Library -- Newspaper Source

Westfield State College Ely Library

Newspaper Source Guide

A comprehensive news source with full text for 194 newspapers including The Christian Science Monitor, The Los Angeles Times, 159 regional newspapers, 18 international newspapers, and 6 newswires.

Basic Search	Advanced Search
Search Results	Printing, Emailing, Saving citations

ACCESS: At the Ely Library Home Page (http://www.lib.wsc.ma.edu/), click on Quick Links to Databases, choose Newspaper Source. For Off Campus Access go to the Off-Campus Database Menu Page (http://www.lib.wsc.ma.edu/offcampdbmenu.html), choose Newspaper Source and follow directions to logon.

Basic Search

Enter your search terms in the box labeled "Find".
Click "Search."
Full Text- Limits to articles that are available in full text in this database.
Newspaper- Limits to a specific newspaper (Confirm that the newspaper is indexed in this database by searching Publications)
Published Date - Limits to articles published within a specific date range.
Publication Type- Limits to a specified publication type, such as newspaper, news wire, or transcript..
Expand your search
- Search for related words will include additional relevant terms in your search (not recommended)
- Search within full-text of articles (if no results, try this option)
- Automatically "And" search terms restricts results, requiring all terms to show up in search results.

Advanced Search

Use Advanced Search to search specific fields, such as title, subject, geographic area, journal name etc.
To search a specific field (author, title, journal name, etc.), change the pull down menu from "Default Fields" to the appropriate field name.
Additional Limits
- Document Type- Limit to a specified document type, such as editorial, article, book review, etc. (advanced search only)
- Cover Story- Limits to articles that were featured as a cover story.
- Articles with Images- Limits to articles available as a PDF or Text with Graphics

Search Results

Full Text availability: From your results list, click , , or .
If full-text is not available (no full-text links for the publication), search the Full Text Periodical Directory (http://www.lib.wsc.ma.edu/cgi-bin/ft_journals.cgi) to determine full-text access for the newspaper.
Narrow Results by Subject Click the links for subject headings in the left-hand toolbar to narrow and focus your results by these topics.

Printing, Emailing, Saving citations.

Create a list of citations (with html full-text, but not PDF full-text) by clicking Add for each citation.
click on the link to retrieve your list.
Select one of the following:
- Print button : This will bring you to the Print Manager.
  - Click on "Estimate Number of Pages" to see total number of pages to be printed.
  - Click Print and hit enter.
    NOTE: To Print PDF Full Text:
    Click on the Link. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader.
    Click on the Adobe Printer icon toward the left of the Article window.
- Email button : This will bring you to the Email Manager.
  - Enter your full e-mail address (e.g. yourname@foma.wsc.ma.edu) and a Subject.
  - Choose a Field Format or Citation Format (such as APA or MLA)
  - Click on Send.
  - Your e-mail message will arrive from ephost@epnet.com.
- Save button : This will bring you to the Save Manager.
  - Choose a Field Format or Citation Format (such as APA or MLA)
  - Click Bibliographic Manager tab to export to RefWorks bibliographic software.
  - Click Save.
  - Choose File from your browser, then Save as.
  - Be sure to save as a plain text file (.txt) or an HTML file (.html). Name your file.

URL: http://www.lib.wsc.ma.edu/rapc/rapc.htm
Page maintained by Oliver Zeff
Last updated August 21, 2006