What is FACTS.com?
FACTS.com gives answers to the questions about major U.S. and world events since 1980, with selected coverage back to 1940. Most articles come from the Facts On File World News Digest, a weekly news publication that schools, colleges, libraries, government organizations and media companies have depended on since 1940 for comprehensiveness and accuracy. You can search this database from the Library or from your home.

What Can I Find Out?
Details of all major news events since 1980, including:

Accidents, Disasters	The Arts
Business	Crime
Defense	Education
The Environment	Internal Affairs
Medicine	Politics
Obituaries	Science
Space	Sports
Social Issues

There are also a large number of special features:

Biographies	County Profiles
Historical Documents	Historic Events back to 1940
Key Issues	Maps
Newspaper Editorials	Photographs
Reuters News Feed	Presidential Elections since 1944

How Can I Find Out?
You can search the complete full text of FACTS.com’s 80,000 articles directly from the opening screen. You can sort the results by relevance or reverse chronological order. Key stories are also accessible through the menus on the right side of the main screen. Articles themselves have hyperlinks to other relevant stories.

What If I Need Help?
For quick search tips, just click where indicated under the search box. For more extensive help, click on the ? icon on any screen.