme Court's Greatest Hits (CD-ROM) The Supreme Court's Greatest Hits contains more than 70 hours of Supreme Court oral arguments and opinion pronouncements from 50 of the most important cases decided in the last 40 years. The issues cover presidential power, racial and gender discrimination, freedom of press and religion, free expression, right to counsel, search and seizure, privacy, abortion, the death penalty, commerce power and more. Location: Haggard 2 -Reference KF 8742 .G65 1999 Check Catalog

Periodical and Newspaper subscriptions

    Journals and Magazines

Communication Journals

Primary Source Materials

    Government Documents

Homeland Security Digital Library        NOTE: This resource is available only on the Western Campus. A collection of more than 50,000 full-text publications related to homeland security; it is available because WWU is a federal depository library. Most of these publications are government documents and topics include terrorism, border issues, climate change, immigration, pandemics, school violence, food security, etc. The HSDL is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's National Preparedness Directorate, FEMA and the Naval Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Defense and Security.

Statistics and Data

    Statistical Resources

FedStats FedStats provides access to the full range of official statistical information available to the public from the Federal Government. This includes official statistics collected and published by more than 100 Federal agencies.