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- Nexis Uni (formerly LEXIS/NEXIS Academic) This link opens in a new windowDatabase of full text online news, legal cases, and company information from 1980 to present. Includes Nexis Dossier and Total Patent One.
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- FactivaOnly THREE concurrent users allowed. Articles from leading business journals, magazines, trade publications and newspapers with a broad selection of international content plus company and market data. Covers 1975 to the present.
- Ethnic NewsWatchCovers newspapers from the ethnic, minority, and native press from 1990-present.
- Noticias en Espanol (1992-present)Full text Spanish news articles relevant to Hispanics, Chicanos and Latinos in the United States.
- ProQuest Latin American NewsstandFull-text coverage is available for over 40 titles from all over Latin America, commencing in most instances with either 2004 or 2005.
- Gender WatchThe database provides in-depth coverage of the subjects that are uniquely central to women's lives. It includes content on the impact of gender and gender roles on areas such as: the arts, popular culture and media, business and work, crime and criminology, education, research and scholarship, family, health care and medicine, politics, policy and legislation, pornography, religion, sexuality and sexology, sports and leisure.