INFORMATION RESOURCE CENTER

IRC – ONLINE DATABASES

Factiva
Access to over 6,000 full text periodicals as well as major news sources such as Reuters wires, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times and local newspapers.

Foundation Directory
It allows you to search 20,000 of the largest and mid-sized U.S. foundations and the most recent grants of $10,000 or more — 150,000 in all — of the top 1,200 funders. The Trustees, Officers, and Donors search field and its corresponding index allow users to search over 100,000 trustee, officer and donor names.

GaleNet
A collection of four reference databases from Gale Research.

Associations Unlimited - Contains information for approximately 144,000 international and U.S. national, regional, state, and local, nonprofit membership organizations in all fields.

Biography Resource Center - biographical information on over 300,000 people, both international and American. In most cases, it includes the full biographical entry as well as full text periodical articles.

InfoTrac OneFile  - A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics.

Lexis-Nexis
A full text database of current and historic federal legislation, bill tracking, bill texts, state legislation, case law, law reviews and over 6,000 full text news sources and periodicals including the New York Times, Washington Post and AP wires.

ProQuest Direct
It provides access to over 8,000 publications, with many in full text and full image format. Image is not available for all the 8,000 periodicals. It also provides citations and/or abstracts of over 1600 periodicals and newspapers including New York Times.

These databases are allowed to use ONLY at the IRC by previous appointment

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