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Full-text weekly topical reports. Focuses on topics considered newsworthy or issues of broad interest to the general public. This is a good source for overviews of current topics.
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Includes topical overviews; essays; book chapters; primary documents; specialized encyclopedia articles, and other sources. This is a good source for background information, overviews, references, terms, and ideas for topics.
Includes specialized encyclopedia articles written by experts in the respective topical areas. This is a good source for background information, overviews, references, terms, and ideas for topics.