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Criminal Justice This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive database supporting research on crime, its causes and impacts, legal and social implications, as well as litigation and crime trends. As well as U.S. and international scholarly journals, it includes correctional and law enforcement trade publications, crime reports, crime blogs and other material relevant for researchers or those preparing for careers in criminal justice, law enforcement and related fields.
Nexis Uni (LexisNexis Academic) This link opens in a new window
provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information in a variety of formats including newspapers.

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Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window
Access thousands of full-text journals covering information spanning a broad range of important areas of academic study including: anthropology, biology, chemistry, engineering, law, mathematics, multicultural studies, music, physics, psychology, women's studies and many other fields.
Access World News This link opens in a new window
Contains local, regional, national, and international newspapers including The Joplin Globe, The Kansas City Star, USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor, The Guardian, and The Times of India. Many newspapers have decades of access as well as current news.
CQ Researcher This link opens in a new window
Single themed weekly reports providing an overview, background and chronology of the issue along with an assessment of the current situation, tables, maps, pro/con statements, and bibliographies of key sources.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
A growing digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources covering more than 50 disciplines primarily in the Arts & Sciences, Life Sciences and Business. Coverage begins at the first volume and issue of the journal ever published, and extends up to a publication date usually set in the past three to five years.
MasterFILE Complete This link opens in a new window
Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 2,000 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1922. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Complete also contains full text for more than 1,000 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 502,000 photos, maps & flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.
PsycARTICLES This link opens in a new window
Searchable full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles covering general psychology and specialized, basic, applied, clinical and theoretical research.
PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
Over five million interdisciplinary bibliographic records and dissertations in psychology, behavioral sciences, and social sciences.
SocIndex with Fulltext This link opens in a new window
Information encompassing the broad spectrum of sociological study including all sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study.

Historical Newspapers: The New York Times
This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time. The Historical New York Times with Index (1851-1993) provides search capability using subject terms and topics for focused and targeted results in combination with searchable full text, full page, and article-level images from the Historical New York Times.

Subscription Databases with Full Text Current Newspapers

These databases are available only to current MSSU students, faculty and staff from off-campus. Community members and others not affiliated with the university must be in the library to access the materials available via these databases.

Access World News This link opens in a new window
Contains local, regional, national, and international newspapers including The Joplin Globe, The Kansas City Star, USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor, The Guardian, and The Times of India. Many newspapers have decades of access as well as current news.
International Newsstream This link opens in a new window
Provides the most recent news content outside of the US and Canada, with archives which stretch back decades featuring 660 of the world's top newspapers, newswires, and news sites in active full-text format
News Stream This link opens in a new window
Includes national and leading regional papers such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA TODAY, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, The Atlanta Journal- Constitution, Barron's, The Boston Globe, The Guardian, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Washington Post.
Nexis Uni (LexisNexis Academic) This link opens in a new window
Provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information in a variety of formats including newspapers.

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