Some fulltext articles are included. Table of Contents - tables of contents of 13,000 journals since 1993. Uncover - tables of contents of over 15,000 journals since 1988. Newspapers are good sources of local information, current events and public opinion. Good examples are the many transcripts of Congressional hearings, transcripts of NPR radio programs, or television programs such as Dateline.
Transcripts are sometimes freely available on the Web.
Academic Universe - transcripts are included in the News section. CNN - CNN's web site has the transcripts from many of their programs. The information in tech. NTIS - this database from the National Technical Information Service is an index to reports from the 1950s onward from various government agencies. If you cannot find a specific enough map, try looking for something more general, e.g., an energy map instead of a map of tar sands, or a map of Australia instead of a map of the Outback.