Below are resources to support your assignments
this semester, they include tools to monitor the news as
well as sources to conduct research for your papers:
- Academic
Search Premier * Research database that covers all
subjects and includes the full-text of scholarly journal
articles
- Ethnic
NewsWatch* An interdisciplinary, bilingual (English
and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of newspapers,
magazines and journals from ethnic, minority and native
presses
- AP
Multimedia Archive* Photos and audio files from the
AP Newswire!
- Alternative
Press Index* Provides citations to nearly 300 alternative,
radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines
that may not be included in other research databases
- NewsBank*
Contains the full-text of local papers: Springfield Union
News, Boston Globe, Boston Herald and Worcester Telegram
& Gazette)
- National
Newspaper* Coverage of 9 major US newspapers including
the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington
Post, Christian Science Monitor, USA TODAY, the Boston
Globe, Atlanta Journal/Constitution, Los Angeles Times
and Chicago Tribune (and more!)
- CNN News
Feeds (RSS) Example of a "news feed" from
one media source
- Google News Aggregator
Example of a "news aggregator" which draws from
multiple media sources
* Indicates that this a database that MHC subscribes to
-- use off-campus will require your MHC login information.
Having trouble finding what you need? Go to LITS
and chat with a librarian
at the Reference Desk. Or, with advance notice, set up an
appointment to meet with Julie
Habjan Boisselle , Education liaison. We're here to
help you with your research!
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