You can find news stories and opinion (editorials, commentary or reviews) in:
The Web is an especially strong resource for keeping up with breaking news and finding alternative viewpoints that are not well represented in commercial media.
Use this directory to locate online newspapers of all types (local or national, business, specialty and alternative papers). Many of these have archives of past articles as well, although articles in the archives may not be free.
This news site provides very current news stories (from the past month). Stories are drawn from various sources.
This is a useful tool for locating blogs on a topic, or for searching within the postings of blogs. It also includes rankings to help you determine which blogs have more authority (defined as others citing them).
Yahoo! News: OpinionSee this site for a large collection of editorials, columns and commentary.
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This database (shown below) is an excellent full text source of news articles from the U.S. and around the world as well as reviews of all kinds.
World News Connection (WNC)
Compiled from thousands of non-U.S. media sources, the information in WNC covers significant socioeconomic, political, scientific, technical, and environmental issues
Multimedia sources include images, animations, video and sounds. These sources may be used to illustrate or explain important concepts in your research project or to help you better understand a topic.
Use this "Collection Finder" to locate image and sound resources provided online by the Library of Congress. American Memory is a rich treasure-trove for researchers, with more than 7 million digital items, such as the collection shown in the illustration below, now available.
This tool will help you to locate multimedia content that you can legally share and reuse for free.
Internet Archive The Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived Web pages. Browse or search the collections. USA.govEnter a topic in the search box, press enter, and then click on Images (above the search box) to search across the sites of federal agencies, including the Library of Congress American Memory collections.
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Use this database to locate photographic images from the Associated Press collection. These photos can be used in your research projects.
OhioLINK Digital Resource Commons
This growing resource offers collections of art and architecture images commonly used in college courses (shown below) as well as foreign language videos, physics demonstrations and much more.
Use American Memory to locate information on the: underground railroad
Click on Search and then type this phrase in the search box. Browse some of the multimedia sources listed on the search results page.
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