Search thousands of journals, magazines, newspapers, videos, reports, and more.
1. Use Proquest Central Student in the A-Z Database List. Enter your search terms in the advanced search.
2. Limit your search results to newspapers. (Source Type = Newspaper)
3. Further limit by document type (Document Type = Article)
3. Further limit your search results by date, publication, subject, location, etc. Use the facets on the left.
A rule of thumb:
Refine your search strategy (search terms, facets, publications) until you get a set of 50-100 results.
Then, begin to read / skim the headlines, first paragraph or abstract to choose the articles you will work with.
1. Go to Proquest Central Student in the Library A-Z Database List.
2. In the hamburger menu, select "Publications" to find a specific newspaper.
3. Search for the title of the newspaper.
4. Select the edition (U.S., International, Spanish, etc.)
On the landing page for the newspaper
5. Search within the publication. --OR--
6. Select your preferred method of access (e.g. RSS feed or Alert)
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.
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