Research Databases

Features more than 170 wide-ranging periodicals by and about African Americans. Published in 26 states, the publications include academic and political journals, commercial magazines, institutional newsletters, organizations bulletins, annual reports  and other genres. These diverse periodicals—which have shaped, and in turn been shaped by, African American culture—will enable new discoveries on lives of African Americans as individuals, as an ethnic group and as Americans.

You must have a Washington County Public Library card to use this resource.

America's News provides unique access to over 2,100 local, regional and national news sources, featuring over 40 titles from the state of Ohio. Compare perspectives from across the nation, track trends, and find information on a variety of topics and issues from the 1970's through current day.

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Full text business articles, research, and news updated daily from EBSCOhost.

Computer Source provides researchers with the latest information and current trends in high technology. This database offers full text for nearly 300 publications and indexing and abstracts for nearly 450 publications.

Full text for a wide variety of periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and much more. Also contains full text for reference books, biographies, and primary source documents, and an image collection photos, map, and flags – updated daily from EBSCOhost. 

Cover-to-cover full text for 20 national (U.S.) & international newspapers and selected full text for more than 230 regional (U.S.) newspapers, plus TV and radio news transcripts, updated daily.

Historical newspapers archive from the 1700s-2000s 3,000+ news titles from the U.S. and around the world.

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 Provides full text for more than 70 popular magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990.

Full text for articles from over 75 business journals, newspapers, and covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States, from EBSCOhost.

Access to The Washington Post in the library or outside the library with your library card.

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To access from outside of the library follow this link.
When you go to this page, you need to create an account to receive free remote access. Every 7 days you will need to click the link above and log back in with the account to keep access.