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Learn about digital access to news resources available through the library that will help you keep up with industry news and current events.
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► The American Economic Review (EBSCO)
► Business Insider (ProQuest, Lexis, Westlaw)
► Foreign Affairs (EBSCO, HeinOnline, PressReader & ProQuest)
► Harvard Business Review (EBSCO)
► Journal of Commerce (Lexis)
► Metal Bulletin Daily (Lexis & EBSCO)
► People’s Daily (Lexis)
► Roll Call (Westlaw)
► South China Morning Post (Lexis & PressReader)
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Economist.com includes reports, commentary, and analysis updated daily, as well as the entire content of The Economist magazine by 6 p.m. on Thursday.
Foreign Policy covers global affairs, current events, and domestic and international policy. It produces content daily on its website and in four print issues annually. Includes digitized issues of the print magazine back to 1970.
Read New York Times articles on Lexis+, updated every 15 minutes.
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Includes Inside U.S. Trade and China Trade Extra, a library comprising over 100,000 trade-related documents including policy papers, News on the WTO, FTA Central, Trade News in Focus (background documents on the major news of the day), and The Trade Insider (editorial weekly email report).
CourtLink A detailed collection of federal and state court dockets and documents, including relevant briefs, pleadings, and motions.
Nexis Diligence Diligence enables you to conduct thorough due diligence on companies and individuals, going beyond credit scores and watch lists to develop a comprehensive due diligence report utilizing global news sources, sanction lists, company information, legal history, and public records.
Nexis Dossier Take advantage of a broad collection of company financials, industry analysis, hard-to-find contact data and more—from a single interface.
Nexis Gain unique insights from over 40,000 sources, including trusted up-to-date and archived news, company profiles, public records, industry information and social media content – all in one place.
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