LibGuides: Current Events: Articles

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Request materials with Interlibrary Loan (ILL)
Borrow books from other libraries and have them delivered to the RBC library to check out.
Internet Archive
Create an account to the Internet Archive, a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
RALC Lending
The Richmond Academic Library Consortium is a group of Richmond area libraries which have agreed to extend limited borrowing privileges to students, faculty, and staff of any RALC school.
Hoopla
Use Hoopla for digital streaming and circulation of recreational reading. Audiobooks, eBooks, videos, and more.
Petersburg Public Library
The Petersburg Public Library is just down the road and has a great collection. Also check out Appomattox Regional Library System and Chesterfield County Public Libraries.

Academic Search Complete
Comprehensive, multi-disciplinary database that contains many peer-reviewed journals. This is a good place to start for most topics.
EBSCO’s AP News
Provides near real-time access to top world-wide news from Associated Press on a continuous basis. This collection includes AP Top News, WorldStream, Financial News, AP Online, U.S. Politics & Government and 50 State Reports. The index to the full text content in AP News is held for a rolling 30-day archive by EBSCO.
EBSCO’s News Harvester
Provides near real-time access to thousands of top news feeds from around the globe. This collection includes over 5,000 feeds across a range of business and general news topics.
Factiva
World news and business information, including information on US and foreign companies, stock prices, currency data, and financial profiles for companies worldwide. Newswires, newspaper, and magazine articles.
Newspaper Source Plus
Major American newspapers, some foreign newspapers, and selected stories from US regional newspapers. Also includes television and radio news transcripts.

Opposing Viewpoints in Context This link opens in a new window
The premier online resource covering today’s hottest social issues, from capital punishment to immigration, to marijuana. This cross-curricular research tool supports science, social studies, current events, and language arts classes. Its informed, differing views present each side of an issue and help students develop information literacy, critical thinking skills, and the confidence to draw their own valid conclusions.

APA Citation Guide
APA Style is used by writers in many disciplines around the world for concise, powerful, and persuasive scholarly communication.
Chicago Manual of Style
Citation examples and support from the Chicago Manual of Style.
MLA Style
Writing Resources from the Modern Language Association.
Purdue Owl Citation Guide
The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University houses writing resources and instructional material, and we provide these as a free service of the Writing Lab at Purdue.
RBC Writing and Citation Guide
Use the Writing & Citation Guide from your RBC librarians to help with your research papers.