InfoGuides: INTS 410 Contemporary Health Issues: Begin Your Research

Begin your research

Welcome to the INTS 410 Course Guide

Use this guide to locate sources to use for your course assignments.

Find Articles - Key databases and journals for multidisciplinary health issues
Find Books and eBooks - Search the Mason and Washington Research Library Consortium catalogs
Write & Cite - Information on Zotero and contacting the Writing Center
Get Help - Chat with a librarian or setup an appointment with your librarian

Factiva News Pages
Supplies international business and news coverage from more than 8,000 sources including newspapers, newswires, magazines, trade journals, radio and television transcripts, and websites.
International Newsstream
Provides the most recent news content from outside of the U.S. and Canada with archives that stretch back decades. Features newspapers, newswires, transcripts, and digital-only news sites in full-text format, including more than 800 of the world's top news sources such as The Times (London), The Bangkok Post, El Norte, Financial Times, The Guardian, Jerusalem Post, South China Morning Post, The Daily Telegraph, Asian Wall Street Journal, and the BBC Monitoring series of publications.
Newspaper Source Plus
Provides full-text access to national and international newspapers, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Times (London), as well as selective full-text for various U.S regional newspapers. In addition, it offers full-text television and radio news transcripts from ABC News, CBS News, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, and National Public Radio.
NYTimes.com
Unlimited access to NYTimes.com and NYT Mobile apps, including Spanish and Chinese editions, which cover a variety of topics through breaking news articles, blogs, videos and interactive features. Includes archives from 1851 to the present (articles from 1923 to 1980 are limited to five per day per user; unlimited access to the archives is available through ProQuest Historical Newspapers).

Create or renew your account through GMU's NYT Group Pass and use your GMU credentials to gain access. All users need to renew their accounts every year. Upon login setup, download any NYT app from the App Store and use same login credentials for unlimited access. Login to NYTimes.com directly from any location.
World News Connection
Online news service that offers an extensive array of translated and English-language news and information compiled from thousands of non-U.S. media sources, including news agencies, newspapers, and radio and television stations. World News Connection covers content from 1995-2013. For earlier coverage, see Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports, 1975-1996.

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