Research Resources: Background & Current Topics

Current and archival to 1980s U.S. news featuring key national and regional sources including The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Newsday, and Chicago Tribune as well as over 80 Gannett titles.

Comprehensive current news collection including full-text information and perspectives from 12,776 sources in the U.S. and internationally. Local, regional, national and international sources include print, web-only, images, newswires, magazines, broadcast transcripts, journals and videos. Covers a range of disciplines, including political science, journalism, English, history, environmental studies, sociology, business, economics, health and social sciences. Enables researches to track subjects geographically throughout time and analyze trends and statistics. Date coverage varies with individual newspaper.

Full-text daily and weekly Wisconsin newspapers from 2005 to 90 days ago, plus newspapers from the 1800s and 1900s

Find real-time, world-wide news from Associated Press, United Press International, PR Newswire, Xinhua, CNN Wire, and Business Wire. Full-text content is available for the most recent 30 days.

Find documentaries, feature films, newsreels, and performances in streaming video format. Subject coverage includes most areas of study. Please review permitted uses for videos in this database.

The PBS Video Collection is now in its third edition and contains nearly 600 titles. This product brings one of television’s most trusted networks into classrooms, with familiar series and names like NOVA, Nature, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Ken Burns, American Experience, and Frontline. Please review permitted uses for videos in this database.