General information on some commercial databases the IRC has access:

EBSCOHOST
Provides full text for nearly 3,200 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.

FACTIVA
Factiva, from Dow Jones Company, provides essential business news and information together with the content delivery tools and services that enable professionals to make better decisions faster. Factiva comprises an unrivalled collection of more than 10,000 authoritative sources.

FEDERAL NEWS SERVICE (FNS)
"FNS produces transcripts of Presidential statements; briefings at the White House, State, Defense and Justice Departments; speeches and press conferences of major political leaders and spokespersons; and Congressional hearings".

LEADERSHIP DIRECTORIES (THE YELLOW BOOKS)
Leadership Directories - the Leadership Library on the Internet - is a comprehensive database of who's who in the leadership of the United States.

LEXIS-NEXIS
Provides access to 5 billion searchable documents from more than 32,000 legal, news and business sources. It is a full text database of current and historic federal legislation, bill tracking, bill texts, state legislation, case law, law reviews, etc., plus a full text database of more than 6,000 news sources and periodicals.

PROQUEST DIRECT
ProQuest Direct provides immediate access to an extensive collection of newspapers, journals, periodicals, magazines, and other information sources. It provides access to over 400 full text periodicals in the following formats: citations, abstracts, full text, image and image/text. It also provides citations and/or abstracts of over 1600 periodicals and newspapers including The New York Times.