Finding information in online newspapers and magazines
Start at the Library Home page --> put your topic in
- the white Search Everything box to find print books and DVDs and online databases and streaming video
- the Library Catalog tab to find print books and DVDs in the library, or
- the Databases tab for just the online sources and streaming video.
Need More Research?
On the library homepage, select the tab in the search box called Databases, then View All Databases
If you need articles or book chapters, try
- Academic Search Ultimate (ASU) from EBSCO.
- Scroll down on the landing page. Under DOCUMENT TYPE, there are many to choose from. For this assignment, there is no Photo-Essay, but there is an ESSAY.
- To select more that one option in ASU, hold down the CTRL (Windows) or COMMAND (Mac) key while you select.
- Do your search, and then on the page with Search Results, you can narrow by date, source type, and region or individual newspaper.
- Proquest Research Library has magazines, journals, newspapers, and materials on all subjects. The information goes from everyday knowledge to highly complex research journals.
- From the landing page, which is the Advanced Search page, type in your search
- Scroll down, and limit your search by Date.
- Under DOCUMENT TYPE, Proquest uses the term ESSAY, but not PHOTO-ESSAY
- SEARCH
- You can further modify your seach on the Results List page.
If you are looking for Images for your essay,
- The library's largest image database.
- Lots of fine art, crafts -- images of things you would find in some type of museum.
- Images from contemporary photographer
- Images you would see in magazines, on social media
- All can be easily embedded on a website
