Chapter Three
Finding Information: Newspapers

For accessing the most recent day-to-day events, newspapers are an excellent source of information.

The CCC Library subscribes to the following newspaper indexes:

  1. Ethnic Newswatch is a full text computerized index to minority and ethnic newspapers from various cities in the United States. It gives you other viewpoints and perspectives on current issues, events and culture. You can search in either the English or Spanish languages. Ethnic groups represented by this database include African-Americans, Arab-Americans, European/Eastern European, Hispanic/Latino, Jewish and Native American.
  2. Newsbank NewsFile contains full text articles of current issues and events selected from over 500 newspapers from across the United States and Canada.
  3. The Hartford Courant contains full text articles of current issues and events from 1981 to the present.
  4. The New York Times Index is a newspaper source beginning with 1851. This is in paper format, not computerized.
  5. The Library Virtual Reference Desk provides links to online newspapers from around the world.

Practice Exercise
Now do a practice search to find a newspaper article in Newsbank.

  1. Click on Newsbank NewsFile.
  2. Click on Newsbank NewsFile (1991 - current).
  3. Click in the box and type in crime statistics. Click on Search.
  4. Select an article of interest and click on the title of the article.
  5. Scroll down to view the full text. Record the citation of one of the articles on the exercise sheet.
  6. Click on the BACK ARROW in the upper left to return to the tutorial.
Click on Newsbank NewsFile to begin.

You can use the frame at left to go to any chapter you wish to explore next. The next chapter in order, however, is Chapter Four -- Reference Sources.