Homework Help: How do I find a magazine/newspaper article?

Where do you look for magazine articles?

Use the library magazine databases to find articles for school projects and papers (see list of databases to the right).

The best time to use the magazine databases is when your topic is something current that is still in the news. Remember: even though you are accessing the articles online, they count as magazine sources, not internet sources.

You have several databases to choose from. Once you have chosen a specific database, you can do a keyword search. Always remember to click in the full text box on the search page, so that all of your results will be entire articles (rather than just a short description of the articles).

Here is an example of a keyword search:

• You need to do a paper on school violence in the United States.
• In the search box, type in school violence AND United States (Using quotation marks and the word AND tells the database exactly what you are looking for.)
• If you dont like the results you get on your first try, remember to use synonyms or try to make your search simpler (in this case, for example, you could leave out United States on your second search).
• Once you get a list of results, just click on the titles to get to the articles. You can read them, print them, or email them to yourself for later. When you print or email them, you will have all of the information that you need for your citations (such as the name of the magazine, the title of the article, the date of the article, the page numbers, etc.)