WCTC Library: Fire Protection: Articles

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Selected Journals

Selected Databases

ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry This link opens in a new window
This database includes market research reports as well as trade journals, newspapers, and magazines. Try searching for the organization you're interested in and then limiting the search to trade journals to find some recent articles about what the organization is up to.
Business: Insights This link opens in a new window
This database has profiles for many organizations, including 24 based here in Pewaukee! Profiles generally include number of employees and annual revenue, and bigger organizations might have a company history, or linked coverage in trade journals or newspapers. Its Company Finder is a great way to find an organization to research!
Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
Streaming video on many subjects. Includes instructional and information videos related to the fire science fields, including videos on wildfires, forest fires, the physics of fire, house fires, and others.
LearningExpress Library This link opens in a new window
Set up an account in Learning Express to access Firefighter Exam and EMT-Basic Exam for Firefighters manuals and Firefighter Practice Tests 1 & 2.
MAS Complete This link opens in a new window
A full-text database providing hundreds of popular high school magazines and reference books. Covering subjects such art, history, sports and music, it also includes thousands of biographies and primary source documents, plus over a million photos, maps and flags.
Reference Solutions This link opens in a new window
Business and industry profiles as well as information about subsidiaries/parent companies, management directories, and other business information. Data is mostly automatically pulled and might be incomplete, but there is a lot of good info available.

News Databases

Access World News This link opens in a new window
Includes newspapers from all over the world, including local and regional titles as well as major national and international newspapers.
Archive of Wisconsin Newspapers This link opens in a new window
If your organization is local, try searching this archive of Wisconsin newspapers to see what is being said about it in the news.
Coverage: 2005-90 days ago; 1800s and 1900s
Newspaper Source Plus This link opens in a new window
News content from all over the world, including television and radio transcripts.

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