• Annenberg Resource Center Collection
• HOMER
• HELIX, USC Health Sciences Libraries’ catalog
• Advocat, USC Law Library’s online catalog
• Search all USC library catalogs
• WorldCat

Current News

• Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
• CQ Library
• NewsBank NewsFile Collection
• NewsBank Retrospective (1970-1991)
• Ethnic NewsWatch (1990-)
• World News Connection (1994-present)- translations of international news stories
• Alternative Press Index- indexes 300 alternative, radical, and left periodicals from 1991- present
• AccuNet: AP Multimedia Archive
  Electronic library containing the AP’s current year’s photo reports and a selection of photos from their 50 million image print and negative library.
• ProQuest Latin American Newsstand
  Full-text coverage is available for 41 titles from all over Latin America, commencing in most instances with either 2004 or 2005.

Broadcasting News:

• News Transcripts: Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
• Vanderbilt University Television News Archive collection
• Foreign Broadcast Information Service Electronic Index (1975-1996)

Historical News:

• Early American Newspapers (1690-1876)
• Historical New York Times (1851-2000)
• Historical LA Times (1881-1966)
• Historical Wall Street Journal (1889-1988)
• Historical Newspapers: Washington Post (1877-1990)
• Accessible Archives (18th- & 19th century)
• Historical Newspapers (18th-19th-20th-century Times & NYT’s indexes)
• Harper’s Weekly (1857-1912)
  Harper’s Illustratred Weekly in the 19th century and early 20th century
• APS Online Via ProQuest (1740-1940)
  Over 1,100 periodicals that first began publishing between 1740 and 1900, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children’s and women’s magazines, and many other historically-significant periodicals
• Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
  Library of Congress
  (Full –text, public domain newspapers from California, Florida, Kentucky, New York, Utah, Virginia and the District of Columbia published between 1900 and 1910; and find INFORMATION about American Newspapers published between 1690-present.)
• British Newspapers (1800-1900)
• PaperofRecord (1800 and 1900’s)- selective archive of newspapers, mostly Canadian and Mexican
• Facts On File News Archives (1940-)

 

• Ethnic NewsWatch: a history (1960-1989)
• Black Studies Center
  • The Chicago Defender (1912-1975)
  • The Daily Defender (1958-1975)
  • The Los Angeles Sentinel (1971-2005)
• African American Newspapers: The 19th Century

• Communication and Mass Media Complete
• Communication Abstracts
• Dissertation Abstracts
  • USC Dissertations
  • ProQuest Dissertations and Theses

For More Resources, please check the library’s Communication Research Guide

General Interests Databases

• Expanded Academic ASAP
• ProQuest Research Library

Gender Studies

• GenderWatch (1970-)
• Ethnic NewsWatch (1990-)
• Ethnic NewsWatch: a history (1960-1989)
• Alternative Press Watch Index (1990-)
• CQ Library- CQ Researcher Online
• PsycInfo

• Contemporary women’s issues
• Everyday life and women in American (1820-19000)
• Women in America (from the Colonial period to the present)
• Women’s studies International
• Viva: a bibliography of women’s history in historical and women’s studies

• Gender studies / GLBT electronic resources
• Research Guide: GLBT (from UC-Boulder)

Evironmental Studies

• Environmental Issues & Policy Index
• Expanded Academic ASAP (1980-)
• MoreResearch guides:
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Environmental health
  • Marine Resources Online

Business Info

• Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe Business News
• Factiva (1975-present) -business news
• ABI/Inform Global (1971-)
• Comsumer’s Index (1986-)
• D&B Million Dollar Database
• Thomas Register (=ThomasNet)

Health research

• Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe Medical News
• Medline via OVID (1966-)
• PsycInfo (1887-)
• PsycArticles (1985-)
• National Library of Medicine
• Center for Disease Control and Prevention
• More Info from Norris Medical Library

Government Info

• AccessUN (1966-)
• PAIS Archives (1915-1976)
• PAIS International (1972-)
• Policy File
• National Journal Group’s Policy Central
• Census Bureau Homepage
• FedStats – Government Statistics
• Federal Government Agencies Directory
• U.S. Government Info Search

Law research

• Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe Legal News
• Thomas: http://thomas.loc.gov/

Social Issues:

• Eric (1966-)
• GenderWatch (1970-)
• Ethnic NewsWatch (1985-)
• CQ Library

• Sociological Abstracts
• Social Science Citation Index
• Social Work Abstracts
• Social Services Abstracts

For More Resources, please check the library’s E-Resources by Subjects