Ethnic NewsWatch: The subject specialty this database has is News. This database provides a broad coverage of the news from approximately 200 publications and provides users with over 670,000 articles. It has local and metropolitan perspectives on local, national, and international issues. The database consists of big news stories from small sources. It has multicultural coverage on subjects that focus on news about African-American, Hispanic, Latino, and many other ethnic groups. When you run searches, information is mostly found in the form of articles. Controlled vocabulary can be found in this database listed under subjects; for example, it can be government, religion, cultural, local, national, or international issues. One surprising feature in this database is that it is available in two languages, both English and Spanish since it provides news on ethnic groups.
World Bank Data: The subject specialty this database has is Economics and Financials. It provides international social and economic data from over 207 countries. It also consists of social, financial, and environmental indicators from 1960 until 2000. It is designed to help fight poverty through economic knowledge. When searches are done, the information is mainly portrayed in tables that provide all the financial data that is necessary. This database does not have a specific section for controlled vocabulary and subject terms but it does have a section for various topics that you can search by such as agricultural and rural development, financial sector, education, poverty, private sector, public sector, etc. One unique feature that this database has is that it consists of a system of blogs within the database itself. Additionally, these blogs vary from all different forms of international news and issues from numerous countries.
