POLITICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH GUIDE FOR TWENTIETH-CENTURY RESEARCH

 

I.    ONLINE NEWSPAPERS

 

A.  Online Search Engines

 

Citation and sometimes first paragraph information from various newspapers and magazines can be found at http://news.google.com/archivesearch.

 

Citation and first paragraph information from the New York Times is found at http://www.nytimes.com/ref/membercenter/nytarchive.html

 

B.  Library – No access currently back to the 1930s and 1940s at library. 

 

C.  Full text dates as far back as 1980s: EbscoHost Newspaper

 

EbscoHost Newspaper source provides cover-to-cover full text for 20 national (U.S.) & international newspapers, including The Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, Washington Post, The Times (London), Toronto Star, etc.  The database also contains selected full text for more than 230 regional (U.S.) newspapers, including Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Detroit Free Press, The Miami Herald, Daily News (New York), San Jose Mercury News, etc.  In addition, full text television & radio news transcripts are provided from CBS News, FOX News, NPR, etc.

 

D.  Full text dates as far back as 1980s: Proquest

 

E.  New York Times (0362-4331)

 

All articles (payment required for full text) at http://www.nytimes.com/ref/membercenter/nytarchive.html

from 06/01/1980 to present in LexisNexis Academic

from 01/01/1984 to present in eLibrary

from 01/01/1995 to present in Student Resource Center Gold Edition

from 07/01/1995 to present in InfoTrac Custom Newspapers

 

F.   Washington Post (0190-8286)

 

from 01/01/1977 to present in LexisNexis Academic

from 09/27/1984 to present in eLibrary

from 02/13/2003 to present in Newspaper Source

 

II.   LIBRARY OWNS: NEWSPAPERS

 

A.  New York Times 

 

The A&M-Texarkana library has hardbound paper New York Times indexes for most of the twentieth century.

 

The A&M-Texarkana library has the New York Times back to the 1930s and 1940s on microfilm. 

 

B.  Texarkana Newspaper

 

The A&M-Texarkana library has the Texarkana Newspaper back to the 1930s and 1940s on microfilm, but it is not indexed.

 

III.  ONLINE PERIODICALS & JOURNALS

 

A.  Online Search Engines

 

Citation and sometimes first paragraph information from various newspapers and magazines can be found at http://news.google.com/archivesearch.

 

B.  Library Electronic Databases

 

Wilson OmniFile – Full text dates as far back as 1980s

 

EbscoHost Academic, Masterfile – Full text dates as far back as 1975

 

EbscoHost World History – Full text dates as far back as 1964

 

Infotrac OneFile   Full text dates as far back as 1980s

 

Research Library – Indexing starts in the 1971, full text dates as far back as 1980s

 

C.  JSTOR

 

JSTOR has periodicals – Back to the 1930s and 1940s.

 

IV. LIBRARY OWNS: PERIODICALS & JOURNALS

 

A.  Bound Periodicals The bound volumes of the Readers Guide to Literature index all of these and other periodicals.

 

Harper’s Magazine (back to the 1930s and 1940s) located in the Bound Volume Area

 

Life Magazine (late 1930’s--1938 -1939 and 1940s+) located in the Bound Volume Area

 

Saturday Evening Post (late 1930’s--1938 -1939 and 1940s+) located in the Bound Volume Area

 

National Geographic (back to the 1930’s and 1940s) located in the Bound Volume Area

 

B.  Microfilm Periodicals The bound volumes of the Readers Guide to Literature index all of these and other periodicals, except for U.S. News and World Report.

 

Good Housekeeping (back to the 1930s and 1940’s) on microfilm

 

Ladies Home Journal (back to the 1930s and 1940’s) on microfilm

 

The Nation (back to the 1930s and 1940s) on microfilm

 

Newsweek (1933+) on microfilm

 

Time (back to the 1930s and 1940s) on microfilm

 

U.S. News and World Report (May 1933-1940s+) on microfilm, but no indexing for the 1930s or 1940s.

 

V.  ONLINE: CONGRESSIONAL QUARTERLY WEEKLY

 

Online Access: Oct.1983-current.

