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News Abstracts

Abstracts of newspaper articles from national and regional newspapers. From 1989 - present.

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NewsBank

This database provides the full text of articles from the Kansas City Star (1991-present) and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1988-present), as well as over 500 additional domestic newspapers in the United States and over 700 newspapers from around the world found in Access World News.

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Newspaper Source

This databse provides the full text of 30 U.S. and international newspapers, and selected full text of almost 200 U.S. newspapers. Also included are television and radio news transcripts.

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19th Century British Library Newspapers

The 19th Century British Library Newspapers collection contains full runs of 48 newspapers specially selected by the British Library to best represent nineteenth century Britain. This new collection includes national and regional newspapers, as well as those from both established country or university towns and the new industrial powerhouses of the manufacturing Midlands, as well as Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Special attention was paid to include newspapers that helped lead particular political or social movements such as Reform, Chartism, and Home Rule. The penny papers aimed at the working and clerical classes are also present in the collection. More information can be found in the Topic Guide for this resource. This database has been provided through the generous donation of the Rockhurst University Library Guild.

19th Century U.K. Periodicals: Empire Series

Empire: Travel and Anthropology, Economics, Missionary and Colonial covers a dominant factor in 19th century British history — the expansion of Empire. With titles from India, Canada, south and East Africa, Australia and New Zealand alongside British titles covering aspects of the economics, business, trade of empire along with non-mercantile side of British expansionism in the missionary movement, this section draws on the royal Geographical Society’s remarkable collections along with commonwealth National Libraries. Titles include: Capital and Labour, The Examiner, Liberty Review, The Canadian Journal, The Economist, The scribbler, The Literary Garland, Dawn: A Journal for Australian Women, Melbourne Punch, the Friend of India, The Asiatic Review and Colonial Chronicle. More information can be found in the Topic Guide for this resource and a Review and Analysis.

Old Testament Abstracts

This database identifies articles from approximately 450 journals, as well as books and software, related to Old Testatement studies. Coverage is from 1978 to the present.

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OTSEARCH

This bibliographic database is produced by the American Occupational Therapy Foundation and indexes the literature of occupational therapy and related subject areas, such as rehabilitation, education, psychiatry or psychology and healthier care delivery or administration. Literature indexed includes monographs, proceedings, reports, doctoral dissertations, master's theses and a select group of scholarly journals and newsletters. The full-text of these sources is NOT in the database.

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