Brainstorming Points of View provides the full scope of an issue, controversy or movement. Taking no side, it offers historic reference on the topic, current events, timelines, and references that can allow you to learn more. An excellent starting point for the beginning speech writer!

Brainstorming iPOLL, from the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, is a full text database of 600,000 questions from national public opinion surveys since 1935.

Searches all University of Minnesota campus catalogs for books and media.

Academic Search Premier offers almost 5000 full text journals + many popular magazines and newspapers. This is a great starting database for the generalist & first time searcher.

Locate and access peer-reviewed journal articles and other scholarly sources. For access to FindIt off campus or on wireless devices add the University of Minnesota Duluth to your Library Links in the Google Scholar settings.

The authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States.

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts provides abstracts and indexing of the international literature of political science and international relations, along with complementary fields, including international law and public administration/policy. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 750 core serials publications and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and working papers.

This database abstracts and indexes the international literature of sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from thousands of serials publications and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, conference papers and working papers.

New York Times (Late Edition, East Coast), New York Times Book Review, New York Times Magazine. Date coverage: 1999 - present.

Search for articles from the WSJ (1984 - present). You may also browse by date of publication.

Westlaw, a Thomson Reuters product, provides access to federal and state case law statutes regulations law reviews and journals American Law Reports, and the American Jurisprudence 2nd Ed. legal encyclopedia. This resource also provides access to more than 4,900 news and business information publications.

Do you want to search a lot of news sources at once? ProQuest News & Newspapers searches across a vast number of outlets, wires and sources at once.

Read newspapers, magazines, blogs, transcripts, and wires from the United States or around the world. Select the area in the world you want to focus on or browse by topic.