Biographies
- GVRL - Gale Virtual Reference Library Encyclopedias This link opens in a new window
Search many top encyclopedias on multiple topics for background information on your topic. Articles in these encyclopedias are written by experts.
Book Reviews
- New York Times Academic Pass This link opens in a new window
To get full access to the nytimes.com website create an account at the site linked above using your Transy.edu email address. Don't forget to check your email to verify. - JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Provides articles from 1,900+ scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, and sciences and around 5,000 ebooks. Coverage dates for journals are from the very first issue of each journal (the nineteenth or early twentieth centuries for many) and continues to 2 – 5 years prior to the current year (moving wall). - NoveList This link opens in a new window
Novelist assists fiction readers in finding new authors and titles. It includes 90,000 full text reviews. You can track down series and find book discussion guides. You can search by title, author or simply by describing pertinent plot details. - Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. Includes searchable PDF content going back as far as 1887.
Newspapers and News Sources
- African American Newspapers, 1827-1998 This link opens in a new window
Search articles from historical African American Newspapers. - Alt-Press Watch This link opens in a new window
Alt-PressWatch is a full text database comprised of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the alternative and independent press. Alternative newsweeklies, available in most cities, give readers alternative perspectives on politics, government, policy and culture; report on issues of government. - Newsbank : America's News This link opens in a new window
America’s News covers newspapers from around the country. Updated daily, this resource offers current and archived articles and video clips from news sources nationwide. It includes content for the Lexington Herald Leader. - Chronicle of Higher Education This link opens in a new window
The Chronicle is one of the main sources of information on higher education and includes news, feature articles, opinion pieces, and job listings. The online version includes both the weekly print edition plus daily news and advice columns, thousands of current job listings, an archive of previously published content, discussion forums, and career-building tools such as online CV management and salary databases. - Newspaper Source This link opens in a new window
Provides selected full text for 25 national (U.S.) and international newspapers. The database also contains full text television & radio news transcripts, and selected full text for more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers. - New York Times Academic Pass This link opens in a new windowTo get full access to the nytimes.com website create an account at the site linked above using your Transy.edu email address. Don't forget to check your email to verify.
- NPR: National Public Radio
National Public Radio is a privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization that serves as a national syndicator to a network of 900 public radio stations in the United States. NPR reports national and world news.
Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
- Encyclopedia Britannica Academic Edition This link opens in a new window
Trusted current reference for academic and special libraries. - Funk & Wagnalls This link opens in a new window
Has over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas. - GVRL - Gale Virtual Reference Library Encyclopedias This link opens in a new windowSearch many top encyclopedias on multiple topics for background information on your topic. Articles in these encyclopedias are written by experts.
- OED - Oxford English Dictionary This link opens in a new window
The best English language dictionary in the world. It provides the history of words including their first recorded use.
