Research and Course Guides: Country Studies: Journal Articles

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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.
Nexis Uni (LexisNexis Academic) This link opens in a new window
Provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information as well as U.S. Supreme Court decisions back to 1790.
SocIndex with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Provides information encompassing the broad spectrum of sociological study including all sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study.

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Truncation symbols (?, *, !, +) will provide variant spelling after the root word.

A wildcard (?, *) is a character that may be used in a search term to represent one or more other characters.

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Use the subject headings/descriptors to find additional citations on your topic. If that does not work, use the keyword search.

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