JRN 3200: News Reporting and Writing: Articles
Finding Articles in Multiple Disciplines at Once
Use the LIBRARY SEARCH ADVANCED SEARCH to look for articles in the Libraries' collections.
Search tip: If you search for a phrase, put it in quotation marks, e.g. "flight 800".
Search tip: Use an asterisk (*) to pick up variant endings of a word, e.g., controver* will retrieve controversy, controversies, or controversial.
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Proquest CentralProQuest Central combines the complete content of over thirty of the most heavily used ProQuest databases across all major subject areas, with deep coverage in business, health and medical, news, social sciences, arts and humanities, and science and technology. It provides access to scholarly journals, high value market research, country, economic, and industry reports, pre-print working papers, full text dissertations, and a vast number of newspapers, professional journals, and general interest periodicals.
Background Sources for Controversial Issues
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CQ ResearcherExplores a current news issue in-depth each week. Articles typically include features such as an overview and background of the issue, pro-con essays on a question related to the issue, a chronology, and a lengthy bibliography. Coverage from 1923 to present.
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Opposing Viewpoints in Context
More than 14,000 pro/con viewpoint essays, 5,000+ topic overviews, 300+ primary source documents, 300+ biographies of social activists and reformers, more than 775 court-case overviews, 5 million periodical articles, nearly 6,000 statistical tables, charts and graphs, nearly 70,000 images and a link to Google Image Search, thousands of podcasts, including weekly presidential addresses, premier NPR programs and more.
Journal Article and Newspaper Databases
Journal Articles:
For various discipline-specific databases go to databases by subject (e.g. Communication, Business, Education, Sociology, etc.)
Newspaper databases
National:
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Access World NewsFind full-text of current and archived state, national and international news articles in this collection of over 4500 newspapers and other news sources. It includes the majority of the top circulating U.S. newspapers, along with thousands of local and regional titles.
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NewsbankProvides the Access World News Research Collection with full text articles from over 4500 U.S. and international newspapers, wire services, and broadcasts. There is access to America's Historical Newspapers, as well as Hot Topics and Special Reports on current issues in the news.
State or Local:
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Michigan NewspapersSearch or browse more than 80 newspapers from Michigan, including the Kalamazoo Gazette, Detroit News, Flint Journal, Grand Rapids Press, the Western Herald, and more. Starting coverage dates vary from 1995 to 2014.
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Kalamazoo Gazette Collection 1837 - CurrentSearch and browse the digitized and web-only versions of the Kalamazoo Gazette Collection. Coverage from 1837 through current, containing both full color newspaper pages and individual articles as well as content only published online.