German Senior Thesis Resources: Overview

Coverage of US and some international newspapers. Current event and business focus. Use the advanced search, natural language (can type in something like germany and greece and euro and debt crisis), select last two years. Results are HTML versions of the articles. Some foreign language newspapers available. Search major newspapers such as New York Times, The Times (London), Zeit-Online, Irish Independent.

For more recent NY Times articles use Factiva or Nexis Uni or go directly to nytimes.com

May be slow to load! A full-text online service that provides access to sources of national and international news, business, health and general information. News sources include newspapers, magazines, media transcripts, wire services, pictures and web sites. In addition, Dow Jones Factiva provides access to several financial databases. It covers over 32,000 sources in 28 languages from 200 countries. Search by keyword, limit publications to region, limit by date (you will be overwhelmed with results). At bottom of article, click on "related articles" to find similarly themed articles. TO PRIORITIZE FOREIGN PRESS, click on the gear symbol, choose settings, then preferences, and then "Default Factiva News Page."

Publications and statistical information from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Search these titles using quotation marks: Search by country or theme. Information on employment, productivity, market/industry structure, company financial tables. Updated biennially.

Indexes articles, books, documents on policy and matters of governmental decision making. Indexes published material from most of the 20th and 21st century.

current magazines as well as scholarly journals. Limit search to the past few years. In many cases, includes PDF of article, or use PENNTEXT button to connect to library resources or interlibrary loan

Broad selection of journals across the humanities, social sciences, and to a lesser extent sciences. Some foreign language publications. Journals covered from volume 1 forward. In many cases does not include most recent three to five years. Use Advanced search. To search words appearing near to each other but not as a phrase use this formula: "euro Greece"~15. This means, find the words euro and Greece when they appear within at least 15 words of each other. (Prevents finding word 1 on page one and word 2 in a foot note or 20 pages later).

Worldcat is the collections catalog of catalogs. Libraries, archives, and collections of most formats including records in this database. Search by genre, keywords, subject headings (in multiple languages), juvenile or nonjuvenile, date, place of publication, and so on. You'll be able to see whether Penn owns the book or item you are searching for, and if not, you can request it through interlibrary loan.

Penn's video collection. Search and sort by multiple aspects of each video.

Find books at other libraries through Penn partnerships with PA libraries, the Ivy Leagues+ consortium, and from across the country. Link to these services here, at individual Franklin (library catalog) records, or through Penntext.

Find the PennText search on the library home pages, or follow this link to fill information about an article you are searching for. Link to PennText directly while searching library databases. The article finder can take you directly to the article, the journal or to the correct database (where you may need to search again). If we don't have it, click on the ILL link on the "SFX" page that Article Finder takes you to.