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New York Times: FIU Group Pass Activation This link opens in a new window
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Wall Street Journal (digital campus membership) This link opens in a new window
NOTE: You will be required to login using your FIU credentials and then create an account to use wsj.com
In a world where education and career opportunities are more competitive than ever, the need for you to obtain broader perspectives on a variety of global business issues is a necessity. Which is why FIU has joined The Wall Street Journal in a collaboration that will provide students and faculty full direct access to the Journal.
Economist This link opens in a new window
Authoritative weekly newspaper focusing on international politics and business news and opinion.
Miami Herald 1911 - present This link opens in a new window
Includes the digitized historical archive; Articles from the Miami Herald including the following sections: Tropic, Business Monday, Food, Friday Weekend, and the regional editions of Neighbors. Please note, a digitization project is underway to fill the 1951-1982 gap.

NPR
National Public Radio.
BBC Radio
British Broadcasting Service

USC Annenberg Media This link opens in a new window
Student media center at USC with news in text, video, and radio in English and Spanish.

Frontline: Social Issues This link opens in a new window
American public televisions flagship public affairs series.
Vanderbilt Television News Archive This link opens in a new window
Holds more than 850,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN, and coverage of news-related programming including ABC's Nightline and special report coverage, including coverage of major national and world events and major military conflicts; Users obtain access to streaming video of NBC nightly news broadcasts (August 1968 to present) and CNN broadcasts (1995 to present).

MSNBC
Find latest breaking news and snippets of the different news shows.
CNN
Live updates.
NBC News
Latest news.

C-SpanVideo.org This link opens in a new window
Free online access to the more than 160,000 hours of C-Span footage, covering 23 years of history and five presidential administrations, and growing.

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive, scholarly full-text database for multidisciplinary research; This database provides complete coverage of multidisciplinary academic journals, peer-reviewed journals, full-text periodicals, reports, books, and more; 1887 - Present.
ProQuest This link opens in a new window
This is the gateway to ProQuest databases available at FIU, including: ABI/Inform Global, ABI/Inform Trade and Industry, Criminal Justice Periodicals, ProQuest Newspapers, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal.
Gale In Context: College This link opens in a new window
Provides holistic topic perspectives by integrating a multitude of content, including reference articles, periodical and newspaper articles, primary sources, multimedia records (including charts, graphs, maps and tables), and video and audio content from NBC, NPR and many other respected sources.
CQ Researcher This link opens in a new window
Weekly newsletter of current and controversial issues with lengthy, full-text reports on both sides of the issue.
Pro/Con Issue Tracker : CQ Researcher This link opens in a new window
Pro/con statements from representatives of opposing positions from CQ Researcher Weekly Reports.
Opposing Viewpoints In Context This link opens in a new window
Database covering viewpoints on a variety of social topics. It includes articles, topic overviews, government and organizational statistics court cases, profiles, and more.

ABI/INFORM Collection This link opens in a new window
This database comprises ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry, and ABI/INFORM Dateline; content includes full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, business and economics periodicals, country- and industry-focused reports, and downloadable data. International coverage.
ProQuest This link opens in a new window
This is the gateway to ProQuest databases available at FIU, including: ABI/Inform Global, ABI/Inform Trade and Industry, Criminal Justice Periodicals, ProQuest Newspapers, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal.
Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text business journals and hundreds of scholarly, peer-reviewed journals covering all aspects of business; marketing, management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and more; Additional full text, non-journal content includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and more; Many of the reports are published by Datamonitor.
CQ Researcher This link opens in a new window
Weekly newsletter of current and controversial issues with lengthy, full-text reports on both sides of the issue.
EIU.com This link opens in a new window
Gateway to EIU reports and documents; Analysis and forecasts of the political, economic and business environment for many countries, plus how to do business in most countries; Our subscription now includes all the 154 country reports available.
EconLit This link opens in a new window
Indexes 400+ international publications in economics.
Opposing Viewpoints In Context This link opens in a new window
Database covering viewpoints on a variety of social topics. It includes articles, topic overviews, government and organizational statistics court cases, profiles, and more.

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