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This is CVUSD's main research database for students. Proquest Central Student brings together some of ProQuest's most used databases in many fields: education, humanities, psychology, science, social sciences, and news.
Learn to use the basic and advanced search options, and you will be prepared to use many other advanced databases in college and in public libraries.
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Library news databases allow you to search across multiple news sources at once or within a single source. They are essential for getting multiple perspectives through the news. They support lateral reading, that is, reading about the same issue across multiple news sources to form an idea of what happened and how the events were interpreted in the moment from different lenses.
Library databases provide access to older articles (or the "archives") of a news source. In some cases, databases also index the current articles.
If you're looking for that article you read a few days ago and can't find it, use a library database to find it. If you're looking for today's articles, check the holdings description to see which dates are indexed in the database for that publication.
Most news outlets are intensively focussed on today's news (the most up-to-date or breaking news stories.) Many news outlets sell, lease or license their archival content to library database providers such as Proquest, Gale, Alexander Street Press, Ebsco or LexisNexis to handle their archives and archival access. Library database providers take care of further indexing and processing each article, its images, and its references for long-term access and cross-publication searching. Library database providers also index news blogs, videos and other content created by news journalists as part of their reporting.
The extent of news coverage in a database depends upon the distribution rights exchanged between the publisher and the database provider. Some news publications are very predictable in their rights exchanges and access is steady; some are not, and can disrupt access by pulling content from the databases unexpectedly. Databases are the best form of broad, well-indexed, access to news content for research.
Millions of pages of archival news content have yet to be digitized and are still only available in research libraries' physical archives (in microform or paper.) Database providers and libraries partner to digitize historic news sources over time.