Cañada College Library hosts six important news databases you can select from if you're looking for news sources or news photos for your research. All databases are free to the Cañada College College community.
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Berger, Maurice, "Making a Confederate Flag Invisible," New York Times, https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/06/30/making-a-confederate-flag-invisible/#. Credit: Adam Anderson Photo/Reuters
Search General OneFile to find current and older news articles from major newspapers like the New York Times going back about 30 years. Also included are journal articles, travel guides and National Public Radio program transcripts (1990-present). Search more than 12,000 different publications on any topic.
This database is most useful for browsing news topics.
Browse by Subject, for example, News & Current Events. Next, select from any of of the 24 topics listed.
Try a Basic Search by supplying your own keywords in the empty search box. You'll need to narrow your search results later.
Use the Advanced Search for more specific search results. Supply your own keywords, range of dates, and the name of the newspaper or other publication you'd like to search.
Gale General OneFile provides access to an unprecedented number of general reference magazines and key serials in a single resource. This database is useful to users conducting general reference queries, business searches, and current event research. The addition of a browse-by-subject feature allows users to easily view content of interest on the most popular and most-searched topics within several distinct categories, including news, current events, health, and computers and technology.
Search the News (Gale OneFile) database to access major U.S. and international newspapers online to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, or other fields. This database is best when you already know what you're looking
This innovative full-text newspaper resource allows users to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, author, newspaper section, or other fields. Gale OneFile: News provides access to major U.S. regional, national, and local newspapers as well as leading titles from around the world. News also includes thousands of images, radio, and TV broadcasts, and transcripts.
America’s Historical Newspapers (from NewsBank): Find news articles (1690-2000) covering topics in American government, politics, social issues, culture, literature, discoveries, inventions and much more. Options for searching:
Select an Era from a historical timeline to find news and eyewitness accounts, pro/con articles, and articles about important issues and daily life in the colonies or during the Revolutionary War, westward expansion, the Civil War, Reconstruction, industrialization, and all other major historical eras in American history through the year 2000. Included are illustrations, ads, birth and marriage announcements, obituaries, biographical stories and other articles, exactly as they appeared in print at the time.
Browse Hot Topics. There include current research topics covering key global issues, and people in the fields of business, economics, crime, politics, science, health, sports, the arts and more.
Newspaper Source Plus is a searchable newspaper database you can use on campus or off.
Newspaper Source Plus includes:
Search tips:
Newspaper Source includes more than 1,000 full-text newspapers, providing more than 38 million full-text articles.
Newspaper Source Plus also has an Image search feature that helps you find high resolution, captioned photos for your paper or project.
1. With out typing any search terms, select Advanced Search.
2. Select Images
3. Input keywords to describe the events or person you're seeking images of
4. Once you've selected the best image, email the record to yourself to save important information about it.
5. In the message you receive, right click on the image to save it as a jpeg for your paper or presentation.
Occupy movement clashes with police in Berkeley, CA: An Occupy protest on Wednesday, November 9, 2011, in Sproul Plaza at UC Berkeley. Police ended up tearing down a new tent encampment and making six arrests; Occupiers reestablished the camp. (Karl Mondon/Contra Costa Times/MCT)
Visit the Library's Wall Street Journal Subscription Guide to get started for free.
The Wall Street Journal is a news source that focuses on business issues but also includes articles on society, politics, and more. Cañada College Library has joined the Wall Street Journal in a collaboration that will provide students, faculty, and staff with direct access to the Journal. You can use your Cañada-sponsored WSJ membership to research topics relevant to your courses and careers, save and share pertinent articles with others, follow companies and industries that interest you, track real-time stories and trends, and follow coverage of arts, culture, and life.
Visit the Cañada College Library New York Times subscription guide to get started for free.
Cañada College Library offers online New York Times accounts for all students, staff, and faculty. This includes unlimited access via mobile apps on tablets and smart phones. NYTimes.com accounts are good for one year for eligible Cañada College community members only (current students, staff, and faculty), after which accounts need to be renewed.