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Eiche Library
Email Your Altoona Librarians:
- Bonnie Imler (bbi1@psu.edu)
- Cori Biddle (clb64@psu.edu)
- Jacob Gordon (jeg6049@psu.edu)
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Useful Databases
The following databases are great places to find books and articles related to your topic.
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PSU Libraries CatalogSearch for books, videos, and other material in the libraries collection.
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Academic Search Complete (Ebsco) This link opens in a new windowA great interdisciplinary databases covering most topics. It contains both scholarly and popular titles.
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Communication & Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new windowTopic related to social media, the internet, or television/movies (for example)? Try this databases!
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Nexis Uni This link opens in a new windowAnother good database for news sources, along with business and legal resources.
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Opposing Viewpoints This link opens in a new windowAlong with helping you pick a topic, Opposing Viewpoints can also provide you with full text of select popular magazine, scholarly sources, and news sources. Not every topic is contained in the database.
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ProQuest (Multiple Databases) This link opens in a new windowAlso covers most topics, with popular magazines, scholarly journals, and newspapers.
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ProQuest - U.S. Newsstream Collection This link opens in a new windowFind the full text of major national and regional newspapers - without the pay wall
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Access World News (NewsBank) This link opens in a new windowProvides access to local and regional US newspapers. Allows you to search by state or community.