 

VI. ONLINE: CONGRESSIONAL DIGEST

 

      Online Access: EbscoHost All Databases

 

VII.   LIBRARY OWNS: CONGRESSIONAL QUARTERLY WEEKLY

 

The library has hard copies of the Congressional Quarterly Almanac 1967-Current.  This book is equivalent to the CQ weekly for that given year; when the Almanac was received the weekly issues for that year were discarded.)  Each volume has a subject index located in the back.

 

VIII.  LIBRARY OWNS: CONGRESSIONAL RECORD

 

Format: Print

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Location: Bound Volume Area

 

Vol. 109 PT 12: 88th Congress, 1st Session (Aug 21-Sep 12, 1963) MISS. All Other PTS

Vol. 110 PTS 2-20: 88th Congress, 2nd Session (Jan 30-Oct 3, 1964) MISS. PT 1 (Jan 1-29)

Vol. 111 PTS 1-23: 89th Congress, 1st Session (Jan 4-Oct 22, 1965) MISS. PT 22 (Index)

Vol. 112 PTS 1-23: 89th Congress, 2nd Session (Jan 10-Oct 22, 1966)

Vol. 113 PTS 1-29: 90th Congress, 1st Session (Jan 10-Dec 15, 1967)

Vol. 114 PTS 1-26: 90th Congress, 2nd Session (Jan 15-Oct 10, 1968)

Vol. 115 PTS 1-32: 91st Congress, 1st Session (Jan 3-Dec 23, 1969) MISS. PT 12 (June 10-19)

Vol. 116 PTS 1-35: 91st Congress, 2nd Session (Jan 19, 1970-Jan 2, 1971)

Vol. 117 PTS 1-38: 92nd Congress, 1st Session (Jan 21-Dec 17, 1971) MISS. PT 15 (June 10-16), PT 17 (June 24-30), PT 26 (Sep 28-Oct 4)

Vol. 118 PTS 1-30: 92nd Congress, 2nd Session (Jan 18-Oct 18, 1972)

Vol. 119 PTS 1-35: 93rd Congress, 1st Session (Jan 3-Dec 22, 1973) MISS. PT 9 (Apr 3-1 1), PT 13 (May 16-29), PTS 15-17 (June 7-29)

Vol. 120 PTS 1-33: 93rd Congress, 2nd Session (Jan 21-Dec 20, 1974)

Vol. 121 PTS 1-34: 94th Congress, 1st Session (Jan 14-Dec 19, 1975) MISS. PT 2 (Jan 24-Feb 5)

Vol. 122 PTS 1-29: 94th Congress, 2nd Session (Jan 19-Oct 1, 1976)

Vols. 123-126 SEE MICROFICHE HOLDINGS

Vol. 127 PTS 25-26: 97th Congress, 1st Session (Jan 5-Dec 16, 1981) Index & Daily Digest ONLY---SEE MICROFICHE HOLDINGS

Vol. 128 PTS 2-26: 97th Congress, 2nd Session (Feb 10-Dec 17, 1982) MISS. PT 1 (Jan-Feb 9)

Vols. 129-141: 98th Congress, 1st Session to 104th Congress, 1st Session (Jan 1983-Dec 1997) Index & Daily Digest ONLY---SEE MICROFICHE HOLDINGS

Vol. 142 PTS 20-21:104th Congress 2nd Session (Jan 3-Oct 21, 1996) Index & Daily Digest ONLY---SEE MICROFICHE HOLDINGS

Vol. 143 PT 20: 105th Congress 1st Session (Jan 7, 1997-Jan 24, 1998) Daily Digest ONLY---SEE MICROFICHE HOLDINGS

Vol. 144 PT 21: 105th Congress 2nd Session (Jan 27, 1998-Jan 19, 1999) Daily Digest ONLY--­SEE MICROFICHE HOLDINGS

Vol. 145: ALL PTS MISSING---SEE MICROFICHE HOLDINGS

Vol. 146 PT 20: 106th Congress 2nd Session (Jan 24, 2000-Jan 3, 2001) Daily Digest ONLY--­SEE MICROFICHE HOLDINGS