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Welcome! This guide aims to help students of the course Politics of Environmental Issues taught at the Department of Human Ecology, SEBS, use the resources provided by Rutgers University Libraries to write their course papers on a current environmental issue after the library session.
Quick Links: Databases
- Access World NewsYour main source of news: Full-text content of over 2,200 North American newspapers and more than 1,200 international newspapers, plus 300 wire services and over 200 broadcast news transcripts.
- FactivaSearch the full text of 14,000 leading business newspapers, magazines, trade journals, newsletters, and television and radio transcripts. Browse the headlines and text of major magazines and newspapers from around the world.
- Ethnic NewsWatchInterdisciplinary full-text database of newspapers, magazines and journals of ethnic, minority, and native presses. Over 2.5 million articles from more than 300 publications a wide range of viewpoints not offered in the mainstream press.
- CQ ResearcherWeekly reports produced by the well-regarded Washington reporting service Congressional Quarterly Inc.
- ProQuest Environmental Science CollectionEnvironmental science related full-text articles, granular access to figures and tables within articles,
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