Current Topics & News

Canadian Business & Current Affairs (ProQuest) is a longstanding, comprehensive Canadian periodical collection covering multiple subjects and topics, with millions of full-text records. Accessible to readers and researchers at every level, the Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database features a diversified mix of publications, including scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, reports, radio and television transcripts, news, dissertations, and more.

Canada, news, culture, history, literature

Canadian Newstream (ProQuest) offers unparalleled access to the full text of over 400 Canadian news sources from Canada's leading publishers. This full text database includes the complete available electronic backfile for most newspapers, providing full access to the articles, columns, editorials and features published in each. Most titles are updated daily and some backfiles date as far back as the late 1970s.

Canada, news

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Facts on File Issues and Controversies databases provide authoritative information in core subject areas such as careers & education, current issues, general reference, geography & culture, history, literature & language arts, medical & health, news services, religion & philosophy and science & mathematics. Features include:

• Pro/con Articles
• Debate Videos
• Court Cases
• Overview Videos
• National High School Policy Debate Topics
• Presidency And Presidential Races
• Instructional Resources

politics, law, debate, government, current issues, history

Global Breaking Newswires is the premier library news product providing timely access to the best newswire content available from around the globe for the modern researcher. It contains a growing archive of news indexes that are accessible through the familiar & popular research functionality of the ProQuest platform.

news

Offers a definitive, comprehensive, and accurate record of the twenty-fifth state. The online version of the Encyclopedia is the first component of the Project.

• History, geography, & culture of Arkansas
• Media Galleries
• This Day in Arkansas spotlight

The ABI/INFORM (Analytics & Business Intelligence) Collection features thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, key business and economics periodicals, company/country/industry-focused reports, and major news sources. Its international coverage gives researchers a complete picture of companies and business trends around the world.

business, finance, economics, industry, trade, market research

ProQuest Agricola is a bibliographic database, produced by the National Agricultural Library, consists of worldwide literature citations for journal articles, monographs, proceedings, theses, patents, translations, audiovisual materials, computer software, and technical reports pertaining to all aspects of agriculture and related fields.

agriculture, biology, animal science, botany, biotechnology

ProQuest Arts & Humanities features over 550 full text titles covering Art, Architecture, Design, History, Philosophy, Music, Literature, Theatre and Cultural Studies.

The database contains over 460 full text scholarly journals from publishers such as Cambridge University Press, Johns Hopkins University Press, and Springer Nature, as well as relevant magazines such as Vogue, the New York Times Book Review, and Sight & Sound and trade journals including Publisher’s Weekly and Canadian Architect.

art, architecture, design, history, philosophy, music, literature, theater, culture

Asian and European Business (ProQuest) provides information pertinent to the study of business and finance topics across Asia and Europe, including academic journals, newspapers, newswires, and magazines. Find information on companies, economies, markets, international trade, and overall business conditions and practices throughout these regions.

business, Asia, Europe

Criminal Justice (ProQuest) is a comprehensive database supporting research on crime, its causes and impacts, legal and social implications, as well as litigation and crime trends.

• International scholarly journals
• Correctional and law enforcement trade publications
• Dissertations
• Crime reports
• Crime blogs 

crime, legal, law enforcement

NewsBank provides a comprehensive collection of reliable news sources covering a wide array of topics and issues. Patrons can search and read hundreds of newspapers and other news sources. Plus, patrons have access to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette! Features include:

• Trending Now
• Reading Adventures
• Jobs and Careers
• Local News
• Session Folder

news, local, international

NWADG.com is the premier digital source for news in Fayetteville, Springdale, Rogers, Bentonville and surrounding areas in Northwest Arkansas. BPL patrons can access NWADG through our subscription to NewsBank in two formats:

• Image of printed edition
• Text based

local news, Northwest Arkansas

Australia & New Zealand Database (ProQuest Central) features full-text, academic journals locally published in Australia and New Zealand. Subjects cover major areas of study: business, science, technology, medical, social sciences, political science, and humanities.

Australia, New Zealand

Legal Information Source is a database designed to assist the public in understanding the complex world of law and legal matters of all kinds. It includes exclusive full text for many top consumer legal reference books, as well as thousands of legal forms. Using the browse feature, users can search legal forms by popular subject areas, including accident, bankruptcy, divorce, personal injury and more. In addition, users can quickly access a list of links to U.S. federal and state legal forms.

law, business, finance

EBSCOhost is an intuitive online research platform used by thousands of institutions and millions of users worldwide. With quality databases and search features, EBSCOhost helps researchers of all kinds find the information they need fast.

all topics

Flipster, EBSCO’s digital magazine platform, continues to make great strides in accessibility with the goal of providing a superior digital magazine reading experience to all readers while retaining the magazine “feel” that readers know and love. Providing readers with access to best-selling digital magazines from top publishers including National Geographic, Condé Nast, Meredith, Bloomberg L.P., and more.

magazines, news, pop culture

International Newsstream provides the most recent news content outside of the US and Canada, with archives which stretch back decades featuring newspapers, newswires, and news sites in active full-text format. ProQuest International Newsstream provides information from more than 660 of the world's top newspapers, including The Times (London), The Bangkok Post, El Norte, Financial Times, The Guardian, Jerusalem Post, South China Morning Post, The Daily Telegraph, Asian Wall Street Journal, and the BBC Monitoring series of publications.

news, international

This database serves as the central resource for researchers at all levels. Covering more than 160 subjects areas, ProQuest Central is the largest aggregated database of periodical content. Features a highly-respected, diversified mix of content including scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, books, newspapers, reports and videos. *

all topics