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News, Current Events and Media Providers

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  Paid Subscription Databases - Available to all Wyoming Library Cardholders. Have your library card number & PIN handy to access these from home.
Access World News (part of NewsBank) Access World News (part of NewsBank) - Find current and archived articles on issues, events, people, government and more with the world's largest collection of full-text newspapers and other news sources. Includes local news, editorials, announcements and other sections from over 2,000 sources.
Britannica Online - Academic Edition Britannica Online - Academic Edition - Complete encyclopedia, a dictionary, and the Britannica Book of the Year. Additional resources include Gateway to the Classics, a selection of 225 works by 140 authors introduces you to the great writing and ideas of the Western world.
Britannica Online - Public Library Edition Britannica Online - Public Library Edition - Use this powerful resource to search or browse for information in encyclopedias, magazines, videos, and Web sites. You can also explore the Britannica Reference Center for high school age researchers or Britannica Kids for elementary or middle school students.
Britannica Online - School Edition Britannica Online - School Edition - Explore learning materials, a dictionary and thesaurus, atlases, timelines, and other features -- all at the appropriate grade level. Includes targeted resources for PreK-2 (Learning Zone), PreK-5 (Elementary), Grades 6-8 (Compton's), and Grades 9-12.
CQ Researcher CQ Researcher - Offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of today's most important issues. Each weekly issue provides up-to-date information on controversial subjects written by CQ's staff of experienced reporters.
Environmental Studies and Policy Environmental Studies and Policy (Gale) - Providing robust coverage of the field of environmental issues and policy, this collection, which includes nearly 200 journals, provides instant access to the multiple viewpoints of this volatile field of study, including perspectives from the scientific community, governmental policy makers, as well as corporate interests.
Expanded Academic ASAP Expanded Academic ASAP (Gale) - From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines. Access scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers - many with full text and images.
GLBT Issues Collection Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Life & Issues Collection (Gale) - This collection of journals aims to provide balanced coverage of this significant aspect of our culture, covering such topics as gender studies, family and marital issues, health aspects, and many more.
General OneFile General OneFile (Gale) - A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images. Updated daily.
Global Issues in Context Global Issues in Context (Gale) - Offering international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together a variety of specially selected, highly relevant sources for analysis of social, political, military, economic, environmental, health, and cultural issues. Each of these gateway pages includes an overview, unique "perspectives" articles written by local experts, reference, periodical, primary source and statistical information. Rich multimedia - including podcasts, video, and interactive graphs - enhance each portal. Use Browse Issues and Topics, Country Finder, Basic Search or Advanced Search to explore the database.
InfoTrac Newsstand InfoTrac Newsstand (Gale) - An innovative Web-based full-text newspaper database which allows users to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, newspaper section or other assigned fields. Finally, a one-stop source for the day's news and searchable archives. You can customize your online newspaper database features including search options. With InfoTrac Newsstand, you can search a collection of more than 1,000 newspapers, then select your own screen appearance, search options and results format.
Kids InfoBits (Gale) Kids InfoBits (Gale) - Developed especially for beginning researchers in Kindergarten through Grade 5. Featuring a developmentally appropriate, visually graphic interface, the most popular search method is moving from a broad subject to a narrower topic using the subject-based topic tree. The curriculum-related, age appropriate, full-text content is from the best elementary reference sources and magazines. This database covers geography, current events, the arts, science, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
Kids Search (part of EBSCOHost) Kids Search (part of EBSCOHost) - Kids Search is EBSCO's interface designed for students in grades K through 8. Kids Search provides elementary school students with an easy-to-use, graphically-appealing interface they can use to search their EBSCO databases.
Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers (Gale) - With digital facsimile images of both full pages and clipped articles for hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers and advanced searching capabilities, researchers will be able to research history in ways previously unavailable. For each issue, the newspaper is captured from cover-to-cover, providing access to every article, advertisement and illustration.
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center (Gale) - A one-stop source for information on today's hottest social issues featuring viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to web sites. New to the database are Lexile reading levels for periodicals and an integrated national and state curriculum standards search with content correlated to the standards.
Paper of Record Paper of Record - A global pioneer of searchable newspaper image documents presented in their original published form.
Regional Business News (part of EBSCOHost) Regional Business News (part of EBSCOHost) - This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of more than 80 regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
SIRS Researcher SIRS Researcher - A general reference database containing thousands of full-text articles from 1,600 domestic and international publications exploring social, scientific, health, historic, business, economic, political and global issues.
Student Research Center (part of EBSCOHost) Student Research Center (part of EBSCOHost) - EBSCO's interface designed for students in grades 6 through 12. SRC provides students in secondary schools with the most appropriate research tools to easily obtain the information that they need from their EBSCO databases. Students can easily pre-determine which content sources (e.g., Magazines, Newspapers, Biographies, Country Reports, Film & Video) will be included with their search. They can also search their databases by topic heading, make use of an online dictionary and encyclopedia, explore the top searches of the day, and even limit their search according to appropriate Lexile reading levels.
War & Terrorism Collection War & Terrorism Collection (Gale) - A definitive collection for students of history, social science and current events.
World History Collection World History Collection (Gale) - This collection of journals provides balanced coverage of both the current thought and events in World History, as well as scholarly work being established in the field.

Other Resources:

Wyoming Newspaper Project Wyoming Newspaper Project - Discover the stories that formed Wyoming, through the Wyoming Newspaper Project. For the sheer volume of information they contain, newspapers are the single most important printed record of human activity. Historians, genealogists, and other scholars rely on them to provide a first-hand and sometimes the only account of local news. Available through this website are all the newspapers printed in Wyoming between 1849 and 1922, in an easily searchable format.

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